Communication Design: Graphic Design MA

If you choose to study this course, here are some of the things you can expect from the course and how it will benefit you.The Communication Design: Graphic Design MA has an emphasis on research, methodology and design thinking, in particular projects within each module allow individual and personal concerns to be explored through the focused study of Graphic Design.

The specialist pathway in graphic design provides an intensive period of study that is made up of both course-specific modules and core modules within the Design School's Postgraduate Framework. Core modules offer the opportunity for the wider interdisciplinary understanding of your individual concerns and a focus on practice-based approaches to communication design. Course based modules encourage the exploration of your own practice and provide the space to investigate fundamental aspects of visual communication and the changing wider global environment in which the discipline continues to exert its influence.

The notion of interdisciplinary is at the centre of each of the Communication Design MA specialisms (both graphic design and illustration). You will be introduced to a wide range of approaches from across the fields of design within the School that will help you to develop your understanding of the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary practice.

This programme addresses the discipline of communication design by reinforcing the importance of research, investigation, creativity and imagination in the process of making design. This provides a focus on the significance of problem finding as well as well as problem solving.

Applicants should have a good BA(Hons) degree or equivalent qualification in graphic design or a related subject, such as moving image, graphic communication, illustration, 3D design, advertising, photography, packaging, computer-related design, architecture or fine art.
We also welcome applicants with relevant experience, which demonstrates the necessary skills and intellectual achievement needed to undertake the course.
You must submit a portfolio.