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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our Digital Design BSc degree is a modern, hands-on course that combines digital technology and creative design. It has been developed to equip you with the knowledge and practical skills to create, design and develop interactive and engaging digital products, services and experiences, and 2D/3D graphical content. Professional and transferable skills required for working in the creative digital industries are developed throughout each year of the course. Our modern, industry standard digital media facilities include a green screen and post-production studio, motion capture, photography, and sound studios, 360° VR and up to 12K cameras, lenses, motion controllers and lights, and a dedicated render farm. You'll have independent access to exclusive PC and Mac computing workshops and benefit from the latest industry standard specialist software for graphic design and image/video editing, 3D animation, game development, and rich interactive content creation. There's also the opportunity for you to use our immersive virtual environment laboratory. There are guest lectures covering lots of different digital media topics and the visiting lecturers provide industry insight and advice on how to structure your portfolio and showreels. Speakers include creative and design directors, user experience designers, 3D graphic supervisors, as well as mobile and web developers. Visits are arranged to design agencies, TV and photography studios, and post-production houses. There’s also the opportunity to go to conferences and this is your chance to build networks with key industry experts. In addition, you have the advantage of Brunel’s close location to London for trips to exhibitions celebrating the creative industries. The course can be studied full-time over three years, or four years with a placement year and we encourage the placement year option. This time in industry helps you to further prepare for the world of work and you’ll have a year’s worth of invaluable professional experience when you graduate. If you decide to go on a digital media placement year, you will have the opportunity of working in the ever-growing creative industries. The end-of-year highlight is the degree show. Exhibiting your creative work at this event is a great way for you to connect with leading creative technologists and showcase your talent. Brunel’s digital design course is fully accredited and industry recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK’s screen-based industries. It carries the ScreenSkills Select quality mark which indicates that it is best suited to prepare you for a career in the screen industries. Brunel’s digital media courses are the only courses accredited by ScreenSkills in the areas of design, animation and VFX within London and the South East.
Fundamental JavaScript programming covering the foundation of interactive digital media development: variables, arrays, functions, objects, classes, control flow and events.
Engages students with the UK creative industry landscape (Digital Design, 3D and VFX); independent research, visiting an agency or meeting guest lecturers and building a professional network.
Bringing designs to life by making them move; adding style and character to graphic design and branding to create engaging screen-based content.
Explore digital photography and video production and how they combine to create compelling visual content using professional studio-based practice and post-production.
Applications of creative digital technologies (AI, Interactive Games, Web, IoT, VR/AR/MR); theory and practice of UX and interaction design and Web design and development.
Visual literacy in the context of design and visual expression; developing visual thinking techniques and foundation skills in visual and graphic communication, visualisation and computer-generated media.
Aesthetics and design associated with a range of final visual and audio outputs (branding, web, video, motion, sound, mobile, social media); working with external companies on a group project.
Analyse and develop knowledge of the common foundations of digital technological inventions and innovations based on past and current trends.
Extend knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of Immersive Mixed Reality using media production tools and scripting for interactive Augmented and Virtual Reality content.
IoT technologies and methods by which IoT-enabled devices communicate, exchange, compute and visualise data; technical skills in designing mobile and web IoT apps.
Technical and artistic aspects of 3D computer graphics: creating 3D models, applying textures and lighting; developing design, research, documentation and project management skills.
Creating engaging animation using cinematography concepts (camera angles, lighting) and animation principles (timing, spacing, easing, squash and stretch); motion capture and rigging to animate 3D characters.
Explore specific topics and disciplines for digital designers through lectures and workshops, practising a particular skill set with attention to own work and development as a designer.
Plan, research, design, implement, evaluate, exhibit and report on a substantial individual project in Digital Design in a professional manner.
Critically explore key issues affecting the work of the professional practitioner in the Creative Industries and the ethical positions and principles that underpin accepted working practice.
Clear understanding of how experience design compares with traditional UX/UI design and critically reviewing various types of digital experiences for products, services and brands.
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