Design for Visual Communication University of the Arts London (UAL)

Overview

Building a responsible practice is a continuous commitment on this course you will develop the analytical qualities you need to sustain a responsible design practice. 

Within this Design for Visual Communication programme at the University of the Arts London (UAL) you’ll refine and strengthen your core practices so you can acknowledge the past and challenge the future through an examination of typography to evolve a unique visual language and grammar. 

What to expect

• You will explore visual communication for the diverse world: You’ll focus on connecting people through graphic design able to respond to todays and tomorrow’s physical, cognitive, multicultural, multilingual, and societal diversities. Working with clear typographic structures, legible visual language and grammar and engaging in considerate application of colour, you will create visual communication that acknowledges the multifaceted aspects of the design responsibilities.

• Develop your own practice: The course supports you to work in areas such as exhibition design, publication design, branding, and emerging digital and social practices. You’ll forge an individual path, conducting research, engaging in experimentation, and developing design outcomes. 

• Expand your visual communication methods: Advance your visual communication with thorough analysis and explorative practice of design strategies bridging traditional and emerging technologies, processes, and contexts. You will engage in collaborative projects further expanding your interpersonal competences.

• Specialist knowledge: This course prepares you to be able to apply comprehensive design systems over a broad range of outputs. Including: typography, mixed-reality, generative processes, exhibition design, visual language and grammar using LCC’s extensive facilities. You’ll be prepared to use your design skills and literacy for business, policy, strategy, social activism, creative directorship, and other leadership roles where critical and creative thinking grounded in practical and technical skills are highly valued. 

• Research in a practical environment: You will become part of a collaborative learning environment, working co-operatively with peers, academics, and professionals. You can immerse yourself in critical discourse through curated sessions, personalised tutorials, and interactive group discussions. 

Careers

Students have gone on to find employment within high profile agencies, they have progressed to work as art directors, senior designers, creative directors in areas such as interaction, branding, exhibition, editorial and information design.

Graduates of the course have gone on to work at:

• Signal Noise

• Browns

• SEA Design

• Interbrand

• Pentagram