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We are NUA 8 Welcome 10 Learning through making 14 Specialist facilities. Expert technicians 18 Student voices 24 Preparing for a career 26 Industry-leading graduates 28 A curious campus 32
Love where you live 38 CAMPUS The city of stories 42
Schools of thought – our courses 48 Bonus content Year 0 option 50 for the Curious Art Step 1: Download the – Fine Art 100 Blippar app from Play Store or iOS App Store Design – Architecture 68 – Illustration 128 6 – Interior Design 134 CITY Fashion Step 2: Open the Blippar – Fashion 80 app and scan the page – Fashion Communication and Promotion 86 whenever you see the ‘Curious’ symbol (above). – Fashion Marketing and Business 92 Make sure the pages – Textile Design 146 are as flat as possible Games Step 3: Interact with – Games Art and Design 106 and enjoy the exclusive – Games Development 112 extra NUA content, including videos, student Graphics work and soundbites. – Design for Publishing 74 – Graphic Communication 116 Mobile data charges may apply – Graphic Design 122 COURSES – User Experience Design 152 Media – Animation 56 – Animation and Visual Effects 62 – Film and Moving Image Production 96 – Photography 140 Performance – Acting 52
How to apply 156 WHAT Your next move is closer than you think 158 NEXT Lorna Kelley BA (Hons) Photography NUA
WE ARE CAMPUS THE CURIOUS. THE MAKERS
8 OF CREATORS. CITY A CAMPUS LIKE NO OTHER. 175 YEARS OLD COURSES YET STILL PIONEERING.
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Embarking on a creative At NUA, you’ll add journey takes courage and resilience and confidence conviction whatever your to your creative courage chosen field: a budding and conviction. film-maker or photographer, You’ll find kindred spirits fashion designer, games — new friends and developer, actor or animator. collaborators — who share As you’ve chosen to read your love of creating and 10 this prospectus, there’s making, and who will lend CITY every chance that you encouragement and belief already feel a passion for in moments of self-doubt. committing your ideas to I’ve heard it said that paper, canvas, or screen, NUA is big enough for any or delight in performing for ambition, but close enough an audience. There’s an a community for everyone insistent inner voice that to know your name. I’m urges you, encourages you, excited for your possibilities to bring what you imagine to and hope to meet you life; to show and to share. on your journey. COURSES Creativity is not an easy path, but the most rewarding Amma Asante MBE journeys never are. Chancellor
Amma Asante is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and director, whose work includes direction for films Belle, A United Kingdom and international TV series The Handmaid’s Tale.
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CREATIVES Big enough to be dynamic, small enough to know your name.
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Learning through CAMPUS making.
14 You will explore your ideas, collaborate with fellow students, CITY and develop your own creative approach. Our specialist and supportive creative community is a place where everyone is encouraged to imagine, design and make.
Practical and project-based If you are looking for an Our courses are practical, opportunity to explore your project-based and run creative horizons, think and through studios, media labs practise sustainability, and take a and workshops where you bold first step towards a creative career, NUA is the place for you. will experiment with different COURSES techniques and test different You will be assessed by the formats. Rather than choose quality of work you produce on between modules, our curriculum the course, not by sitting exams. is carefully-constructed so each You will need to hit deadlines unit builds on what you have just like in the workplace – and learned in the last. Every term we expect you to be passionate your portfolio will grow in quality, about your creative field. complexity and professionalism. We want to see you build a distinctive portfolio of work that will set you apart from other graduates competing for jobs. WHAT NEXT NUA
Artists. Designers.
Sculptors. Stylists. CAMPUS And that’s just our teachers.
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Our staff share their knowledge and experience of working on commercial projects with brands or preparing their artistic endeavours for public exhibition. They are supported in our well-equipped workshops by an experienced team of technicians who are qualified practitioners COURSES and experts in the array of equipment and technologies available for students to use. You will also hear from visiting professionals from industry about the latest practice in the workplace. Many visiting speakers are acclaimed in their field – whether A-list photographers, to professionals who work on blockbuster Hollywood movies or hit video games, to WHAT creatives in London fashion NEXT houses or design agencies. NUA
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Our dedicated studios and fully-equipped workshops have been designed to help you build specialist knowledge and flourish in your chosen discipline. Introductory sessions with expert technicians will give you the chance to develop essential skills, from traditional craft and contemporary digital design COURSES to print and production techniques. Our workshops are always a fertile ground for sharing ideas with students from other courses – a spark for creative collaboration across disciplines.
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East GalleryNUA Clockwise from top: NUA East Gallery is the university’s Mutator VR city centre gallery space. exhibition Exhibitions through the year Orla Kiely: range from student, staff, and A Life in Pattern graduate work to collaborations Ideas FactoryNUA incubation with national and international centre, a creative partners such as the Jerwood community for Prize, the Hayward Gallery businesses and the Arts Council. The Big Book CAMPUS Crit; sessions Recent exhibitions include Pop for students and graduates Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi, to network sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, with industry the Turner Prize-nominee professionals for portfolio Cornelia Parker, designer Orla feedback Kiely, and photography by and advice surrealist Claude Cahun. East GalleryNUA is a valuable resource for students, as well as providing opportunities to
20 work as Gallery Assistants. CITY www.nua.ac.uk/thegallery
Ideas FactoryNUA Ideas FactoryNUA is our incubation space for creative and digital start-ups. Its contemporary offices are leased to a number of businesses launched by NUA COURSES graduates, including production companies, design agencies, writers and architects. The building also hosts the university’s Digital UX Research Lab, as well as NUA’s creative agency, which provides opportunities for students to work on real-world commercial projects with local, national and international organisations. WHAT NEXT www.nua.ac.uk/ideasfactory NUA
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NUA undergraduate end of year show
Exhibiting your work, and engaging with audiences, and collaborating COURSES with your peers is part of life at NUA. In your final year, there are a range of opportunities to exhibit or screen your work to a wider audience, both the public and industry professionals. NUA’s end of year shows across the campus exhibit the finest work by our final year students; major events like New Designers and Graduate Fashion Week, film and games festivals, offer the chance to win wider acclaim. WHAT Scan this page to NEXT view a selection of student work NUA
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“If you’re thinking about applying, don’t do what I did and think about STUDENT it for four or five years – do it.” CARL DURBAN, VOICES BA (HONS) FINE ART
24 “I came here because of the facilities. CITY They’re modern and up to date – and we’re always getting more.”
LEONA HEUNG, BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN
“Everyone here has skills that transcend really well into other people’s projects, so we’re able to help each other out and learn voices new skills from others as well.” TOM HARDWICK, COURSES BA (HONS) GRAPHIC DESIGN Do you want to know what life is really like at NUA? We asked a selection of students and graduates for their unfiltered take on how it feels to be an undergraduate in Norwich. Here’s their verdict.
