Visual Communication: Graphic Design - MA

Master

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

Pursue your ambitions as a graphic designer with this specialised visual communication master’s degree. Based at our School of Art, Architecture and Design, you’ll benefit from everything our revered school of art, architecture and design has to offer – from its central London location and the collaborative, multidisciplinary nature of the School to the esteemed visual communication staff and their strong industry networks. Completing our Visual Communication: Graphic Design MA course will enable you to hit the ground running as you begin a career in your chosen field.

Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will allow you to develop a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to your practice as a visual communicator whose specialist expertise lies in graphic design.

With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, the course will empower you to graduate as a professional practitioner at the forefront of your field. You’ll leave the course with a clear sense of your own role as a designer in the world.

During this master’s degree in graphic design you’ll find theory and practice meet and inform one another as you implement an interconnected approach to research and design. In turn, this will help you to refine your portfolio of professional-level work and thus demonstrate your advanced problem solving, creativity and critical thinking skills.

This course will expand your critical thinking abilities through design practices, which will enable you to work both speculatively and on fully realised outcomes. Through design research methods and design project development you will develop a project proposal to complete as your final major project.

With a particular focus on socially-engaged design, our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will encourage you to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of graphic design practice.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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31 Jewry Street, EC3N 2EY

Start date

On request

About this course

The course will provide opportunities for:

professional industry practice – take part in live project briefs with industry partners
situating your practice – learn about formulating a clear direction for your practice
complex problem solving and critical thinking
collaborative and multi-disciplinary working
building knowledge through research and development
challenging your approach to communicating and presenting your thinking and outcomes
exhibiting your work

a good lower second class honours degree (2.2) in a relevant field (eg graphic design, illustration, animation, branding, photography, architecture, marketing, 3D design, multimedia, interiors), or an equivalent EU/international qualification

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Design
  • University
  • Industry
  • Skills and Training
  • Approach
  • Visual Communication
  • Art
  • School
  • Project
  • Architecture Design
  • Critical Thinking
  • Communication Training

Course programme

Where this course can take you

Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design MA course will prepare you for a variety of professional roles. On completion of the course you may pursue positions in graphic design such as:

  • graphic designer
  • art director
  • creative director
  • brand strategist
  • design director
  • exhibition designer
  • digital experience designer
  • print designer
  • image researcher
  • project manger
  • design strategist
  • studio manager
Assessment

Your written, visual and physical project work and research will form a portfolio that best represents your skills, interests and abilities, and that will be used to assessed you. These projects will relate to the specific practice requirements of graphic design and visual communication.
Your MA will come to an end in the form of a final major project. This is a chance for you to pursue your interests and devise an argument or stance from which you will produce an independent body of work. Whilst challenging your creative ambition, this project will help you demonstrate your relationship with the area that interests you. Your final graphic design project will be exhibited at the MA graduation show hosted at our central London campus.

Visual Communication: Graphic Design - MA

Price on request