Graphic Design and Illustration

Semester Subject Intensive Programs (SIPs)
Study abroad students enrolled in an SIP program are fully integrated into the degree courses and study alongside UK degree seeking students. Since the study of art and design is different in Europe, students will find they are working more independently than at their home schools.  In addition, students are encouraged to take a hands-on, project oriented approach to learning. Professors offer guidance and support to visiting students in order to help them fit seamlessly into their program of choice. Students will earn 15 US credits per semester. Each subject-specific semester program at UAL is designed with the goal of maximizing the student experience; both in terms of providing a framework for academic inquiry, as well as offering each student the opportunity to work under the mentorship of leading industry professionals. Upon acceptance, students will be appropriately placed in either Year 1 or Year 2 of the program, depending on the student’s portfolio.

Semester Free Elective Programs
In addition to the semester programs described above, UAL also offers five free elective programs geared specifically towards study abroad students.  Students will earn up to 16 credits per program. Each program consists of a set curriculum with the chance to choose from several elective courses.

Graphic Design | CCA

Graphic Designers are at the center of dynamic and exciting fields of visual communication. They are communicators, problem-solvers, inventors, artists and entertainers. Great ideas are at the heart of the best Graphic Design and great ideas are also at the heart of this program, which encourages students to develop distinct and independent voices. Leading members of London’s design community regularly visit CCA, providing insights into current and future design practices.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
GD GD CA 300 – Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD GD CA 310 – Defining the Subject: What is Graphic Design?
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
GD GD CA 300 -Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD GD CA 310 – Defining the Subject: What is Graphic Design?
GD GD CA 320 – Critical Context and Reflective Practice
GD GD CA 330 – Exploring Subject Possibilities: Strategies

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
GD GD CA 350 – Elective
GD GD CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Audience
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
GD GD CA 350 – Elective
GD GD CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Audience
GD GD CA 360 – Context, Reflection and Planning
GD GD CA 365 – Contexts for your work: Client/Designer Relationships

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Graphic Design | CSM

Graphic Design is hardly adequate to describe the breadth of this program. The curriculum embraces typography, advertising, photography, moving image, drawing, printmaking, illustration and interactive design. Students are encouraged to experiment creatively and critically. The philosophy of the Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins is that students define their goals, experiment with ideas and challenge current practices to produce work that is outside commercial constraints. The program helps to develop individual students’ creative potential through improvisation, speculation and experimentation. Students may specialize (for example in typography) or be pluralists (for example in multi-media design). The program supports open attitudes to graphic design, communication design and design strategies; it encourages multi-disciplinary, individual and team working.

Students are placed into  year 2 of the program. Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
GD GD CM 350 – Intro to Specialist Routes
GD GD CM 360 – Graphic Design Elective Studies
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
GD GD CM 370 – Design Relationships
GD GD CM 375 – Personal and Professional Development, The London Project 2

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Graphic Design Communication | CCAD

This program encourages the development of a passion for high-level ideas generation, with innovative and directional concepts supported by the development of professional digital, technical and presentation skills. It offers a thorough grounding in design principles and critical awareness, with the opportunity to specialize in design for print or multimedia. There is a strong emphasis on live projects, particularly working with contemporary youth orientated products, services and markets. A weekly professional guest speaker program invites cutting-edge communicators and practitioners to share views from a wide range of design and communication fields.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
GD GD CC 300 – Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD GD CC 310 – Analogue and Digital Visualization
GD GD CC 330 – Creativity and Context
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
GD GD CC 300 – Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD GD CC 310 – Analogue and Digital Visualisation
GD GD CC 330 – Creativity and Context
GD GD CC 320 – Concept and Narrative

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
GD GD CC 360 – Culture and Context
GD GD CC 370 – Exploring the Professional Brief
GD GD CC 380 – Elective
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
GD GD CC 360 – Culture and Context
GD GD CC 370 – Exploring the professional Brief
GD GD CC 380 – Elective
GD GD CC 390 – Developing a Personal Language

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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Graphic and Media Design | LCC

This program builds on London College of Communication’s heritage and global reputation for graphic design education and is renowned for its experimental and applied approach. Students can expect to be encouraged to be innovative and to initiate change, to integrate practice and theory and work individually and collaboratively. You’ll possess technical skills but not be slaves to them, be able to make connections between disparate activities, be concept driven and capable of working across media. You will explore a variety of materials, media and methodologies and develop skills relevant to a career as a broad-ranging design professional. The program is delivered by experienced practitioners, tutors and other specialists including visiting speakers.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1
Introduction to Study in Higher Education
Principles
Exploration
Contextual and Theoretical Studies 1

Year 2
Collaborative Project
Stories, Methods and Form
Language, Audience and Environment
Contextual and Theoretical Studies 2

Courses will be announced by term shortly.

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Illustration | CCA

This program fosters an innovative, experimental and critical approach to the broad practice of Illustration by enabling students to define their own working methodology, using skills and experiences developed through workshops, technical inductions, tutorials and seminars. Students are encouraged to explore the wider territory of Illustration, challenging the position of the illustrator within commercial and artistic arenas whilst maintaining the core values that underpin the practice. The program embeds critical and contextual thinking at the heart of illustrative practice, examining, through a program of lectures, seminars and talks by industry professionals, the history and development of the discipline.

Students are placed into either year 1 or year 2 of the program (based on portfolio). Below you will find the set curriculum for each term.

Year 1|Fall: 15 Credits
GD IL CA 300 – Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD IL CA 310 – Defining the Subject: What is Illustration?
Year 1|Spring: 15 Credits
GD IL CA 300 – Induction
GD IL CA 310 – Introduction to Study in Higher Education: Design
GD IL CA 320 – Critical Context and Reflective Practice
GD IL CA 330 – Exploring the Subject Possibilities: Images and Intent

Year 2|Fall: 15 Credits
GD IL CA 350 – Elective
GD IL CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Visual Language
Year 2|Spring: 15 Credits
GD IL CA 350 – Elective
GD IL CA 355 – Developing a Methodology: Visual Language
GD IL CA 360 – Contexts for your work: Audience / Interpretation / Meaning
GD IL CA 365 – Context, Reflection and Planning

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Illustration and Visual Media | LCC

This new program capitalizes on the heritage of graphic design education at LCC by acknowledging traditional values and specialist skills while recognizing the changing and dynamic nature of design and illustration. The program seeks to challenge existing preconceptions and definitions of Illustration and encourages students to view themselves as thinkers as well as image makers. Taught by a team of practicing artists, designers, researchers and academics, all the tutors on the program are actively involved in scholarly investigation, graphic design and art related professional practice. The program fosters an understanding of contemporary creative practice, critical debate and scholarly responsibility. The program offers you the intellectual and creative space to examine existing definitions of illustration whilst exploring future directions. This enables students to work in a broad range of media, processes and techniques. Nothing is ‘off limits’. Students are supported in negotiating individual routes of study in response to a series of set, live and self-initiated briefs. Emphasis is placed on developing a range of practical, conceptual, research and decision-making skills that are transferrable from the academic environment to the world of creative practice beyond university. LCC Illustrators make intelligent, well informed, critically-engaged work that goes beyond stylistic aesthetic concerns and graduate as self-motivated individuals equipped to shape the future of art and design practice.

Year 1
Intro to Higher Education
Exploration 1
Application 1
Contextual and theoretical studies 1

Year 2
Collaborative Project
Exploration 2
Application 2
Contextual and theoretical studies 2

Courses will be announced by term shortly.

For course descriptions, click on “Class Schedules” to the left. Courses are subject to change.

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