WHAT Scan this page to hear NEXT from our NUA students NUA 94% OF NUA GRADUATES ARE IN EMPLOYMENT OR FURTHER EDUCATION WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF GRADUATING1
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From networking events Award-winning careers advice to live projects You will find an award-winning Networking events, industry approach to careers advice Preparing panels, and practical workshops at NUA – drawing on gaming will help you to develop techniques and Virtual Reality entrepreneurial and business skills. technology to help you find the Independent projects, right path after university. for a competitions, and live briefs Our Profile game won a Guardian will help you build professional University Award in 2019 and will networks and learn the art of help you match your talents and 26 self-promotion. Opportunities personal attributes to different CITY to take independent internships jobs and industry requirements. career. and placements will help you NUA’s Business and to gain work experience. Employability team will help you You will also benefit from to showcase your skills ready specialist careers advice and to compete for creative jobs. Helping you to prepare for a employment guidance – even We run CV workshops, industry creative career is at the heart after graduation. Projects will networking events, and offer of every NUA course. We help you identify where in your financial and legal advice want you to graduate with the sector you will want to work and for graduate start-ups. you will spend time researching You will have opportunities to expertise to succeed in your the trends shaping your industry. gain experience in your chosen chosen creative discipline. field and the chance to work on COURSES Industry links and live briefs and real client projects accreditation throughout your degree. Every course benefits from NUA’s professional network, including an Industry Liaison Group, professional panels and guest lecturers. Many courses are recognised by professional bodies in their field, from the Association of Right: Jim Sutherland, NUA Graduate Photographers to the Graduate WHAT and founder of Hat-trick Design and Fashion Foundation. NEXT Studio Sutherland running a design workshop with students 1. Destination of Leavers HE 2016/17 NUA
Our graduates help shape the creative landscape: from Oscar nominees to BAFTA winners, to winners of some of the art world’s most prestigious prizes. Some are at the height of their careers, others are making their name in their chosen industries just a few years after graduation. www.nua.ac.uk/alumni
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Top: Stuart Craig OBE Bottom middle: Anita Clipston – Production Designer – Compositor and Senior Winner of the BAFTA Award for Paint Artist Best Production Design 2017 Anita is a Compositor at Blue Sky COURSES and nominated at the Academy Studios and previously worked Awards in 2017, Oscar winner at Industrial Light and Magic Stuart Craig has designed the and Lucasfilm in Vancouver. She sets for all eight Harry Potter has worked on Star Wars: The films and more recently Fantastic Force Awakens, Tomorrowland Beasts and Where to Find Them. and Jurassic World.
Bottom right: Brian Bolland Bottom left: Adam Avery – Comic Artist – Illustrator Illustrator of Judge Dredd, Illustrator for The Guardian, 2000AD and Batman: The Killing International New York Times, Joke. Winner of the Eisner WIRED and Google. Award for Best Graphic Album. Six times Eisner Award winner WHAT for Batman, Animal Man, The NEXT Invisibles, Wonder Woman and The Art of Brian Bolland. NUA LEARN THE RULES CAMPUS THEN
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Look around our city centre campus and you will find studios, media labs, and creative spaces in 11 buildings that sit among the cafés, bars, WHAT independent galleries and shops NEXT of Norwich’s cultural quarter. NUA Where history CAMPUS meets hi-tech.
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Our award-winning campus is a combination of medieval to modern architecture on the outside, and contemporary tech and industry-standard tools on the inside. Our historic studios have high ceilings and windows that flood rooms with natural light – the perfect place to design, make and create. Norwich is a city where inspiration can be found on every street corner and NUA’s campus is a launch pad to explore your ideas. COURSES
Awards OUTSTANDING ESTATES STRATEGY AWARD-WINNER 1 BUILDINGS THAT INSPIRE FINALIST 2 WHAT NEXT 1. The Times Higher Leadership and Management Awards 2018 2. Guardian University Awards 2018 15 mins Norwich NUA International Airport
Colegate Wensum St 1 Colegate Our St Georges St Friars Quay Friars Quay campus.
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2 4 Duke St 1 DUKE STREET 6 EAST GARTH St Georges St 7 3 – NUA Library – Digital Darkroom Riverside Walk 6 – Lecture Theatre – Photographic studios Elm Hill Dukes Palace Wharf – Seminar rooms – NUA Shop 7 MONASTERY MEDIA LAB – Animation Production 5 2 DUKE STREET RIVERSIDE* Duke St Duke – Stop Motion studios 5 mins Cathedral – Lecture Theatre – 2D and 3D production studios 20 mins Golden Triangle 10 mins Train station – Teaching rooms – Media Labs 36 – Student accommodation – 3D animation and games software CITY
Elm Hill St Andrews – Digital video editing Hall 9 Princes St 3 GUNTONS BUILDING – Sound production studios 8 – Digital Design – Open access design suite 8 ST ANDREWS HOUSE St Andrews St Princes St – Laser cutters – Teaching rooms
St Andrews St – In-house printing – Media Labs St Andrews St – UV printer – Student Union Lounge
St John Maddermarket – Digital design helpdesk – CafeNUA 10 – 3D Workshop
Bridewell Alley Cinema – Industrial sewing machines 9 BOARDMAN HOUSE City Redwell St – Film studio 11 4 ST GEORGES BUILDING Exchange St – Drawing studios St Andrews Hill – Printmaking and photomedia – Model making room COURSES – Screenprinting – Scan and print rooms – Etching – Laser cutters Pottergate – Relief and monoprint London St – Constructed Textiles 10 CAVENDISH HOUSE 6 mins Marketplace – Life Drawing Studio – Ideas FactoryNUA 20 mins Sainsbury 10 mins Shopping malls, 1 min Norwich Lanes 3 mins Castle NUA Centre for Visual Arts library, bus station – East Gallery 5 WEST GARTH – UX Lab – Daylight Studio – Media Resource Centre 11 FRANCIS HOUSE Loanable equipment for all students: – Student Support DSLR cameras & lenses – Student Finance Café Theatre Museum Hotel Wacom tablets Projectors *Under construction WHAT Walking Drive Bus Restaurant Bar/Pub Car Parking Sound recording equipment NEXT time time time Main picture: All Saints Green
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Norwich is one of the UK’s friendliest and most affordable cities – with a range of accommodation options for students to choose from to suit their budget and needs.
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All Saints Green Safe, walkable and affordable city (Top left, and bottom) Ranked in the top 10 safest towns and cities All Saints Green offers for students by StuRents.com, Norwich first-class student is an intriguing blend of cosmopolitan accommodation in the contemporary life and striking heritage. CAMPUS city centre, close to the Both the cost of living in Norwich and the bus station and less than cost of accommodation are lower than in 10 minutes’ walk from London – making NUA a more NUA campus. It features affordable destination to study. en suite bedrooms with communal kitchens, Students generally live within walking lounge and study space. distance of our campus – choosing to cycle or walk to the university, keeping travel costs Beechcroft low and avoiding the need to commute. (Top right) NUA’s student accommodation Set in landscaped gardens just a short bus NUA offers accommodation at All Saints Green 40 ride from the university, in the heart of Norwich and just a short bus CITY Beechcroft offers a ride from campus at Beechcroft. Rooms in All selection of rooms, some Saints Green cost between £145 and £170 per en suite, with communal week; rooms in Beechcroft from £96 to £130. kitchen, dining and bathroom facilities.
Private accommodation From rooms to flats and houses, there is a good supply of student-friendly private
accommodation in COURSES Norwich at a range of prices – typically from This is the perfect place £70 to £170 per week. Among the options is to live if you love to be in a brand new student residence, Crown Place, the hubbub of city life. in the city centre. Everything is in walking distance and travelling to
campus is very easy. WHAT NEXT Amelia McGuffie Resident at All Saints Green 42 The city of stories.
England’s first UNESCO City of Literature. NUA A flourishing music scene. A vibrant
culture and rich history CAMPUS of storytelling. A green and safe city filled
44 with independent CITY businesses that thrive. Norwich sparks
with creativity. COURSES
The city centre is famous for independent shops and cafés you won’t find anywhere else in the world – all within easy walking distance of our campus. Norwich’s historic open-air market is one of the biggest in Europe and bustles with life and the sights, sounds and flavours of a cosmopolitan city. Don’t be fooled by the city’s stunning medieval WHAT architecture; Norwich has a history of rebellion and NEXT radicalism, of innovators, creators and makers. Clockwise from far left: Pottergate, The Playhouse, Norwich Market, NUA Winterfest Party at Norwich Arts Centre, The Flamings Lips at the Nick Rayns LCR. NUA
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You will find our campus in the heart of the city – at the centre of a buzzing and diverse social and cultural scene. Norwich is England’s first UNESCO City of Literature and home to one of the oldest annual international arts festivals in the UK.
