Interactive and Visual Design

You can choose units that contribute to your design interests and career progression from web design, interactive media, interface design, visual communication, motion graphics and interaction design. QUT’s internationally recognised teaching staff will help you to develop practical techniques and skills and graduate with enhanced creative industries networks.

Studio-based teaching replicates the real world by providing opportunities for you to apply your knowledge and skills in practical settings and encouraging you to interact with others to solve design problems.

You'll create a portfolio of individual design work and collaborate on industry-based team projects, as well as have opportunities to work on projects at The Cube, QUT’s new state-of-the-art public digital interactive learning and display space.

Core Units

• Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy 
• 20:20 Vision: Imagining the Creative Future 
• Advanced Practice in Interactive and Visual Design
• Project Design in the Creative Industries
• Innovation in the Creative Industries: Major Project 

Unit Options

• Critical Practices in Visual Design
• Designing Interactions 
• User Experience Design
• Consumer Behaviour
• Advertising Management
• IVD Practices and Techniques 
• Critical Practices in Visual Design
• Designing Interactions
• User Experience Design
• Advertising Creative: The Brief
• Advertising Creative: Concept to Campaign 
• Advertising Creative: Copywriting and Art Direction
• Advertising Creative: Trends in New Media 
• Applied Professional Communication 
• Co-Creative Media: Digital Storytelling
• Creative Industries in Asia
• Theories of Journalism, Media and Culture 
• Introduction to Personal Social Media Networking
• Professional Networking Through Social Media 
• Advanced Workplace Learning
• Digital Tools in the Creative Industries
• Telling Stories: Narrative in Creative Industries 
• Digital Writing: Words Under Glass
• Photomedia and Creative Practice 
• Transmedia Storytelling: From Interviewing to MultiPlatform 
• Marketing Arts and Culture
• Managing Money in the Arts
• Arts and Cultural Policy

• Completed recognised bachelor degree (or higher award) in an interactive and visual design field with a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 4.0 or better (on QUT's 7 point scale).
• Include the original copy of your IELTS or TOEFL test results.You can provide your IELTS Test Report form number, and international admissions can verify your results online.If you complete the TOEFL test, you can have your results sent directly to QUT. Our institution code is 9778.

• Equity scholarships scheme