Visual Communication BA (Hons) The University for the Creative Arts

Overview

This  Visual Communication BA (Hons)  course from  The University for the Creative Arts  is all about helping you to think about the bigger picture when communicating any message – you may wish to illustrate a book, for example, but you will also need to consider the accompanying website, social media account, and advertising campaign. Developing a deep understanding of all forms of visual communication media will enable you to appreciate the various roles each discipline can take within any given project. 

During your studies, you’ll be able to specialise in various areas of visual communication — the first of which you’ll choose in your second term — with tutorial guidance and advice.

Our expert staff will be there along the way to ensure you can create with confidence, but you’ll be the master of your own destiny, growing in confidence and preparing fully for life after graduation.

Key Features

• You might arrive as an illustrator and discover you're a designer – or come in thinking of screen and falling in love with print. Our Visual Communication degree course is deliberately broad, allowing you to specialise while staying in touch with the disciplines around you. That breadth prepares you for the reality of creative careers – where freelancers need range, agencies want versatility, and the best ideas break boundaries.

• You'll work with letterpress, riso, screen printing and bookmaking alongside modern digital tools and platforms. Getting hands-on with physical processes – the weight of type, the precision of ink on paper – will give you a deeper understanding of craft that will distinguish your work.
• Every project begins with a question: what are you saying, and to who? You'll think carefully about what you're communicating, who's receiving it, and the responsibility that carries. Theory and practice are fully intertwined – your final research project can be undertaken in one of two formats: a written project, or a practice-led project with a practical outcome with a shorter accompanying text contextualising the project.