Bachelor of Design - Communication Design Major

Summary

The Bachelor of Design is creative and practical, with strong input from industry partners like Weta Workshop, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Auckland Art Gallery, Creative New Zealand and Kate Sylvester.

As a Bachelor of Design student you have access to world-class facilities, collaborate with other art and design students, and in your final year you may be able to showcase your work at the AUT School of Art and Design festival or the AUT Rookie fashion show.

Communication design focuses on developing and visually communicating ideas and messages.

Study communication design at AUT and examine historical and modern concepts of visual language and design. You work on a diverse range of projects that respond to societal, environmental, design industry and commercially relevant issues.

Within this major you can focus on an area of communication design by selecting a specialised studio programme in your second year.

Key features:

Covers a range of tools, technologies and materials for print, digital and interactive project work and media
Offered at the City and South Campus
Students entering the first year of the Communication Design and Interaction Design majors share a common first-year programme

Career Opportunities

Design and strategy

• Advertising and brand creative
• Online and social media manager
• Creative or account director

Image-making

• Photographer and videographer
• Content and narrative illustrator
• Printmaking

Graphic design and typography

• Communication or graphic designer
• Publication design and magazine art director
• Print and packaging designer
• Information designer