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Hone your illustration skills and knowledge with Melbourne Polytechnic’s Bachelor of Illustration. You’ll learn through research-based practice that will enhance your capacity to see the world in a different way. Illustrators are well placed to collaborate and play a creative role in the diverse realm of visual culture. This unique degree also sets you up to succeed, addressing business practice and opportunities for entrepreneurship in today’s creative arts industry.

Combine traditional skills with modern applications

Our Bachelor of Illustration will teach you essential artistic context to improve your skills. You will investigate a wide range of visual art practices and draw on history, technology, commerce, media and cultural studies as you analyses and critique the development of illustration and visual language. You’ll learn about the traditional practices of publishing, advertising, promotion and editorial work alongside contemporary digital visual culture. Melbourne Polytechnic lecturers are all leading industry practitioners, with a wealth of experience to share. Attend Creative Forums, featuring leading creative industry figures sharing wisdom and networks. Melbourne Polytechnic Illustration students are well-regarded, with alumni winning awards at the Australian Student Design Awards, the Undergraduate Exhibition, the Koko Black Creative Drawing Prize and even having animated films in the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Design a creative and diverse career

Melbourne Polytechnic graduate illustrators will have the training for diverse careers, being able to use their highly developed skills in the media, film, urban design, and art sectors. If you have successfully completed the first two years of the bachelor’s degree, you may choose to exit with the Associate Degree of Illustration qualification. Graduates of our Bachelor of Illustration or Associate Degree of Illustration might find work in advertising, publishing, new media areas of content and games, film and animation, creative directorship, creative consultancy, event management, exhibition design and curating. You could even run your own illustration studio.

CAREER PATHWAYS

Where will this take me

This unique degree sets you up to succeed, addressing business practice and opportunities for entrepreneurship in today’s creative arts industry.

• Publisher
• Exhibition Designer
• Event Manager
• Creative Artist
• Self-Employed Artist
• Consultant
• Art Curator
• Illustrator

How you learn

• Studio Practice
• Lecture
• Research

Class Schedule

Contact the Creative Arts Department for more information on part-time study.

Assessment Methods

Various forms of assessment may be used including portfolio, projects work, research, essays and presentations.

Units of Study

Credit points are a basic measure of student workload. All subjects are given a credit point value. Most subjects at Melbourne Polytechnic are 12 credit points. A normal full-time annual workload is 96 credit points. The academic year is divided into two main semesters; full-time students usually enrol in 48 credit points each semester, part-time students usually enrol in 24 credit points each semester or less.