Graduate Diploma of Design - Billy Blue College of Design at Torrens University Australia

During your time on our course, you’ll become a professional graphic designer learning from industry experienced lecturers. We will support you in gaining work experience with local and national design agencies, as well as giving you the opportunity to work with professional designers and live clients.

Our teaching staff are all industry experienced Graphic designers, we are able to impart our real-world knowledge, ensuring that you are taught to the standard that our industry will look for in a graduate. We will encourage you to express yourself through distinctive, creative, commercially-astute and ambitious ideas, working on projects individually and collaboratively in a professional studio environment.

Explore conceptual and theoretical issues in a stimulating and creative environment. This MDes Graphic Design course gives you the opportunity to extend your portfolio and move your creative work into new spaces and career directions.

You’ll be challenged to build upon your communication and design research skills and apply these to successful problem-solving at a master’s level. You’ll explore contemporary issues in graphic design whilst gaining insights into global trends and dialogues in design by crossing genres and disciplines.

We have recently developed a partnership with Cheltenham Borough Council’s climate emergency team, students work on live briefs that support the research and communication of the projects. Past students work, including animated film ‘Whale Carbon’, have been showcased at Planted’s Green Grads exhibition during the 2021 London Design Festival.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Graphic Design is a comprehensive visual communication program that introduces students to the creative process used in visual communication design. Students begin with a foundational courses that establish the design principles, visual software, and the various media used in the design industry from physical to digital. In more advanced classes students explore print, digital, interactive design, package design, animation, and mobile design contributing to comprehensive campaigns and systems of communication design. The senior classes culminate in a professional portfolio, show and preparation for the design industry.