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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from Beyond Drag

from Beyond Drag

Brighton Street, Govan, Glasgow 2025

from The Winey

from Drag: Behind-The-Scenes

from Beyond Drag

from Hulot

from Hastings

from Hulot

from Hulot

from Hastings

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from ‘Fragments We Still Remember’

from Tracing The Light

from Tracing The Light

from My Nostalgia

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from Synthesis – Reveal to Conceal

from My Mum (The Furniture Maker)

from No More Showings

from No More Showings

from Family Football Club

from No More Showings

from Roots Routes

from YAL

from YAL

from YAL

from Roots Routes

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 Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Quintetto

from Happiness

from Happiness

from Happiness

from Happiness

from Happiness

from Always Been There

from Malice Behind the Screen

from See! Go!

from Unlucky Dave

from See! Go!

from ZZZZZ.otf: Typeface

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from ZZZZZ.otf: Publication

from Observational Letterforms

from We’re Plastic (But We Still Have Fun)

from Design Aware – Consider ‘Dyslexia’

from Kelvingrove – Rebrand

from Design Aware – Consider ‘Dyslexia’

from Kelvingrove – Rebrand

from Design Aware – Consider ‘Dyslexia’

from Held by the Path

from The Battle of the Trees

from The Battle of the Trees

from Good For You Leo

from The Battle of the Trees

from THE ARCHIVING CONUNDRUM

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from OUTWITH: THE FEAR

from Comhla bhreac

from Ogham

from Ogham

from Comhla bhreac

from Ogham

from She Will Bring You Happiness

from She Will Bring You Happiness

from Every Object Tells a Story

from Motion Language

from She Will Bring You Happiness

from Drifting Clouds

from Designing Out – Extending design project

from Women Hidden in History

from Drifting Clouds

from Designing Out – Extending design project

from Pandaemonium – Newton

from Pandaemonium – The Devil

from Brachen Grid

from Glitch & Grain

from Pandaemonium – The Devil

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

from Girly Pop Zine

from Little Political

from Shotokan Publication

from Shotokan Publication

from Shotokan Publication

from Kelvingrove Rebrand

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 Reimagining Earthseed

from The Line in the Grass

from The Line in the Grass

from Sentimental Song Animation

from Reimagining Earthseed

from Future Archaeology

from Golden Record Voyager

from Our Patterns

from Future Archaeology

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 Solitude

Blue end page showcasing a dark blue riso-print style OS Map of Glencoe.

from Dùthchas

from Solitude

from ‘Casting On’ Experimentation & Physical Samples

from ‘Casting On’ Experimentation & Physical Samples

from ‘Casting on’ pattern outcome

from ‘Strands’ publication

from ‘Strands’ publication

from The Great Silence – Movie Poster

from Puddles

from Puddles

from Writing on a Train – unfinished animation

from Puddles

from Music is Math

from For the Lone Survivor

from Raw

from Within Walls

from For the Lone Survivor

from The Masque of the Red Death

from The Great Silence

from The Masque of the Red Death

from The Great Silence

from The Tell-Tale Heart

from The 51st State

from The 51st State

from Film Poster: The World of Apu

from The 51st State

from The 51st State

from In-Use

from In-Use

from Ideal Living Exhibition

from Ideal Living Print

from In-Use

from Boys Holding Hands

from Shadow Talks

from Oran Mor, A Work in Progress

from Shadow Talks

from Shadow Talks

from The Sky Family

from Shopping List

from Shopping List

from The Butcher’s Sausage

from The Sky Family

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 Café Notch

from Café Notch

from Café Notch

from ATOM

from Café Notch

from Dry Point Etching

from Dry Point Etching

from Dry Point Etching

from The Man Who Fell To Earth

from Dry Point Etching

from Paperboy, Scotland Issue – The Added Feature

from Cherimoya Collection – The Catalogue

from Camouflage Publication

from Camouflage Publication

from Paperboy, Scotland Issue – The Added Feature

from Invisible Forces

from Future Identity

from Future Identity

from Future Identity

from Future Identity

from Fancy A Slice?

from The Final Course

from Fancy A Slice?

from Fancy A Slice?

from Paulin Watches

from Paulin Watches

from Jazz Hoose

from Paulin Watches

from Jazz Hoose

from Extending Design

from ‘We’re Aw Going Tae The Ground’

from Extending Design

from Extending Design

from Pal/Bastard

from Morse

from Extending Design

from The Era (The First Year)

from Morse

from Extending Design

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

from Shotokan

Black and white image of pigeons flying above a wooden dookit against a stark white sky.
The inside cover of a book shows a framed photograph of a city building in Buenos Aires, viewed from a window, above a short diaristic passage titled “The Other Side.”

from In Passing

A photo book with a clothbound printed cover showing a sunlit Andean mountain range under a blue sky.

from In Passing

A layout of black and white photos, postcards, and school records titled “Pops’ Photo Archive.”

from Halfway Home

Flipping through the Hand Ball section.

from In-Use

A young man sleeps against the window of a long-distance coach, blue curtain half drawn.

from In Passing