UIC HGK Basel :: MDes Graphic Design Exhibition

Students graduating from the Basel Masters of Design program will exhibit their thesis projects on the campus of the School of Art and Design (HGK) of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) on September 15. 

Opening Reception

6:30pm
Friday, September 15

Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW
Freilager-Platz 1
Postfach, Basel

The international Masters of Design in Graphic Design UIC/HGK (MDes/MAS) is a collaboration of the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) and the FHNW/HGK Visual Communication Institute. It focuses on graphic designers, visual communication designers and media designers, with a bachelor's degree or an equivalent degree and professional design experience.

The MDes UIC/HGK addresses students who want to be part of an international program influenced by the tradition of Swiss Graphic Design and the current academic perspective and standards of the Visual Communication Institute, The Basel School of Design. Of special interest for students is the opportunity to graduate with an internationally accredited Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Graphic Design (UIC) and the Swiss equivalent, MAS in Graphic Design I, Iconicism and Graphic Design II, Mediality. Students are matriculated and registered at UIC with classes being held at the FHNW/HGK Visual Communication Institute in Basel.

Graphic Design, Visual Communication and Media Design, give visual form to messages that become a part of our everyday lives. Although these disciplines contribute to the much discussed "image flood" in today’s societies, we find implicit knowledge about the meaning of images, the process of creating them and their media references of extreme importance. It is on this central theme that the MFA and the MAS Graphic Design I, II is focused. Therefore, the goal of the program is the deepening of process-oriented design skills through project oriented design work with enhanced analytical competence in image theory and the media sciences.

Image: Pedro Neves, MDes Thesis 2018, Scripting Typography 

More information about the MFA in Graphic Design delivered in Basel.