Graphic Design and Illustration (Hons) Liverpool John Moores University

Overview

The Graphic Design and Illustration (Hons) course at Liverpool John Moores University  offers you the chance to explore a broad range of skills and knowledge whist supporting you to develop into independent and creative thinkers with the capacity to make an impact in and beyond the creative industries.

We are a friendly, inclusive, and supportive community of illustrators, designers, researchers, and troublemakers with studio culture at the heart of our approach. Across all years our modules are inclusive and accessible. We encourage traditional approaches to flourish side-by-side with emerging technologies, nurturing play and experimentation, and embedding research into practice in the belief that design & creativity can be used to make positive changes in the world around us.

Coursework is primarily organised around practical studio projects with supporting contextual studies and professional development modules. Projects at all levels encourage a high degree of creativity and self-expression. An increasing professional emphasis as the course progresses is focused towards the development of a portfolio most suited to future career aspirations.

Career

This highly vocational programme presents many opportunities to make contacts in the world of graphic design and illustration

Through live projects, competition briefs and graduate freelance and self-employment events, all of these activities are pathways into careers in the creative industries, whether you decide to go freelance, find employment with a large agency or start up your own design studio.

The programme works with a panel of industry experts and external examiners to ensure that our graduates meet the standards required by the creative industries.

You are prepared for the 'world of work' within the curriculum in a number of ways. Most significantly the course is highly vocational, with clearly defined career options. The course also continues to develop a number of initiatives with highly respected design studios to embed workshops and real world projects led and delivered by industry professionals within our Level 5 and 6 professional development modules.