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about the programme
After an exploratory first bachelor's year of graphic design, you can opt for the illustration track in the second and third bachelor. You take a broad view of graphic visual narrativity and focus on developing techniques, research and working methods within the broad cluster of word, image and story. In the master of graphic design, the distinction between the pathways falls away.

graphic design:
illustration

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

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The practice of illustration

Illustrating is looking for a complementary visual language that enriches or retranslates the text or the content to which it relates. Illustrating takes as its basis a broad conception of visual narrativity and focuses on developing techniques, research and working methods within the broad cluster of word, image and narrative. In doing so, students are encouraged to develop their own individual artistic practice within the field of graphic arts.

Enriching illustration

The illustration path focuses on the student who is at home in the game of exploring, fine-tuning and deviating, and who can also respond artistically to the specific conditions of each predetermined form of publication (illustration, graphic novel, picture book, picture novel, comics, woodcut novel, narrative series, comics, visual poetry, infographics, illustration within digital applications, etc...).

photo: Cheyenne Dekeyser

As a student you build up artistic and communicative skills. The teachers expect you to have an attitude as an inquisitive author who can enrich his ‘illustrating’ from a highly creative involvement. In this way, you place your own practice in relation to literature and evolve towards an idiosyncratic artistic creation as a form of writing or authorship. Throughout the programme, you will learn to analyse your work and situate it within a broader graphic context.

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: Illustratie
27
J
Tekenen 2
3
J
Theorie en geschiedenis van de illustratie 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: Illustratie
27
J
Theorie en geschiedenis van de illustratie 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: Beeldende Kunst
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

 
Cloquet
2, Louis Pasteurlaan
9000 Ghent

credits

  1. Brouillette Nathan, Graduation 2023, photo: Giada Cicchetti
  2. Jannes Guillaume, Graduation 2023, photo: Giada Cicchetti
  3. Derous Maarten, Graduation 2023, photo: Giada Cicchetti