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If you're passionate about contemporary design opportunities and designing for a sustainable future, this degree will equip you with the creative and technical skills and insights to rise to future design challenges. It will prepare you for designing future products, services and systems in a creative and critical way. You will gain an understanding of design thinking techniques, how the world impacts design, and how design shapes the world around us.

In partnership with leading experts and industry, you will gain the skills to tackle real design challenges and devise leading-edge strategies and solutions. Advance your critical and strategic thinking and gain new perspectives on sustainability, while also learning to present your ideas clearly and powerfully.

Majors: Visual Communication Design; Interior and Spatial Design; Product Design; Immersive Design; Interaction Design.

Industry and expert connections

Work on projects for real clients through our Live Worm and Live Space work integrated learning studios. Take up exciting work placements to build your portfolio and cultivate important industry contacts and networks.

At Queensland College of Art (QCA) we maintain strong links with industry to ensure we develop degrees based on the latest market trends and employer demand. Our industry partnerships and collaborations unlock all kinds of opportunities for students studying at the QCA. Partnerships with large events such as Bleach* Festival, Botanica, and organisations such as Business South Bank offer unique learning experiences and connect you to industry while you're studying.

Graduate outcomes

Our design graduates will have unprecedented opportunity to contribute and lead in vital new forms of social and economic development. Designers work across a range of fields roles, including interior design, product and service design and graphic design as well as interactive and 4D design. Our Bachelor of Design allows you to choose which area you would like to specialise in through a choice of majors.

Flexibility

Tailor your timetable - Even if you study full-time on-campus, you may still be able to customise your degree to suit your needs. From a range of tutorial times to online access to lectures and other course material, we're here to help you fit study in with your work and life commitments.

Global mobility

An array of inspiring overseas study opportunities, ranging from a few weeks to a year, are available for students in this degree.

MY CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

You'll graduate prepared to join the ranks of adventurous designers changing the way we interact with our environment and enhancing the way we live. You'll gain the industry experience, networks and knowledge needed to succeed in cutting-edge design fields. You will be prepared for work in graphic design, interior design, product design, digital web design, design management, design education, film and television, theatre, furniture design, interaction design and digital media.

Designers are important assets to organisations whether they are specialists in communications or industrial design. You could be helping to design a new prototype for a manufacturing company, an interior for a high-end residential property, or an interactive and immersive experience at a cultural festival or business. This is a diverse career, which will be guided by your own interests and choice of major.

• Visual Communication Design
• Interior and Spatial Design
• Product Design
Immersive Design
Interaction Design