Bachelor of Graphic Design in Melbourne

Enhance your visual literacy and unleash your imagination in the realm of Graphic and Digital Design. Elevate your skills across a diverse range of mediums, including print, typography, branding, packaging, and digital design. Acquire both theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to seamlessly integrate words, images, and creative ideas, crafting compelling messages that visually represent brands.

Note: you need to apply for the Bachelor of Design Arts. You will commence study in your chosen major during your second trimester of the course.

CRICOS Course Code: 058836K

Students from the Graphic Design Course access discipline-specific facilities designed to support both graphic and interactive design practice, including a 3D printer, a computer lab with industry-standard software, and printing and scanning equipment. These tools provide hands-on experience with the technologies used in professional practice, from physical production through to digital prototyping.

Exploration, Contextual, and Professional Practice Units

Exploration Units

Discover design fundamentals via workshop-based study that focuses on expanding foundational understanding of design.

Workshop: Body (WRKB)
Workshop: Image (WRKI)
Workshop: Message (WRKM)
Workshop: Space (WRKS)
Future Forward Design (ACC111)
Elective: Brand Strategy (ELE001)
Elective: Design & Wellbeing (ELE002)

Contextual Units

Explore the impact of context (e.g., historical, trends, visual thinking, technology, culture) on designers' and artists' work and realisation of vision. Experiment in a collaborative learning environment to articulate and understand key influences on art and design.

Design, History & Culture (AXC111)
Social Trend Forecasting (AXC121)
Design, Issues & Impact (AXC231)
Global Design Culture (AXE241)

Professional Practice

Practising artists and designers provide important insights into contemporary practice.
Hear from a range of local and overseas professionals about what is occurring in the industry and how they are succeeding in their field. Engage in related personal reflection.

Business Principles (ACC241)
Professional Practice & Systems (BPC351)
Professional Placement (APE241)
Personal & Professional Practice (BPC361)
Professional Communication (BCC351)

Design Laboratories

Learn and practise knowledge and skills specific to your major in LCI Design Laboratories, the core of the Bachelor of Design Arts degree. Engage with the full spectrum of the design and artistic process in studio-based labs. Respond to an industry brief, work on a global project with a global brand, or generate ideas to solve contemporary issues. Progress through a series of lab themes (foundational, issues, global, and industry) beginning in trimester 2. Put it all together in your final lab: produce and showcase an advanced body of work that expresses your creative ethos.

Design Laboratory: Foundation (LABG101)
Design Technology (APG121)
Design Laboratory: Issues (LABG102)
Design Sub Major (ASG111)
Design Laboratory: Global (LABG203)
Design Laboratory: Industry (LABG204)
Design Laboratory: Capstone (LABG205)