It’s no wonder Norwich has been voted COURSES one of the best small cities in the world. The Sunday Times Best Places to Live said, “Norwich is a fashionable city with a growing sense of cool and a reputation for architecture, style and innovation. Cool, comfortable, relaxed and at one with itself.” The city is also one of the UK’s safest, with a warm and welcoming attitude to its student population. Norwich is also a thriving hub of creative business and enterprise; home to one of the UK’s most highly concentrated and diversified WHAT creative industry clusters (The Geography NEXT of Creativity in the UK, NESTA, 2016). NUA
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You will be encouraged to explore your ideas, collaborate with fellow students and develop your creative practice at NUA. Our courses are practical: you’ll experiment with different techniques and test different formats. Our tutors are experts in their field and you’ll hear 48 from visiting professionals about CITY the latest practice in the workplace. If you’re looking for an opportunity SCHOOLS to explore your creative horizons and take a step towards a creative OF career, NUA is the place for you. COURSES THOUGHT WHAT NEXT NUA
The option of taking an extra year at YEAR 0 STRUCTURE the start of your degree will see you Year 0 is structured in two parts. collaborate on common projects with Year 0 students from other courses. Those common projects will build your CAMPUS creative skills and show you how to In the first 10 weeks, we teach successfully work collaboratively. Year 0 students from across our courses together. You will learn Integrated with degree programme fundamental skills that are essential Our Year 0 courses are integrated with to any of our degree courses. There our regular undergraduate programme will also be specialist workshops and validated as degree-level study – in your chosen course where a key difference compared to you will immerse yourself in the foundation courses offered elsewhere. creative process and build your Take the Year 0 option and you will start confidence in creating and making. working towards your degree, share 50 many of the same course staff and In the following 20 weeks, you will CITY access to visiting industry speakers, as be more focused on your chosen students on the three-year programme. course with your own timetable. You’ll start to develop your own What will I do in Year 0? style and approach by building on Most Year 0 teaching takes place in your emerging skills in research, dedicated studios and seminar spaces questioning, ideas development, and NUA’s specialist workshops. and creating and making. Here you will gain early experience of the university’s teaching and learning methods, and our tools and technologies – putting you a step ahead when you enter Year One. COURSES A head start in creative
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Our Acting course presents an opportunity to develop as a performing artist and work towards a successful career in film, television, radio or digital media.
WHAT NEXT Clockwise from right: Students working on set in the Sir John Hurt film studio; film still from Jack Jennings; students experimenting with NUA green screen technology
Acting for screen and digital media What you will learn Actor training will be at the heart of learning • Core acting skills and the and teaching as you develop professional fundamental processes performance techniques and focus on involved in acting whatever CAMPUS recorded screen and voice performance. medium or setting There will be opportunities to learn from • Performance techniques for industry figures through masterclasses camera and recorded sound and field trips and the potential to • Fundamentals of technical collaborate with your peers across our production processes media courses – whether the possibility of being cast in student film projects, to • Experience of pitching and voicing animation and games projects. commissioning procedures • High-calibre verbal Professional preparation presentational and
54 writing skills We will help you to develop vital CITY skills in self-promotion as you • Build confidence, resilience build your portfolio of work. and resourcefulness. In addition to acting for recorded screen and sound, we will encourage involvement in live media as a valuable part of an actor’s practice and experience. Your skills will have the potential to open a range of career opportunities within the acting profession and in COURSES YOU the wider creative industries where MAY ALSO BE communication skills are in high demand. INTERESTED IN: ACTING
Performance, production and broadcasting in Norwich ACTING YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 Norwich has a rich history in broadcasting ANIMATION and performance with regional BBC / PAGE 56 and ITV hubs, six theatres and a host of independent production companies. ANIMATION AND VISUAL EFFECTS / PAGE 62
FILM AND MOVING IMAGE PRODUCTION / PAGE 96 WHAT NEXT GAMES ART AND DESIGN / PAGE 106 Main picture: Shaina Stoker NUA
BA (HONS)
CAMPUS You will master the magic of bringing characters and stories to life through a range of animation techniques at NUA – from 2D, 3D CG to stop motion.
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Creative exploration Professional preparation Our BA (Hons) Animation course Learning broader film industry will encourage your individual skills such as sound design and creative exploration and development production will set you apart CAMPUS helping you choose which from other graduates and your specialism to focus on. Interactive work will result in a distinctive lectures and practical workshops showreel and online portfolio. will help you explore character You will pitch your responses to design and sculpting. You will learn live briefs, or your personal and the fundamentals of animated collaborative projects to guest storytelling through workshops speakers from companies like and masterclasses in dynamics, the BBC, Screen South and the storyboarding and character creation. BAFTA award-winning Blue Zoo.
Graduates’ global success 58 Graduates have gone on to secure CITY internships at Oscar-winning studios like Aardman Animations or work on blockbuster animated movies like Pokémon Detective Pikachu.
The course allows ANIMATION me to approach briefs with unleashed creativity.
Valentina Hucková WHAT Year Three, BA (Hons) Animation NEXT NUA
COURSES YOU What you will learn MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN: • Explore the three major animation techniques: hand drawn and digital 2D, stop motion and digital 3D CAMPUS • Gain understanding of the principles ANIMATION YEAR 0 of animation: dynamics; character / PAGE 50 design; storyboarding; animatic ANIMATION AND production; animation production; sound VISUAL EFFECTS design; skills of observation and life / PAGE 62 drawing; acting for animators; editing; GAMES ART compositing and show reel design AND DESIGN / PAGE 106 • Explore theory in character analysis and narrative structures ILLUSTRATION / PAGE 128 • Develop an understanding of media roles and practices 60 FINE ART CITY / PAGE 100 • Work collaboratively through a series of projects designed to allow GRAPHIC you to establish a good practice, COMMUNICATION / PAGE 116 essential for the animation industry • Explore your chosen areas of specialisation and develop your skills, with the potential to combine techniques • Develop an understanding of audience, context, film language, and the elements of compelling storytelling • Bring together all your learning and experiences to create a personal portfolio with a great showreel ANIMATION • Engage with a collaborative project with either your peers or external collaborators, allowing your creative skills to be tested in an industry-standard practice • Produce a personal showcase of your specialist skills and an original, animated short film.
WHAT NEXT Top: Liam Gilbey Below: Finley Geen NUA
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62 EFFECTS CITY Develop the creative and technical skills behind the latest Hollywood blockbusters and learn from
award-winning studio professionals. ANIMATION AND ANIMATION VISUAL EFFECTS
WHAT Scan this page to view NEXT the NUA Animation and Main picture: Visual Effects showreel Steph Woodward Main picture: Nathan Reynolds NUA
Industry masterclasses Our Animation and Visual Effects degree reflects NUA’s success in both disciplines. Our approach to teaching visual effects evolved from advice from CAMPUS professional bodies like ScreenSkills and UK Screen Alliance and the majority of the UK’s VFX industry. You’ll hear from guest speakers from major studios: in the last year we’ve hosted masterclasses and lecturers from the studios behind Avengers: Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ready Player One, and Blade Runner 2049 among others.
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studios behind Avengers: AND ANIMATION VISUAL EFFECTS Infinity War, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ready Player One, and Blade Runner 2049.
WHAT NEXT Top: Nick Slade Below: Luke Pett NUA
Career preparation What you will learn On this future-looking course, • Learn to see: study visual effects you will develop skills that fundamentals about lenses, pixels prepare you for the increasing and light to see differently demand for animation and • Explore the major animation techniques CAMPUS visual effects expertise: from including digital 2D and 3D to underpin film and TV to architecture your visual effects projects and urban design; scientific • Gain understanding of the principles of visualisation to creative animation and visual effects: dynamics; design and virtual reality. character design; storyboarding; Working side-by-side production; skills of observation; COURSES YOU with BA (Hons) Animation editing; green screen/compositing; MAY ALSO BE students in your first year, photorealism; perspective; theatrical INTERESTED IN: you will acquire skills across stagecraft and show reel design the range of animation and • Progress from making visual effects expertise. two-dimensional flat imagery ANIMATION AND 66 You’ll have the opportunity to towards testing 3D designs VISUAL EFFECTS CITY attend FMX, one of Europe’s YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 • Have the opportunity to attend industry biggest and best animation, talks, presentations and take part in live ANIMATION visual effects, and games brief projects with animation and visual / PAGE 56 conference. You’ll also have effects companies and professionals access to a subsidised FILM AND MOVING • Focus on production areas of IMAGE PRODUCTION commercial version of Nuke, / PAGE 96 the industry-standard software your choosing and continue to
used in major studios, with a explore through the course areas of GAMES ART AND DESIGN licence that even extends for specialisation and develop your skills / PAGE 106 one year after graduation. • Learn about Look Development, lighting, texturing, rendering and all GAMES As you become an expert DEVELOPMENT ‘world builder’, you’ll use visual you’ll need to build your environments / PAGE 112 AND ANIMATION VISUAL EFFECTS effects to create character • Develop an understanding of audience, designs, enhance stories, context, film language, and the work with directors or film your elements of compelling storytelling own shots, helping to develop • Gain powerful project management a portfolio that could fast- techniques to ensure you can lead track you into the animation animation and visual effects teams or visual effects industries. and increase job prospects • Develop a plan to market and promote yourself, and show your ‘creative edge’ to sell yourself to employers.
