Bringing your vision to life
Curriculum | Illustration
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Key facts BA Illustration
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Admission Requirements
Here are some things you will require for your application at the UE:
- Completed admission form
- Transcript & language proficiency
- CV & Copy of passport
- a portfolio is required
Semesters & Credits
- 6 semesters
- 180 ECTS (Credits)
- Teaching language: English
- Examination and Study Regulation
The programme starts in both the winter and summer terms.
Valeriya gives an insight into studying illustration and why she chose UE.
Fees
- EU applicants standard: € 744 monthly
- Non-EU applicants standard: € 12,700 yearly
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Illustration and career options at a glance
In our Illustration programme, you’ll explore drawing as both a foundational skill and a cultural tool for communication and idea generation. Guided by internationally recognised artists and illustrators, you’ll master a blend of traditional and digital techniques in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Whether creating narratives for books, films, comics, or storyboards, you’ll develop your own visual language and experimental approaches.
With a focus on practical experience, including internships and a semester abroad, our programme adapts to the evolving demands of digital media while emphasising the enduring importance of drawing as a technical foundation and cultural practice.
Illustrators see themselves as artistic partners of editorial offices, advertising agencies, design offices, publishing houses, museums, and game and film productions. They are not only in demand as service providers but also contribute their ideas, experience and creative attitude in an advisory capacity. They usually work as freelancers. The language of images is universal – that’s why the world is open to illustrators.
Depending on specialisation and inclination, the range of tasks ranges from children’s book illustrations, from magazine pages to advertising campaigns, infographics to scientific illustration, and from packaging design to concept art for computer games. Especially in comics, graphic novels, animation films and other, artistically freer projects, illustrators appear as independent authors.
Industry Collaborations: Building Bridges to Success
Inspiring Creativity: Student Projects Showcase
Last semester, the UE students from the illustration department developed illustrations in collaboration with Berliner Logobecher GmbH, on the theme of ‘Extinction and Species Conservation’.
These illustrations will be printed on fully compostable and recyclable paper cups and alongside each illustration, there will be information printed about the cooperation with UE.
Professor Hans Baltzer, Illustration Head of Programme at UE’s Berlin campus, said: “For our students, it’s special to see their illustrations on the cups and ultimately to hold their own works in their hands. At UE, it’s our goal to bring art and business together – in this case, through collaboration with Logobecher GmbH – and to show what it feels like to take the first step into professional life.”
These cups are also unique because the Berlin-based company developed the process of creating them.
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