Communication Design

Reid Building, 45 students

The programme provides a dynamic, inclusive and supportive learning environment that prepares our graduates to be designers for the 21st century. The programme is split into three different pathways – graphic design, illustration and photography, and lens-based practice. Our students prove that their work does not have to be defined by these pathways, but can expand and explore multi-layered ways of communicating with audiences. They draw on traditional processes such as drawing, print and photography, and also work with newer technologies utilising moving image, sound and animation to explore their subjects creatively and sensitively.

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The Skinny

from Pal/Bastard

from We’re Aw Going Tae The Ground

from Pal/Bastard

from Extending Design

from Extending Design

from Jazz Hoose

from Paulin Watches

from Jazz Hoose

from Paulin Watches

from Jazz Hoose

from The Tell-Tale Heart

from The Masque of the Red Death

from The Masque of the Red Death

from The Great Silence

from Pigeons of Glasgow

from YAL

from Roots Routes

from Roots Routes

from YAL

from Roots Routes

from Dry Point Etching

from La Chimera

from BLOW UP

from BLOW UP

from The Man Who Fell To Earth

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from My Nostalgia

from My Nostalgia

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

mountain scene. two people sat on a ski chair converted bench admiring the view in front of them. Photo taken from behind.

from Solitude

from Solitude

from Dùthchas

from Solitude

from Dùthchas

from Camouflage Publication

from Camouflage Publication

from Paperboy, Scotland Issue – The Supplement

from Paperboy, Scotland Issue – The Supplement

from Paperboy, Scotland Issue – The Added Feature

from Held by the Path

from The Battle of the Trees

from Held by the Path

from The Battle of the Trees

from The Battle of the Trees

from Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Music Concrete performance poster

from Quintetto

from The Silence Beneath Red Lanterns

from The 51st State

from The 51st State

from Film Poster: The World of Apu

from Film Poster: The World of Apu

from Half Past Now: Screen-Printed Art Book on Glasgow’s Music Creative Collective

from Half Past Now: Screen-Printed Art Book on Glasgow’s Music Creative Collective

from Half Past Now: Screen-Printed Art Book on Glasgow’s Music Creative Collective

from Half Past Now: Screen-Printed Art Book on Glasgow’s Music Creative Collective

from Half Past Now: Screen-Printed Art Book on Glasgow’s Music Creative Collective

from Every Object Tells a Story

from Every Object Tells a Story

from She Will Bring You Happiness

from She Will Bring You Happiness

from Motion Language

from Ideal Living Print

from In-Use Website

from In-Use

from Ideal Living Print

from Ideal Living Print

from No More Showings

from No More Showings

from My Mum (The Furniture Maker)

from Family Football Club

from My Mum (The Furniture Maker)

from Malice Behind the Screen

from Unlucky Dave

from Always Been There

from Malice Behind the Screen

from Unlucky Dave

from Pandaemonium – The Devil

from Brachen Grid

from Brachen Grid

from Brachen Grid

from Pandaemonium – Newton

from Raw

from Within Walls

from Within Walls

from For the Lone Survivor

from Within Walls

from Happiness

from Gretel Land

from Kanye West’s Attempts at Sincerity

from Kanye West’s Attempts at Sincerity

from Happiness

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Kelvingrove – Rebrand

from Kelvingrove – Rebrand

from Kelvingrove – Rebrand

from Design Aware – Consider ‘Dyslexia’

from Voyager Record

from Roots of Bias

from MY PAL’S A DJ

from MY PAL’S A DJ

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from Tracing The Light

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from Tracing The Light

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from The Line in the Grass

from Reimagining Earthseed

from The Line in the Grass

from Reimagining Earthseed

from Sentimental Song Animation

from Hastings

from Hulot

from Hulot

from Hulot

from Hulot

from ‘Casting on’ pattern outcome

from Meitheal Type Design

from ‘Casting On’ Experimentation & Physical Samples

from ‘Strands’ publication

from ‘Casting on’ pattern outcome

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from THE ARCHIVING CONUNDRUM

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from Fancy A Slice?

from Fancy A Slice?

from Fancy A Slice?

from Fancy A Slice?

from Memento Mori

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

from Big Girlie

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

Black and white image of pigeons flying above a wooden dookit against a stark white sky.
Blurred image of grass and road markings taken from a moving vehicle.

from Halfway Home

Yellow book cover with a raised hand holding a traditional ball above a crowd of reaching hands.

from In-Use

Four yellow-covered In-Use booklets arranged in a fan shape on a white background.

from In-Use

Blurred railway lines seen from a train window, overlaid with a subtitle about changing an Irish accent to be understood.

from Halfway Home

A full-bleed image across two pages showing a ski lift suspended over rocky terrain, photographed through a patterned coach window.

from In Passing

from Moving Voice

from Shotokan Publication

from Shotokan Publication

from Kelvingrove Rebrand

from Moving Voice

from Future Identity

from Future Identity

from Future Identity

from Invisible Forces

from Invisible Forces

from Strachan Barr – Visual Communication (Graphics) – Future Branding

from Strachan Barr – Visual Communication (Graphics) – Future Branding

from Strachan Barr – Visual Communication (Graphics) – Future Branding

from Strachan Barr – Visual Communication (Graphics) – Future Branding

from Strachan Barr – Visual Communication (Graphics) – Future Branding

from Drag: Behind-The-Scenes

from Drag: Behind-The-Scenes

Brighton Place, Govan, Glasgow 2025

from The Winey

from Beyond Drag

from Beyond Drag

from This Record Should Be Played Loud

from This Record Should Be Played Loud

from This Record Should Be Played Loud

from This Record Should Be Played Loud

from This Record Should Be Played Loud

from Women Hidden in History

from Designing Out – Extending design project

from Drifting Clouds

from Women Hidden in History

from Women Hidden in History

from Café Notch

from ATOM

from ATOM

from Café Notch

from Café Notch

from Oran Mor, A Work in Progress

from Shadow Talks

from Shadow Talks

from Shaping You

from Shadow Talks

from Ogham

from Comhla bhreac

from Ogham

from Comhla bhreac – publication

from Ogham

from The Butcher’s Sausage

from The Butcher’s Sausage

from The Office Christmas Party

from The Sky Family

from The Butcher’s Sausage

from Observational Letterforms

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from Our Patterns

from Future Archaeology

from Light Pollution

from Light Pollution

from Our Patterns

from Writing on a Train – unfinished animation

from Puddles

from Puddles

from The Great Silence – Movie Poster

from Puddles

from Extending Design

from The XL Archive

from White Socks

from Extending Design

from Extending Design