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ARCHITECTURE CAMPUS
You have the opportunity to study architecture in an art school environment at NUA, developing professional skills in a creative community where improving the world around us through innovative and responsible design is our primary focus.
Imagination and exploration Professional preparation Our BA (Hons) Architecture degree Field trips and site visits will help you 68 is prescribed by the Architects develop your observational and design CITY Registration Board (Part 1) and is skills in a mix of cultural contexts. your first step towards a successful Our close links to the profession will career as a registered architect or give you an opportunity to meet and in a related profession. A distinctive learn from our regional partners, combination of imagination and including Feilden+Mawson, Purcell, exploration, research and critical LSI Architects, Hamson Barron evaluation will be at the centre of your Smith and Hudson Architects. approach to the built environment. You will acquire skills in technical aspects of spatial design using a variety of traditional and contemporary techniques, from drawing and model-making to 3D digital design. ARCHITECTURE
Awards and accolades Recent graduates have been selected for RIBA East Awards and the TRADA University Challenge.
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Right: Drucilla Boakye, LSI Architects Drawing Prize Right: Aisha Flynn Below: Jake Cruse NUA
What you will learn • Explore the fundamentals of • Examine the social context design and construction utilising of architecture, drawing on a variety of drawing, photographic theories from other disciplines CAMPUS and modelling techniques such as philosophy, cultural • Examine the cultural contexts geography and fine arts of historical and contemporary • Undertake complex analyses architecture using the local of specific urban environments environment as a rich source to formulate proposals for of research regeneration and development • Integrate structural, environmental • Apply your creative vision and and material considerations applied knowledge to a large into your design strategies scale architectural proposal • Study user needs in relation and Research Report to the aesthetic and technical • Consolidate your work into a 70 requirements of a built environment collaborative visual display and CITY • Explore structural and environmental comprehensive portfolio. design considerations ARCHITECTURE
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A distinctive COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE combination of INTERESTED IN: imagination and CAMPUS ARCHITECTURE YEAR 0 exploration. / PAGE 50 INTERIOR DESIGN / PAGE 134
GAMES ART AND DESIGN / PAGE 106
ILLUSTRATION / PAGE 128
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DESIGN CAMPUS FOR PUBLISHING
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You will explore your passion for stories, information, typography, photography and illustration on this award-winning course.
You will explore how words and images can come to life on the page and screen FOR DESIGN PUBLISHING to tell stories and to deliver information. Our highly regarded course will nurture your love of type, typography, typefaces, image creation and art direction.
WHAT NEXT Main picture: Louise Aspinall: book jacket design for a live project brief which has been taken into production by Little, Brown Book Group Left: Jake Newbury, selected for Gradwatch by Creative Review NUA
Effective digital and print design Industry links Our BA (Hons) Design for Publishing You will be taught by passionate course covers creating effective and experienced tutors, as well as design for printed books, newspapers many visiting professional designers, CAMPUS and magazines as well as digital whose reputation for nurturing apps and online publications. talent means that leading design You will use industry-standard software groups and agencies actively recruit to explore a broad range of editorial graduates from the course. design approaches from storytelling with text and images to mastering Award-winning students typography, book binding and specialist print finishing, to complex Our course has a history of student data visualisation and infographics. success in design competitions, including the British Book Design Production Awards, Penguin Books Professional preparation Student Design Awards, and the 76 You will work on projects set by Society of Publication Designers’ CITY our many partners from industry Student Design competition. and have a chance to work on competition entries and live briefs set by professionals. There will be opportunities to pitch your work to visiting speakers and hear their feedback on your ideas and approach.
DESIGN FOR DESIGN PUBLISHING Leading design groups and agencies actively recruit graduates from the course. WHAT NEXT Clockwise from top left: Charlotte Vaughan; Rowan Collins; Emily Courdelle – all finalists, Penguin Random House Student Design Award NUA
What you will learn The tutors and • Develop key technical skills in various design-related digital media such as technicians are InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator CAMPUS • Develop skills in typography, printing, always willing layout and page design, photography, research skills, idea generation, to help with any visual narrative and storytelling • Develop skills in designing solutions to weird, exciting or present complex data and information through editorial design and infographics ambitious ideas you • Explore print, paper, material, format may have. I never and handcraft/making skills • Explore editorial design; type for screen feel like an idea is and digital environments; book binding; 78 folding and experimental formats; out of my depth. CITY specialist print finishing; newspaper design; book cover design; exhibition Amelia Dave Year Three, BA (Hons) Design for Publishing and spatial design; sound and motion design; art direction; visual journalism; user interface design; large-scale design; experimental image making; complex data visualisation; typeface design; type as image and creative writing
• Understand storytelling through text and image COURSES YOU • Create a professional portfolio of MAY ALSO BE work – in multiple formats including INTERESTED IN: FOR DESIGN PUBLISHING physical and online – directed by your specific discipline interests • Respond to competition briefs and DESIGN FOR PUBLISHING other professionally-focused projects YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context. GRAPHIC DESIGN / PAGE 122
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION / PAGE 116
ILLUSTRATION / PAGE 128 WHAT NEXT PHOTOGRAPHY / PAGE 140 Main picture: Jack Fenn, awarded the Dubery NUA and Brogden Scholarship 2019 Far right: Emilia Ridealgh Far left: Lauren Price
BA (HONS) FASHION CAMPUS
80 CITY FASHION Let your creativity take flight at NUA as you learn the essential creative design and practical skills of the global fashion industry and shape your future career. Our BA (Hons) course will encourage exploration in concept development, pattern cutting, and professional garment construction supported by technical skills and couture levels of craftsmanship.
WHAT Scan this page to NEXT view NUA at Graduate Fashion Week Main picture: Annabelle Shortland NUA
There’s a huge sense of achievement CAMPUS when you perfect a design or garment. I’ve learnt to refine my making 82 skills and work CITY more precisely.
Jerry Huang Year Three, BA (Hons) Fashion FASHION
WHAT NEXT NUA
What you will learn A course to • Build an advanced technical skill base in pattern cutting, fabric development and manufacturing to create 3D garments push creative • Develop skills in sourcing and compiling visual research • Explore professional ways of boundaries. communicating ideas and essential CAMPUS digital skills and build a strong fashion industry awareness • Work collaboratively alongside Year Three students; assisting Professional preparation with their final collections and Your technical expertise and NUA fashion catwalk show at understanding of materials and industry Graduate Fashion Week markets will grow by working on design • Take part in industry projects competitions and briefs for high profile including competition briefs from companies such as Burberry and ASOS. the Graduate Fashion Foundation and the British Fashion Council 84 Guest lectures, seminars and workshops CITY with acclaimed practitioners, stylists • Develop strong conceptual and academics will give you insight and practical skills through into how the industry works. extensive research, design We will help you to develop a professional development, and original pattern portfolio to showcase your design cutting and craftsmanship identity and profile the quality of your • Complete a research report manufactured garments to employers. that explores the wider context of your work. Awards and accolades Recent graduates’ work has been selected for catwalk shows in London
and New York, and students have won FASHION a range of awards, from a national design competition for Boohoo, to COURSES YOU MAY the winning official T-shirt design for ALSO BE INTERESTED IN: BBC Children in Need in 2019.
