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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

The programme approaches the practice of illustration from different domains. Students are encouraged to integrate these inputs into an idiosyncratic individual artistic practice within the field of graphic arts. Illustrating takes as its basis a broad conception of graphic visual narrativity and focuses on developing techniques, research and working methods within the broad cluster of word, image and narrative. The practice of illustration should enrich and infuse the text or content to which it relates and the publication medium in which it is included with a visual discourse.

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

You build up artistic and communicative skills and the lecturers expect you to have an inquiring mind as an author who can enrich his illustrations from a highly creative involvement. In this way, you place your own illustration practice in relation to literature and evolve towards an idiosyncratic artistic creation as a form of authorship. You 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: Grafiek I
10
J
Atelier Grafisch ontwerp: Grafische vormgeving I
10
J
Atelier Grafisch ontwerp: Illustratie I
10
J
Grafische technieken
6
J
Tekenen 1
3
J
Typografie
6
J
Overzicht van de wijsbegeerte
3
J
Overzicht van de kunst: 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
1
Beeldanalyse
1
1
60
2E BACHELOR
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Atelier Grafisch ontwerp: Illustratie II
18
J
Projectatelier Grafisch ontwerp I
9
J
Tekenen 2
3
J
Theorie en geschiedenis van de illustratie 1
3
J
Kunstfilosofie 1
3
J
Overzicht van de kunst: 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: Illustratie III
18
J
Projectatelier Grafisch ontwerp II
9
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
1
Initiatie Werkveld: Beeldende Kunst
3
1
Minor Keuzevakken
12
1+2
Dossier
3
2
60

study programme master

MASTER
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Masterproef deel 1
8
J
Masterproef deel 2
21
J
Scriptie
9
J
Theoretische seminaries
12
J
Keuze 1 seminaries
4
J
Keuze 2 seminaries
8
J
Keuze 3 seminaries
12
J
Te kiezen
10
J
Kunst in het werkveld I
3
J
Kunst in het werkveld II
4
J
Kunst in het werkveld III
6
J
Kunst in het werkveld IV
10
J
Keuzevak binnen AUGent
10
J
60
ENGLISH MASTER
60 credits
Course unit
Credits
Sem
Master's Project 1
8
Y
Master's Project 2
21
Y
Thesis
9
Y
Elective Seminars
12
Y
Arts in Practice
10
Y
Arts in Practice I
3
Y
Arts in Practice II
4
Y
Arts in Practice III
6
Y
Arts in practice IV
10
Y
Elective courses within Ghent university Association
10
Y
60

enrolment

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