This challenging studio-based course is practical and creative. Live project briefs, competitions, and excellent facilities enrich your learning.
Course description
Graphic design is seen, felt and experienced everywhere. Once focused on objects, graphic design is now increasingly concerned with contexts. Graphic designers inform, confront, persuade, entertain, provoke, challenge, question, direct and engage with the political, social and environmental issues of the world we live in.
The aim of the graphic design programme is to create passionate, creative, resourceful, entrepreneurial and adaptive problem-finders, who are prepared both technically and intellectually to embrace and exploit the opportunities that graphic design offers in the 21st Century.
Being a graphic designer is fun, stimulating and inspiring. Designers are creative problem-finders and solvers. You will be challenged to think differently, even professional designers are constantly developing their skills. There are always new trends, new technologies, new ideas, and new sources of inspiration – a creative mind never stops learning. It is more than just a job – it's a way of life.
Careers
As a graduate you could work in a design studio, freelance, art direction, editorial design, typography, branding, advertising, corporate identity, interactive media, signage, design consultancy or online design.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
September 2025
Main Site
Kedleston Road,
Derby,
DE22 1GB, CENTRAL ENGLAND, England
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
Students who choose the University of Derby receive an outstanding education delivered by expert academics, and a fantastic student experience.