36 monthsProgramme duration
15,910 GBPTuition Fee/year
02 Aug, 2026Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Are you passionate about bringing stories and messages to life through illustration? If you're a creative individual seeking a career in an imaginative and dynamic industry, where each day presents new artistic challenges, our BA (Hons) Illustration degree might be the perfect fit for you.
Taught by industry-experts you’ll master the fundamentals of illustration. From narrative to traditional and digital technologies, you’ll graduate with a stand-out portfolio that’ll blow employers away.
On this illustration course you are encouraged to solve visual problems with your own unique aesthetic solutions, experiment with image and type and explore appropriate digital technologies.
Through practical hands-on, project-based learning you will explore the fundamental core aspects of the subject such as narrative structure, hierarchy, composition and layout, typography, information design, image creation and conceptual thinking skills. Students are encouraged to take risks in their work and learn to challenge established languages and processes through questioning and individual experimentation.
Central to the ethos of the Illustration course is the development of two aims; the first is self-authorship, where your point of view and vision play the pivotal role in identifying and communicating images and messages that are central to your own personal interests, opinions, and core values, and secondly a multi-disciplinary confidence and ability to accomplish communication tasks across a range of media and client bases. These aims reflect the current contemporary vocabulary of a modern illustrator.
Through specialist modules in Editorial Applications and Narrative Illustration you’ll explore a range of media, techniques and theoretical ideas which build an understanding of the role of a professional illustrator. By investigating contexts and audiences through practical projects and live briefs, you’ll develop your personal visual language, consolidate critical and strategic thinking, complex problem-solving and presentation skills, to build an awareness of the wider contextual role of an Illustrator.
In your final year you’ll delve into personal exploration, application and developing personal voice through a Major Project module. We encourage you to investigate your own interests by writing a brief that challenges you to create innovative and imaginative solutions to problems in areas that are important to you.
Upon graduating from this course, you’ll leave with your own distinctive portfolio that demonstrates your unique strengths and interests to prospective work opportunities.
Taught by industry-experts you’ll master the fundamentals of illustration. From narrative to traditional and digital technologies, you’ll graduate with a stand-out portfolio that’ll blow employers away.
On this illustration course you are encouraged to solve visual problems with your own unique aesthetic solutions, experiment with image and type and explore appropriate digital technologies.
Through practical hands-on, project-based learning you will explore the fundamental core aspects of the subject such as narrative structure, hierarchy, composition and layout, typography, information design, image creation and conceptual thinking skills. Students are encouraged to take risks in their work and learn to challenge established languages and processes through questioning and individual experimentation.
Central to the ethos of the Illustration course is the development of two aims; the first is self-authorship, where your point of view and vision play the pivotal role in identifying and communicating images and messages that are central to your own personal interests, opinions, and core values, and secondly a multi-disciplinary confidence and ability to accomplish communication tasks across a range of media and client bases. These aims reflect the current contemporary vocabulary of a modern illustrator.
Through specialist modules in Editorial Applications and Narrative Illustration you’ll explore a range of media, techniques and theoretical ideas which build an understanding of the role of a professional illustrator. By investigating contexts and audiences through practical projects and live briefs, you’ll develop your personal visual language, consolidate critical and strategic thinking, complex problem-solving and presentation skills, to build an awareness of the wider contextual role of an Illustrator.
In your final year you’ll delve into personal exploration, application and developing personal voice through a Major Project module. We encourage you to investigate your own interests by writing a brief that challenges you to create innovative and imaginative solutions to problems in areas that are important to you.
Upon graduating from this course, you’ll leave with your own distinctive portfolio that demonstrates your unique strengths and interests to prospective work opportunities.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Art and Design
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Are you passionate about bringing stories and messages to life through illustration? If you're a creative individual seeking a career in an imaginative and dynamic industry, where each day presents new artistic challenges, our BA (Hons) Illustration degree might be the perfect fit for you.
Taught by industry-experts you’ll master the fundamentals of illustration. From narrative to traditional and digital technologies, you’ll graduate with a stand-out portfolio that’ll blow employers away.
On this illustration course you are encouraged to solve visual problems with your own unique aesthetic solutions, experiment with image and type and explore appropriate digital technologies.
Through practical hands-on, project-based learning you will explore the fundamental core aspects of the subject such as narrative structure, hierarchy, composition and layout, typography, information design, image creation and conceptual thinking skills. Students are encouraged to take risks in their work and learn to challenge established languages and processes through questioning and individual experimentation.
Central to the ethos of the Illustration course is the development of two aims; the first is self-authorship, where your point of view and vision play the pivotal role in identifying and communicating images and messages that are central to your own personal interests, opinions, and core values, and secondly a multi-disciplinary confidence and ability to accomplish communication tasks across a range of media and client bases. These aims reflect the current contemporary vocabulary of a modern illustrator.
Through specialist modules in Editorial Applications and Narrative Illustration you’ll explore a range of media, techniques and theoretical ideas which build an understanding of the role of a professional illustrator. By investigating contexts and audiences through practical projects and live briefs, you’ll develop your personal visual language, consolidate critical and strategic thinking, complex problem-solving and presentation skills, to build an awareness of the wider contextual role of an Illustrator.
In your final year you’ll delve into personal exploration, application and developing personal voice through a Major Project module. We encourage you to investigate your own interests by writing a brief that challenges you to create innovative and imaginative solutions to problems in areas that are important to you.
Upon graduating from this course, you’ll leave with your own distinctive portfolio that demonstrates your unique strengths and interests to prospective work opportunities.
Taught by industry-experts you’ll master the fundamentals of illustration. From narrative to traditional and digital technologies, you’ll graduate with a stand-out portfolio that’ll blow employers away.
On this illustration course you are encouraged to solve visual problems with your own unique aesthetic solutions, experiment with image and type and explore appropriate digital technologies.
Through practical hands-on, project-based learning you will explore the fundamental core aspects of the subject such as narrative structure, hierarchy, composition and layout, typography, information design, image creation and conceptual thinking skills. Students are encouraged to take risks in their work and learn to challenge established languages and processes through questioning and individual experimentation.
Central to the ethos of the Illustration course is the development of two aims; the first is self-authorship, where your point of view and vision play the pivotal role in identifying and communicating images and messages that are central to your own personal interests, opinions, and core values, and secondly a multi-disciplinary confidence and ability to accomplish communication tasks across a range of media and client bases. These aims reflect the current contemporary vocabulary of a modern illustrator.
Through specialist modules in Editorial Applications and Narrative Illustration you’ll explore a range of media, techniques and theoretical ideas which build an understanding of the role of a professional illustrator. By investigating contexts and audiences through practical projects and live briefs, you’ll develop your personal visual language, consolidate critical and strategic thinking, complex problem-solving and presentation skills, to build an awareness of the wider contextual role of an Illustrator.
In your final year you’ll delve into personal exploration, application and developing personal voice through a Major Project module. We encourage you to investigate your own interests by writing a brief that challenges you to create innovative and imaginative solutions to problems in areas that are important to you.
Upon graduating from this course, you’ll leave with your own distinctive portfolio that demonstrates your unique strengths and interests to prospective work opportunities.
Admission Requirements
88+
55+
6+
80+
Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements for the three-year undergraduate programme, or those who do not feel fully prepared for a degree course, can apply for a fouryear programme including a Foundation Year.
02 Aug 2026
3 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
9,790 GBP
International
15,910 GBP
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