Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Animation

at Ravensbourne University London United Kingdom

Motion graphics is at the forefront of visual communication. With the growth of digital culture, motion graphics has become one of the fastest expanding areas of design. A BA (Hons) in Motion Graphics will open up opportunities for all budding designers with an interest in graphics, animation and film. Learn to combine these disciplines and realise your personal creative potential

Why study this motion graphics degree?

• This is a long established, forward-looking course with a unique focus on all aspects of motion graphics.
• Students develop a wide range of practical skills and theoretical knowledge to underpin their creative design work.
• The syllabus is aligned to industry but also promotes creativity and individuality.
• Across all years, students have access to the course’s outstanding industry contacts.
• As well as developing their design skills students explore the history, context and future potential of motion graphics.
• Being based in London, the course can provide many opportunities to visit design studios, postproduction houses, major broadcasters, exhibitions and industry events.
• On graduation our students have excellent employment opportunities.

The Motion Graphics degree course at Ravensbourne University London combines digital technology and creative design to equip you with the full range of practical and theoretical skills required to build a successful career within the creative industries.

The three-year undergraduate course encompasses key skills including animation, storytelling, graphic design, 2D and 3D graphics, video production and experiential design, as well as exploring the history, context and future potential of motion design.

Combining these skills with industry-standard software including After Effects and Cinema 4D, you’ll create motion graphics for film, television, online, mobile, music and live events.

Through the course’s well-established industry connections, you’ll be introduced to a wide range of guest speakers and visit design studios, post production houses and major broadcasters.

In your final year you will be given individual advice by industry experts on how to develop your portfolio and prepare for the job market.

You will graduate agile and industry ready – as proven by our excellent employment record.

On this fashion marketing degree in London, UK, you will learn to build, promote and maintain dynamic fashion brands. With strong industry links and cutting-edge facilities, you will tell unique fashion brand stories through different mediums to a range of audiences. It’s all about standing out from the crowd.

Why study this fashion promotion degree?

• Multi-award-winning fashion promotion and communication course
• Build up a diverse knowledge base in an industry-facing course 
• Expert teaching with direct contact to industry professionals
• Gain an accredited three-month work placement unit at fashion giants
• Gain access to a host of industry-leading guest speakers 
• A nurturing environment with high recruitment rates into industry
• Learn to effectively communicate and market fashion brands
• Develop your unique voice and add theory to natural creativity
• Recent work placements include Urban Outfitters, Ralph Lauren and Vogue

Become a fashion brand storyteller

The BA Hons Fashion Promotion degree can be tailored to your interests. You will explore fashion media production, fashion marketing and visual communication, including digital imaging and new media. You will learn the skills and techniques needed to effectively communicate and market fashion brands in this dynamic, fast-moving and exciting sector.

Fashion Promotion includes a fully-accredited work placement where you can showcase your learning in a professional environment. Supported by the Ravensbourne Employability Team, recent work placements include industry giants Urban Outfitters, Jimmy Choo, Stella McCartney, Vogue, Wonderland Magazine, Ralph Lauren, Ralph & Russo, Paul Smith, LK Bennett, Karen Millen, Harvey Nichols, Fashion Scout, Exposure, PR, All Saints and Black Diamond Films.

Delivered through a combination of practice and theory-based learning, you will develop your own unique voice across a number of channels, including: film, magazines, fashion photography, website design, journalism, brand communication and social media. Competitions and live briefs will provide real work scenarios to help you develop and integrate your skillset, whilst building key industry contacts.

This games programming degree will help you become a master programmer and stay at the very forefront of the games evolution. You will develop unrivalled skills within programming and scripting, content generation, artificial intelligence and virtual and augmented reality.

Why study this advertising and brand design degree?

• Be guided by industry professionals throughout your study
• Learn from the best and rub shoulders with mega brands
• Fantastic industry links. Tap into internship opportunities with Apple, Sky Creative Agency and Barclays 
• Boost employability in a large, diverse and ever-changing industry
• Upskill in pitching, team working and project management
• Explore cutting-edge digital and communication technologies 
• Develop a professional portfolio through a carefully structured learning journey

Become a brand storyteller

Our students ‘learn with industry’ engaging with professional practice throughout the course. In the last three years we have worked with global brands like Apple, Sky, Barclays Bank and The O2 and leading studios such as Moving Brands, Studio Blup, Kin+Carta and JKR. Most recently, we were privileged to work with Apple on an exhibition called Unsigned Stories, which is featured below. 

