BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design
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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: NW52
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Fees: UK: £9,535 (2025/26) / INT: £17,000 (2025/26)
Ideal for...bold thinking graphic designers and visual communicators, who aspire to tell brand stories that change perception and influence behaviour.
Build brands, create change.
This award-winning course connects strategic thinking and design, investigating emerging practices at the intersection of advertising and branding. Driven by insights, our students develop impactful brand communication, social media content, and advertising campaigns. (BA Hons) Advertising and Brand Design will create opportunities to explore graphic design, strategy, branding, copywriting and art direction. Work with industry partners, brands, and emerging technologies and take your place within one of the most exciting sectors of the UK creative economy.
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Why study this Advertising and Brand Design degree?
- Be guided by industry professionals throughout your study
- Become a brand storyteller
- 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.
Award winning students
In the last six years, our students have won 15 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.
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.
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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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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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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!”
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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.”