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Bachelor of Design
Minimum 3 years, up to a maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston
Minimum 3 years Hobart, Launceston 
CRICOS 098158A
Flexible studios and teaching spaces
Access cutting-edge studio spaces where your ideas will flourish and thrive.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Associate Degree and Bachelor students meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll choose an area that interests you, and then study a group of units related to that area. Find out more at What is a Major?
Gain the professional knowledge and skills to work with teams or create your own business. Combine your creativity with key areas of business: project and event design, communications, and marketing.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or explore new horizons in contemporary spaces, galleries and interpretation sites.
Digital design is a rapidly expanding area as technology comes to pervade every aspect of our lives from websites, to computer programs, apps and games. Combine digital design with a second major in Games and Creative Technologies to extend knowledge and skills in the development of digital objects. Or focus on the growing world of tech-embedded smart products, by combining Digital Design, Object Design and electives in programming.
Pursue your passion for hands-on making and materials, while developing skills and knowledge in craft and digital fabrication processes and manufacturing. Perfect for a career in furniture and product design, and the design of wearable objects.
Combine knowledge and skills from the fields of architecture, interior, landscape and urban design to pursue careers in areas like exhibition and event design, or fabrication of pop-ups across a range of industries.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Associate Degree in Applied Design
Minimum 2 years, up to a maximum of 5 years Hobart, Launceston
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Career relevant practical learning
Flexible studios and teaching spaces offer creative environments for interactive learning utilising a range of modern and traditional equipment.
Create design solutions for real clients.
Meet potential employers and gain valuable work experience through real-world industry and community projects.
Tasmania inspires your design learning experience.
Our inspiring landscapes, thriving creative scene, and entrepreneurial spirit all inform your studies to help your ideas flourish and thrive.
Study options in this degree
A major is an area of focus in your degree. During your studies, you’ll choose an area that interests you, and then study a group of units related to that area. Find out more at What is a Major?
Gain the professional knowledge and skills to work with teams or create your own business. Combine your creativity with key areas of business: project and event design, communications, and marketing.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Engage your creativity in the multidisciplinary practice of visual communication and pursue a career in traditional fields such as graphic design, or explore new horizons in contemporary spaces, galleries and interpretation sites.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Create new virtual worlds and possibilities through learning about web and user experience design, interactive design, and combining your creativity with technology to enhance human experience and design possibilities.
You can expand your education in this stream if you choose to continue your studies in the Bachelor of Design after graduation.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design
Minimum 0.5 years, up to a maximum of 1 year Hobart, Launceston, online
This course may not be available to international students. Please see our international page for courses that are offered to international students.
Career relevant practical learning
Flexible studios and teaching spaces offer creative environments for interactive learning utilising a range of modern and traditional equipment.
Gain valuable work skills
Learn about design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise.
Commonwealth Supported Places available
Study with tuition fees subsidised by the Australian Government
Become a change agent in a constantly changing world
Design is at work in every aspect of human existence. We are inherently change agents and with a design education, you can make change towards creative adaptation and positive impact in our constantly changing world.
In this course we’ll guide you to work with design thinking and design processes, visual language and form, design for inclusive interactions, and strategies and tools for creative enterprise. By understanding major shifts in how design fields now operate, you’ll gain foundational design knowledge and a framework for identifying opportunities.
Find out more about what you'll study, entry requirements, fees and scholarships - and to apply.
Career opportunities
Careers relating to design are growing across many industries. Here are some of the top careers projected to grow in the next five years^.
- Event Design
Whether cultural festivals or corporate conferences, design is fundamental to the participant experience and success of events. - Experiential Graphic Design
Combining branding, placemaking and wayfinding, experiential graphic design is a multi-disciplinary field focused on the user experience in a range of contexts, from public spaces to retail environments. - System Design
Systems design emphasises an understanding of processes and opportunities for transformation towards more resilient and regenerative solutions. - Co-Design
Led by stakeholder engagements, co-design emphasises collaborative processes in imagining opportunities and prioritising outcomes.
19.4%
Fashion, Industrial
and Jewellery
Designers
Projected increase by 2025
12.9%
Graphic and Web
Designers, and
Illustrators
Projected increase by 2025
16.2%
Interior Designers
Projected increase by 2025
^ National Skills Commission five year projections from November 2020 to November 2025.
