The Graphic Communication Design programme is comprised of BA Graphic Communication Design, MA Graphic Communication Design and MA Communicating Complexity.
Our programme’s approach to graphic communication design spans an expanding assemblage of media and agendas. We encourage a wide range of practices and concerns, which are united by a shared appreciation for the ways that thinking and making advance one another.
Our programme facilitates a broad and dynamic community of students and staff to thrive through graphic and communication design in diverse and meaningful ways.
Our goal is to ask and answer questions through and about graphic communication design.
Our courses
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Central Saint Martins Shows: Graphic Communication Design | Photographed by Paul Cochran
College: Central Saint Martins Level: Undergraduate
BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design
BA Graphic Communication Design supports interdisciplinary, hybrid and specialist designers.
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Dominic Kesterton for Central Saint Martins, Graphics designed by Dominic Kesterton
College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Communicating Complexity
In a world of increasing information, MA Communicating Complexity will develop your understanding and skills as a communicator to address our most pressing challenges. This is a low residency course delivered mostly online.
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Clockwise from top left: Anna Niklova, Off The Grid; Stephanie Jin, Lorem Ipsum, Where’s Your Daddy?; Sachi Patil, Decaying: Conversations with Machines on Human Life; Lily Kong, I’m Fine; Matt Urpani, An Array of Constraints; Owen Lewis, Eating Ortolan in the Hammock of Reality; Klara Blazek, Self-Cities, Clockwise from top left: Anna Niklova, Off The Grid; Stephanie Jin, Lorem Ipsum, Where’s Your Daddy?; Sachi Patil, Decaying: Conversations with Machines on Human Life; Lily Kong, I’m Fine; Matt Urpani, An Array of Constraints; Owen Lewis, Eating Ortolan in the Hammock of Reality; Klara Blazek, Self-Cities.
College: Central Saint Martins Level: Postgraduate
MA Graphic Communication Design
MA Graphic Communication Design brings critical depth and rigour to an increasingly noisy and disorienting visual landscape.
Latest from us
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Photo: Leonidas Liolios
BA Graphic Communication Design Stage 3 pop-up studio
Our final-year BA Graphic Communication Design students populated The Street at Central Saint Martins with explorations and enquires reflective of the critical thinking and ambitious work emerging from the year’s graduating class.
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Graphics designed by Dominic Kesterton
MA Communicating Complexity in conversation
MA Communicating Complexity in conversation is a podcast investigating how creative practice might respond to complex global challenges. How will future creative teams collaborate in the face of supercomplexity?
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Practice is (Still) Critical
MA Graphic Communication Design invites designers, artists, and researchers from a range of disciplines to reflect on the multiple meanings of 'practice' (at once a noun and a verb) and 'critical' (describing work that is both necessary and discerning).
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Central Saint Martins Shows: Graphic Communication Design
In the summer of 2023, we invited students, staff and visitors to celebrate and engage with the next generation of communicators, makers and doers.
Explore the breadth of our programme
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Central Saint Martins Shows: Graphic Communication Design | Photo: Max Colson
GCD.STUDIO
Explore a wide variety of student and staff activities on GCD.STUDIO, our online platform where we research, experiment, share, publish, exhibit, and collaborate.
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Irene Liakhovenko, HEAR THE VOICES OF THE FUTURE
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Want to stay in the loop about all things related to the Graphic Communication Design programme, such as exhibitions, graduate news and student projects? Subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates directly into your inbox.
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Sufyan Belhoche, We The People
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Explore the work of our students and graduates on Instagram, and stay updated with stories from the Graphic Communication Design programme.
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Ray Chong, Forecast
Follow us on X
Visit our profile on X to see how our staff and graduates are engaging with the creative industries.
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Pauline Cassier, I Met Them Mid-journey
Follow us on Threads
Stay updated with all our programme activities on Threads.
Get involved with us
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Remix: Activating the Archive
Work with us
The Graphic Communication Design programme welcomes collaborations with external organisations or individuals engaging with or concerned with the field of graphic communication design and the wider creative industries.
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Central Saint Martins Shows: Graphic Communication Design | Photo: Max Colson
Visiting us
Are you a visiting lecturer or practitioner joining our community? We offer you some practical guidelines and considerations so that you are able to effectively navigate our community.
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Photo: Alys Tomlinson
Using our studios
To ensure a positive experience for students, staff and visitors, we have established some regulations to ensure the safe and efficient use of our studio space.
Programme publications
More from us
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Sachi Patil, Decaying Conversations with Machines on Human Life
Engaging with climate, racial and social justice
The accelerating climate and ecological emergency is exposing the unsustainability and injustice of the political, social, and economic systems that have created them. Our programme community questions how graphic communication design practices can critique and intervene.
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Photo: Ana Blumenkron
Our anti-racism working group
Consisting of students and staff from throughout Central Saint Martins' Graphic Communication Design programme, our anti-racism working group coordinates activities within and beyond the programme, informs decision-making and holds staff implementing changes to account.
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Our staff
View a full list of the Graphic Communication Design programme’s staff team, spanning BA Graphic Communication Design, MA Graphic Communication Design, MA Communicating Complexity, and administrative staff.
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Central Saint Martins Shows: Graphic Communication Design | Photo: Max Colson
GCD recommends
GCD recommends is the Graphic Communication Design programme's opportunities and recommendations board, where we feature events, workshops, job opportunities, courses, freelance projects, internships, apprenticeships and competitions relevant to the field of graphic communication design.
Graphic Communication Design programme stories
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Paschal Candles with lettering by Phil Baines. Extol exhibition. Photo credit: Dayna Tohidi Extol: on a career in letters and finding your voice as a designer
Extol, a perspective on the craft and teaching of lettering and typography is now showing at the Lethaby Gallery. Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon, David Pearson and Kevin Carmody reflect on Phil's career and the meaning of letterforms.
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CSM Shows design by Fred Cochran, Kim Trainor, Tom Black, Benjamin Khan, Irene Liakhovenko and Dolores Swann. Photo: Colin Buttimer The chaotic joy of graduating
Welcome to CSM Shows 2023: a visual identity that embraces the chaotic energy and anticipation of graduation. We are excited to welcome visitors to our end of year shows with this buoyant graphic concept from Fred Cochran, Kim Trainor, Tom Black,
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Bringing the boing
The visual identity for Central Saint Martins' end-of-year show focuses on collective energy and joy. We speak to the BA Graphic Communication Design student team behind it.
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Paula Camiña Eiras, MA Biodesign Class of 2021: Plural
On the Graduate Showcase you'll find a collection of work by students who place collaboration at the centre of their creative practice. Here, we pause on three projects that rely on connection and codesign.