This advertising and branding degree investigates how visual stories are deployed to bring products and services to life. You examine diverse areas of marketing, branding and advertising, including: how to develop brand communication, social media content, marketing strategy and interactive experience. You will also learn to create graphic design communication for contemporary media platforms.

You will construct stories that connect strategically across print, social and online channels to engage audiences and influence perception. As well as exploring cutting-edge, such as apps, digital print, online media and mobile games, you will also examine traditional communication formats, like print-based media. This degree in advertising really will provide you with a solid grounding. 

Creative advertising, social media, digital technology, communication, storytelling and brand design are all prominent branches on the all-encompassing marketing tree. They are also decisive factors in what makes many contemporary companies successful and stand out from the crowd. As such, when you graduate with a BA honours degree in Advertising and Brand Design at Ravensbourne University London, you will not just be given a robust foundation to help you move into your chosen field of expertise. You will also boost your all-round employability, developing a diverse skill-set that is highly transferable.

Through this architecture degree course, you will take inspiration from art, philosophy and technology to explore the spaces and places we inhabit. With access to gold-standard facilities and the highest-calibre teaching, you will develop your own creative vision by exploring the role architecture plays in shaping our society.

Why study this architecture degree?

• Develop your own creative vision and refine your design skills
• Outstanding teaching from senior industry experts
• Tap into direct contacts to the architecture industry
• Cutting-edge facilities in an award-winning building
• Build a sophisticated, industry-quality portfolio
• Unparalleled opportunities in a design specialist institution
• Excellent post-graduation employment rate
• Contemporary, challenging and future-facing creative projects
• Develop a broad understanding of practical and theoretical themes

Formerly BSc (Hons) Digital Television Technology, this reputable and unique television broadcasting degree will allow you to master the art of technical broadcasting during live streaming and pre-recorded events, as well as gain a deep understanding of the TV industry and the principles of broadcast engineering.

Why study this digital film production degree?

• 40 years’ experience: one of the most esteemed courses of its kind in the UK
• 100% of our students are in paid work for an employer (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2018-19)
• Ideal for future broadcast engineers and TV broadcast crew 
• Fantastic opportunities and industry links with TV and outside broadcast companies
• Fully equipped studio and transmission suite and access to virtual production facility
• You’re a name and a face: small cohort for a personal student experience
• Enthusiastic, industry-focused teaching staff
• Excellent alumni network of senior broadcast engineers

A unique TV broadcasting course for tomorrow’s engineer

Digital opened the door to new ways of consuming streamed and on-demand content, including a multiverse of new channels. Broadcast now spans technologies ranging from radio wave transmission to  internet-based streaming, virtual live production and more. There’s a wealth of opportunity for you to explore and conquer. 

We have been teaching television and broadcasting courses at Ravensbourne University London for nearly 40 years, which makes this one of the most respected courses in the field. 

This television and broadcasting degree enables you to develop the right skillset and professional mindset to work in technical engineering and operations within the sectors of live studio and outside broadcasting and streamed content.  You will explore both traditional areas such as digital and satellite transmission, streaming and live events, and evolving technologies such as virtual production, advances in video and audio (like UHD and Dolby), the emergence of AI and other developments in technology. These topics are placed within industry standards so that you leave us ready to apply your learning to the workplace.

The academic framework is aligned to industry standards that govern broadcast regulations, grounding your learning in the professional world. You will gain practical experience in studio and location operations, signal routing and fault finding through the whole audio-visual chain. This diverse TV broadcasting course in London covers audio, video, broadcast, streaming, electronics, computing, infrastructure, systems and emerging technologies.

When you graduate with a BSc Hons degree in broadcast engineering, you will have developed first-class engineering skills gained through real-world technical and creative projects. Production students on large scale projects.  Engineering students lead on the technical build, transmission and troubleshooting, and may take on key operational roles in camera and sound if required.

The course is taught through a mix of practice and theory-based learning that includes lectures, workshops, seminars, projects and self-directed study. Led by industry experts, you will develop an understanding of technical roles within television, technologies used in television and broadcasting, and fundamental principles of broadcast engineering.

