Monash University
Bachelor of Design
At Monash, we create the designers the world needs – inventive, purposeful and visionary.
Being a design professional is a creative and varied career with endless opportunities to work with different clients and projects and at Monash you will receive a design education that will enable you to make a sustainable difference and have impact.
You apply for the Bachelor of Design, and then choose your specialisation – Collaborative, Communication, Industrial or Spatial after first semester.
Our four specialisations build a high level of design expertise and you will graduate with a degree in your specialisation. All our design degrees are recognised by the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) and rooted in real world practices, much like our internship elective.
With no folio entrance requirement, this degree is open to anyone who is curious and passionate to make a difference and you will learn the technical capabilities and strategic skills to be a successful designer.
Through our interdisciplinary studio-based course you will gain the knowledge, skills and capability to create imaginative and effective solutions and design new possibilities.
You will be able to work across multiple scales from local to global design challenges. Our graduates are solving health problems, transportation issues, saving marine reefs and making the world more inclusive and liveable for everyone.
The Bachelor of Design is an integrated degree where all students have a common first semester, which includes a foundation studio and drawing unit. There is also a Theory of Design sequence of study and a professional practice unit in final semester to prepare you for your career.
The degree also includes electives in most semesters where you can choose from an extensive range of design subjects that develop and enhance the skills and capabilities of designers or an internship elective to build on the real-world skills you will learn within the degree. These include typography, animation, image making, computer aided design, advertising, 3D modelling, creative coding, mobility design, sensory design, digital font illustration, film and photography and many more. You can also venture into other areas of artistic practice like sculpture, painting, photography, or glass blowing, or you can go further afield with electives like a language or accounting, that are offered by other Monash faculties.
After the common first semester you select from the following specialisations:
Collaborative Design
Be the collaborative designer who works with other disciplines and communities to create solutions that only co-design can successfully generate.
Communication Design
Be the bold, imaginative communication designer who informs and motivates the world through creative media.
Industrial Design
Be the industrial designer who combines knowledge of manufacturing and human-centred design with innovation and aesthetics to create exceptional products.
Spatial Design
Be the spatial designer who designs experiences that set moods, communicate ideas and address social issues through the use of space, lighting, technology and form.