FASHION YEAR 0 / PAGE 50
FASHION COMMUNICATION Right: Phoebe Constable, selected for Graduate AND PROMOTION / PAGE 86 Fashion Week gala show and featured in the ‘Dream Big’ video for the UK Foreign FASHION MARKETING AND Commonwealth Office’s GREAT Britain campaign BUSINESS / PAGE 92 WHAT Far right: Megan Grinham, Winner, BBC TEXTILE DESIGN / PAGE 146 NEXT Children in Need x George T-shirt design competition as part of Graduate Fashion Week PHOTOGRAPHY / PAGE 140 NUA
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AND PROMOTION FASHION COMMUNICATION PROMOTION AND
Show-offs wanted.
Create original content and eye-catching campaigns at NUA that mirror the marketing strategies and visual communication skills that drive the success of the global fashion industry. WHAT NEXT Main picture: Jess Anderson NUA
Collaborate with Skills for the fashion industry Our BA (Hons) Fashion Communication other students, and Promotion course will give you insight into the technical expertise and CAMPUS creative strategies that successful fashion including businesses use to grab attention. On our multi-disciplinary course, you will photographers, learn to combine your new analytical, editorial and marketing expertise with videographers your preferred creative skills, whether you favour graphic design and illustration, and fashion or film and photography. As you build your knowledge of fashion designers. communication, you will develop skills that are sought after by employers, including: 88 • Branding and promotional strategies CITY • Image, media and film content creation • Publication design and writing for fashion • Trend forecasting and fashion cultures. And you’ll use an enviable range of facilities,
including NUA’s Digital User Experience Laboratory studio space and workshops – supported by experienced tutors and expert technicians.
Professional preparation FASHION COMMUNICATION PROMOTION AND You will follow in the footsteps of graduates who are leading successful fashion media and marketing careers after work experience, live projects and internships with brands like Adidas, Vivienne Westwood and Vogue.
WHAT NEXT Main picture: Ryan Hyde, Winner of Graduate Fashion Week Fashion Publication Award Main picture: Ethan Lagman NUA
Awards and accolades COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE Recent graduate Ryan Hyde won INTERESTED IN: the Fashion Publication Award at Graduate Fashion Week in 2019. CAMPUS
FASHION What you will learn COMMUNICATION AND PROMOTION • You will share a joint first year YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 with BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing and Business allowing you to FASHION MARKETING explore a range of fundamental AND BUSINESS / PAGE 92 theories and skills FASHION • Examine the theory and practice / PAGE 80 of fashion trends and trend forecasting, marketing and PHOTOGRAPHY / PAGE 140 90 branding and explore the world CITY of fashion publications GRAPHIC DESIGN • Explore graphic design and / PAGE 122 digital content creation GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION • Experiment with fashion styling, / PAGE 116 photography and set design • Design and create a 360-degree fashion campaign • Develop an understanding of
professional practice in areas of professional pitching, network building and self-promotion
• Identify an area of study that reflects FASHION COMMUNICATION PROMOTION AND your intended professional practice culminating in a substantial and focused final major creative project • Take part in live projects and competitions such as briefs from Graduate Fashion Week • Compile a professional portfolio • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context.
WHAT NEXT NUA
BA (HONS)
CAMPUS FASHION MARKETING
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Top and below: * Beth Poulter BUSINESS
Style and substance. MARKETING FASHION BUSINESS AND
You are a budding business strategist who is passionate about the fashion industry and wants to understand the marketing mechanics behind big name and challenger brands on the catwalk and high street.
WHAT NEXT
*Subject to validation NUA
Skills for the fashion industry What you will learn COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE Our BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing and • You will share a joint first INTERESTED IN: Business degree will offer you an insight year with BA (Hons) Fashion into the commercial fundamentals, Communication and Promotion marketing strategies and core brand allowing you to explore a range of CAMPUS development techniques that are used fundamental theories and skills FASHION to run the fashion industry today. MARKETING • Examine the theory and practice AND BUSINESS You’ll create dynamic marketing of fashion trends and trend YEAR 0* campaigns, retail concepts, buying forecasting, marketing and / PAGE 50 proposals and business plans that will branding and explore the world FASHION allow you fully understand and operate of fashion publications COMMUNICATION within successful fashion businesses. • Extend your theoretical AND PROMOTION / PAGE 86 As you build your knowledge of fashion awareness of fashion retail, visual marketing, you will develop skills that are merchandising, fashion buying and FASHION sought after by employers, including: international fashion marketing / PAGE 80 • Marketing and promotional strategies • Develop an understanding of the 94 PHOTOGRAPHY fashion industry, organisational CITY / PAGE 140 • International fashion branding management and fashion • Fashion retail and visual merchandising GRAPHIC DESIGN business fundamentals / PAGE 122 • Fashion buying and merchandising. • Identify an area of study that GRAPHIC And you’ll use an enviable range of reflects your intended professional COMMUNICATION facilities, including NUA’s Digital User practice culminating in a / PAGE 116 Experience Laboratory studio space and substantial and focused final major workshops – supported by experienced project and/or business plan tutors and expert technicians. • Take part in live projects and competitions such as briefs Professional preparation from Graduate Fashion Week • Explore the interaction between
You will follow in the path of MARKETING FASHION BUSINESS AND graduates from our sister course, different design media and genres Fashion Communication and Promotion, • Compile a professional website who are set-up for successful careers • Complete a research report that after work experience and internships puts your practice in context. at brands such as Vivienne Westwood, Jimmy Choo, Net A Porter and Adidas.
WHAT NEXT Top: Gabrielle Hopley *Subject to validation Below: Marta Zaremba NUA
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BA (HONS) FILM AND
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PRODUCTION
You will be making films from week one and set-ready by the time you graduate when you join our BA (Hons) FILM AND MOVING PRODUCTION IMAGE Film and Moving Image Production course, accredited by ScreenSkills.
Main picture: Laura Wadha, selected for Scan this page to view WHAT Aesthetica Film Festival, the NUA Film and Moving NEXT Norwich Film Festival, Image Production showreel London Short Film Festival Top: Matthew Nodwell, RTS East Student Craft award for Best Camera 2018 NUA Middle: Adam Cracknell Bottom: Joshua Masters
COURSES YOU Creative storytelling, What you will learn MAY ALSO BE industry skills INTERESTED IN: • Develop your storytelling skills We will encourage you to explore and your fundamental creative a variety of filmmaking mediums craft skills such as producing, CAMPUS and platforms to become an script development, direction, FILM AND MOVING accomplished and creative storyteller. cinematography, colour grading, IMAGE PRODUCTION sound editing, and production design YEAR 0 Your focus will be the short film / PAGE 50 form, including original and adapted • Learn industry-standard approaches drama, documentary, advertising to the filmmaking process including ANIMATION pre-production, production and / PAGE 56 and commercial editorial work. You will learn fundamental skills post-production ANIMATION AND VISUAL EFFECTS in script writing, producing, directing, • Work in production teams on a range / PAGE 62 cinematography and editing, as well of practical projects including original as other areas like sound recording, and adapted drama, documentary, FINE ART fashion, and advertising content / PAGE 100 sound design and production design. 98 • Interview and write a case study CITY PHOTOGRAPHY about a person currently / PAGE 140 Professional preparation working in the film industry Entrepreneurial skills will be crucial • Produce individual supporting as you pitch films to professional research and documentation visitors, explore film marketing in the form of a designed and distribution strategies. research document
You will make full use of the course • Consolidate skills and knowledge team’s industry networks by attending in the wider context of film workshops with leading professionals. forms, including documentary and advertising films, alongside Film festival selections different forms of drama
and awards • Develop collaborative working skills FILM AND MOVING PRODUCTION IMAGE on projects with students on other Our graduates’ work has won courses, as well as work placement film festival awards in London, opportunities and live industry projects Los Angeles, and Tokyo. • Receive feedback and advice on your Their technical skills have been film from a panel of professionals recognised through Royal working in the film industry Television Society East Awards and BAFTA-crew membership. • Receive support to develop a five-year employability plan, including plans to seek out industry placements, internships, mentors and employment,
Accredited by as well as ways to develop your final WHAT film for festival (contest) submission. NEXT Main picture: Emilia Symis, Winner of the John Ruskin Prize 2019 NUA
BA (HONS)
FINE CAMPUS ART
Explore your creativity, ideas and instincts in a vibrant 100 community of artists, makers and thinkers at NUA, one of the CITY country’s longest-established Fine Art degrees.
