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BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration with Foundation Year
at Teesside University

Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 13,000
Country Rank#90
Duration48 Months
Score

Program Overview

BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration with Foundation Year is offered by Teesside University UK. The course duration is 48 months.

The course is a combination of graphic design and illustration, offering you a broad and dynamic experience. Build a professional and innovative portfolio as a graphic designer and illustrator with skills across advertising, branding, typography, editorial and book design, interactive media, motion graphics and digital content. Learn to develop your design research skills and ideas-led solutions, working with the foremost analogue and digital industry facilities while being taught by award-winning and research-active practising artists and designers.

What’s more, you can complete an optional work placement year as part of this degree course at no extra cost.

What you learn

While studying this graphic design and illustration degree at Teesside University, you work to live briefs on real projects and enter competitions in this industry-focused programme to prepare you for a range of professional careers in the design field and across the creative industries, including artistic and technical roles in media agencies and publishers. From becoming a freelance designer or illustrator to working for an international company, your learning adventure unites the independent and commercial, specialisms and teamwork, deadlines and networking, traditional and digital design skills.

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

You study at our School of Arts & Creative Industries, led by Teesside University and MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), an international contemporary museum and gallery. You gain a full artistic experience, learning in a social space that inspires dynamic ideas, fuels collaboration and allows you to build local, national and international networks with industry professionals for your future graphic design and illustration career.

This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you don't have sufficient grades to join Year 1 of a degree.

Top three reasons to study graphic design and illustration at Teesside University

1. Benefit from our professional design studio environment and excellent facilities.
2. Our many successful graduates have excellent and varied career opportunities and go on to work in design consultancies, publishing houses, advertising and new media studios along with freelance opportunities and commissioned arts projects.
3. Work closely with our award-winning and research-active practising artists and designers.

Teesside is ranked joint 17th out of 73 institutions for Design & Crafts in the Guardian University Guide 2021. (121 institutions participated.

Course Content
Course structure

Foundation year core modules

Contextual Studies

Portfolio Project

Research and Analysis

Specialism Project

Thinking Through Drawing

Thinking Through Making

Year 1 core modules

Drawing and Printmaking

Graphic Processes

Graphic Projects

MIMA History of Art, Design & Architecture

Sequential Design and Illustration

Type and Image

Year 2 core modules

Advanced Graphic Projects

Career Context

Format and Application

Global Future Contexts

Interaction and Environment

Storytelling

Optional work placement year

Work placement

Final-year core modules

Clients and Competitions

Major Research Project: Graphic Design

Professional Communication

Professional Practice
Entry Requirement
Entry requirements

32-88 points from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications or equivalent. Consideration will also be given to students without formal qualifications but with evidence of relevant experience at an appropriate level. Students are invited to bring portfolios along on applicant days to show creative skills in art and design.

Interviews
Eligible applicants are normally invited for interview. The interview helps us determine your potential to succeed and to set appropriate entry conditions matched to your personal circumstances and the demands of the course. The interview also enables you to see our excellent facilities, meet staff and students, and to learn more about studying at Teesside University.

If you are unable to attend an interview at the university, we can organise a virtual interview over the telephone or internet. If you have a portfolio of work to submit in support of your application, this can be sent to us electronically.

Non-EU international students who need a student visa to study in the UK should check our web pages on UKVI-compliant English language requirements. The University also provides pre-sessional English language courses if you do not meet the minimum English language requirement.
Fees & Scholarships
Entry to 2022/23 academic year

Fee for UK applicants
£9,250 a year

Fee for international applicants
£14,000 a year
Career Prospect
Career opportunities

To support professional practice experience, you get involved with competitions from professional bodies such as Design and Art Direction (D&AD), You Can Now, Royal Society of Arts and International Society of Typographic Designers. You also have the opportunity to exhibit work externally.

D&AD connects to a community of creative professionals, providing essential industry and educational insight. Since 1962, D&AD has been inspiring a community of creative thinkers by celebrating and stimulating the finest in design and advertising. The D&AD Professional Awards are recognised globally as the ultimate creative accolade, entered and attended by the best from around the world.

Our graduates have excellent and varied career opportunities and go on to work in design consultancies, publishing houses, advertising and new media studios along with freelance opportunities and commissioned arts projects. There is also the opportunity for postgraduate study.

Examples of destinations include Barker Advertising in New York, Caterpillar Books, Elmwood Design, Gardner Richardson, Great Fridays, JWT, KPMG, McCann Erickson, Pearl Fisher, Penguin Books, Radley Yeldar and Publicis Sapient.

Cost Of Studying At Teesside University

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

Loans Sanctioned

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BA Hons Graphic Design and Illustration with Foundation Year at Teesside University