BA (Hons) Graphic Design

The module deepens your understanding of creative thinking through making. This unit aims to familiarise learners with practical and experimental approaches to problem-solving, in photography, graphic design, advertising, fashion promotion and fine art. You are encouraged to undertake various visual experimentation through different processes and material engagement in a studio or workshop environment.

This is an interdisciplinary module, that is shared across all Art & Design courses. In art and design, information gathering, evaluation and selection underpin understanding, ideas, and personal development. In this module you’ll research contemporary and historical cultural contexts in the field of art and design, so that they can begin to relate their own emerging practice to others' work.

This interdisciplinary theory-based module introduces you to the skills and perspectives needed to research, analyse, speak and write about images, objects and designed spaces. It familiarises you with historical and contemporary topics and issues, alongside the development of skills in research, critical analysis and communication, and interpretive strategies appropriate to studio-based art & design disciplines.

This module will introduce you to a range of creative skills taught in the Red Shed Workshops, as well as through Adobe technologies. These are skills you will use throughout your time at BNU and into industry. You'll develop a range of approaches and develop executions that communicate across a range of media to reach a defined audience. You will be able to evaluate the specific skills you are learning and contextualise the appropriateness of each through creative briefs, as you start to hone your creative and communication skills.

On this module you’ll be presented with key global debates which impact our lives and could influence your creative practice and positions as creatives in ever-changing professional industries. Through research and critical reflection, you’ll explore these issues which may be related to sustainability, politics and other ecological or socio- economic factors, and respond to them creatively using your chosen discipline-specific practice.

The module aims to equip you with current knowledge on issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion relevant to the creative industries. You’ll develop a sense of citizenship to help position yourself confidently and actively in your future professional roles - while also understanding the importance of identity, heritage and culture in relation to your practice. You’ll use your learnt skills to create a space for using diverse textual and visual language enabling you to build resilience and confidently present ideas in an academic and creative context.

This module will explore this business side of advertising. You’ll be asked to create a sustainable business based on a creative idea that you believe would be successful in today’s socially responsible and ecologically aware marketplace.

This module aims to allow you to practise the wide range of relevant skills necessary to take this new brand, from a business plan to the advertising campaign, resulting in a presentation showing your entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen.

This module will enhance your understanding and appreciation of the roles, relationships, and responsibilities that can play a major part in progressing and sustaining your professional practice. Extending your work in relation to career aspirations, you’ll develop visual, verbal and written presentation skills to support communication with employers.