The Games Design BA equips you with creative and technical skills to craft future games. In the first year, you'll explore core principles, game mechanics, and design, with the option to specialize in Games Art. Later, you’ll refine 2D/3D game development, VR, and UX, preparing for careers in indie and AAA studios.

Our graphic and digital design degree takes a practical and theoretical approach to design to prepare you for careers in the creative industries. On our graphic and digital design degree, you will study topics such as typography and graphic design, branding and advertising, fine art, photography, data visualization, and moving images.

This BA (Hons) Graphic Design course encourages you to “think” and “reflect” as well as “do”. The subject is framed in its historical and contemporary context. The course team ensures an understanding of the principles/ core issues of visual communication; and considers this to be their ‘equipment for a life’ in design practice and the creative industries. This is born out of the staff team's experience with contemporary communication design practices.

The Graphic Design BA aims to provide an intellectual and creative space for you to explore and develop a wide range of skills and understanding of the discipline of graphic design. This is applied through a variety of current and emerging technologies and processes for visual communication. The evolving and fluid forms of published and experiential exchanges include interactions with audiences and users across digital, physical, and virtual environments. The breadth and range of the facilities and processes available support creative learning that is interdisciplinary, collaborative and professional – embracing technologies and practices found in current industry work environments. This course offers a flexible, interdisciplinary, and multi-faceted approach to the study of contemporary graphic design practice across a broad range of contexts and projects that are industry-facing as well as experimental, discipline-critical and research-led. It will prepare you with the highest level of practical and employable skills, knowledge and visual understanding required to both work and lead in this sector of the creative industry today. Study and learning on the course are encouraging, inclusive and supportive, fostering your aptitudes and individual expression in the work you produce while offering wide and in-depth visual inquiry and experimentation. Throughout the course, there is a wide range of optional choice modules that support individualised creative agility, enabling you to be flexible and resilient while also making you industry ready to adapt your practice rapidly within evolving employments, periods of change, new and emerging communication and societal driven exchanges and technologies. The course fosters the development of employability skills and knowledge as well as work-based learning opportunities from your first year through to the final stages of the course. Two options reinforce and augment this ethos: either a year-long professional placement or internship nationally or a year overseas in either an academic or work environment. The course has a strong professional focus and connections in conjunction with the University’s award-winning Westminster Enterprise Network, supporting all aspects of employability, from training, professional practice, self-promotion, work experience, interviewing and job opportunities.

In the first year of your Graphic Design degree, we’ll spend a lot of time in the studio. Our focus is firmly on introducing you to the design process, and you’ll be developing the creativity to solve design problems and tasks. In particular, we’ll explore typography and web design, and you can get hands-on with industry-standard applications and specialist software. You will also learn how to research, analyse and write about art and design. We look at design history, practice and how designers have realised their ideas throughout the 20th century and into the present day.

On this unique and exciting course, you will work within the context of a studio-based arts university, where everyone shares an interest in different forms of making. ARB and RIBA accredit BA Architecture (Part 1), so on the course, you will prepare for professional practice.

Creative Coding introduces students to the fundamental concepts, methodologies, and techniques of software development. The module provides the foundation skills of creative coding, being followed by Wed Design and ‘User Experience’ in Year 2. Creative coding and programming are key components of Digital Design and is an in-demand skill for the workplace inside and outside of the Creative Industries.

As an interior designer you might work with homeowners, public bodies and businesses. You'll consider the use of furniture, lighting, flooring, artwork and decoration, decor and colour pallettes to create residential or commercial spaces that people enjoy using. To become a professional interior designer you'll typically need a university degree in interior design or a related subject. Practical experience is also valuable and here at ARU, you'll receive ongoing support to find placements and work experience. You can also choose to take an optional placement year in industry as part of your Interior Design degree.

As a start you’ll undertake a broad range of short studio and workshop projects in visual imagery and practical making. These will help you to develop techniques that are common across all of our foundation year courses and introduce you to a work ethic of experimentation and open-mindedness. Following this you will approach open-ended, interpretive projects that will help you to establish a personal perspective and sense of direction.

On the Costume Construction pathway of BA (Hons) Theatre Practice, you will develop skills in costume interpretation and creation, learn pattern drafting, women’s and men’s costume making, hat making and accessories.

This incorporates communication design through typography, images and messaging, craft and digital skills drawing on typography, graphics and user experience/interfaces (UX/UI), as well as the concept of social design: using data as raw material for design, and the ethos of “design for good.”

The course is designed to help you discover and develop your individual abilities and strengths. Throughout the course, you will be required to learn and demonstrate technical skills and critical judgment, which will inform your work.

On our graphic and digital design degree, you will study topics such as typography and graphic design, branding and advertising, fine art, photography, data visualisation and the moving image. Technical workshops and other practical elements of the course will boost your creativity and help you master various aspects of design technology.