Design School
Postgraduate Shows, 2023
Show Two, Design
LCC Shows 2023
The Design School is a multidisciplinary community of internationally recognised educators, researchers and practitioners.
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.
- 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.
Design School: Courses
International Studies and Progression
The International Studies and Progression Programme celebrates the diverse community of learners that study at LCC. Through the programme’s courses we explore ways of working with Design, Media and Screen based practices, technologies and theories to support the ambitions of our students.
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.
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.
- BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media
- BA (Hons) Interaction Design
- MA Illustration and Visual Media
- MA Interaction Design
- MA Service Design
- MA User Experience Design
Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS)
Students can apply to the Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS), an optional year-long experiential learning opportunity, allowing you to undertake a variety of internships and professional experiences for a whole academic year in Year 3, as part of a four-year degree.
Staff
Design School Stories
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Diploma in Professional Studies by Aritro Roy, BA (Hons) Design Management (2025) BA (Hons) Design Management student shares their experience of the Diploma in Professional Studies
BA (Hons) Design Management student, Aritro Roy, shares his unique experience of the Diploma in Professional Studies.
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Image Credit: ’Take a walk through the meadow with me‘, Megan Tan and Shao Xuan Tan, 2025, BA (Hons) Interaction Design Arts, LCC, UAL , Photograph: i Light Singapore LCC students light up Singapore at i Light Festival 2025
We caught up with BA (Hons) Interaction Design Arts students Megan Tan and Shao Xuan Tan to talk about their recent success at i Light Singapore — Asia’s leading light festival.
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Jono’s family, still from 'Windrush75: Forging Ahead' From London to Barbados: How a Windrush documentary helped one LCC student reconnect with his Caribbean heritage
LCC BA (Hons) Illustration and Visual Media student Jono Thompson reflects on his participation in the 'Windrush75: Forging Ahead' documentary — including travelling to see it screen at the Barbados Independent Film Festival.
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Postgraduate Shows takes place from 14 November – 16 December, with the first exhibition paying tribute to the memory of Professor Paul Lowe.