We pride ourselves on our outstanding industry connections, which are designed to give you a truly immersive and professional experience, smoothening your entry into industry. Previous students have live streamed projects with The Royal Shakespeare Company’s education arm, along with other prestigious partners. We're also members of Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) Student Chapter, which exposes staff and students to a range of opportunities.

In fact, no other provider of TV broadcasting degrees can match the level of creative and technical freedom we give you to explore emerging technologies in collaboration with industry practitioners. Your career’s in safe hands.

This fashion degree in London, UK, has a glowing international reputation for creating highly-employable graduates with distinctive design identities. One of the top student-accredited fashion design courses in the country, with 93% student satisfaction*, you will graduate with an industry-ready fashion toolkit.

Why study this photography degree course?

• Exceptional academic team, including couture designers, Saville Row cutters and experienced fashion brand manager
• Access the latest camera equipment and video editing software
• Establish and nurture your design signature and identity from the get go
• Unrivalled industry connections will make you industry ready
• Get involved in live project briefs from the outset
• Opportunities for internships in the world’s fashion capitals
• Work with and be inspired by some of fashion's greatest labels
• Collaborative working opportunities across the institution
• Option to take the digital technology for fashion pathway in second year
• Access The Institute for Creativity and Technology in London’s design district

Discover your fashion design identity

This flagship fashion course in London, UK, offers budding fashion designers the opportunity to study both traditional and innovative practices in fashion design, development, pattern cutting, sampling and digital design. You will explore how computer-aided design and emerging digital technologies are helping to innovate the fashion creation process – from idea through to production.

You’ll develop an enviable skillset across the fashion design spectrum. This degree in fashion is geared towards developing fashion designers with industry-ready skills who have a firm grasp of research and concept development methodologies. You’ll add an academic backbone to your natural design flair, discover and develop your distinctive creative identity, and hone the techniques and knowledge you’ll need to stand out from the crowd.

You’ll have constant industry engagement, be involved in live project briefs, and receive help to secure an accredited work placement for one term of the course. Students typically secure work placements in London, Antwerp, Paris, Milan and New York. They’ve been given a taste of life at some of the world’s most prestigious fashion brands, including Givenchy, Viktor & Rolf, AF Vandevorst, Haider Ackermann and Calvin Klein. 

These opportunities will broaden your horizons in fashion and beyond

During the fashion design degree, you will also work on industry-led design briefs and competitions, including VF Corporation, which encompass Timberland, Wrangler, Lee and North Face and Kingpins denim. 

Excuse the name drops, but the name on the label is pretty important in this business, and why shouldn’t you learn from – and aspire to be – the best? 

When you study the BA Hons Fashion degree, you will work collaboratively across disciplines to learn how the latest 3D and design technology is helping to transform processes and innovate fashion creation. You will consider your design signature from the get go. Our course leaders will oversee your growth as a fashion designer and be ably supported by other staff and visiting professionals.

Do you want to master user-centred design innovation and propel your career in the creative industries and further afield? Our Design Communication master's degree will enable you to produce industry-quality graphic design, marketing, social media and digital technology assets.

In a recent survey, our postgraduate courses scored 91% student satisfaction for creativity and design, and 93% satisfaction overall. That makes us second for postgraduate study in the country.

Why study this Design Communication master's degree?

• See your creative visions come to life
• Tap into exceptional industry connections
• Develop your business acumen 
• Establish a critical design practice
• Immerse yourself in emerging technologies and methodologies
• Respond to society and user needs to augment your design skills
• Create dynamic interacting spaces
• Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
• Be a legacy-maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology

Supercharge your visual communication design skills

In our exciting new MA Design Communication course, you will gain the knowledge, confidence and professional acumen to creatively position services, systems and need-driven design products.

You will respond to societal and user needs to expand your graphic communication design skills. You will be immersed in the tools and processes of digital design and emerging technologies, whilst exploring the value of design thinking and services in a bustling marketplace.

During the course you will establish a critical design practice, create dynamic interacting spaces, and apply design to respond to a range of needs. You’ll engage your target audiences by synthesising creativity with sound business theories – an essential skill that will boost your employability across many potential career avenues.

