BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Amy Pike is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Arts University Plymouth, where she also teaches on the MA Visual Communication programme. Driven by a passion for typography, visual language, and play, Amy blends high-level industry experience with academic leadership and ongoing creative research. Amy began her career in 2016 in the sports industry as a graphic designer for the Exeter Chiefs rugby club and Sandy Park Stadium. While at the Chiefs, she led rebranding efforts for parts of Sandy Park stadium, developed a new visual brand for the 2019/20 season, and created artwork for England Rugby and the city of Exeter. Her work was showcased to audiences of over 250,000 people through features on BT Sport, alongside valuable collaborations with major brands like Red Bull. Alongside her teaching, she operates Setter, a typeface design studio and research practice, and The Play Method, an initiative bringing adults together through hands-on, play-led creative workshops. Amy’s research practice investigates the intersection of play theory, visual systems, and cultural history. A key strand of her work examines the historical epigraph systems of the Maghreb region, drawing on her own ancestry to explore how non-Western letterforms, stone-carved inscriptions, and historical language structures can inform contemporary typography, visual communication, and creative inquiry.

As a practicing graphic designer and founder of Studio Auto, Matt Thame has consistently reinvented and modified his output, resulting in a body of work that is both extensive and incredibly diverse. Matt has built an international reputation for striking design work for the music industry, with a prolific output for many major record labels. His work on album covers for labels such as Strut Records & Universal is particularly renowned. Studio Auto continues to broaden its client base to include current arts organisations, corporate identities and independent artists. Matt works in a multi-disciplinary style incorporating illustration, photography and typography in a flexible and individual approach to each project. As a tutor at Arts University Plymouth, Matt enjoys sharing ideas, encouraging potential, expanding skills and communication, drawing on his own experiences as a working designer to complement and enhance the students discovery into the demanding standards that are required of a contemporary graphic designer, in presentation, creative process, conceptualization and art direction.

Sue Lewry began her creative career in London’s fashion industry, working for over 15 years as a graphic designer and art director specialising in editorial and catalogue design. Her growing interest in hands-on making and print led her to complete a Master’s in Printmaking at Arts University Plymouth, where she received the Principal’s Commendation Award for her practice-led research. Sue is based at Grow Plymouth, a community of artists and creative practitioners in Plymouth’s Cultural Quarter. Her work moves between graphic design, screen printing, collage and collaborative making. Alongside her creative practice, she lectures on BA (Hons) Graphic Design, tutors on the Master’s in Design Communication and is an early-career researcher at AUP. As an educator, Sue brings together her design industry experience with the curiosity and experimentation of her creative practice. She creates an open and supportive environment where making and experimentation help students think critically, build confidence in their ideas and develop greater creative independence. Central to Sue’s work is Colossal, her mobile screen-printing studio and experimental platform. Colossal takes screen printing out of the traditional studio and into public and unexpected spaces, bringing together design, participation and live printmaking.Find more out about Sue's work here: www.suelewry.com & www.colossalprint.uk Insta @suelewry & @colossal.print