Forging ahead from previous years, the Design branch of the AV & Graphic Design team has served as an essential link between the University’s academic and administrative achievements and the public. A large combination of digital assets for UM webpages, formatting of academic journals, marketing campaign materials and day-to-day deliverables, defined another successful year of design output.
In addition, March 2025 was characterised by a 6-week gap between the departure of a graphic designer and the introduction of a new staff member in that same position in mid-May. This necessitated a speedy introduction to the design procedures, which, despite the continuous flow of new requests during that gap, yielded no major conflicts or delays with pending or work-in-process assignments. This is a testament to both our team’s capabilities and the overall workflow, which manages a steady and calculated input that is proportional to the workload and speed of output.
From October 2024 to September 2025, a total of 801 design assignments were tackled and completed.
As referred to above, the work is highly varied, ranging from physical signage to complex digital campaign assets. The substantial amount of work consists of the creation of visuals for marketing and promotional materials, including assets for Newspoint and Social Media. The rest of the assignments are divided between the creation, editing and formatting of , academic journals, official documents and signage, which, given their nature, require longer planning and design timeframes (ranging from days to weeks for a single assignment or project).
Despite handling tens of requests on a weekly basis, the 2024-25 Academic Year output underscores MCAO’s agility and breadth, with a capability of handling high-volume assignments that range from “immediate-need” designs to long-term projects. Simultaneously, the design workflow is constantly being tweaked and refined to ensure as smooth a process as possible, and to minimise output delays, which are an unavoidable aspect when handling such a large volume of work.