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Push Your Creativity to Unimaginable Limits

Students learn every aspect of graphic design, from the basics in areas like color, illustration, and image manipulation, to hands-on experience in product packaging, art direction, and branding. Students learn from industry-professionals and gain a deep understanding of rigorous, current industry requirements and latest trends.


Jump start your career and begin your creative future in graphic design

Studying Graphic Design at LaSalle College Vancouver will allow you walk away at graduation with designs that not only shine with creativity but also meet the most rigorous industry requirements. As a graduate, you will work with professional technology, including image manipulation software and computer-aided design, then progress to art direction and strategies for designing a product, service, or message.

Financing Your Education

LCV has a team in our Student Financial Services department to guide you through financing your education to invest in your future. There are many different types of financial aid for you to explore:

  • Government Student Loans
  • Canada Student Grants
  • Financial institutions
  • Lifelong Learning Plans (LLP)
  • Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
  • Scholarships and Bursaries

LaSalle College Vancouver has several scholarships that you can apply for. We award over $600,000 annually to students who qualify.

  • Talent Scholarship
  • Indigenous Scholarship
  • Academic Excellence Award
  • Athletic Scholarship
  • Entrance Scholarship
  • Travel Bursary


Our Programs
Program Overview

LaSalle College Vancouver’s Bachelor of Applied Design in Graphic Design prepares students for a creatively fulfilling and rewarding career as visual storytellers. The program explores the increasingly vital relationship between design and sustainable principles. As environmental demands escalate and take centre focus in educational and political discourse, there is a growing need for designers who can provide solutions while creating sustainable, eco-conscious designs. This academic program aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge of design and sustainable fundamentals, as well as an understanding of core values, emerging trends and discipline challenges.

Professional Profile

Graphic Design students can go on to become

  • A graphic designer/producer
  • A motion graphics designer
  • A digital application designer
  • A multimedia designer
  • A web designer
  • A didactic material designer
  • A specialty/contract designer

Industries where new graphic designers can start their careers

  • Advertising and Marketing agencies
  • Design studios
  • Interactive Media/Web Design firms
  • Television/Animation films studios
  • Corporate Communications department
  • Freelance (medical field, restaurant, retail, etc.)

Credentials

Bachelor's Degree

Program duration

  • The Bachelor program consists of 180 credits over 12 quarters.

Program Overview

If you are ready to go all-in and make a carrer out of it, our Graphic Design diploma program is the place to start! The program at LaSalle College Vancouver is designed to prepare students with the fundamentals of design, typography, illustration and production procedures in creative communication projects. You will be surrounded and inspired by other creatively driven students, and you will be pushed, challenged and, above all, supported by experienced faculty who also work on the field.

Professional Profile

Graphic Design students can go on to become

  • A graphic designer/producer
  • A motion graphics designer
  • A digital application designer
  • A multimedia designer
  • A web designer
  • A didactic material designer
  • A specialty/contract designer

Industries where new graphic designers can start their careers

  • Advertising and Marketing agencies
  • Design studios
  • Interactive Media/Web Design firms
  • Television/Animation films studios
  • Corporate Communications department
  • Freelance (medical field, restaurant, retail, etc.)

Credentials

Diploma

Program duration

  • The Diploma program consists of 90 credits over 6 quarters.

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