BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication
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Course overview
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Starts: Sep 2025
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Duration: 3 years
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Mode: Full time
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UCAS code: W220
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Fees: UK: £9,535 (2025/26) / INT: £17,000 (2025/26)
Ideal for... aspiring illustrators and contemporary visual storytellers who wish to hone their craft across the creative spectrum.
Discover your visual voice.
With access to state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry links, the illustration for communication degree course will enable you to sharpen your skillset, promote your craft and prepare you for industry.
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Why study this illustration degree?
- Work in a collaborative studio environment
- Turns illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers
- Work with text, drawings, moving images and printmaking
- Develop concepts for multiple industries – from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation.
Our challenging and exciting illustration course in London takes an innovative, experimental and critical approach to the broad practice of illustration. The three-year BA Honours degree will help you to develop new skills, encourage new ways of thinking, enable you to find your individual visual voice, and prepare you for the ever-moving creative landscape.
Working in a collaborative studio environment, you will have opportunities to apply your skills across a range of illustrative applications, including: editorial, publishing, packaging, product, print, advertising, character and film.
Illustration for Communication at Ravensbourne University London spans the creative spectrum, turning illustrators into contemporary visual storytellers. As it crosses so many creative boundaries, there are unparalleled opportunities for contemporary illustrators to work with time-based, sequential and narrative forms. This includes graphic design, advertising and publishing, fashion and product design, animation and games design.
Ready to find your visual voice and develop your own personal style?
If you study this illustration degree you will work with text, drawings, moving images and printmaking to develop concepts for multiple industries – from commercial graphic design to fashion and animation.
Student voices
Thanks to Ravensbourne I feel I am fully prepared for life after graduation. I am confident, I know how to speak to clients and can understand their needs. I’m working part time as a freelancer and my studies have helped enormously – from coping with orders to actively looking for all the latest trends. ”
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Key study topics
Working in a collaborative studio environment, students will have the opportunity to apply their skills across a range of illustrative applications including:
- Editorial
- Publishing
- Packaging
- Product
- Advertising
- Character
- Film.
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As a contemporary illustration graduate, you will be entering a world of work where the industry calls for adaptability - to think outside of the box and to develop complex visual responses to briefs”