Graphic & Digital Design with Foundation Year

On our Graphic and Digital Design degree, you’ll learn a wide range of creative practices, including typography, branding, photography, creative coding, AR/VR, illustration and moving image.

Our Graphic and Digital Design with Foundation Year degree combines essential visual communication skills with our three-year design degree programme of specialist topics such as typography, and branding and advertising.

In the Foundation Year, you will learn the fundamentals of visual communications, including visual languages, storytelling and strategies for communication.

After completing the Foundation Year, students can progress into the three-year Graphic and Digital Design degree, graduating with the same award; or switch to a related creative degree pathway, such as Animation or Media and Communications.

Within the three-year design degree programme, you will explore a broad range of creative practices including photography, moving image, creative coding, illustration, AR/VR, data visualisation, creative AI, and print, through technical workshops, intensive design briefs and contextual studies.

With a strong focus on the creative industries, the programme also includes courses in professional development designed to help you build an industry-ready portfolio and confidently launch your career.

Popular career options for our graphic and digital design graduates include roles in creative agencies, particularly those specialising in print, publishing, packaging, advertising, branding and interaction design.

What you should know about this course
• This programme’s Foundation Year offers you a strong grounding in visual communication skills and techniques



• You will learn a wide range of different design practices, skills and technologies and experiment with a variety of techniques and mediums



• You will undertake specialist courses in typography, branding and advertising, and creative coding



• With a focus on design as a tool for critical engagement, you can also explore design as a form of self-expression and storytelling



• With a strong studio ethos, you will learn as part of community and develop excellent communication skills, essential for the creative industries.

The University of Greenwich empowers students to live life as the main characters of their own story, discovering new talents, building skills and developing their independence as part of an inclusive and supportive community.

With three well-connected campuses situated across London and Kent, you'll certainly find the right backdrop to channel your main character's energy. Together, these campuses provide the platform for a diverse and continually evolving community.

Most famous is Greenwich Campus. With its iconic view and cameo in Marvel's Thor, Greenwich Campus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site right on the River Thames, just a few miles from the heart of London.

Avery Hill Campus offers students a relaxed environment in the leafy London neighbourhood of Eltham and is only 30 minutes by train from central London. Everything is on-site and there are many students living on campus so it's a lively place to be.

Medway Campus is a historic site with redbrick buildings in north Kent. Students live, work and socialise on-site. There's a shopping centre across the road and the train to London takes 45 minutes.

There are hundreds of degree courses to choose from in a wide range of disciplines. Many courses offer a placement year option, giving you the chance to gain career-enhancing industry experience. There are also opportunities to earn while you study with the Student Job shop scheme.

Register your interest at the University of Greenwich today.