Bachelor of Design

In this interdependent, global, post-industrial, information age, Design has evolved into a human-centered practice with concern for real social needs. At Emily Carr, your design studies will be oriented toward sustainable design thinking that is embedded in understanding cultural contexts and ecology.

Your design degree will give you critical and professional skills required to enter the creative economy, along with a deeper understanding of the meaning and applications of design. With insights to the semantics, expression, and manifestation of ideas and concepts, you will be equipped to shape them into form, font and materiality.

You will be aware and ready to present ideas, to solve problems, and to make change with intention for positive social, cultural, economic and environmental impact.

The Bachelor of Design degrees build on the design ideas and principles learned in your Foundation Year, expanding them to cover the three disciplines of Communication, Industrial and Interaction Design. The unique critical inquiry and interdisciplinary exploration, throughout Foundation Year, prepares you for the creative risk-taking required to lead in the dynamic and competitive field of Design. Focused on collaboration, you will benefit from projects that are intentionally modeled to mirror professional and research project structures. You will also learn various methods of prototyping, developing insight and direction through iterative making and re-making. Through teaching, increasing independence, and experience working with realistic criteria and constraints, you will gain the abilities and confidence required to enter the professional design world.