MA Graphic Design Communication

Master

In London

£ 9,500 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

MA Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea College of Arts encourages a broad and diverse approach to thinking and practice that helps students shape engaging and imaginative design solutions through material, media, technologies and systems of public engagement.The course aims to align current social and cultural issues alongside emerging design practices. It will give you a solid introduction to the debates and methodologies that are at the forefront of contemporary design. You will learn how to challenge and expand this knowledge within your personal design practice.The course will enable you to become an advanced thinker and versatile practitioner with the ability to respond to both familiar and unfamiliar challenges.Open DaysBook your placeStudent workSee more student workStudent video workAssembley Line 3.0 - Ellis van der DoesMA Graphic Design Communication News1 of 6One Year On: Matt Ferguson – MA Graphic Design Communication2 of 6Alumni Profile: Prudence Djajadi, MA Graphic Design Communication3 of 6Alumni Profile: Sean Murphy, MA Graphic Design Communication4 of 6Student Profile: Maasa YamanashiView all

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Location

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London
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16 John Islip Street

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Creative Thinking
  • Design
  • Exhibition
  • Art
  • International
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Team Training
  • Communication Training
  • Professor Training
  • Critical Thinking
  • Prototyping

Course programme

Course detail Content: what students can expect

  • A practice led course underpinned by critical design thinking and exploration
  • To be taught by a team of highly experienced postgraduate tutors each with their own personal specialist design / art practice and research
  • A creative campus environment with a range of workshops, library and special collection resources, shared studio spaces, and professional exhibition spaces. View the Chelsea facilities section
  • A themed introduction to stimulate knowledge of contemporary design practice and discourse
  • To develop a rigorous design process, providing the means to employ critical thinking, shape materials and forms, generate and communicate content, develop prototypes and engage with audience testing
  • To seek inspiration and knowledge from course tutors, college wide professional lectures, UAL postgraduate community events and London’s cultural industries

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StructurePhase 1: Exploring Emergent Design Contexts and Practices

In the first phase of the course you will address emergent design practices and issues by selecting one of the following three themes:

  • Proximities and Encounters - The focus of this theme is on users, spaces of experience and interaction. You will look at how people's behaviour is evolving as a result of their changing relationships to community, environment and policy
  • Mobilising the Studio - This theme will explore discourses and practices around co-created knowledge as a consequence of designers becoming mobile. Both, physically through activities for shared knowledge and skills, and intellectually through the renewed definition of interdisciplinary practice. You will consider how co-creation with audiences and other professionals changes concepts and practices within graphic design communication
  • Materiality and the Post Real - This theme will explore a wide range of interpretations of materiality and the ways in which its' meaning is formed through practices of graphic design communication

Once you have selected one of the themes you will organise yourselves into groups. Within these groups you will be asked to share knowledge, test responses, and grow creative ideas and practices in response to set briefs and tasks.

You will learn how to use methods of analysis and experimentation to assemble your own findings and responses in relation to the issues raised. This will lead to a defined position for a personal project.

This introduction to the course is designed to bring into focus different components of a design framework - critical context, conceptual enquiry and advanced practice.

Phase 2: Initiating a Framework for Design Enquiry and Practice

At this stage you will start to build your individual major project proposal.

You will apply your knowledge and creative thinking through different modes of studio practice, reflective writing, prototyping, display and demonstration.

This will enable you to synthesize your own intellectual and creative experiences using the knowledge and experience of other experts. This includes occupying and performing within spaces beyond the college.

This phase of the course includes a short external studio residency at various cultural centres across London.

The studio residency is an additional creative opportunity designed to inspire intellectual and physical interaction with existing and emerging bodies of knowledge and sites of practice.

This initiative aims to create a relevant and engaging mode of professional practice activity for Masters students and encourage excellence in practice-based research.

Phase 3: Innovating Modes of Communication and Dissemination

You will use the final stage of the course to learn how to refine your project outcomes in relation to a specific audience.

You will learn how to differentiate between the terms - communication, engagement, interaction and participation. You will find inventive ways to involve these in the final form and behaviour of your work.

Building upon the international context of the subject area you will also experiment with remote and local platforms for publishing, distribution and intervention.

Live projects:

Past collaborative projects and workshops have included partnerships with The Design Museum, E4, The Mill, Gravity Sketch VR, Milan Expo and UAL wide projects with Professor Nick Bell, Professor Fred Deakin and Professor David Toop.

Course datesAutumn Term:

Monday 8 October - Friday 21 December 2018

Spring Term:

Monday 7 January - Friday 29 March 2019

Summer Term:

Monday 15 April - Friday 13 September 2019

Learning and teaching methods

  • Exhibition tutorials
  • General theory forum lectures
  • Independent research
  • Individual and group tutorials
  • Research methodology workshops
  • Technical support and courses

Assessments methods

  • Essays, reports and dissertation
  • Final show examination
  • Peer assessment
  • Student self-evaluation
  • Tutorials and mid-year interim reviews

Facilities

  • 3D Workshops

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  • Photography Studios

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  • Digital Studio

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Staff

  • Sadhna Jain - Course Leader
  • Jane Cheadle - Animator

  • Steve Richards - School of Aeronautics - Artist and independent publisher
  • Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees - Martinez Trees - Graphic Designers

MA Graphic Design Communication

£ 9,500 VAT inc.