B.F.A. in Digital Design
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Description
If you are a creative person with an artistic spirit and an interest in technology, design and advertising communication, a Degree in Digital Design is a great fit for your future!
Become a designer capable of designing and developing all the digital content necessary for the correct positioning and transmission of a company’s brand image, products and marketing campaigns appropriate for the current technological and digital environment.
Master the basics of Graphic Design, Art Direction, Motion Graphics, Digital Art, Web Design, and UX/UI Design. Learn through practical projects and, on completion of your degree, you will have a professional digital portfolio, the ideal business card to work at the best companies in the design field.
Study at the U-tad, a leader training those with the profiles demanded by the digital content industry. You will learn from excellent professionals who will share their vision, trends and projects with you.
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Career opportunities
With a Degree in Digital Design, you will be able to work as:
- Art Director
- Interface Designer
- User Experience Designer
- App designer and developer
- Web and Layout Designer
- Motion grapher
- Audiovisual Editor
- Digital Artist
- Graphic Designer
- Digital Illustrator
- Infographics designer for TV, periodicals or signage
- Content Editor
- Digital publication designer
- Interactive Artist
- Brand digital development
- Advertising Designer
- Video mapper
- Multimedia Art Director
- Creative&innovación
- UX Researcher
- Creative Project Manager
Where our students work
Our courses are developed by Industrial Committees, formed by the most relevant Design companies in our country, which guarantees that our curricula are constantly up-to-date with the current needs of the industry, and that they seek our students’ talent to lead their most innovative projects.
Partner companies
Students' projects and awards
Your Project: your best letter of recommendation
Throughout the degree, you will learn to develop projects and you will build a complete portfolio or reel, which is not only a very practical and useful way to learn, but will also act as the best letter of reference for your training and knowledge when it comes to choosing a career.
Talent Awards
U-tad students have received more than 70 awards in national and international competitions in the last three years, which attests to the capacity and quality of our students’ education. Our students have achieved important awards such as a Bronze in the prestigious ADG Laus Awards and the ‘Best Digital Design Project’ at the Ibero-American Design Biennial, both in 2021.
Students' feedback
We are very proud of our students because they stand out. The training and talent they’ve developed at at U-tad provides them with solid knowledge to pursue their professional career in industries with a strong demand for professionals.
International mobility
Through U-tad´s International Relations Department you will be able to spend a semester or a year abroad at any of the universities all over the world through our student exchange and mobility agreements. We have wide array of agreements with prestigious universities in five continents and we are working to expand the number of partner institutions with exchange agreements either within the Erasmus program or with bilateral exchange agreements.
Agreements with leading Universities such as:
- School of Visual Arts (Nueva York)
- Istituto Europeo di Design (Milán)
- Haute École Albert Jacquard (Namur)
- Vilnius Academy of Arts (Vilna)
- Bezalel University (Jersusalén)
Facutly
Sergio Jiménez Sánchez
- Typography, Graphic Composition, Illustration, Graphic Design, Graphic Design teacher
- Illustrator and designer
Cristina Rodríguez Ibáñez
- Creativity, Art Direction and Digital Strategist teacher
- Digital Art Director at Zama Comunicación
Study Plan
| SUBJECT | ECTS | TYPE | DURATION |
| Drawing, Analysis and Ideation I | 6 | B | 1st semester |
| History of Art | 3 | OB | |
| History of Design and Iconography | 6 | B | |
| Geometric Representation Systems | 6 | B | |
| Digital Image Processing | 6 | OB | |
| Graphic Composition | 6 | B | 2nd semester |
| Drawing, Analysis and Ideation II | 6 | B | |
| Fundamentals of Aesthetics and Image Analysis | 3 | OB | |
| Color and Light Theory | 6 | B | |
| Typography and Calligraphy | 6 | B | |
| Creative Thinking | 6 | B | Annual |
Graphic legend: Basic Training (B) | Compulsory (OB) | Electives (OP) | Compulsory Minor Subject (OBM) | External Internships (PE) | Final Degree Project (TFG)
| SUBJECT | ECTS | Tipo | Duración |
| Art Direction and Advertising Communication I | 6 | OB | 1sd semester |
| Sculpture | 3 | OB | |
| Photography | 6 | B | |
| Illustration | 6 | B | |
| Infographics and Data Visualization | 3 | OB | |
| Audiovisual Narrative | 6 | OB | |
| Art Direction and Advertising Communication II | 6 | OB | 2nd semester |
| Digital editing and postproduction | 6 | OB | |
| Fundamentals of 3D Environments | 3 | OB | |
| History of Electronic and Digital Art | 3 | OB | |
| Motion Graphics I | 6 | OB | |
| Business and Digital Models | 3 | OB | |
| Projects I (digital image) | 3 | OB |
| SUBJECT | ECTS | Tipo | Duración |
| Interface Design and Usability I | 6 | OB | 1st semester |
| 3D Environments I | 6 | OB | |
| Motion Graphics II | 6 | OB | |
| Programming for Art and Design | 6 | OB | |
| Projects II (Brand image development) | 6 | OB | |
| 3D Environments II | 3 | OB | 2nd semester |
| Web layout and structure/ APP I | 6 | OB | |
| Projects III (Creation of a Motion Graphics Project) | 6 | OB | |
| Interactive Systems | 6 | OB | |
| Digital Society | 3 | OB | |
| Editorial Design | 6 | OP | |
| Character Design | 6 | OP | |
| Technological Projects | 6 | OP |
| SUBJECT | ECTS | Tipo | Duración |
| Business creation and management | 3 | OB | 1st semester |
| Digitization and materialization | 6 | OB | |
| Interface Design and Usability I | 6 | OB | |
| Internships in companies | 12 | PE | Annual |
| Project IV | 12 | OB | |
| Final Degree Project | 6 | TFG | |
| Web layout and structure/ APP II | 6 | OB | 2nd semester |
| Online Marketing | 3 | OB | |
| 3D Animation | 6 | OP | |
| Packaging Design | 6 | OP | |
| Interactive TV Environments | 6 | OP |
- Location: U-tad Campus
- Hours: Monday - Friday
- ECTS: 240
- Language: Spanish
- Modality: In campus / online
- Center Affiliated to: Camilo José Cela University
- Year of implementation: 2018-2019
- Year of implementation: 60
- Branch of knowledge: Humanities
Minimum number of ECTS per type of registration and course:
| Minimum | Maximum | |
| Full time 1st course | 60 | 60 |
| Full time rest of courses | 30 | 75 |
| Part-time 1st course | 25 | 30 |
| Part-time rest of courses | 18 | 45 |