BA (Hons) Graphic Communication

Ignite your passion for exploring visual ideas and brand communication from real-world problems to commercial briefs, across print and digital.Our BA (Hons) Graphic Communication is a cutting-edge brand communications degree that will equip you with the skills to design everything from visual identities and advertising campaigns to websites, apps, motion, film and animation. Typography, copywriting, imagery, motion, digital and print applications are all integral components of the programme.Ignite your passion for exploring visual identities, brand communications and advertising, working across across digital, motion and print. The course is closely aligned to the industry, and you will work on a wide variety of briefs set by staff, professional design agencies and external competitions.Thanks to our strong links to industry, recent graduates are highly employable and have found full-time employment in leading design studios, working in areas such as branding and digital, motion and cross-platform advertising.Your original ideas are as likely to play out through an app, website or augmented reality experience as a printed poster, pamphlet or journal. Your knowledge and skills will grow in branding, identity, advertising, motion graphics, and interactionUX design whilst developing strong skills in creative thinking and ideas-led communication solutions. You’ll be challenged to engage with real-world problems, controversies and commercial briefs through research, design and technology.Why study with usShare your first year with other graphics students, and continue to work alongside each other, allowing for a unique cross fertilisation of knowledge, skills and experience.Develop skills in typography, layout, photography, motion graphics, copywriting, screen design, design research and idea generation.Learn technical skills in various design-related digital software such as InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, After Effects, and Figma.Become expert at understanding and deciphering a brief, researching, and generating ideas, problem-solving, developing the most successful concept and executing and presenting the final work.Create clever ideas-based solutions for organisations and brands, ‘design for good’ and advertising campaigns that aim to address global problems.Explore printed, digital and spatial formats, including books, posters, brochures and reports, websites, apps, user interfaces, user experience design and 3Dspatial super-graphics.Participate in workshops and classes run by external professionals, undertake project briefs initiated and taught by designers from industry, and enter national and international design competitions judged by the design industry.

A / AS Levels – GCE GCE A/AS Levels 3 A-level qualifications at grades BCC (104 UCAS Tariff points) or above. Where candidates are not taking 3 A-levels, Norwich University of the Arts will consider combinations of A-level/AS-level and other Level 3 qualifications. BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF or RQF) Distinction, Merit, Merit in an art, design or media related subject BTEC Diploma (QCF or RQF) Distinction*, Distinction* in an art, design or media related subject T Levels A T Level in any subject with overall grade Merit or above UAL Extended Diploma Merit UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Pass UAL Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Pass Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Pass Access to Higher Education Diploma (Art and Design) Pass International Baccalaureate Diploma A minimum of 26 points Most international students are required to hold an English language qualification. Applicants are required to have a minimum UKVI approved IELTS exam score of 6.0 overall, with a minimum of 5.5 in each section. Equivalent English language qualifications are acceptable such as, IB English language syllabus A or B/English Literature (Grade 4). TOEFL - 80 overall, with minimum marks as follows: Listening 17, Writing 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20.