This innovative BA course represents the evolving areas of contemporary design, interaction and moving image while capitalising on the graphic design heritage of London College of Communication that has been established since the 1960s. Distinctive features of the course... This innovative BA course represents the fast evolving areas of contemporary design, both digital and analogue, specifically in the areas of interaction design, moving image and digital culture. The course builds on the graphic and communication design heritage of London College of Communication that has been established since the 1960s. The course’s design led curriculum includes Interaction design both analogue and digital, moving image design and interactive digital design. Specialisms include psychical computing, expanded cinema and digital filmmaking, visual coding, user centred design, haptic feedback and design innovation. These skills make our graduates highly sort after in the design industries. The course also engages with social design (participatory, collaborative and community based) and socially aware design (design that exposes, understands and meets the need of particular communities and users). We aim to give our students the understanding that design impacts the world at large both cognitively and physically and that understanding issues such as sustainability and social awareness are central concepts of the contemporary design field. You can expect ... You can expect to be involved in working across a spectrum of media and materials - hi-tech, low tech or no tech exploring how people interact with design. You will explore sequential communication and narrative navigation, designing with images, sound, words and space across 2D/3D analogue and digital media. Your specialist studios are constructed as a designer’s playground that will nurture and encourage creativity and learning through the formation of a community of practice. There is access to traditional media such as letterpress, printmaking and photography and that can all be readily accessed for your work. You will graduate from your studies able to approach industry with the confidence of being able to negotiate many specialisms across the full media spectrum and you will leave with a wide range of technical, intellectual and design skills that ensue you are ready to work in this challenging and exciting area of contemporary design. Drawing on a tradition of dynamism, exploration, prototyping and experimentation, students of this BA degree are taught that the only boundaries are those set by the imagination and that creative ideas hold sway over technology. Students on the course understand that design impacts the world at large and that they have a responsibility for the wider issues of sustainability and social inclusiveness. Tutors on this course ... Tutors on this course include Course Director, Joel Karamath who keenly researches within the areas of film and popular culture. All tutors are experienced practitioners and specialists. They have strong external links enabling students to take a year in industry in many world destinations. The College plays host to many visiting speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds, institutions and subject disciplines, including design, arts, cultural theory and science.

Typically students are fully rounded in spatial, temporal, interaction, sequential and narrative design. They are conversant with technology but not subservient to it and have a focus on finding small answers to big questions. For example Min-Kyu Choi, who developed a prototype a folding plug whilst at LCC, then progressed onto RCA MA Design Products and eventually picking up the Design Museum Design of the Year 2010 award for his design. The course has a proven track record of employment and postgraduate progression, for example in 2008/09 and 2009/10 five students progressed onto courses including RCA MA Design Products, MA Interaction and Design Communication, MA Fine Art Sculpture and LCC's MA Interactive Media. Alumni Some of our students have also gone onto have great success within industry, these include the following: Chris Strong: Creative Director and founder of blac ionica production company Min-Kyu Choi: Designer with folding plug now in production James Gilpin: Creative Director at It's Nice That Ricky Knowles: Working on the Southward Garden Project at Southwark Council. Richard Harvey: Working at Weiden+Kennedy. Beccy McCray: Producer at Nexus. Simon Clowes: Art director and Motion Graphics designer/director at Prologue in LA The above list of students highlights the diverse, transferable skills base and breath of expertise our graduates take with them into an increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary market. Enterprise and employability at UAL We know what it takes to be successful in your chosen field. Your tutors are professionals in their own right and understand what you need to help you establish your career. Staff in our Centre for Student Enterprise and Employability (SEE) are dedicated to helping you build up work-relevant skills, knowledge, experience and networks throughout your time here. You will also benefit from our many relationships with industry, which give our students exclusive opportunities and access to networks and funding. Artists and designers tell us they value UAL's informed engagement with their career and professional practice development and our ability to offer them practical advice, guidance and opportunities across the wide spectrum of possible professional pathways - as entrepreneurs and employees. Staff value the resources and skills UAL makes available to help them deliver effective professional and career development through the curriculum. Find out more ArtsTemps (SEE) is the UAL in-house recruitment agency placing students and graduates in paid temping roles within the University. Creative Opportunities (SEE) is the UAL job vacancy and work placement website for students and graduates and advertises hundreds of creative job and placement opportunities each month. Get more information and advice on employment and creative careers for all UAL students and graduates.