Thinking through making Professional preparation Our BA (Hons) course encourages Your creative development will ‘thinking through making’ and you include gaining valuable professional will explore the breadth of fine skills related to promoting and art with workshops in painting, selling your work, curation, print, sculpture, mixed media contracts, costing and networking. and video. You will use project Opportunities will emerge through spaces and external venues for the course team’s close links with FINE ART performance, display and curation. regional and national galleries Whatever your choice of medium, like Tate Modern, Wysing Arts we will encourage and support you Centre, Firstsite, Sainsbury Centre in our purpose-built studio spaces for Visual Arts and OUTPOST. to develop your own practice and develop a substantial portfolio.
WHAT NEXT NUA
Clockwise from top left: Laura Potts; Awards and accolades COURSES YOU Ji-Young Kim, selected by Honorary Fellow MAY ALSO BE Vicken Parsons and Antony Gormley Recent graduates have been selected for the for High House Residency 2019 INTERESTED IN: John Ruskin Prize, Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, and the Jerwood Student Award.
FINE ART YEAR 0 What you will learn / PAGE 50
• An emphasis on ‘thinking through making’ ILLUSTRATION CAMPUS using traditional and new media techniques / PAGE 128 will help you identify your artistic interests PHOTOGRAPHY • Comprehensive workshop inductions / PAGE 140 • Grow your understanding of critical theories FILM AND MOVING such as psychoanalysis and aesthetics IMAGE PRODUCTION / PAGE 96 • Visit galleries and events nationally and internationally ARCHITECTURE / PAGE 68 • Contextualise your work and think more practically about audience INTERIOR DESIGN / PAGE 134 • Explore collaborative, collective and socially 102 engaged approaches CITY • Introduction to the 12 essential skills of the Fine Art innovative programme • Learn advanced drawing techniques • Opportunities to exhibit in the NUA Project Spaces, and external venues for experimentation, collaboration, display, critique, curation, performance and discussion • Opportunity to be part of the curation team planning the end of year show, attended by curators, collectors, buyers and gallery owners
• Opportunity to showcase your work in London. FINE ART
Throughout my time at NUA I developed an amazing skillset in something I never
thought I’d be able to do. WHAT NEXT Beth Freer 2019 BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate NUA
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Explore your FINE ART creativity, ideas and instincts.
WHAT Main picture: NEXT Aurelia Coster, Winner of the Jennifer Davey Memorial Award 2019 NUA
CAMPUS BA (HONS) GAMES
106 ART AND CITY DESIGN
You are a content creator with artistic flair who wants to explore the inner
workings of games and aspires to develop the industry’s next big thing. GAMES ART DESIGN AND
WHAT NEXT Main picture: Anders Grube Jensen Top left: Will Hyde Top right: Jack Edwards NUA Below: Anatomical wax modelling of hybrid human/animal designs
Versatile skills Graduate success Graduates from our BA (Hons) Games You will follow in the footsteps of Art and Design course have gone on to BAFTA-winning games designers, work on major titles, from Forza Horizon 4 employees at Rockstar Games, Sony CAMPUS and Red Dead Redemption 2, to Batman: Interactive Entertainment Europe, Epic Arkham Asylum and Sea of Thieves. Games, Frontier Developments, Rare, You will design and create characters, props, Ubisoft, and the Victoria & Albert Museum’s environments and vehicles using 2D and first Games Designer in Residence. 3D content creation software for a range of platforms, including console, web, mobile, What you will learn computer, augmented and virtual reality. Joining the NUA Games community enables • Observation and drawing skills through interaction and collaboration with peers on life-drawing, anatomy lectures, and our sister course, BSc Games Development, digital painting workshops as you pursue your area of specialism • Generate concept art, emphasising 108 in Concept Art or Asset Production. an iterative design process, lighting, CITY composition, colour, texture, narrative, mood and intent Professional preparation • Identify your aspirations and future Our industry partners will challenge you career goals and align your skillset with live briefs and projects, and you will to match those of your dream job engage with professionals through visiting • Engage with industry experts and events lectures and pitching your ideas. such as EGX, Develop: Brighton, Norwich NUA Games is a member of the Sony Gaming Festival, Brains Eden, and more
PlayStation First Academic Partnership • Build research skills to support idea Programme, and is accredited by generation and development; review ScreenSkills, and the games industry and understand the wider games body TIGA. The Rookies, a global panel
industry; incorporate games studies GAMES ART DESIGN AND of games industry experts, ranked in to studio practice; and structure NUA in the world’s top 10 in 2018. valid arguments though essays • Conduct work-related learning through live briefs, simulated projects and collaborations with external organisations • Participate in a range of internal and external ‘Game Jams’ to create fully working game prototypes.
Accredited by WHAT NEXT Main picture: Johan Lagesson NUA
COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN:
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GAMES ART AND DESIGN YEAR 0 / PAGE 50
GAMES DEVELOPMENT / PAGE 112
ANIMATION / PAGE 56
ANIMATION WITH VISUAL EFFECTS / PAGE 62 110 CITY ILLUSTRATION / PAGE 128
GAMES ART DESIGN AND
WHAT NEXT Main picture: George Britton NUA
BSc (HONS)
CAMPUS GAMES DEVELOPMENT
112 You are a games designer, developer, or coder who wants to CITY learn the end-to-end process of making games and prepare for a successful career in a dynamic and rapidly-evolving industry.
Build your Professional preparation technical expertise Workshops, technical You will explore the mechanics demonstrations and live briefs of playful interaction on our will help prepare you for a BSc (Hons) Games Development career in the games industry.
degree as you develop skills in NUA Games is a member of the prototyping and user testing. Sony PlayStation First Academic You will work with different Partnership Programme, and GAMES DEVELOPMENT technologies and platforms, was ranked as the UK’s best including console, web, mobile, educational institution in 2017. PC, augmented and virtual reality. The Rookies, a global panel of How you think, make decisions, games industry experts, ranked and develop ideas will evolve NUA in the world’s top 10 in 2018. as you learn to code games that give users an exceptional experience. And you will be part of the NUA Games community, interacting and collaborating with your peers on our sister WHAT course, Games Art and Design. NEXT NUA
What you will learn COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE • Gain core Games Development INTERESTED IN: skills through the design and development of games for a CAMPUS specific platform and audience • Learn the fundamental skills associated GAMES DEVELOPMENT YEAR 0 with software engineering for games and / PAGE 50 build core technical competency focused on a successful career GAMES ART AND DESIGN / PAGE 106 in the games industry • Develop prototyping, user testing ANIMATION AND VISUAL EFFECTS skills and gain understanding of the / PAGE 62 digital project lifecycle, key milestones and processes by designing and ANIMATION developing fully functional games / PAGE 56 114 • Work within an industry-standard CITY integrated development environment (IDE) to develop more sophisticated programming techniques • Examine the principles of physics and mathematics that underpin games to simulate real-world environments, and the principles of data structures • Undertake work with non-traditional interface technology to deliver an experience to the player, e.g. using augmented reality, virtual
reality or motion sensing GAMES DEVELOPMENT • Opportunities to pitch ideas to industry professionals • Develop awareness of how to publish, license and create profitable games.
