About the Show
The Exhibition
The University of Wolverhampton Graphic Design Degree Show celebrates three years of creative exploration, skill development, and innovative thinking. Our graduating students showcase diverse practices across branding, editorial, digital, and experimental design.
The 2026 Cohort
This year’s cohort brings together seventeen designers with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and creative approaches. From sustainable brand identities to experimental editorial layouts, from kinetic typography to user-centered digital experiences, their work showcases the breadth and depth of contemporary graphic design practice.
Meet the 2026 Cohort
Seventeen designers. Diverse perspectives. One graduating class.
Projects
A curated list of our designers work by project.
Nikolai Mykola Gogol State University Re-brand
A refreshed visual identity for Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, blending its 220‑year academic heritage with a contemporary, internationally focused brand system for print and digital use.
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Visual Thesis Design
A visual reinterpretation of the written thesis, translating key ideas into a designed outcome such as an editorial piece, campaign, or narrative format that communicates the research to a wider audience.
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GF Smith Zine Poster Competition
A poster‑zine created around an assigned Colorplan shade, using colour, tactility, and layout to celebrate the enduring role of paper in contemporary visual communication.
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Pigeon Magazine
An 8–16 page lifestyle magazine on creative industries in Wolverhampton and the Black Country, art‑directed and produced in a collaborative team to showcase local practitioners with a cohesive house style.
Agency DRPG
A live brief with creative agency DRPG, documenting an industry designer’s talk and responding to a sensitive communication challenge through considered, non‑judgmental design outcomes.
Olympic Stamp Project
A constrained brief to design a set of four UK postage stamps for the 2026 Winter Olympics, incorporating the Olympic symbol, the King’s head and clear pricing within an original, cohesive visual concept.
Wolverhampton Green Innovation Corridor Branding
A self-directed branding brief to develop a fully realized world—brand, narrative, organisation, products and collateral—derived from a randomly assigned nursery rhyme, with outcomes clearly grounded in a defined area of design practice and demonstrably informed by the source text.
Nursery Rhyme Project
A self-directed branding brief to develop a fully realized world—brand, narrative, organisation, products and collateral—derived from a randomly assigned nursery rhyme, with outcomes clearly grounded in a defined area of design practice and demonstrably informed by the source text.
Negotiated Project
A self‑directed design module structured around approximately 50 hours of practice‑led work, aligning competition, client or self‑initiated briefs with a visual thesis to deepen specialist expertise and portfolio‑ready outcomes.
Other Projects
Project Image 1: Post Graduate Guide Competition