A-Level - Art and Design - Graphic Communication

The A Level Graphic Design course is aimed at students who are looking to develop their visual creativity and will encourage students to explore and enhance their design skills using a range of graphic design processes, media, techniques and workshops that explore graphic visual language. The design skills students develop will include visual communication, printmaking, illustration, typography, advertising, digital media and animation. In addition to specialist graphic design skills, the course will also give students a solid grounding in a number of essential skills and the exploration of the formal elements necessary to the successful realization of their design ideas and outcomes.

The core graphic communication skills students develop on the course will enable them to gain a solid grounding in a number of essential approaches to explore the formal elements necessary to successfully realize their design ideas and outcomes. The course has been developed to help students create a graphic based portfolio, which will aid progression onto university level art and design-based courses or onto the HNC/HND in Graphic Design at the College.