Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will allow you to develop a collaborative, multi-disciplinary and socially engaged approach to your practice as a designer.

With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, the course will empower you to graduate as a professional practitioner at the forefront of your field. You’ll leave the course with a clear sense of your own role as a designer in the world.

You'll be supported to create meaningful connections between theory and practice as you implement an interconnected approach to research and design. You'll work together with peers and tutors to develop innovative responses to exciting project briefs. In turn, this will help you generate a portfolio of professional-level work and thus demonstrate your advanced problem solving, creativity and critical thinking skills.

This course will expand your critical thinking abilities through design practices, which will enable you to work both speculatively and on fully realized outcomes. Through design research methods and design project development you will develop a project proposal to complete as your final major project over the summer term. Your major project will be an ambitious and innovative piece of graphic design work, which can help define your portfolio and future career.

With a particular focus on socially-engaged design, our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will encourage you to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of graphic design practice.

At London Met's School of Art, Architecture and Design we foster a lively and friendly community of practitioners and a space to collaborate with fellow creatives, as well as meeting people from a diverse range of backgrounds and interests. Recent graduates have go on to work for clients and employers including Sky, Arsenal FC, Blup Studio, Found Studio, Blowup Media, Spring Studios, Penhaligans and River Island.

The course will provide opportunities for:

professional industry practice – take part in live project briefs with industry partners

situating your practice – learn about formulating a clear direction for your practice

improving complex problem solving abilities and critical thinking

collaborative and multi-disciplinary working

building knowledge through research and development

the challenge or expertly communicating and presenting your thinking and outcomes

Opportunities for exhibition