Everything Happens So Much – Q&A with Dr Nicky Ryan, Dean of Design
This year London College of Communication’s Design School harnesses the opportunity of the London Design Festival to host Everything Happens So […]
Design School
London College of Communication's Design School is a dynamic and inclusive multidisciplinary community of internationally recognised educators, researchers and practitioners.
Our manifesto
- We believe in design as site of action and agency to radically transform our world.
- We believe in the power of design to critique, confront and challenge inequalities.
- We believe in questioning geopolitical, socio-cultural, and disciplinary boundaries.
- We believe that design operates in an ecology beyond the human centric.
- We believe that learning is continuous, collaborative and creative.
- We believe in the power of making as critical practice and tangible intervention.
- We believe in embracing uncertainty through experimentation and risk-taking.
- We believe in the value of interrogating the past to shape our futures.
Supra Systems Studio
A new Design School Research Platform launched during London Design Festival 2018.
The Responsible Design Framework PDF
Provides guidance for embedding environmental and social design approaches and principles within the curriculum.
Dr. Nicky Ryan
Dean of Design
As Dean of Design at LCC, Nicky leads undergraduate and postgraduate courses in graphic design communication; interaction design and visual communication; and branding and design innovation. "As a student in the Design School you will engage with the latest developments in professional practice, theory and research and develop transferable skills for employability and lifelong learning."
Design School: Courses
Our School ethos builds on the aesthetic traditions of design practice and encourages experimentation, critique and innovation within the context of a post-digital culture. We believe in the power of design practice, design thinking and design research to effect strategic change, shape positive futures and produce cultural value.
Branding and Design Innovation
Branding and Design Innovation celebrates the diversity of contemporary creative communication tools, visual practices and related outputs.
The programme explores and critiques design at its intersection with society, industry, enterprise and culture. Design is positioned as a collaborative and strategic practice that can inform, intervene and drive positive change.
Graphic Design Communication
Graphic Design Communication addresses a need for designers to operate within an increasingly dynamic range of visual communication environments.
The programme celebrates its ability to engage diverse audiences, tell compelling stories and expose unexpected connections through the utilisation of multiple forms and methods of communication.
- Level 3: International Introduction to the Study of Design, Media and Screen
- Certificate in Higher Education: Preparation for Design, Media and Screen
- BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design
- MA Data Visualisation
- MA Graphic Media Design
- Postgraduate Certificate Design for Visual Communication
- Postgraduate Diploma Design for Visual Communication
Interaction Design and Visual Communication
Interaction Design and Visual Communication deploys experimental methods and expanded practices to interrogate and critique contemporary material culture.
The programme’s courses explore radical ways of working through, about and with design and technology in order to create previously inconceivable new realities for future creative practices, ecologies and societies.
Design School – teaching staff
Mo-Ling Chui
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Design Management
Alison Barnes
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Graphic Branding & Identity
Joel Karamath
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Interaction Design Arts
Henrietta Ross
Course Leader, MA Data Visualisation
David Sims
Programme Director, Graphic Design Communication
Valerie Mace
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Design for Branded Spaces
Maureen Salmon
Senior Lecturer, Design School
John-Patrick Hartnett
Lecturer, Contextual and Theoretical Studies
Craig Burston
Course Leader, BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design
Charley Peters
Course Leader, MA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media
Sarah Temple
Course Leader, Diploma in Professional Studies
Tobias Revell
Acting Programme Director, Interaction Design and Visual Communication
Tony Braithwaite
Specialist Tutor in screen printing and surface design on the BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media
Ben Branagan
Associate Lecturer, MA Graphic Media Design
Design School: News
MA Interaction Design Communication students exhibit projects at Barcelona’s Sonar+D festival
Students from London College of Communication’s MA Interaction Design Communication course visited Barcelona’s Sonar+D festival – exhibiti […]
BA (Hons) Graphic Branding & Identity students host portfolio review with industry professionals
Students from London College of Communication’s BA (Hons) Graphic Branding & Identity course invited industry guests into their studio – hol […]
Interview // Weronika Rafa – Alumna and Degree Show Identity Designer
As part of our ongoing features around LCC Degree Shows 2018, we caught up with alumna and identity designer Weronika Rafa to talk about her approach […]
Design School students selected as British Council Fellows for Venice Biennale
This year, for the first time, the Design School at London College of Communication offered students the opportunity to become British Council Venice […]
Spotlight On: BA (Hons) Interaction Design Arts – LCC Degree Shows 2018
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