Art and Design (Graphics)

Course summary

Welcome to the Visual Arts Department at BHASVIC. Graphic Design is one of four subjects we offer at A-level. The first year of Graphic Design is all about discovery. We want to get to know you as quickly as possible. Initial projects are designed to encourage dialogue, a sense of play and promote curiosity. Composition skills, use of Photoshop, animation, illustration, typography and printmaking will be explored. Having spent a year discovering yourselves as practising designers, much of our transition work at the end of the first-year centres around you defining your artistic selves. In the second year you are encouraged to develop your own visual language, style and ultimately become an expert in the area you have chosen to study. A longer personal body of work gives time for this refinement and focus. You will be taught in one of our two Graphic Design studios which are large, bright and well-equipped. Your teachers will work closely with you to form supportive relationships that help guide your design-based endeavours. Many of these teachers are practising Graphic Designers themselves. We have a fantastic team of six technicians who are also there to assist your technical needs. Enrichment opportunities include trips, talks by working designers/ illustrators, working with Bmag (our college online magazine) and applying to become one of our assistant curators or events assistants.