Middle: Robin Wragg WHAT Top right: Developed by William Sparkes in NEXT collaboration with Games Art and Design Bottom right: Students at Norwich Gaming Festival Main picture: Sophia Brandt, Winner of a TDC Medal for typographic excellence NUA
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Your passion for exploring visual ideas and brand communication across all platforms will be at the heart of your time at NUA studying on our award-winning Graphic 116 Communication course. CITY
BA (HONS)
GRAPHIC GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION
WHAT NEXT Main picture: John Miller NUA
Our BA (Hons) Graphic Professional preparation Communication course is closely aligned to industry and you will work You will work on projects set by on a wide variety of briefs set by our many partners from industry and have a chance to work on staff, professional design agencies CAMPUS and external competitions. You competition entries and live will engage in work that explores briefs set by professionals. traditional formats as well as There will be opportunities emerging digital technologies such to pitch your work to visiting as augmented and virtual reality. speakers and hear their feedback on your ideas and approach. Your knowledge and skills will grow in branding, identity, advertising, motion graphics interaction/UX Industry links design, whilst developing strong You will be taught by passionate skills in creative thinking and and experienced tutors, as well as ideas-led communication solutions. many visiting professional designers, 118 whose reputation for nurturing talent CITY means that leading design groups and agencies actively recruit graduates from the course.
From real-world problems to GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION commercial briefs, from digital to print. WHAT NEXT Below: Eliza Fudge Top right: Elena Lockyer Bottom right: Hinal Patel NUA
Awards and accolades COURSES YOU I’m surrounded by peers MAY ALSO BE Recent students have won prestigious INTERESTED IN: D&AD Pencils, the grand prize in the and tutors who help Tokyo Type Director’s Club, and a CAMPUS branding competition for the me develop my work, National Centre for Writing. GRAPHIC collaborate on briefs COMMUNICATION YEAR 0 What you will learn and make the process / PAGE 50 • Develop skills in typography, layout, of ideas generation and DESIGN FOR photography, motion graphics, PUBLISHING / PAGE 74 copywriting, screen design, design crafting a social and research and idea generation GRAPHIC DESIGN exciting one. / PAGE 122 • Learn technical skills in various design-related digital media such as Ruby Douglass PHOTOGRAPHY Year Two, BA (Hons) Graphic Communication / PAGE 140 120 InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, CITY After Effects, Premier and Adobe XD USER EXPERIENCE • Explore print, paper, material, format DESIGN / PAGE 152 and handcraft/making skills • Focus on branding and identity, advertising and promotion, digital/screen design, app design, film and animation, corporate communications, infographics, design within the environment and large-scale graphics (super graphics), and exhibition design • Explore printed and digital formats,
including books, journals and GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION magazines, brochures and reports, as well as websites, apps, user interface design and user experience design • Collaborate with others in a competitive presentation and/or pitch environment, and take part in projects, including competition briefs and other professionally-focused projects • Create a professional portfolio of work • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context. WHAT NEXT Main picture: Charles Mason, Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation NUA
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CAMPUS
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GRAPHIC DESIGN You will be inspired to create innovative answers to branding, packaging and promotional design questions facing businesses on NUA’s internationally-renowned and award-winning Graphic Design course.
WHAT Scan this page to view more NEXT work from NUA’s four award-winning graphics courses Main picture: Amelia Cherrill, YCN Student of the Year NUA
Creative solutions, CAMPUS commercial focus. 124 CITY
Our BA (Hons) course has a global Professional preparation reputation for producing graduates You will work on projects set by our who are creative thinkers with many partners from industry and have a accomplished technical skills and a chance to work on competition entries strong grasp of the latest technology. and live briefs set by professionals. You will develop skills in creative There will be opportunities to pitch your
thinking, typography, printing, work to visiting speakers and hear their layout, photography and visual feedback on your ideas and approach. narrative and storytelling.
Our course has a strong emphasis GRAPHIC DESIGN Industry links on commercial work and you will be challenged to generate high You will be taught by passionate quality creative solutions to visual and experienced tutors, as well as identities, packaging and websites and many visiting professional designers, cross-platform advertising campaigns. whose reputation for nurturing talent means that leading design groups and agencies actively recruit graduates from the course.
WHAT NEXT NUA
Awards and accolades Recent students have won prestigious D&AD Pencils, the Design Bridge, Black Sheep and EIZO Awards.
What you will learn • Develop skills in typography, printing, layout, photography, design research, CAMPUS idea generation, visual narrative and storytelling • Learn technical skills in various design-related digital media such as InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator • Explore print, paper, material, format and handcraft/making skills • Work on visual identity, packaging design, advertising and promotion, design for digital platforms and editorial design
126 • Pitch your work to leading industry professionals, and work on projects set by CITY external bodies such as industry employers, live clients and competition briefs • Collaborate with students from another course at NUA on interdisciplinary projects • Construct a professional portfolio of work • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context.
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COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN:
GRAPHIC DESIGN YEAR 0 / PAGE 50
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION / PAGE 116
DESIGN FOR PUBLISHING / PAGE 74 Clockwise from top left: Alice Cave; Ella Smith; Harriet Davie; Amy Joslyn USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN / PAGE 152 WHAT ILLUSTRATION / PAGE 128 NEXT Main picture: Helen Harlow NUA
BA (HONS)
CAMPUS ILILLUS- LUS- TRTRATION A TI O N 128 CITY Building your creative and professional skills in a variety of techniques and approaches to illustration is at the heart of our well-regarded course at NUA.
Personal approach, Professional preparation professional skills Live projects, competitions and Our BA (Hons) course has a collaborations will offer work reputation for challenging opportunities to prepare you conventional thinking. We will help for a successful career as you you to develop your personal style develop your own way of thinking as your expertise grows in drawing, about illustration, storytelling ILLUSTRATION print, collage and multi-media. and the connection of images You will explore visual storytelling to text or the spoken word. and both digital and analogue We will help with advice about image-making: from the page to working in the creative industries, the screen, to installations and including freelance careers, interactive experiences. employment and entrepreneurship, and practical tips on handling commissions and negotiating with clients.
WHAT NEXT NUA
Awards and accolades What you will learn Student accolades include the • Develop an understanding of visual Penguin Books Student Design communication, informed by design Awards, the RSA Student Design principles and cultural ideas CAMPUS Awards, and selection for • Develop and explore methods Masters of Art International. of researching • Examine storytelling through visual narrative and sequential design • Explore analogue and digital image making • Understand drawing languages, observational drawing, mark-making, print, collage and multi-media processes • Develop and apply experimental 130 approaches to factual and fictional ideas CITY Left: Charlotte Chesher, • Initiate and manage illustration projects Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation in collaboration with students from Below: Louise Fitzgerald, other courses and external partners Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation from outside of the university • Take the opportunity to enter a variety of competitions, stage exhibitions, work on live briefs, and present work to peers and industry panels to broaden your professional profile • Apply specialist skills and employ advanced research methodologies
(e.g. field trips, site visits, ILLUSTRATION archived-based research) • Engage in professional practice and ‘live’ experiences, and channel your specialist illustration knowledge towards the creation of a final degree show and graduate portfolio • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context.
WHAT NEXT Right: Alice Morley, Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation NUA
I have the freedom to
explore and CAMPUS develop my practice, with a passionate creative community to
132 support me. CITY Kaelin O’Hare 2019 BA (Hons) Illustration graduate
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ILLUSTRATION YEAR 0 / PAGE 50
FINE ART / PAGE 100
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION / PAGE 116
GRAPHIC DESIGN / PAGE 122 WHAT NEXT ANIMATION / PAGE 56 NUA
BA (HONS)
INTERIOR CAMPUS DESIGN
Your creativity and professional craft, Human reactions to interior design creative expression and problem-solving Our BA (Hons) course will encourage you to skills will grow at NUA as you explore consider how people react to spaces as you interior design as a way of addressing gain experience of designing for a range of 134 human needs and social challenges. interiors: from homes and housing projects to CITY hotels and shops, restaurants and offices. Working in our Interior Design studio, you will explore how scale, light, colour, materials, texture and their acoustics affect human reactions and the social impact of design. With the support of our expert staff, you will develop industry-standard skills in 2D and 3D visualisation methods, sketching and drawing by hand and using digital platforms, as well as collage, photography and model-making. INTERIOR DESIGN Professional preparation You will build a professional portfolio by mastering industry-standard design techniques and digital tools, and visiting professionals will share their insight through lectures and seminars and live projects.
