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Art and Design
With our Art and Design degrees you will be provided with a creative community offering you a safe space to explore ideas, develop your craft and collaborate with industry leaders.
Depending on your degree, you will have access to industry-standard equipment such as a digital fabric printer, laser cutter, 3D Printer, screen printing facilities, CNC router and knitting machine. You will also become a proficient user of the Adobe Suite, specialising in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
Our creative degrees will set you up for a rewarding career in the industry you love. Our industry partners that continue to work with, and support, our students to succeed include Jack Nockles from AND+ Studios, Louise Weeks from Trend Bible, renowned Fashion Stylist Jo Shippen and famed Surface Designer Charlotte Gaisford. If you are a forward-thinker who wants to find your voice as an artist or designer, you belong with us.
What can I study?
FdA Designer Maker
Our Foundation Degree in Designer Maker is designed to foster your creative practice across ceramics, jewellery & accessories, textiles, and small product design.
Length: 2 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
FdA Interior and Spatial Design
Are you interested in a career in the design industry? Would you like to create your own designs? This is the degree for you.
Length: 2 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
FdA Fashion and Textile Design Practice
With our FdA Fashion and Textile Design Practice degree, you have the opportunity to choose your own pathway.
Length: 2 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
BA (Hons) Fine Art
If you have a passion for Fine Art, this degree will allow you to build the skills you need to establish a personal and professional studio practice.
Length: 3 years
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
BA (Hons) Interior and Spatial Design (Top-Up)
Get ready for a career in interior design.
Length: 1 year
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
BA (Hons) Design Practice (Top-Up)
If you're looking for a degree where you can design your own future, this is the course for you.
Length: 1 year
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
MA Creative and Professional Practice (Visual Arts)
This innovative MA programme will challenge you not only in your range of knowledge and skills but through increasing autonomy and industrial confidence too.
Length: 2 years
Study: Part-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
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Our degrees explained
What can I do with a qualification in Art and Design?
Daily tasks:
- Produces and/or assesses reports and recommendations concerning marketing and sales strategies.
- Controls the recruitment and training of staff.
- Examines and analyses sales figures, advises on and monitors marketing campaigns and promotional activities.
- Discusses employer.
- Liaises with other senior staff to determine the range of goods or services to be sold.
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Daily tasks:
- Directs the arranging of conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
- Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
- Reviews and revises campaign strategy in light of sales figures, surveys, etc. and takes appropriate corrective measures if necessary.
- Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
- Defines target group and implements strategy through appropriate media planning work.
- Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives.
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