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The UdK Berlin Medienhaus: A house of opportunities. The building at Kleistpark is home to the UdK Berlin’s institutes that focus on cross-media design and time-based media.

Visual communication permeates all areas of our life. Our wide range of courses follows this understanding. It offers space for methods, experiments, insights, deepening and virtuosity.

Information on the courses of the Visual Communication programme in the Sommersemester 2023

In the “Basics of Design” module, students in the 1st and 2nd semester get to know the terms and elements of visual communication. You will be introduced to the design processes and learn to develop your own design methods.

Visual communication - The chair of Prof. Fons M. Hickmann sees itself as a continuous, cross-semester project with the programmatic title "Graphic design with all media".

Anyone who wants to illustrate books magazines, graphic novels, comics, posters or even animated films, learn traditional and new graphic techniques, in short: anyone who wants to experiment with drawing as a medium studies illustration.

Information design makes complex information easier to understand and easier to use. Today and tomorrow, this is a key competence for shaping the world in which we live and for better understanding between people.

The New Media Class takes a critical look at the new media in the context of art, design and research.

To engage in history and theory of visual culture means to analyse the obvious.

The „Moving Image“ class explores practices of film and animation to develop artistic design works in time and space.

The class explores experimental artistic methodologies in the design of spaces of communication in various scales and contexts: exhibition, urban space and landscape.

The Campaigns class is about ideas. Ideas for campaigns that should make a difference, that deal with people and society.

The laboratories and workshops of the Visual Communication program at a glance.

Information about international academic exchange for students, teachers and employees of the UdK Berlin, as well as information for international applicants applying for a Bachelor or Masters programme at the UdK Berlin.

We offer advice, help and support to students, applicants, parents and others, on all questions regarding the application process and the studies.

Get to know the teaching staff from the Visual Communication program.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Please see the following page for contact information.

Information on the currently elected committees of the ITG and VK