Put simply, our aim is to give you the experience, confidence and creative skills to allow you to stand out from the crowd when you graduate. We also believe that it is vital that you develop strong drawing skills, which will underpin your unique visual language. During Year One we build your confidence and help you develop your ideas by looking at the fundamentals of illustration and design through a series of imaginative briefs that address core themes, issues and technical skills. These themes are further explored in an integrated design theory module. We are renowned for our teaching of drawing (including life drawing) and you also develop your two-dimensional and moving image skills using our state-of-the-art digital resources and technical workshops. To allow your confidence and ambition to grow, we cover a lot of ground and you do a huge amount of drawing, painting and digital work.

It’s a sad truth that students at many other institutions rarely see their tutors due to huge group sizes – happily we’re very different! We know that small year groups are best and so we recruit around twenty students each year. This means that you receive individual support and feedback. We also believe that you should work from a studio base. In our case this is a huge, dynamic, modern, multi-functioning space in which all years of our Illustration and Graphic Design and courses mix, share ideas and inspire one another. If you are visually inquisitive, motivated and ready for the challenge of one of the most exciting and fastest changing fields in the creative industries, then this is the course for you.