WHAT NEXT Above and right: Jurgita Stankunaite NUA
I have really developed as a designer, learning how to make logical choices to enhance my designs by using my CAMPUS strengths as well as other techniques NUA has taught me.
Leah Walker Year Three, BA (Hons) Interior Design
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INTERIOR DESIGN
WHAT NEXT Main picture: Jurgita Stankunaite NUA
What you will learn COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE • Understand the principles of ideation INTERESTED IN: and communication in interior design through a range of projects, CAMPUS workshops, experiments and exercises • Explore the interdisciplinary INTERIOR DESIGN YEAR 0 nature of the interior and its / PAGE 50 cultural and historical context ARCHITECTURE • Work on competitions and live projects / PAGE 68 • Examine new technologies and FINE ART sustainable materials, as well as / PAGE 100 manufacturing techniques and their application to interior design GRAPHIC DESIGN / PAGE 122 • Communicate your design ideas through 2D and 3D methods, including ILLUSTRATION 138 / PAGE 128 technical drawings, 3D visualisation, CITY sketching and model making • Apply a flexible and imaginative approach to problem solving through enquiry-based learning, using storytelling and lateral thinking to solve design problems • Explore working in a team and developing a creative role through course and university-wide collaborative projects • Explore materials and technologies for the construction and operation INTERIOR DESIGN of building interiors with particular focus on sustainability, environmental and performance issues • Deliver your own design project that reflects your career aspirations and embraces the full interior design process and your approach to contemporary design issues • Complete a research report that puts your practice in context. WHAT NEXT Top: Cairo Hill, Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation Above: Rebecca Sayer Right: Leonor Peixoto NUA
BA (HONS) Connecting passion with CAMPUS PHO perspective.
Professional practitioner, distinctive portfolio 140 CITY You will learn how to apply your creative vision to a range of industry TOG briefs, from fashion to advertising and editorial photography. Your work will be unmistakable as you develop a distinctive portfolio.
Designed for the future Studying at NUA will give you access RAP to a wide range of industry-level photographic and lighting equipment and opportunities to explore the PHOTOGRAPHY possibilities of moving image and computer-generated images (CGI). Inspirational guest speakers will feature in your timetable frequently and you HY will get feedback from professionals by pitching your work to industry panels. Insight from renowned professionals like Dean Chalkley, Tim Flach, Lottie Davies and Carol Sharp will help you develop business skills including:
Above: Scott Soley, – Self-promotion Shortlisted for WHAT AOP Student Awards – Networking NEXT
Left: Sherlyn Goh – Client management. NUA
Your work will become CAMPUS unmistakable.
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Main picture: Radha Jones Top: Cara MacNally Below left: Kane Layland NUA Below right: Lara Chandler, Winner 2019 Photobox Scholarship for Photography
Awards and accolades COURSES YOU MAY ALSO BE Recent students have been selected for the INTERESTED IN: Association of Photographers Awards, and the International Photography Awards. CAMPUS
PHOTOGRAPHY What you will learn YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 • How to work with digital cameras, studio and location lighting and FILM AND MOVING large format inkjet printers IMAGE PRODUCTION / PAGE 96 • Production and post-production skills in the Digital Darkroom FASHION COMMUNICATION • How to apply your creative style in AND PROMOTION different contexts, including fashion, / PAGE 86 advertising and editorial photography GRAPHIC DESIGN 144 • Explore new and emerging technologies / PAGE 122 CITY like digital moving image and CGI GRAPHIC • How subtle changes in photographic COMMUNICATION technique, visual elements and context / PAGE 116 affect communication of ideas • How to produce a professional portfolio • Opportunities to enter national competitions and a London graduate showcase. PHOTOGRAPHY
The course pushed me to find my own photographic
focus and style. WHAT NEXT Leoni Lessmann 2017 BA (Hons) Photography graduate Main picture: Georgia Stone NUA
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BA (HONS)
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TEXTILE DESIGN
Experiment and explore the broad context and future of textile design at NUA as you develop your professional skills and personal style through commercial and creative briefs.
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Contemporary and Professional preparation traditional techniques As your skills evolve, you will gain Our BA (Hons) course will encourage insight into the industry through you to try a range of techniques: from lectures and workshops with CAMPUS traditional processes to 21st century guests like Deborah Bowness, technology; from screenprinting, Karen Nicol and Margo Selby. weave, knit, stitch and material The breadth of design experiences explorations, to digital design such as throughout the course means that laser cutting and e-textiles, and making NUA is a source of talent ready for with industry-standard equipment. a variety of industries, whether it Your work will gain a wider audience be as studio designers, for textile through opportunities for exposure at design in fashion and interiors, national and international showcases, trend forecasting, conservation, competitions and events. education, manufacturing, or theatre.
148 Award-winning graduates CITY Our graduates are award-winners in the UK and beyond, including the 2018 winner of the SDC International Design Competition, and winners at the i-dott and Bradford Textile Society Awards.
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I have a great appreciation of the creative control I have at NUA. I enjoy the freedom of being able
to experiment whilst learning. WHAT NEXT Sarah Venn Year Three, BA (Hons) Textile Design NUA
COURSES YOU What you will learn MAY ALSO BE INTERESTED IN: • Learn a variety of workshop skills, which may include screenprinting, weaving, hand and CAMPUS machine knitting and stitching, TEXTILE DESIGN digital imaging and printing YEAR 0 / PAGE 50 • Develop your drawing, visual research and design FASHION development skills, including / PAGE 80 pattern repeat, visualisation ILLUSTRATION and professional presentation / PAGE 128 • Examine the history and theory FINE ART of textiles, and associated / PAGE 100 aspects of design and culture INTERIOR DESIGN • Explore advanced applications 150 / PAGE 134 of digital and CAD tools for CITY design and manufacture • Learn about contemporary textile design topics including ethical and sustainability issues • Collaborate with other students on projects exploring a variety of textile related contexts • Create your professional
portfolio of work and develop promotional material targeted towards future employment and career opportunities TEXTILE DESIGN • Engage with the contemporary textile industry through lectures and seminars from a range of visiting lecturers • Develop research and writing skills in relation to your design interests.
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USER EXPERIENCE USER DESIGN
BSc (HONS)
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154 CITY Responding to one of the fasting Industry techniques Professional preparation What you will learn growing sectors of the visual and technologies communications industry, this You will learn how to work with • Share your first year, and then course will allow you to use design, Our BSc (Hons) User Experience the commercial sector through continue to work alongside problem solving, research and Design course gives you the essential contact with external businesses graphics students, allowing for psychology to test and create better skills to become a successful UX via live briefs, UX design agencies a unique cross fertilisation of and a student-led consultancy. knowledge, skills and experience digital products and services. designer – shaping how people engage with digital products and services. The consideration of screen design, The project management, • Develop skills in visual design, digital interaction and creative coding Your learning will focus on applying communication and collaborative problem solving, idea generation, will focus your work around the user experience and digital design working skills you develop will research and user testing, iterative creation of great user experiences principles that are highly prized in make your CV and portfolio design, coding and psychology and commercially viable brand user today’s fast-changing design industry. stand out to employers. • Through UX design, research and journeys. You will share your first You will use industry-standard testing, create designs for screen EXPERIENCE USER DESIGN year with students from our three technologies and prototyping applications and web technologies award-winning graphics courses, techniques to develop professional • Collaborate with others in giving you a firm grounding in idea solutions for a range of contexts. In a competitive presentation generation, problem solving, visual each case, you will move from research and/or pitch environment, and COURSES YOU MAY ALSO design and research methods. to the creation of user journeys take part in projects, including BE INTERESTED IN: to the design of user experiences competition briefs and other that work across multiple digital professionally-focused projects environments: from desktop to mobile. • Complete a research report that USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN YEAR 0 puts your practice in context. / PAGE 50
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