From the icons on your smartphone to the signs in an airport, from the logo on a cola to the type on your favourite magazine, visual communications play a powerful part in shaping our choices. Visual Communications combines skills in illustration, graphic design, typography and digital design to create images that persuade or inform. From the start, the course focuses on hand drawn imagery to develop a feel for the shapes and styles that connect with audiences.

Our graduates have found employment as freelance practitioners, in small design companies and larger firms. Many of our graduates go on to pursue careers which cross the traditional boundaries of Graphic Design, for example Brendon Cook designs books for HarperCollins Australasia but he also works as a freelance graphic designer often undertaking web design briefs (he has also come back to give guest lectures). Several other students now work within publishing and locally and nationally; several alumni now work for Imagine Publishing in Bournemouth. Both Laura Walker and Luke Bonner work for Thinking Juice who was recently voted ‘Advertising Agency of the Year, South of England 2010′. This success has been supported by a dedicated staff team who regularly utilise industry and business contacts to allow students to develop ‘live’ project working skills and for future employment and industry engagement. This work has been achieved by working alongside the Enterprise Pavilion, charitable organisations and local business.