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about the programme
After an exploratory first bachelor year of graphic design, you can opt for the graphic design studio in second and third bachelor. This is based on five focuses: visual identity, publication, digital publication, experimental typography and data visualisation. Each time you transcend the classic dichotomy between print (publication, poster, flyer...) and digital (website, application...) you look for the relationship between both in our post-digital world. In the master of graphic design, the distinction between the trajectories falls away.

graphic design:
graphic design studio

about the programme
study path
bachelor + master visual arts
graduating option graphic design
study path graphic design
3+1 years
language
Dutch
English master

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he graphic design studio is a space in which we encourage and support students' critical view of both practice and the world. We use the tools and methods that graphic design has to offer as a subject and discipline. Experimentation and reflection are central; they are driven by a curiosity through which each student develops his or her own story and unique artistic profile that relates in a specific way to current trends but, above all, searches for what graphic design can be or mean in the future. The relationship between language and text is a very important element. 

We look at the graphic designer as (co-)author and editor of text and image. The book, (digital) publications, posters, (experimental) typography, ... are the forms mainly covered. In addition, using ‘studio practices’, the practice is more finely tuned. From initiation in the rapidly evolving hybrid world of graphic design (content: lectures, workshops, exhibitions...) to further deepening of concrete practice (technical and practical: software and analogue tools, 3D printing, print/workflow, quotations...).

study programme bachelor

1E BACHELOR
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Atelier Grafisch Ontwerp I
30
J
Grafische technieken
6
J
Tekenen 1
3
J
Typografie
6
J
Overzicht van de wijsbegeerte
3
J
Overzicht van de kunsten: avant garde tot heden
3
J
Kunstenaarsteksten 1
3
J
Inleiding tot het onderzoek in de kunsten
3
1
Psychologie van de waarneming & beeldanalyse
3
1
Psychologie van de waarneming
2
Beeldanalyse
1
60
2E BACHELOR
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Atelier Grafisch ontwerp II: Grafische vormgeving
27
J
Tekenen 2
3
J
Theorie en geschiedenis van
de grafische vormgeving 1
3
J
Kunstfilosofie 1
3
J
Overzicht van de kunsten: renaissance tot avant-garde
3
J
Kunstenaarsteksten 2
3
J
Lectuur teksten vanuit historisch perspectief
2
Schrijven
1
Studie van literaire teksten 1
3
J
Antropologie van de kunsten
3
1
Minor Keuzevakken
12
1+2
60
3E BACHELOR
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Atelier Grafisch ontwerp III: Grafische vormgeving
27
J
Theorie en geschiedenis van de grafische vormgeving 2
3
J
Kunstfilosofie 2
3
J
Studie van literiare teksten 2
3
J
Kunstenaarsteksten 3
3
J
Semiotiek
3
2
Te kiezen
3
1
Initiatie Werkveld: Vormgeving & Design
3
Initiatie Werkveld: Vormgeving & Design
3
Minor Keuzevakken
12
1+2
Dossier
3
2
60

study programme master

MASTER
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Masterproef
29
J
Scriptie
9
J
Theoretische seminaries
12
1/2
Te kiezen
10
1/2/J
Kunst in het werkveld
Opleidingsonderdelen binnen AUGent
60
ENGLISH MASTER
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Master's Project
29
Y
Thesis
9
Y
Elective Seminars
12
1/2
To choose
10
1/2/Y
Arts in Practice
Elective courses within Ghent university Association
60

enrolment & tests

If you want to apply for an academic bachelor's degree, you must first pass an artistic admission test. To enter the master's programme, you will take part in an orientation test. These are organised several times per academic year.

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contact
you'll follow most classes at
Marissal
2, Louis Pasteurlaan
9000 Ghent

credits

  1. Beijers Sjoerd, Graduation 2023, photo: Giada Cicchetti
  2. Manon Lambeens, Het Sociale Spel, photo: Benina Hu
  3. Laura Martens, Graduation 2021, photo: Benina Hu