GRAPHICS, ILLUSTRATION & GAME ARTS: UAL LEVEL 3 EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN CREATIVE PRACTICE
Our stimulating pre-degree programme is delivered by our team of academics, technical demonstrators and invited experts who together deliver excellence in teaching. You’ll learn in a dedicated pre-degree campus, surrounded by creative inspiration and likeminded young people, all of whom are preparing for success in higher education and industry.
Jake Howell
Course Leader
<p>Jake is a creative practitioner with a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses drawing, illustration, printmaking and photography, and is the Course Leader for Extended Diploma Graphics, Illustration & Game Arts at Arts University Plymouth.</p>
<p>Since studying on the BA (Hons) Drawing and Applied Arts degree at the University of the West of England in 2011, he has continued to maintain an active studio practice, whilst developing personal projects.</p>
<p>Alongside his studio practice Jake completed a PGCE and now works as a part-time educator - Jake has lectured for BA Illustration, Animation, and Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at Arts University Plymouth, he currently teaches on the pre-degree graphic design and illustration programme.</p>
<p>Jake’s specialist interest is in traditional intaglio printmaking processes and in life drawing. Jake’s own work is characterised by monochromatic depictions of places of sanctuary both man-made and in the natural world. His passions include picture-book illustration, observational drawing methodologies and procedures, and drawing as a developmental process, its histories and context.</p>
Samantha Brown
Lecturer
<p dir="ltr">Sam Brown is a multidisciplinary designer, interested in how traditional materials and processes can enhance digital design. Initially working as a Graphic Designer she has now spent ten years working in further education. Sam has a BA (Hons) in Typography and recently completed an MA in Visual Communication from Arts University Plymouth. Her master's research questioned and re-imagined our interactions and experiences with time and place and proposed interactions with the digital world untethered from technological devices.</p>
<p>She has also worked as a designer/editor for the Arts University Plymouth SUB publication, a new academic journal featuring submissions from staff and MA student researchers. Sam has also worked as an editor for the 2019 Making Futures journal which features submissions from the international 2019 conference held at Arts University Plymouth.</p>