Drawing is your passion; you think in images. Our Berlin-based B.A. Illustration programme will teach you to visualise messages and draft blueprints while developing your personal style. Learn to apply your drawing skills in a professional context.
All Facts at a Glance
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Start:
1st October
Model:
full-time
Language:
English
ECTS:
210
Curriculum:
Info:
accredited
Duration:
7 semesters/3.5 years
Location:
Berlin
Costs:
from €690 per month
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Portfolio
20 own creative works
Learn about idea generation & visual realisation
A picture is worth a thousand words. Visuals serve as the central communication medium in our B.A. Illustration programme where you'll learn to tell stories through drawing and to convey messages through imagery. Develop an understanding of the interplay between image and text. Learn methods and techniques of research, conception and visual implementation. Guided by storytelling principles, you'll develop your designs for various illustration projects, including graphic novels and children's books.
The curriculum includes manual printing techniques such as silkscreen, risography, etching, digital applications and software, typography, editorial design, and editorial illustration. Help shape tomorrow's design solutions today by transporting your illustrations to three-dimensional spaces and making them interact with their environment.
Our programme encourages you to work with professional clients on actual assignments. During your studies, you'll visit illustration and animation studios to experience firsthand what working in the creative industries is like.
Become an Illustrator, Graphic Designer and more
As an illustrator you can work for all kinds of media companies. Start your own business and offer professional services to cultural and scientific institutions, advertising agencies and publishing houses. In addition, your job profile can include editorial, advisory and coordinating activities.
Illustrate digital and interactive media, print, websites, 3D animations, cartoons, motion pictures, and computer games. Alternatively, you can create special effects and character designs.
You’ll possess the know-how to craft elaborate narratives for literary works and design children's books, non-fiction and graphic novels for publishing houses.
Our internationally-recognised Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree serves as a professional foundation for immediate employment. In addition, the internationally acclaimed Bachelor of Arts degree entitles you to pursue numerous postgraduate and Master's degree programmes in Germany and beyond.
Discover the world of illustration
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Your modules
The Bachelor's degree in Illustration teaches fundamental design and illustration skills. Students learn essential design skills through courses such as design basics, illustration basics, character design and animation. They gain practical experience in the media lab through an internship in Germany or abroad and a freelance illustration project.
Creative specialisations are offered in modules such as Concept Art, Narrative Illustration, and Editorial Design. Research aspects, such as modules on artistic research and the academic colloquium, are also part of the curriculum, while compulsory elective modules and projects with companies round off the programme.
We are happy to send you further information, including the complete curriculum.
Your curriculum
7 Semester
210 ECTS
1st semester
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Design Basics I
5 -
Design Basics II
5 -
Design Basics III
5 -
Design/communication sciences
5 -
Media lab
5 -
Compulsory elective module
5
2nd semester
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Illustration Basics I
5 -
Illustration Basics II
5 -
Illustration Basics III
5 -
Design / Media Sciences
5 -
Character Design
5 -
Compulsory elective module
5
3rd semester
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Animation I
5 -
Animation II
5 -
Visual Essay
5 -
Artistic Research I
5 -
Concept Art
5 -
Compulsory elective module
5
4th semester
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Narrative Illustration I
5 -
Narrative Illustration II
5 -
Narrative Illustration III
5 -
SRH Lab
5 -
Editorial Design I
5 -
Compulsory elective module
5
Mobility phase
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Internship in Germany or abroad
20 -
Independent illustration project
10
6th semester
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Editorial illustration I
5 -
Editorial illustration II
5 -
Research Colloquium
5 -
Artistic Research II
5 -
Practical project/ project-orientated work
5 -
Compulsory elective module
5
7th semester
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Portfolio I
5 -
Portfolio II
5 -
Entrepreneurship + Media Law
5 -
Writing workshop/ colloquium
5 -
Bachelor thesis
10
Impressions
Our CORE principle
Apply your skills in real life
Today, soft and social skills are crucial in addition to hard skills and expertise. That's why SRH University's innovative, successful, and award-winning CORE principle promotes independent and active learning so that you can apply your knowledge directly to projects and your future career—for a clear competitive advantage.
Your contact
Florian Grolig
External lecturer for animation
E-mail: [email protected]