BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication
Ravensbourne University London
Key Information
Campus location
Greenwich Peninsula, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Discover your visual voice.
With access to state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry links, the illustration for communication degree course will enable you to sharpen your skillset, promote your craft and prepare you for the industry.
Why study this illustration degree?
Our challenging and exciting illustration course in London takes an innovative, experimental and critical approach to the broad practice of illustration. The three-year BA Honours degree will help you to develop new skills, encourage different ways of thinking, enable you to find your individual visual voice, and prepare you for the ever-moving creative landscape.
Working in a collaborative studio environment, you will have opportunities to apply your skills across a range of illustrative applications, including editorial, publishing, packaging, product, print, advertising, character and film.
Illustration for communication at Ravensbourne University London spans the creative spectrum, turning illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers. As it crosses so many creative boundaries, there are unparalleled opportunities for contemporary illustrators to work with time-based, sequential and narrative forms. This includes graphic design, advertising and publishing, fashion and product design, animation and games design.
Ready to find your visual voice and develop your own personal style? If you study this illustration degree you will work with text, drawings, moving images and printmaking to develop concepts for multiple industries – from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation.
Ideal Students
Aspiring illustrators and contemporary visual storytellers who wish to hone their craft across the creative spectrum.
Curriculum
Year 1
This studio-led introduction to illustration expands mindsets and skill sets through workshops and projects.
Students have the opportunity to explore ideas generation, documentation and process experimentation and the creation of image-making through computing, animation, photography and digital print.
A programme of industry practitioners and speakers supplements and enhances the core delivery.
Year 2
Year Two explores a more individual approach to image-making and encourages the development of creative thinking and ideas generation, combined with a deeper understanding of the subject.
The ability to have a personal vision, a point of view and a philosophical stance is explored and a range of electives help facilitate collaborative projects with other disciplines.
Year 3
The culmination of three years of study in Illustration is channelled into practical projects, increasingly professional in scope.
A range of self-directed project solutions forms the basis, along with a major project, of the final portfolio of work appropriate to applied contexts across a range of disciplines.
Key study topics
Working in a collaborative studio environment, students will have the opportunity to apply their skills across a range of illustrative applications including:
- Editorial
- Publishing
- Packaging
- Product
- Advertising
- Character
- Film
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Career Opportunities
As it crosses so many creative boundaries, there are unparalleled opportunities for contemporary illustrators to work with time-based, sequential and narrative forms including graphic design, advertising and publishing, fashion and product design, animation and games design.