Informationsdesign
Department of Media & Design

Information Design

 

Our students help us navigate our environment, design communication processes and present analogue and digital information in a visual form. Give your inventiveness free rein and leave your mark on the world.

What you will learn:

Conveying information graphically

Design for all

3D modelling

Usability

Making a documentary film

Creating exhibition concepts

Did you know, …

… that we regularly invite prominent designers to lectures and workshops?

We’ve already had Stefan Sagmeister visit us, for example.

Did you know, …

… that students work together a great deal with external institutions such as Creative Industries Styria, the Designmonat design festival and the city of Graz as UNESCO City of Design?

Did you know, …

… that the career opportunities in Austria are good but even better abroad?

Our graduates work, for example, in leading agencies, operate in the media sector and also set up their own businesses.

Did you know, …

… that you can spend a semester abroad at one of our 27 partner universities?

These include countries such as Belgium, Germany, China, Finland, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Cyprus and also Switzerland, Slovakia and Turkey.

Did you know, …

… that you can also do your compulsory work placement abroad?

In addition to or instead of the semester studying abroad, you can also do your compulsory work placement outside Austria. Destinations range from Munich to Haiti.

Find out more about the degree programme

Admissions

Before you start your degree programme you have to apply and go through the admissions procedure. Here you can read up on this and find the most important dates and deadlines.

My Studies

Here you can find everything you need to know about the course: course content, student and research projects, the semester and internship abroad, and the teaching staff.

After Graduation

Many different occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you as a graduate of our degree programme. Find out here what you can do.
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New promotional videos for the Institute Design...

Two students of the Institute Design & Communication were asked to get creative and realize some short incentive films about what potential students will...
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Forward Festival 2019 | Creativity, Design &...

A festival for creativity, design and communication with a lot of great international speakers.
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What design can do

"What Design can do" is an international festival focussing on topics like humanizing immigrants, the resilient city, creating cultural identity and design...
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Graduate Lectures Days

On 11th and 12th of June, graduates of the Institute of Design and Communication were invited to share some of their impressions with our current students. In...
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Visiting the Mexican Design Stronghold Puebla

Karl Stocker and Sigrid Bürstmayr visited Puebla UNESCO City of design and several Partner Universities in Mexico for Lectures, Workshops ad Discussions about...
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RAMS – film premiere hosted by David Jablonski

In December 2018, Information Design student David Jablonski organised a screening of Gary Hustwit’s documentary “Rams“ about the designer Dieter Rams in...
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Design Month Lectures “COMMON! Design for...

International lecturer spoke at this years design month lectures “COMMON! Design for Society“, about current issues in media and technology in the context...
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The new design magazine Dotter

Dotter is the name of the new magazine made by Information Design students of the FH JOANNEUM. A magazine driven by the desire to understand, to learn and to...
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All Bachelor’s degree programmes offering...

Would you like to start your studies at FH JOANNEUM in autumn 2019? We offer over 20 Bachelor's degree programmes for which you can still apply until 27 May...
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New publication “Contrast meets creativity”...

On Friday, the 11th of January 2019 Daniel Stuhlpfarrer, alumnus of the Bachelor´s Program Information Design, presented his book “Constrast meets...
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Lecture Days: Design and Protest

This year’s series of lectures of the Department of Design and Communication of FH JOANNEUM brings speakers, among others from Bratislava, Detroit, New York...
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Open House 2020: FH JOANNEUM Graz

Find out what it is like to study at FH JOANNEUM in Graz by attending our Open House event on 14 March 2020. We look forward to welcoming you!

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Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale

Between 2014 and 2018 experiments were conducted investigating ways in which people could reinvent and share in shaping their city. As an applied research...
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GREAT

GREAT – Game-based Research in Education and Action Training is a two year project co-financed by the European Commission under the Leonardo da Vinci...
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Green Games in Tourism and Hospitality

The Green Games in Tourism / Hospitality project aims to innovate and support improvements in VET systems and practices by developing a digital “serious”...
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JamToday

JamToday supports the creation, implementation and deployment of educational games by creating methods and tools and by providing a central learning hub for...
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VisionSpace

The VisionSpace at FH JOANNEUM is a research and development platform in the fields of perception, visualization, virtual- and augmented reality, interaction...

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