MA Graphic Media Design
Master
In London
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Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
MA Graphic Media Design explores the use of graphic design as a critical tool to probe the complexities of contemporary visual culture.ABOUT THIS COURSEThrough intensive and original practice-led research, you will develop an independent and critical attitude with a view to producing relevant and unexpected perspectives on and for the world.We invite thoughtful, critical, productive individuals interested in the effective articulation of design.REASONS TO APPLYSubject Expertise: we engage with national and international visiting lecturers – with notable recent guests including Turner Prize-winners Assemble, design historian and writer Alice Twemlow, and world-renowned design practitioners Paul Elliman and Jan van Toorn.Distinctive Practice: our graduates secure high-profile careers in key areas of design practice, research and education – including Sarah Boris (Associate Art Director, Phaidon Publishing), Tzortzis Rallis (PhD student at LCC; Design Museum Design of the Year Awards 2013 shortlist), Marwan Kaabour (Barnbrook Studio) and Cat Drew (Work & Health Unit, Policy Lab, UK Government).Design Discourse, Research and Debate: our established MA and PhD community offers opportunities for expert academic guidance. Engage in research-oriented workshops and contemplate progression to PhD, as well as interact with a growing number of research hubs at LCC, such as Design Activism Research Hub, Graphic Subcultures, Conscientious Communicators, Typographic Research Unit, and many others across UAL.Excellence in resources: LCC’s exceptional facilities span both the traditional and contemporary processes from letterpress, screenprint, photography, 3D construction and bookbinding to 3D printing, laser-cutting and sound engineering .OPEN EVENINGSThe next Open Evening for this course will be held on:Wednesday 6 DecemberCOURSE TWITTER@LCC_GraphicsSTUDENT WORKSTUDENT FILMS AND PROFILESLCC Student...
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTSThe MA Graphic Media Design course team welcomes thoughtful, critical and productive applicants concerned with the effective articulation of design.The course attracts applicants from a broad range of backgrounds, from all over the world, from an Honours degree course in a field relevant to graphics and media design or those with other, equivalent qualifications. The course team also welcomes students with relevant experience or those who may have previously worked in the industry, or non-traditional backgrounds, as well as those already within employment .The...
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- Design
- Visual Communication
- Screenwriting
- Sound
- 3d training
- 3D
- Project
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- Team Training
- Media
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Please note: The part-time mode of this course is currently suspended. Please contact us using the course enquiry form if you have any questions about the course structure.
MA Graphic Media Design is renowned for its excellence in teaching and learning at postgraduate level, with established links within the field of graphic design, both nationally and internationally.
Your self-authored, practice-led enquiry will drive this programme of study. You will work in collaboration with the course tutors, fellow course participants and external partners.
Your long-term independent enquiry will be punctuated with specialist workshops, course-led briefs, tutor, peer and expert critique forums, site visits, lectures and talks from leading practitioners, thinkers and doers.
You will join and participate in a critical studio environment where practice-led, theoretical and historical contexts will be explored, critiqued and contemplated alongside one another.
This integrated design-oriented approach opens up new opportunities for you to explore the practice, the writing and the reading as blended visual research tools ripe for critique, invention and application.
MA Graphic Media Design runs alongside a suite of established and newly developed postgraduate courses, spanning the rich and diverse spectrum of the current and emergent practices in the fields of visual communication, illustration, interaction design, service design, branding and identity, advertising, documentary, journalism, photography, publishing, public relations, sound arts and screenwriting. This diversity of individual and collective pursuits promotes a rich discursive arena for all engaged.
Course structure
The course structure appreciates the varied requirements and aspirations of the contemporary practitioner interested in the pursuit of postgraduate study in the subject. This is a particularly distinctive feature as we are one of the few courses in the United Kingdom to offer this option for postgraduate study in the subject.
The course is demanding of time and commitment. A defining aspect of your postgraduate study is the independent, self-directed approach. You are expected to timetable and manage your own learning according to your ambition and intentions.
You will work with the course team in the MA Graphic Media Design studios two days per week dependent on the stage of study, plus you’ll also attend a lecture series scheduled for another day in the week.
