Graphic Design (Hons) Northumbria University

Overview

You'll build confidence and skills in various areas of graphic design, including branding, sustainable packaging, typography, editorial and digital design, copywriting, imagery, print, experiential design, material culture, and physical production. The collaborative learning spaces and critique sessions allow students and staff to tackle real-world design challenges together.

The Graphic Design (Hons) curriculum at  Northumbria University keeps you up-to-date with the expanding and evolving creative industry. For example, as technology evolves, conceptual thinking and visual problem-solving remain as key skills. Throughout the course we will help you integrate these skills into your practice and prepare you for the growing design industry.

Career

Whatever area of graphic design you decide to pursue upon graduation, you’ll have the core transferable skills needed to operate successfully in the creative industries.

Our course produces conceptual, confident, practitioners who can apply their creative knowledge and skills to a variety of professional employment opportunities or post-graduate education. Skills including critical reflection and analysis, collaborating with others, creative thinking and the ability to visually and conceptually solve problems. Our graduates are consistently employed across a wide range of design positions in the graphic design industry.