graphic design

he graduating option is based on three study paths, each with its own studio: printmaking, graphic design and illustration. During the first bachelor, you will be introduced to the principles of the artistic work processes and design methods of each of the three practices. You will gain insight into their technical aspects, their contexts and their artistic problems. At the start of the second semester, you are asked to focus by choosing a main practice studio. You specialise in one of the three graphic practices. In each main studio, there is broader initiation, but also and above all in-depth work. In two smaller sub-studios, however, you continue to create from the specificities and with the possibilities of the two other graphic disciplines. The work done in the sub-studios relates closely to the way you work in the main studio. The basic, main and substudio practices of the three graphic disciplines are flanked throughout the year by lessons in drawing, graphic techniques and typography.

From the second bachelor, you choose one of the three study paths: printmaking, graphic design or illustration. This means that you explore the specific technical aspects, the contexts and the artistic and/or design issues linked to the discipline you choose in a specialised way and use them to develop an individual practice. The graduating option also maintains a strong commitment to collaboration across the three separate disciplines from the second bachelor. This is what the hybridity and interdisciplinarity of the graphic field requires. 

In the master's programme, you will have even more space to develop your own graphic practice. The master's programme supports and encourages you to develop and coordinate your own projects independently. You choose which mentors act as your sounding board. You will receive theoretical stimuli in specialised master's seminars of your choice. Frequent consultation and contact with all other master students in graphic design ensures an open, fresh view on your own work process. Testing and feeding your own artistic practice is explicitly related to the professional field. You will actively participate in design studios, in newspaper and magazine publishing houses, in art print studios, as an assistant to artists, in museums and in the cultural field as a whole. The master's programme results in a finished master's project that is assessed by teachers and by specialists from the field.