The BA/BSc International Design programme is a one year Level 6 award that allows students from anywhere in the world to convert their diploma into an honours degree. We invite students from any field of design to join us in the creative and thoughtful development of novel design solutions and outcomes and to become a designer with a truly global outlook.

This programme offers you the opportunity to create and learn alongside people from another part of the world and to extend your skills as a strategic designer with an international focus. It will also prepare you for further postgraduate study, doctoral research and publishing if that is your ambition.

The International Design programme builds upon your individual strengths and experiences as an emerging professional designer. It will build your self-confidence and self-development by teaching you how to think strategically and to creatively confront new challenges. The programme is designed around you and is supported by expert tutors who will encourage you to decide upon your own direction and strategies. 

The programme welcomes students from any design background including Graphic Design, Fashion or Textile Design, Interior Design, Product Design, User Experience Design or Craft Design. You will work together within in an interdisciplinary design environment strengthening your existing skills and practices within an international context. You will generate a body of work that has international scope and awareness and will make you highly employable and comfortable with diverse International clients.

The world needs creative and flexible designers who can take a broad and creative view of design and welcome new and unfamiliar ideas and techniques. You will join other students many of whom speak and write English as a second language, and are studying abroad as a learning adventure.  Although most of our students are from the UK, Cardiff School of Art & Design is home to creative students from every continent. You will have the chance to work with and alongside these students and to make friends and future colleagues around the world. Some previous experience or knowledge of European design would be useful to you but is not essential.