Outside of this core delivery, you will have the opportunity to utilise a range of excellent resources available at LCC to produce your experimentation and continue developing your projects. Tailored Academic Support and Language Support sessions are also scheduled to support and inform your developing academic literacies whilst you are with us on the course.
Your success or failure on the course will depend, to a great extent on how rigorously and responsibly you take this self-direction and how well you respond to tutorial advice and advice from peers and collaborators. The level of self-management required will increase throughout the course.
Please note: We will assume that you are technically proficient and able to research and develop any further skills you require. Technical tuition is restricted to the tutorial support of individual projects. If you need to acquire a significant skill base, then you are advised to do so before you apply for the course.
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Course start date
24 September 2018
Course units FULL-TIME MODEAutumn, Term One
Units summary:
- Critical Perspectives and Methodologies (60 credits)
This unit functions as an introduction to postgraduate study, critical and reflective practice, and alternative working approaches that blend graphic design practice, history and theory. Within our critical studio model — where theory, history, and practice meet, inform and influence one another — you will learn to approach practice-led enquiry and design writing as visual research tools.
This blended approach is employed to build a confidence in moving past the familiar into the unknown, through close readings of the variables that shape contemporary graphic design practice. A curated lecture series, anchored by key reference material, will support the studio-based delivery.
Spring, Term Two
Units summary:
- Collaborative Unit (20 credits)
The Collaborative Unit urges you to independently initiate opportunities to socialise your research through building relationships with key stakeholders associated with your research agenda/s i.e. users, commissioners, producers, fellow practitioners/researchers, subject or technical experts, etc.
These activities may take place locally or remotely, through an excellent opportunity for you to establish links with relative industry partners within the thriving design culture here in London.
- Design Enquiry and Definition (40 credits)
Alongside the Collaborative Unit, you will continue establishing a hypothesis for your Major Project by testing your projects currency in varied ways through practice-led design methodologies and processes; readings and writings around your field/area of study; and ongoing critical reflections. The products of this enquiry will feed directly into your Major Project Definition, which you will submit as part of your Design Enquiry and Definition unit submission.
In this period, you will also work with the other students on the course to devise and realise an opportunity to share your work-in-progress and test your propositions with a relative public/s. This may take the form of a publication, exhibition, event, symposium or workshop series negotiated with the course team.
Summer, Term Three
Units summary:
- Design Enquiry and Definition (continued)
- Major Project (60 credits)
Within this final stage of the course, you will further your knowledge and extend your critical and professional understanding through the consolidation and realisation of the Major Project. You are expected to produce work demonstrating a significant synthesis of research and practice drawing on the skills and knowledge acquired in the first three stages of the course.
Your Major Project will demonstrate, both in content and form, your advanced understanding of graphic design practice, history and theory. You will spend this phase of your study pursuing an argued and distinct line of inquiry working towards a major output (or body of work).
This will be supported by a critical context paper and critical rationale articulating the motivations and objectives of the project acknowledging key theories, contexts, and stakeholders for the research.
Autumn, Term Four
Units summary:
- Major Project (continued)
Course structure
The information outlined is an indicative structure of the course. Whilst we will aim to deliver the course as described on this page, there may be situations where it is desirable or necessary for the University to make changes in course provision, for example, because of regulatory requirements or operational efficiencies, before or after enrolment. If this occurs, we will communicate all major changes to all applicants and students who have either applied or enrolled on the course.
Please note: due to staff research agreements or availability, not all of the optional modules listed may be available every year.
In addition, the provision of course options which depend upon the availability of specialist teaching, or on a placement at another institution, cannot be guaranteed. Please check this element of the course with the course team before making a decision to apply.
Programme Specification
Graphic and Media Design Programme Specification 2017/18 (PDF - 454KB)
Staff Course Leader
Paul Bailey
Lead Tutor – Graphic Media Design
Tony Credland
Associate Lecturer
Alistair McClymont
Lecturers
Sophie Demay, Bryony Quinn, Tamar Shafrir, Charlotte-Maëva Perret, Ben Branagan
MA Graphic Media Design