After studying for your MA Design Communication course, you will have:

• The hands-on design thinking skills to turn creative visions into truly engaging assets
• The business and commercial acumen to reach and inspire audiences across all business, international and not-for-profit sectors
• The confidence to generate real change and influence decision making at the most senior levels

With access to state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry links, the illustration for communication degree course will enable you to sharpen your skillset, promote your craft and prepare you for industry

Why study this illustration degree?

Our challenging and exciting illustration course in London takes an innovative, experimental and critical approach to the broad practice of illustration. The three-year BA Honours degree will help you to develop new skills, encourage different ways of thinking, enable you to find your individual visual voice, and prepare you for the ever-moving creative landscape.

Working in a collaborative studio environment, you will have opportunities to
apply your skills across a range of illustrative applications, including: editorial, publishing, packaging, product, print, advertising, character and film.

Illustration for communication at Ravensbourne University London spans the creative spectrum, turning illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers. As it crosses so many creative boundaries, there are unparalleled opportunities for contemporary illustrators to work with time-based, sequential and narrative forms. This includes graphic design, advertising and publishing, fashion and product design, animation and games design.

Ready to find your visual voice and develop your own personal style? If you study this illustration degree you will work with text, drawings, moving images and printmaking to develop concepts for multiple industries – from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation.

Our urban landscape architecture degree will enable you to combine creativity, curiosity and technical skill to explore how we reimagine the natural and built environment. With access to state-of-the-art facilities and expert teaching, you will develop planning and architectural design skills to plan urban landscapes and understand how environments can shape our mood and behaviours.

Why study this landscape architecture degree?

• Work in state-of-the-art design studios
• Tackle social, economic and ecological needs to enhance livelihoods 
• Take part in international events, competitions and live projects
• Visit and study contemporary towns – at home and abroad 
• Level-up your practical design knowledge
• Learn from experienced academic staff and practising designers
• Explore the functional, expressive and social impact of new construction tech
• Understand the interactions between people, activities and places
• Learn how environment can influence mood and behaviour

Urban landscapes are changing dramatically. Cities worldwide are implementing plans to maintain the vitality of metropolitan areas and make them attractive and sustainable to residents, business and tourism. Here lies your enthralling challenge.

If you study this degree in urban landscape architecture, you will be given a diverse education across urban planning and landscape architecture – from cityscapes to coastlines. As Ravensbourne University London has excellent links to industry, we place great emphasis on teaching you the tricks of the trade that will truly prepare you for the professional environment. 

In studying this innovative combination of architecture and urban planning, you will consider how people use space across a diverse range of urban environments. You will examine the key challenges facing the industry and contemplate the solutions presented by some of the greatest architects and urban designers in the field. 

You will develop your cityscape architecture and planning skills and learn how to balance national trends, regional characteristics and local traditions. By the end of this urban landscape architecture course in London, you will have the know-how to create structures and spaces that meet a multitude of social, economic and ecological needs.

Throughout your undergraduate studies, you will build up a portfolio of work which showcases the breadth of your urban landscape architecture design skills. You will investigate the complexity of contemporary urban aspects, design innovation, and advance conversations around how we build and inhabit cities in the 21st century.

Graduates jump into employment across a multitude of areas, including landscape design, management, planning, community development and urban design consultancy. Working in private practice or government offices, many are helping to create thriving communities and sustainable places in industries such as: film and TV, leisure and games design. 

Do you want a highly practical computer science education that provides you with the cutting-edge technical skills to prepare you for the jobs of tomorrow? If so, then this is the degree programme for you.

 Why study this Computer Science degree?

• Gain highly desirable skills in computer science
• Learn to program and build desktop and mobile apps
• Gain full stack web development skills
• Study cutting-edge subjects such as cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things
• Gain skills in computer networking
• Open the door to careers in software engineering, cyber security and cloud computing
• Experience a learning-by-doing approach to computer science education
• Improve your future employment prospects
• Meet like-minded people with similar interests
• Be part of a tech-literate, creative community

A unique computer science degree for tomorrow's expert
Ravensbourne has an established international reputation for innovation at the intersection of design and digital media.

The BSc Computer Science programme capitalises on and consolidates these past successes, offering you a computer science education that nurtures your ability to innovate, while developing your computer science skills.