28 Communication Design (B8CD2Q) Communication Design is a vast, exciting, ever-evolving field that employs visually strong creative thinkers and problem solvers to use various design methods, processes, and techniques to communicate clearly to relevant audiences. Communication Designers, or Graphic Designers, create visual content to communicate to a particular audience. Our programme teaches students to create a variety of visual content, including layout, art direction, illustration, animation, data visualisation, and textual elements (typography). Students are prepared for multidisciplinary creative careers in an ever-evolving design world. Graduates are employed nationally and internationally in various fields, including government, science, IT, banking, and digital design. They design logos, app user interfaces, social media posts, packaging, murals, websites, brochures, magazines, illustrations, and infographics. Our Department of Graphic Design offers a Bachelor of Arts in Design, specialising in Communication Design. Our facilities include six spacious studios, a computer lab with the latest high-end graphics computers, and access to the Faculty’s Fabrication Lab with 3D printers and Virtual Reality generators. Our award-winning department accepts a select few candidates and keeps class sizes relatively small to give each student the resources and one-on-one time they need to advance in the discipline and their interests. Career Opportunities Graduates will be able to enter a communication design career by working in digital product design, design studios, marketing consultancies, branding and advertising agencies, and publishers as: — Communication and Graphic designers —User interface designers (Apps and Web) —Digital designers —Illustrators — Advertising designers (Art Directors) —Social media content creators — Photographers —Layout artists — In-house designers for companies or state-supported institutions — Freelance designers or Graphic Design business owners Admission Requirements — BA Design (Communication Design) (B8CD1Q) — Senior certificate or equivalent qualification with a minimum APS or M-score. Average Point Score (APS) A minimum APS of 25 with Mathematics or 26 with Mathematical Literacy is required to apply for the programme. BA Degree Do you see yourself as the voice of a nation, the creator of trends, a mediator, a communicator, or an influencer on all things visual? Then Communication Design is the right study for you. We live in a designed world where a Communication Designer uses digital technologies to imagine, conceptualise and create everything from billboards and social media content to this brochure and its illustrations. Programmes offered in the Department of Graphic Design Bachelor of Arts in Design specialising in Communication Design; BA Hons (Design) and a MA (Design). Min APS Languages Mathematics OR Maths Literacy Language of teaching and learning * 25 with Mathematics 26 with Maths Literacy 5 (60 – 69%) Maths: 3 (40 – 49%) Maths Lit: 4 (50 – 59%) * English, Home Language or English First Additional Language. For detailed information, refer to page 4 of this brochure.
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