Graphic Design

Graphic Design course at Kingston University provides an outstanding student experience and supporting its students to achieve successful degree outcomes has been recognised with a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

Quick Facts:

• The University has not only received an overall rating of Gold – a significant rise from its previous Bronze status – but has also secured a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.
• The Graphic Design course at Kingston University will explore the role of graphic design as a tool through which to critically investigate current issues and contemporary visual culture, society, politics, identity, information, education, and technology. Your position as a designer will also be explored through design practice and theory.
• You will develop your practice with specialist support through adaptable ‘Platform' groups such as Socially-Engaged Design, Visual Identity and Branding, Language and Publishing, and Interactive Design. These groups provide a lens through which to respond to briefs in each module, and develop your own research methods and practice through an Expanded Research Project.

The transferable skill set acquired on the course can lead to diverse opportunities such as:

• project manager

• event organiser

• design curator

• director

• data visualiser

• art director

• typographer

• copywriter

• web/app designer

• brand strategist

• UX designer

• researcher

• activist

• educator

Courses include:

• Visual Grammar, Literacy and Intelligence

• Designing Research

• Visual Storytelling: Narrative and Sequence

• Creative Futures

• Design Directions