Graphic Communication

Two years full-time.

The course includes a variety of staff-set 'live' projects, competitions and student self-set assignments delivered through studio practice, workshops and lectures. Projects may include: advertising, editorial and information design, interactive design, moving and time-based graphics and packaging design. There are excellent facilities for digital media, printmaking, illustration and photography with opportunities to study typography, illustration digital imaging and web design.

Stage one

Four compulsory modules: Integrated Graphic Studies (range of design projects using both digital and traditional techniques and process); Professional Studies (professional disciplines, group work, live project work); Visual Studies (illustration, drawing and related design projects) and Visual and Material Culture (study of design history, and how design relates to our 21st century culture).

Stage two

Four compulsory modules: Communication Designs (range of design projects using both digital and traditional techniques and processes); Elective Study (opportunity to specialise in either illustration, photography or typography . each in a graphic design context); Professional Studies (professional disciplines, group work, live project work), and Visual and Material Culture (study of design history and, how design relates to our 21st century culture).

Stage three

Students wishing to progress to stage three in order to 'top-up' the HND qualification to a BA (Hons) degree will attend an interview at The University of Northampton. The stage three programme consists of a final major project in the selected area of specialism and a dissertation.

• Small group sizes allow good individual support
• Well-equipped Apple Mac suite and design studios
• Course located in the new Windmill Avenue Campus of Tresham College of Further and Higher Education
  
• All lecturers and facilitators have design industry experience
• Option to convert the HND to a BA (Hons) by opting for an additional third year of study at Northampton

• Design project
• Development work
• Practical and written projects

Termly assessment.

Today's fast-moving design industry provides a wide range of exciting employment opportunities for graduates who may be employed as graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and web designers. Creativity and technical ability are required in equal measures by design organisations wishing to recruit newly qualified designers. Alternatively you may continue to full BA (Hons) study in Graphic Communication/Advertising or establish your own design company.