Product Design BSc (Hons) at University of Sussex

In the art and illustration major, you will develop both the conceptual and technical skills you need to create high-quality work. As you learn from experts in the field at JBU, you will build a marketable portfolio that exemplifies your versatility and range of abilities.

It starts with an idea: a story to tell, a character to bring to life, a sequence to storyboard, or a surface to design. Combining visual language with traditional and experimental techniques, build the skills you need to prepare for a career in illustration. From sequential narratives to character design, concept art, editorial, or surface design, discover infinite possibilities for making your mark as an illustrator.

With an illustration degree from Lesley, you'll blaze a trail in our contemporary visual landscape as you grow into your career as a graphic novelist, cartoonist, book illustrator, set designer, creative strategist, and many more possibilities. And, with our reimagined general education curriculum, you’ll know how to succeed in an increasingly complex, diverse, and global world. You'll leave Lesley ready to make your mark on the art world.

Design isn’t just a way of making and doing; it’s a way of understanding and engaging with the world.

The BA Design degree enables you to think imaginatively about the possibilities of design. Not just what design is; but what it might be. You’ll discover how design affects the environment as a whole, as you investigate its role within society and culture. You’ll learn to see design as a complex combination of systems and actions, and not just as a set of distinct practical skills.