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Photography & Graphic Design Level 3

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Getting Ahead

Photography & Graphic Design UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma at South Downs Campus

This information will help you get a head start with developing ideas and concepts for your first project in Photography & Graphic Design. Building these foundations will help you to feel more confident and show us your capabilities prior to you starting your course in September.

Did you know? The art industry is the biggest growing job sector: 11% compared to 1% in other jobs. 50% of these are in the south across a range of different creative industries.

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Capturing images of everyday life, of people doing everyday tasks and portraits of people through the decades has been a really important part of commenting on society, even more so in recent times.

  • Document your experiences at these unusual times by photographing and drawing people you can see around you during the summer
  • Consider creating a ‘rough and ready’ zine out of images you take/make or making a website to specifically showcase your imagery (How to Make a Zine / Create a Website)

Select an image you like, that reflects your interests, and make some notes about it. You will be asked to talk about it during the first few weeks of College. 

*This is a representation of your learning space and may not be the exact room you will be using


My courses were all especially interesting, I thoroughly enjoyed all of them. All of my lecturers were extremely knowledgeable and I have learnt a lot from them.

Lottie Warren, A Level student

My experience at the college has been really good, it’s been really rewarding, all the lecturers were so lovely and supportive there’s no way I could have done it without them - the teaching has been outstanding.

Lucie Brooks, A Level student

Everyone at the College was really helpful, and there’s lots of facilities, meaning it’s very easy to get your work done on time, and get good grades. The teaching and support was excellent, they were always on top of it, and made sure you got work done on time and you were challenged. Everyone is friendly and its really diverse, meaning you can get involved in lots of different things.

Conor Ward, BTEC student