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BA (Hons) Graphic Design

  • Duration: 3–5 years full-time
  • Placement year: Optional 1 year
  • Course code: W210 (UCAS)
  • Institution code: A66 (UCAS)

Overview

Thinking through making is core to the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course. "Bringing ideas to life" involves taking a concept or thought and turning it into a tangible reality or action that's expressed through creativity, innovation, and craft. This approach promotes design practice as a conversation, not a monologue, where you're encouraged to work with one another collaboratively on set and industry-led projects.

Packaging and product design for Chivas Regal whiskey, gold and dark green, dark background.

Benefit from deep professional and practical knowledge.

BA (Hons) Graphic Design at AUB is driven by passion for conceptually led projects and collaboration with industry partners.

Two images showing a piece of packing from different angles (the front and underneath). Text reading "Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow" appears on the left-hand image.

Embrace innovative technologies and address design challenges.

You'll learn to respond ethically, with curiosity, and strategically to new challenges such as climate emergency, social injustice, economic inequality, and cultural development.

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Find out from students Paul and Nayanika about what it’s like to study BA (Hons) Graphic Design at AUB.

Course leader Marion Morrison talks about what to expect from studying BA (Hons) Graphic Design here at AUB, and Senior Lecturer Alice Stevens explains how graphic design is changing the world.

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Product design for penguin-shaped book magnifiers from Penguin Books, orange, blue and green.
Packaging and product design for Chivas Regal whiskey, gold and dark green, dark background.
Inside a packaging design for Lush, showing a deck of cards, plus various Lush products.
Five magazine spread titled 'Reclaimed, redefining the Essex girl, reclaiming the stereotype' with an image of a girl with pink hair curlers.
A student in hi-vis and construction hat working on the Braidley Rd. mural.
Two images showing a piece of packing from different angles (the front and underneath). Text reading "Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow" appears on the left-hand image.
A packaging design for Lush, with a black and purple colour scheme, open with its contents on display.
Typography poster
Graphics on cardboard fold out
Collage of magazine extracts in hot pink, white and black with text snippets about patriarchy and feminism.
Graphics on lift door
A visual mood board or mind map showing different ideas on the theme of Passwords.
A deck of cards splayed out on a plain surface. The cards have a colourful check pattern and cartoon vegetables in the centre.
Packaging design for a Lush product called "Muddy Buddy" with its contents out on display.
A bedazzled green pepper with pearls, golden accents, blue and light blue shades.
Book cover design for 'Atomic Habits' by James Clear for Penguin Books, cut-out and yellow street typography, white background.
Abstract collage of two people merged together with text: 'Woman', B&W, white background.
the letter 'B' made up of an illustrated block of flats
Card and phone app visual
Images of pieces of bread
A series of posters with various large-print typography displayed on a wall.
Mood board showing various colourful illustrations of animals and branding designs. Two blocks of text appear in the top-left corner of the page.
Student presentation with audience, display discussing the brand: 'earthly, growing together'.
Electrical equipment images on coloured backgrounds
A person holds a smartphone with the Terra Hex app open on the screen. Crops in a field are visible in the background. Text reading "RSA Student Design Awards Highly Commended 2024" appears in the bottom right corner.
Instagram images laid out with text
The letter G letterpressed
Yellow-green banner with black text reading "XPOSURE" across the top. A man on a ladder is working just under the "X". A hand appears at the right spraying from a bottle with "XPOSURE" branding.
Packaging design for a Lush product called "All you need is Lush". Its contents are laid out in front of the open packaging box.
A packaging box design for a Lush product called "Quilted Comfort".
Two BA (Hons) Graphic Design students viewed from the back; one of them is pointing at a screen with a colourful mood board on it.
Students screenprinting
Exhibition posters
Screenshot of an Instagram feed showing a grid of nine different images.
Packaging design for a Lush product called "Rootin' for You". The box is open showing various Lush products, with a deck of cards laid out in front of it and a poster. Text reading "Blossom in your own way" appears on the poster.
A promotional poster for a product called Top It. The poster shows a point of sale and six varieties of packaging for the product.
Typographer E Beveratou working with BA (Hons) Graphic Design students on AUB campus.
graphics on black and white
A person's hand by some mint leaves in a box full of soil.
graphics on mocked-up labels
Type workshop

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Piece of art work made up of words hanging down from the ceiling
Design Will Durant
Design by Jack Sheldrake
Earth text in letterpress
Exhibition of Posters
Exhibition of posters
Hope in letterpress
Group of students

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Student Stories

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Neha Goswami – Networking, internships and highlights of studying BA (Hons) Graphic Design

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E Jarvis sits amongst dozens of plush Stitch toys covering wall behind her.

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Maria Bishop – “Graphic design isn’t just about following trends or forecasting what's next; it’s about constantly evolving”

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Blue, pink and white wristbands with Shakespearian-style quotes on them, white background.

How Scarlet Shepherd combines Shakespeare with graphic design for activism

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Edited poster showing Poppies FC players in red uniform around a gold badge, title at bottom reads '150 years'.

Matt King – "My time at AUB taught me the importance of the meaning behind my work"

I chose to do graphic design at university because I knew that I loved to design...
Animation of five people of South Asian and African heritage holding hands and smiling with a green background and cloudy blue sky.

Creating an animation on racial injustice: a reflection

Our goal was to highlight how the use of skin-lightening products negatively impacts the perception of darker skin, while also...
Film-style photo of a person hiking in the outdoors with a yellow backpack, surrounded by stickers.

Louise Andrews – How to secure work placements while studying at AUB

Since starting at AUB, I’ve had the opportunity to intern at two design…
Double-page spread of a book, on a section entitled "What a Time", with blocks of text and abstract images on both pages.

A progression journey: Foundation to BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Foundation was divided into two parts across three trimesters: Art, Media and Design, and a specialism...
A person holding a tablet and a stylus. A Talentspace app is open on the screen.

Kieran James – From lockdown redundancy to Berlin product design career

I worked with Channel 5 and their My5 on-demand product; we revived their...
A person sits and demonstrates something to a student on a laptop

“Why not stand out?” Meet the AUB alumna headhunted online for a dream design job

Straight after graduating, AUB Graphic Design alumna Capryce Montford...

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