graphic design

The graduate programme relies on three basic tracks, each with its own studio: Graphics, Graphic Design and Illustration. In the first bachelor, you will receive initiations in each of these three practices with their own design methodologies and artistic work processes. Understanding the technical aspects, contexts and artistic problematics of these disciplines is essential for a budding graphic designer or graphic artist. It allows you to develop as an interdisciplinary graphic artist or designer. Or to make an informed choice and delve into a partial aspect of the vast and highly diversified graphic field. Through experiments with the possibilities of various graphic media, you will discover your own strengths and preferences.

From the second bachelor, you choose one of three pathways: Graphics, Graphic Design or Illustration. This means that you specialise in researching the specific technical aspects, contexts and artistic and/or design issues linked to the discipline you choose and deploy them in your individual practice. 

The graduate programme also puts a strong emphasis on collaboration across disciplines. After all, the hybridity and interdisciplinarity characteristic of the graphic field not only require an insight into the totality of the field, but also often demand cooperation across the specialities of each of the three disciplines. 

Graphic Design therefore provides Ateliers Grafisch Ontwerp (Graphic Design Workshops), which per discipline (Graphics II and III, Graphic Design II and III and Illustration II and III) elaborate on the characteristics of the practices associated with each of these three disciplines.

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 will 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 graphic design master's students guarantees 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.

KASK & Conservatorium offers English-language master programmes in the visual arts, audiovisual arts, drama and music. Each year, dozens of foreign students choose the master programmes of our faculty to continue their studies. The presence of students from different international backgrounds is an enrichment for our educational tradition and provides an added value to the training of foreign master students and Flemish students moving on from the Dutch-language bachelor programmes alike.

The programmes are organized so as to facilitate encounters between Dutch-speaking and English-speaking students in informal contexts, in seminars and courses, and even in artistic projects they start up together. There are no differences in curricula, competencies, learning outcomes or organization between the English-language programmes and their Dutch-language counterparts. English-speaking candidates holding a master’s degree in music can also go in for the advanced master contemporary music or one of our postgraduate programmes.

Don’t hesitate to contact the study and learning track counsellors with your questions.