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BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design
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Course overview
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Starts: Sep 2024
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Duration: 3 years
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Mode: Full time
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UCAS code: NW52
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Fees: UK: £9,250 / INT: £17,000
Ideal for...aspiring brand storytellers who wish to propel products and services through a diverse range of creative strategies
Bring products and services to life.
Do you want to explore how the design of communication can influence perception and change behaviour? On this advertising and brand design course, you will develop ideas for brand communication, social media content, marketing strategy, and interactive experience. Develop and refine your own practice through engagement with evolving industry practice and emerging technologies. Work with massive brands and take your place within one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy.
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Take a look at what BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design students got up to in their first year at Ravensbourne.
Why study this Advertising and Brand Design degree?
- Be guided by industry professionals throughout your study
- Fantastic industry links. Tap into opportunities with Creative Agencies and Studios such as Sky, Bulletproof and Neverland
- 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.
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Congratulations to pencil winners, Reiss Milton, Pablo Durban, Emily Brisius!
Our brilliant advertising and brand design students won 2 pencils and a much-coveted White Pencil with purpose at the July 2023 prestigious D&AD New Blood Awards.
Just to put this all into perspective, there were 6,000 entries to D&AD New Blood this year and only 7 white pencils were awarded.
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Congratulations to our talented advertising and brand design students Ben McKay and Charlie Wall-Palmer! Charlie has also won a place in the very competitive D&AD New Blood Academy in partnership with WPP.
Become a brand storyteller
Our students ‘learn with industry’ engaging with professional practice throughout the course. in the last 3 years we have worked with global brands like Sky, Kopparberg and leading Agencies and Studios such as Bulletproof, The Electric Theatre Collective, DNCO, The Drum, Dentsu, Stormbrands, Mr Bailey @concept Kicks and Studio Blup.
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.
Key areas of study
- Creative Strategy
- Branding and Identity Design
- Copywriting and Art Direction
- Campaign Development
- Social Media Content Creation and Interaction Design
- Team-working and Project Management
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I really liked the combination of creativity, writing and strategic thinking. You definitely won't get the industry links that are available at Ravensbourne anywhere else!”
Student work
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The way the course is structured, you almost feel as if you are working in a creative agency. Everything is so geared up to preparing you for industry and the way in which you receive feedback is similar to a real-life scenario. ”
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Award-winning students
In the last six years, our students have won 13 Pencils in the prestigious D&AD New Blood Awards, including a much-coveted White Pencil. They have won 10 Creative Conscience awards and have been shortlisted for professional awards including The Drum Creative Futures.
Check out our latest award winning projects:
XCHANGE 2023 - Design with Purpose
Advertising and Brand Design students hosted an industry event in the heart of Shoreditch. This year's graduates presented their work alongside a series of talks that explored the importance of purpose to creative practice.
Industry speakers included: Clive Russell (This Ain’t Rock N Roll), Rosa Kimosa (Creative Conscience), Brad Sussex (Madethought), Liy Grant (Mother London), Nick Eagleton (Saboteur), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Design Council) and Matthew Jones (Accept & Proceed).
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Advertising and Brand Design Showreel 2023
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My degree has given me a network of like-minded individuals and contacts throughout the creative industry. It has given me the confidence to trust my creative judgement and my work. I found my calling.”