After graduating from QCA You will be qualified for a career in your specialised study area or in combination with other areas. The visual arts sector is expanding exponentially and opportunities for involvement in the wider cultural sector are increasingly exciting. Our design graduates have an enviable record of career success as professional artists.
Artwork by Anna Carey
Career opportunities in design and digital media
The Bachelor of Digital Media and our Design programs are broad-spectrum and our graduates have a wide range of skills and career outcomes.
Career opportunities for visual communication design graduates include:
- print and corporate design
- publishing and packaging
- branding
- advertising and marketing
- television and digital media.
Career opportunities for interior design graduates include:
- retail, hospitality, domestic and commercial sectors,
- events, exhibitions and trade shows,
- film and television modelling and set design
Interior design graduate will have the skills to work in any environment or space which requires people with a highly developed understanding of aesthetics, safety, sustainability and functionality in the design and development of interior spaces and fittings.
Career opportunities for product design graduates include:
- design, production and manufacturing sectors;
- consumer and medical products,
- specialist industry furniture,
- lighting fixtures,
- packaging,
- exhibition and trade show display systems,
- signage
- environmental graphics.
Career opportunities for design futures graduates include:
- strategic design
- design management
- design journalism
- design event management and design curating
- cultural planning
- design, innovation and manufacture
- creative industries
- visual communication design
- digital design, publishing and broadcasting
- e-commerce
- branding and advertising
- product, interior and furniture design
Design Futures is a serious and exciting new elective major that will allow high performing students to potentially redirect, challenge and rethink traditional design procedures within their design major, to re-educate both industry
and consumer models of the future.
Career opportunities for 3D design graduates include:
- Furniture Design
- Exhibition and Trade Show Design
- Lighting Design
- Environmental Space Design
- Signage Systems Design
- Product Design
- Packaging Design
- Set Design.
Career opportunities for digital design graduates include:
- Animation
- Video Editing and Production
- Camera Operator
- Post-Production
- Special Effects
- Directing
- 3D Modelling
- Web Design
- Games Production
- Motion Capture.
Career opportunities for ePhotojournalism graduates include:
- Photojournalist
- Multimedia storyteller
- Documentary Photographer
- Picture Editor
- Online journalist
- Online/Multimedia Producer
Career opportunities for fine art graduates include:
- Public art
- Installations
- Gallery artist
- Curator
- Arts educator
- Arts management
Career opportunities for graphic design graduates include:
- Graphic Design
- Advertising
- Packaging Design
- Illustration
- Book and Magazine Publishing
- Online Publishing
- Branding
- Web Design
- Interactive Design
- Print Design
- Signage Systems
- Typographer
- Finished Artist
- Desktop Publishing.
Images:
- QCA Gold Coast graduate Jay Woods secured a position with Billabong. Photo by Amelia Lewis
- QCA Gold Coast graduate Georgina Wilks secured a position with Worldwide Printing. Photo by Amelia Lewis
- QCA Gold Coast graduates Krystie Sergeant and Ben Marks both found employment with Unit after completing the Bachelor of Digital Media.
- QCA Gold Coast graduate Jenna Moir secured a position with Sanctuary Cove magazine