National Organisation of Media Arts Database

BFA Interactive and Visual Design

Provided by
QUT

Run since 01/01/2009

Website: www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au

Overview
Interactive and visual design plays a pivotal role in the rapidly expanding fields of contemporary communication and new technologies. Careers in this area provide the opportunity to design for electronic and print media, Web and mobile technologies, games and physical computing, as well as new technologies as they continue to emerge.
This course will provide you with the conceptual understanding, practical skills and working methods you will need to become a creative and innovative designer. As well as developing core understandings in visual design for a range of media including mobile and virtual environment, you will choose study pathways to develop a specialist focus in graphic design, animation or design for tangible and physical computing.


Career Outcomes
This course will prepare you for a range of careers in the creative industries such as advertising and marketing, print design, Web design and electronic publishing, multimedia and interactive entertainment design, games design, and interactive exhibition design.
Graduates from this study area work in traditional design companies in fields such as graphic design, marketing, branding and print and television campaigns, Web Design, interaction design, usability, knowledge management and information architecture. They also gain employment in new, rapidly expanding industries. For example, games companies employ graduates to work on content production, interaction design, visual design and real-time and virtual environments modelling; film and television companies employ graduates in post-production and branding; museums and other cultural institutions employ graduates in multimedia design and interactive installation. In addition, visualisation companies increasingly provide opportunities for graduates across industries as diverse as mining, architectural and medical visualisation.


Course Structure
In order to complete this course, students must undertake two Creative Industries Foundation units, a maximum of 168 credit points of discipline or specified units relating to the chosen major and 96 credit points of Complementary Studies made up of either a Second Major, Minors or elective units.