UCA Epsom
BA (Hons) Graphic Design: New Media
3 years full-time
UCAS code
W213 E BA/GDNM
This cutting-edge course explores the impact of digital culture on graphic design. You critically investigate the creative potential of current and emerging technologies, pushing boundaries and creating effective, evocative, media-rich communication. You develop a specialised skill set which leads into a range of new media design and communication roles, from motion graphics for film and television to interface and interaction design.
Key study topics include:
- Image, text, time and motion
- Researching design & new media
- Introduction to design visual and popular culture since 1900
- Filmic media, concepts of interaction and narrative delivery
- Iterative practice.
- Design & media contexts: producer, audience and user
- Critical design process & critical design practice
- Conceptual development & personal practice
- Design investigation & work-based learning
- Academic context for the debate about graphic design and communication issues.
- Live client and competition briefs
- Active design process: collaborative practice
- Dissertation
- Major project
- Portfolio review and exhibition preparation.
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UCA's magnificent seven handed D&AD Awards
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Graphic Design: New Media course website
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