09 Sep 2019

If you're looking for a job that's out of the box and requires the right side of your brain, you may want to suss out a Bachelor of Design Arts. Forget your regular 9-5 job at a desk in a grey suit. These days, more and more creative careers are needing to be filled and you could be the perfect person for the job.

1. Children’s book illustrator

Some find it hard to recall the story in classic children's books like 'The Rainbow Fish', 'Possum Magic' and 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' but they can vividly remember falling in love with the illustrations. A Design Arts degree with a choice of majors like Visual Arts and Graphic & Digital Design would allow your inner kid imagination to shine through by creating wild and wacky picture books for the next generation of kids. 

2. Typographer

Are you one of those people that spends more time choosing the perfect font for your title rather than the actual assessment? Are you a whiz at different handwriting? Does Comic Sans make you burn with fury? A typographer essentially designs, chooses and arranges fonts and a Design Arts degree, majoring in graphic and digital design will give you the power to create the next Helvetica. 

3. Interior stylists for Airbnb

If feng shui is basically your middle name and your Pinterest boards are drowning in room design inspo, a bachelor of Design Arts with a major in Interior Design may just be calling your name. You can stop redoing your room again and again to let free the interior designer inside you and design an array of different Airbnb's instead, creating homely, relaxed and funky vibes.

4.  TV costume designer

If you rate a movie or TV show based on the fashion and costume choices that reflect the tone, time and characters wearing them, majoring in fashion and costume design in a Design Arts course is probably perfect for you. Embrace your love for clothing as a form of expression and work with eccentric creatives to make a story come to life!

5. Film Animator

If the world of images, drawings, puppets, illusions and models tickles your fancy and you have a creative and mechanical mind, you would probably love film animation. A bachelor in Design Arts, majoring in either Graphic and Digital Design or filmmaking and photography will allow you to get a job in this wild industry in which you can play around with different mediums, such as digital or hand-drawn pictures, models or puppets.

6. Surfboard Designer

Screw cheap imports that aren't made for local waves. Take matters in your own hands and create surfboards by shaping, sealing and designing them yourself. Take whatever you found wrong with old boards you've shredded on in the past to revolutionise surfboards and go wild with the design art if you want. Cowabunga.

7. Activewear designer

Activewear isn't just clothing to wear to the gym. The comfort and flattering style allow wearers to live in their tights, jumpers, and joggers. Like seriously, these days, who actually wants to wear real clothes?? By majoring in Fashion and Costume Design in a Design Arts degree you'll learn how to design, construct and manufacture the activewear to either work out in or, most likely just wear to lounge around the house.

If any of these jobs sound like your thing, then you need to check out LCI Melbourne’s Bachelor of Design Arts. It’s a three-year course which you can apply for without an ATAR, that will build on your artistic skills and help you land a job. You can major in a range of areas like Visual Arts, Graphic Design, Communication Design, Interior Design or Fashion & Costume. Suss out more details over here.