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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