Global street art

I came across an article in Easyjet's Traveller magazine which was about a street art photographer called Lee Bofkin. It told an interesting story of how he went from taking pictures of street art for a hobby whilst travelling with his part time break dance crew, to being made redundant from his full time job, to visually documenting over 50,000 images on his website globalstreetart.com.

You can see a wide range of different types of street art from sculptures to vehicle work.

These are few that I like.

My progression goals.

I am still unsure on what I am going to do when I finish this course. Ultimately I want to work in designing album artwork/ posters and sell my work. I know that I'm going to have to go to university to get the qualifications to be employable to graphic design companies to earn a descent wage and to build a bigger portfolio for myself. I am into illustration, photography and typography so I will try to find a university which specifies in these areas or a course that will be most beneficial for me. 

I would prefer to go to a university which is not too far away from home so that I can travel back regularly and my friends and family can visit me. I really like London which I know well and find inspiring and a good place for me to see different architecture, type and people which is the basis for my ideas.

To get into a university or employment I will have to focus in this final year and get the grades that puts me in a comfortable position to confidently apply for these. 

I've looked on the UCAS website and searched for illustration courses to see what universities could be an option for me. 

http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/EX0Eb93-AmzD-6rfanjnSH4hTJzf_-4p_u/HAHTpage/search.HsKeywordSuggestion.whereNext?query=2779&word=GENERAL+ILLUSTRATION&single=N

Anglia Ruskin University offers a 3 year full time degree. I must apply by Jan 15th 2013

Course Requirements.

http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/EX0Eb93-AmzD-6rfanjnSH4hTJzf_-4p_u/HAHTpage/search.HsEntryReq.run?n=1124788#CSRA

http://search.anglia.ac.uk/search?entqr=3&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&num=10&filter=0&getfields=location.attendance.start-note.title.final&client=advanced_course_search&proxystylesheet=advanced_course_search&q=illustration&site=Prospectuses-all

London Metropolitan Uni offer a 3 year full time course.

Course info:

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ug-prospectus/courses-13-14/illustration.cfm