BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Graduates of our course go on to play an active role in a wide range of communications businesses from design consultancies to media companies, publishers to packaging. Many even set up their own companies.

Careers include:

• Graphic designer
• Brand strategist
• Brand consultant
• Motion graphic designer
• Systems, service designer
• UX/UI designer
• Packaging designer
• Strategic director
• Art director
• Content and social media designer
• Digital media designer
• Experience designer

Some BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduates choose to take postgraduate courses before embarking on their career.

BA (Hons) Graphic Design has close links with industry, and graduates are actively recruited by leading national and international design companies, including:

Forpeople | Sky Creative | JKR | Mad River | Moving Brands | NB Studios | Bond and Coyne | Pentagram | Walker Agency | Dixon Baxi | Ustwo | Nice & Serious | Bright Blue Day | Multi-adaptor | Dyson | Ogilvy | Accenture | 20 Ten Creative | Quantum

If you want to find out more about some of our graduates and their career journeys after completing their degree, explore our alumni stories and profiles below.

Our BA (Hons) Graphic Design students and graduates have gone on to win great things.

D&AD NEW BLOOD 2025

• Winner | Wood Pencil, Giffgaff – Pawan Bhandari
• Winner | One to Watch Award – Rosie Loraine
• Winner | Portfolio Award (Digital) – Matt King

2025

• Winner | Dragon Rouge: Mash-up Liven Up brief – Ellie Kirby
• Winner | RSA Spark Chacegrove Family Foundation Entrepreneurs Award – Amelie O'Sullivan
• Winner | RSA Spark Entrepreneurs Award – Madeleine Brissenden
• Winner | Proctor + Stevenson South West Digital and Design Ultimate Creative Student Award – Daisy Ford
• Finalist | Proctor + Stevenson South West Design + Digital Student Awards – Scarlet Shepherd
  

2024

• Winners | D&AD New Blood, Graphite Pencil – Karla Noren, Klaudia Ptasinska – UMusic Collective 2024
  
• Winners | D&AD New Blood, Wood Pencil – Gergana Sarieva, Phoebe Hart, Conrad Wells, Duc Anh Le – IMAX The Feeling
• Winners | D&AD New Blood, Portfolio Prize – Duc Anh Le
• Winner | Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Student Award – Ailsa Smith – Xposure
• Winner | RSA Student Award (Innovation and Sustainability) – Tess Taylor – Terra Hex
• Winners (bronze) | Creative Conscience Awards, Animation – Rosie Lorane, Hal Rumney Hunt, Lettie Suen, Amoré van der Linde – #CreativeFlame
• Winner | ISTD Accreditation Award – Zoe Higham Rowe – Tweed
  
• Winner | Design + Digital Student Award – Cerys Bessell – Fault
  
• Winner | Penguin Cover Award – George Griffiths, Atomic Habits
  
• Winner | 3 Sided Cube, Portfolio Award, Design for Good Award – Ailsa Smith
  
• Highly Commended | Creative Conscience Awards, Health, Wellbeing and Disability – Millie Harvey, Finlay Heanue, Oona McLeary, Cui Xuan Aw – How to ZZZ
• Highly Commended | RSA Student Award (Innovation) – Amelia Blantern – Steady
• Highly commended | Royal Society of Arts Student Award, Terra Hex AI (Innovation and Sustainability) – Tess Taylor
• Shortlisted | Creative Conscience Awards – Niamh Reynolds (Motion Graphics)
• Shortlisted | Creative Conscience Awards – Georgina Rowan (alumni, graduated 2023)
• Shortlisted | Global Creative Graduate Showcase – Zoe Higham Rowe

2023

• Winners | D&AD New Blood Award, White Pencil – Eve Sawyer, Sara Hunt – Penguin and Neurodiversity
• Winner | RSA Design Award – Josie Field – Planet Generation
• Winner | ISTD Accreditation Award – Daniel Bryant
• Winner | 3 Sided Cube Design for Good Award – Jessie Denyer
  
• Winner | Creative Conscience Awards – Zoe Higham Rowe, Grace Rolls, Ailsa Smith, Joe Taylor – Bloody Good Period
• Winner | JDO RAW – Chiara Causer
  
• Winner | Wadworth Brewery Competition – Gemma Cook

BA (Hons) Graphic Design has welcomed a wide range of inspiring speakers, to provoke discussion, deliver practice advice and workshops.

• Pali Palavathanan, TEMPLO
• Rob Nicoll, Co-Founder and CMO Chip[s] Board ltd
• Dr Cathy Gale, ‘X’ PhD research
• Rosie Isbell, Senior UX designer
• Rachel Andrews, Web developer, co-founder of Perch CMS and Notist
• Régine Debatty, Writer, curator, critic, We make money not art
• Alex Kosmidis, Joe Egan, Forpeople
• Tammy Johal, designer, Tide
• Izzi Hays, Creative Strategist Multi-adaptor
• Ruth Andrade, Lush
• Rebecca Ford, Head of Design and Innovation, The RSA
• Sevra Davies, British Council
• Laura Yarrow, Senior UX designer, Experience UX
• Ted Hunt, independent, discursive, critical designer
• Eleni Beveratou – Creative Director at Dalton Maag