Study communication design and you’ll learn to apply graphic design and digital skills, design thinking, and strategy to create typographic and visual meaning in graphic and interaction design, branding, illustration, photography, advertising, motion graphics, and art direction.

Communication design at AUT focuses on generating content and visually communicating ideas, messages, and meaning to respond to societal, environmental, and commercially relevant themes and issues.

You’ll work in open studios and computer labs with industry-standard software, and have access to a printmaking lab, risograph, photographic studio, and book bindery.

Key features

• Learn graphic design and digital skills, design thinking, and strategy
• Covers a range of tools, technologies, and materials for print, digital, and interactive project work and media
• Prepares you for a wide range of design careers
• Access industry-standard software, a printmaking lab, a risograph, a photographic studio, and book bindery

• Certified copy of your birth certificate or passport
• Certified copy of marriage certificate (If required)
• Official academic transcripts
• English Language Proficiency (If Available)
• CV/Work experience (If required)
• A copy of the document(s) in the original language/and official English translation
• Portfolio

1_ All applicants need to meet AUT’s minimum entry requirements qualification equivalent to New Zealand year 13 or University Entrance.

High school qualifications from different countries:

India: 

• 12 years of schooling with an overall average of 75% in four academic subjects, including a min 60% in English from the All-India Senior Certificate (AISSC).
• All other Higher Secondary State Board Examinations require an overall average of 80% in four academic subjects with a min 65% in English.

China:

• Senior High School graduation plus one year of successful study at bachelor's level; or
• Senior High School graduation plus completion of a two-year diploma, with good grades, at a recognized university.
• A Tier 1 score in the National University Entrance Examination (Gaokao) at a recognized institution

2_ They must have a portfolio of creative and design work.

Don’t meet the entry requirements?

Consider starting with Tītohu mō te Hoahoa - Diploma in Design.

Foundation programmes

If you don’t have the academic qualifications needed for direct entry into an AUT programme, you can enroll in a foundation programme.

If you successfully complete the foundation programme and get the required grades, you are guaranteed entry into an appropriate AUT programme.