Concordia University, USA, Montr?al

(Hons) Illustration and Graphics, B.A.

Course Highlights

This (Hons) Illustration and Graphics course offered by Coventry University is for those students who wish to turn their creative flair into a fully developed professional creative career. The course teaches those skills needed to work in the highly contemporary field of illustration, graphic design, animation and creative media both in the UK and internationally.

Career Opportunities

If you have just graduated, or are still studying for your degree in design, you may be wondering just what kind of jobs you will end up with. If this is the case, then this guide is for you. Design students are lively and full of ideas. They are likely to watch movie credits with interest and a critical eye, own Apple products and laugh at people who use comic sans and they also typically have a range of skills that are highly valued in the graduate jobs market. The skills that design graduates are likely to have to offer include: logical thinking and problem-solving project management research and editorial skills presentation and other communication skills computer skills hands-on project management creativity software skills. Other possibilities include: interior design film and television production fashion design editorial roles in printed media sub-editing product and packaging design advertising landscape gardening. Plenty of design students have taken the subject in different directions. Consider these examples: an eye for detail. Obvious career options for design graduates include web design, interactive media and video editing.

Course Overview

This (Hons) Illustration and Graphics course offered by Coventry University focuses on image making -using a wide variety of materials, processes and technologies across print, 3D and moving image formats. It encourages students to push boundaries to create new and exciting forms of visual communication. Students work on a wide range of professional creative briefs, set by practitioners in the field. Students develop contacts during their time on the course, working for a variety of clients and on external opportunities. The course offers access to a wide range of technologies, studios and workshop facilities including Adobe Creative Suite software, 3D software, screen printing facilities, 3D clay modelling, laser cutting, stop motion animation studio, photography and video resources and digital print bureau. I want to find another Bachelor Course If you choose this course you may benefit from: working alongside our staff who continue to work as professional artists, designers, illustrators and animators on external research projects; the opportunity to apply for a work placement or undertake live projects in year two of study. Students can also undertake a sandwich year of study or work abroad recent opportunities have included placements with Venice Printmaking Studio, Silverback Studios; Nucleo Design Studios-Italy, Ash Gaming, Rawww Design Agency, Christian Aid; large scale wall illustrations for City of Coventry Health Centre; illustrations for Architects Glenn Howells as well as Erasmus placements at Accademia di Belle Arti Bolongna and Universidad Europea de Madrid. support to enter national competitions including Penguin Design Awards, House of Illustration, YCN, D&AD Student Awards, and Creative Conscience Awards. Our students have had considerable success in these competitions and have won the highly commended Macmillan Prize for Children's Book Illustration and the Silent book contest. a programme of visiting speakers including Paul Davis, Gemma Correll, Ian Francis and John Stezaker; field trips are often organised across courses and there will be a range of opportunities on offer. In the past, students have visited China, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and New York.

Subjects

Programme Structure The first year focuses on developing new skills and applying these to project briefs. Students are taught essential software packages; screen print and drawing skills as well as developing their ideas, skills in graphic design, illustration for editorial and narrative, character design and typography. Alongside this, students study professional practice and have contextual modules. Year 2 focuses on developing students own personal approach to illustration and design and begin to apply this within a professional context. Experimentation is encouraged and students explore a range of workshops including 3D modelling, moving image and digital approaches. Students undertake either a short placement or work on live client based modules in this year. You also have the choice to take part in an optional placement or study abroad year. In the final year students undertake a major project as well as a variety of competition and live external briefs. Students work towards building a highly creative and professionally credible portfolio ready to enter their chosen industry specialism. Students studying Illustration and Graphics have the opportunity to enter a broad range of creative fields and to support this choice they write dissertation, which investigates their chosen marketplace.

Fees

GBP/year

Academic Entry Requirement

Academic Requirements 5 GCSEs at grade A*-C including English. Typical Offers A-Levels: BBC to include at least one Art or Design subject BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in an Art or Design subject Access: A pass in the Access Diploma, plus GCSE English Language at grade A*-C, or a specified equivalent. International Baccalaureate Diploma: 29 points to include Visual Arts or Design Technology at Higher level Find out more about acceptable equivalent qualifications here. English as a Foreign Language: IELTS 6.0 Additional Information: Applicants will be required to submit a portfolio/showreel/written work (as appropriate for the particular course) and you may be asked to attend an interview if it is practical to arrange.

English Entry Requirement

6

Contact Details

Concordia University