FdA Design Practice

A 2 year Communication Design degree developed in consultation with the design industry that has the option to top up into the third year of the Graphic Design or Illustration BA at Camberwell.

The course is built around regular input from key practitioners:

Course Director: Derek Yates
Email: d.yates@camberwell.arts.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7514 7345

Associate Lecturers:
Matthew Hawkins
Kate Dawkins
Phillip Seddon
Mike Chester

Visiting Lecturers:
Lucy Collier Wieden & Kennedy
Eva Rucki Troika
Jon Hewitt Moving Brands
David Johnston, Accept & Proceed
Alex Bec, Hudsonbec
jAKE
Martin & Wai Fruitmachine
Tim Balaam Hyperkit
Roberto D’Andria, Bear
Dave Breen Morning
Matt Rice Sennep
Jon Bailey Showmedia
Miles Donovan Peepshow
Thomas Matthews
Sean Murphy Value & Service

Our students have done work placements at companies such as:
300Million; Bear; Br&me; Coley Porter Bell; Creative Leap; Dazed & Confused; Vogue; FiveFootSix; Fruitmachine; Merrell Publishing; Onedotzero; Showmedia; Kino; Moving Brands; Peepshow; R Design; Showstudio; Vogue; Front Magazine; Saatchi & Saatchi & TwobyTwo

FDA students have been employed by companies such as:
BBC Radio; FiveFootSix; Front Magazine; Goose UK; Kino; National Theatre; River Publishing; John Brown Publishing; Sense Worldwide; Studio Condition; University of the Arts; Faber & Faber & Johnston Works

We believe that, as well as being used to sell stuff, communication design should be..“an imaginative tool for solving non-commercial problems; for shaping a sustainable environment and an equitable public realm; for encouraging democratic participation and new kinds of social interaction; for expressing ideas, values and ways of feeling that originate down below amongst the ordinary people- us!- in our own neighbourhoods, from our own concerns. That it might be used in service to our collectively determined community needs, not just to deliver top down fashion diktats and purchasing imperatives from megacorps boardrooms… That design is not only an activity that trendy metropolitan design ‘creatives’ engage in: it’s a universal human life skill, a way of ordering, interpreting and enhancing our artefacts, images and surroundings.”
Rick Poynor, First Things Next. 1999

In association with Eye Magazine, Fda Design & Illustration organized
The Eye Magazine Discussion Forum 2008
Featuring Ken Garland, Ann Odling Smee, Rick Poynor, Rathna Ramanathan
& Noel Douglas. http://eyediscuss.blogspot.com/

In association with Onedotzero, Fda staff & students were part of the team that organized and facilitated the Cascade education forum at the Onedotzero on the South Bank in November 2008
http://www.onedotzero.com/home.php