Means of communication permeate and characterise our everyday lives more than ever before. They determine our behaviour and our society. In a world in which information is available at all times and in overwhelming quantities, the requirements for its design and communication have changed drastically. But what content deserves our attention - and how can we scrutinise why we focus on it in the first place? What added value does it offer to make information accessible in a certain way? Is it just about efficiency in the sense of consumption, or about conveying content with emotion and depth?
Communication design is much more than the mere depiction of content. It is a dynamic process that can make essential contributions to society, culture and science through communication and interpretation. It requires not only an intensive examination of one's own discipline, its methods and tools, but also an interest in experimentation, the desire to discover new things and a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue.
One of the central tasks of studying communication design is to develop a common language that enables us to describe the past and present, to imagine the future, to talk about it, to think about it and ultimately to actively help shape it.
The project-based degree programme opens up a wide range of opportunities for specialisation: The focus on photography, illustration, information design, intermedia design as well as type and typography enables students to discover, develop and test their own fields of work, both in interdisciplinary interaction and in specialisation.
In the first four semesters of the foundation course, the focus is on learning technical and design skills, while the main course focuses on developing an independent creative, artistic and content-related position.
