7 Degrees you can study if you are creative and technical

We offer a range of courses that strike the perfect balance between technical skills and creative flair. Whether you're building virtual worlds, designing products, composing soundscapes or shaping the built environment, we can give you the tools to bring your ideas to life. Find out more about the courses will suit you if you are both creative and technical.

1. Game Design

The games industry is multi-faceted and ever-growing. There are many areas you can work in, and the course is a perfect mix of creativity and technicality, offering the perfect platform to turn your vision into reality. You’ll learn the art of crafting engaging game narratives, mechanics, and world-building in a creative and supportive environment.

Not only do you create games from idea conceptualisation, but you will also make them come to life through the use of our top-tier design studios, ensuring you learn with the most advanced tools in the industry.

Creative focus: Narrative, visual design, gameplay mechanics
Technical focus: Game engines, scripting, systems design

2. Digital Animation

The Digital Animation course teaches you how to turn static images into dynamic visual stories. Whether you're passionate about 2D or 3D animation, character rigging or visual effects, you’ll develop the artistic and technical skills used by professionals in film, TV and games.

Creative focus: Storyboarding, character development, visual storytelling
Technical focus: Maya, Blender, motion capture, rendering 

3. Architecture

Studying Architecture means learning to combine artistic vision with structural expertise. From hand-drawn concepts to digital blueprints, you'll explore how to design spaces that are not only beautiful, but also functional and sustainable. You’ll also use professional tools like CAD while working on live briefs and real-world projects.

Creative focus: Conceptual design, visual communication, model-making
Technical focus: Structural understanding, digital modelling, sustainable systems

4. Music Technology

For those who have a passion for music but also love technology, Music Technology is the perfect combination of sound meeting science. You’ll explore everything from studio production to live sound engineering and experimental audio design. Learn to record, edit and produce using top industry gear and software, all while understanding the science of sound.

Creative focus: Composition, sound design, mixing
Technical focus: Acoustics, audio hardware, DAWs (like Logic, Pro Tools)

5. Product Design 

Our Product Design course equips you with everything needed to design items from consumer electronics to furniture and sustainable packaging. You’ll learn how to bring concepts to life through sketches, 3D modelling and physical prototyping — balancing creativity with practical usability.

Students have gone on to create a range of products, including a fidget chair designed for those with sensory issues.

Creative focus: Concept development, aesthetics, branding
Technical focus: CAD, rapid prototyping, materials science

6. Artificial Intelligence

Want to shape the future with intelligent systems? Our AI course is ideal for those who are both analytical and imaginative. You’ll dive into AI and machine learning while developing your own creative applications — from smart assistants to interactive tools. It offers a stimulating mix of technical sophistication and design thinking.

Creative focus: Human‑computer interaction, project design, ethics and societal impact
Technical focus: In-depth training in generative AI, NLP (natural language processing), computer vision, cloud deployment

7. Fashion Design and Textile Design

Fashion is so much more than fabric, it’s about making statements, solving problems and setting trends. Our Fashion and Textile courses let you explore surface pattern, garment construction and textile experimentation while incorporating digital tools like CLO 3D and laser cutting. Sustainability and future-forward thinking are woven throughout. 

Find out which course is best for you out of the two by looking at the differences.

Creative focus: Illustration, textile art, garment design
Technical focus: Digital fashion, materials tech, industry software

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