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HND: Visual Communication SCQF Level 8

Upon successful completion of HNC Visual Communication, you will have developed a creative flair for graphics and design and visual communication. Join us for the 2nd Year of HND where you will continue with live briefs and real clients; refining in-demand skills for progress to employment or university.

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Level:

SCQF Level 8

Study Mode:

  • Full time Yr2

Location:

  • Glenrothes

Start Date:

Aug 2025

Duration:

  • The 2nd Year HND last for 1 Year
  • Attendance is normally over 2-3 days

What skills will I learn?

You will gain skills for developing successful visual concepts to convey messages, inspire, inform, or captivate audiences. Interpreting and responding to client briefs, you will become proficient in creating logos, choosing colour palettes and designing visual elements that define a brand or clients identity.
Key skills developed and refined include:
  • Problem-Solving: Use your design skills to solve communication challenges and meet client needs.
  • Software and Tech proficiency: Build productive workflows and use advanced techniques to produce your design solutions.
  • Pitching a Creative Solution: Proposing your action plan to realise the client’s ambitions and expectations can be stressful. You will get plenty of practice.
  • Collaboration: Work with clients, project managers, and other team members to understand project requirements and present design solutions.
  • Creative Process: Developing multiple design options, get feedback from the client, and refining your work.

What will I study?

Through a range of practical projects you will work towards the achievement in the following Units:
  • Art and Design: Digital Media Project
  • Client Initiated Design Project
  • Creative Project for Artists and Designers
  • Design Production
  • Digital Imaging Project
  • Graphic Design Project
  • Illustration Project
  • Preparing for a Role in the Field of Visual Communication
  • Typography Project
  • Visual Communication: Graded Unit 2

Application Information

What further study options are available?

Successful completion of the HND normally allows Year 3 Direct Entry for the following Courses and Universities:
  1. BA (Hons) Games Design Robert Gordon University
  • BA (Hons) Computing and Creative Design Robert Gordon University
  • BA (Hons) Communication Design - Graphics, Illustration, Photography Robert Gordon University
  • BA (Hons) Visual Communication Edinburgh College
  • BSc (Hons) Digital Design Glasgow Caledonian University
  • BA (Hons) New Media Art / BA (Hons) Graphic Arts and Moving Images University of the West of Scotland
  • BA (Hons) Communication and Design Heriot Watt University
  • BA (Hons) Visual Communication and Design University of the Highlands and Islands
  • BA (Hons) Open Degree Open University

What career opportunities are there?

  • Graphics or Visual artist
  • Digital Design Assistant
  • Digital Media Designer/ Content Creator
  • Social Media Content Creator
  • Graphics or Illustration based career
  • Freelance Graphic Designer

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