UAL L3 Foundation Diploma Graphics & Illustration
Master
In Cambridge
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Cambridge
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Start date
October
Are you interested in magazines, the world of advertising or publishing? Do you want to be involved with website and online design? Graphics and Illustration are the two key areas in this world. They are the two sides of the same coin and they rely on each other.
Accredited by the University of the Arts London Awarding Body, this 3-term course is fundamental if you want to progress to university to study a Visual Communication related degree. From day one, when you arrive in January you will specialise in Graphics & Illustration.
The UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - Graphics & Illustration is quality assured by UAL Awarding Body through a rigorous external moderation process and grades are monitored against agreed national standards. It is also regulated by Ofqual.
This course also offers students a guaranteed place on our BA(Hons) Graphics & Illustration, upon success completion.
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REQUIREMENTS
Age
20 years +
Educational Level
Successful completion of an Undergraduate Degree in an art & design or related subject or professional relevant experience. Students who do not meet these entry requirements will still be considered on their own individual potential to succeed.
English Level for International Students
IELTS 6.5+ (no element under 5.5)
Portfolio
Portfolio and personal statement required. Please see page 52 for further details.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
a career in the creative industries?
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Subjects
- Problem Solving
- Testing
- Approach
- Hacking
- Primary
- Secondary
- Design
- Graphics
- Illustration
- Materials
- Art design
- Art
- University
- Public
- Project
- Industry
- Confidence Training
- Critical Thinking
- Play
Course programme
Semester One
Semester 1 helps you build your knowledge of the essential skills in your chosen area of art or design, establishing the confidence to try out new ways of thinking through new ways of making.
Experimental PracticeThis module promotes experimental approaches to creative practice. We will begin by working together during a diagnostic phase to assess your skills, experience and ambitions, and create a personalised approach to your learning. You will build your knowledge of essential skills and core knowledges relevant to the practice and discourse of your chosen specialism.
You will think about concept generation, where ideas come from, and how our physical engagement with materials and methods informs both our knowledge and the direction of the creative process.
You will undertake a series of individual and collaborative projects that help you strengthen your understanding, develop your own creative and visual language, and explore new methods and materials, both traditional and digital. Group and individual project briefs will provide the supportive structure for practical activities that interrogate the ideas and influences at play in creative problem-solving.
Research PracticeIn this module you will learn alongside artists, designers and visual communicators from across our MA programmes. You will develop advanced research skills and methods, understand the importance of primary and secondary research, analysis of objects, images and texts, develop your critical thinking, and build confidence with academic study skills and conventions needed for successful study at postgraduate level.
You will go on to apply these skills to research projects that explore the theoretical landscape of contemporary creative practice. You will examine case studies from a variety of different disciplines that make use of current critical methodologies—including archives and collections, design activism, institutional critique, collaboration, participation and co-design, material and object studies, culture jamming, hacking and disruptive design, and identity, ethnography and auto-ethnography as the dynamic research tools through which concepts are created, analysed and critiqued.
Semester Two
Semester 2 looks to the future, and helps you find a focus for your practice.
Focusing PracticeThis module gives you the opportunity to put into practice what you learned last term, focusing your ideas and ambitions and pursue an individual direction.
Inter-disciplinary dialogues set up in Semester 1 are continued through regular crits and project reviews with tutors and peers, engaging all students in critical discussion and sharing of knowledge.
To build your portfolio, you can take part in live and industry projects, and you will be encouraged to build a public profile for your practice or brand. These briefs will help you build an autonomous approach to independent enquiry-based projects that form the heart of the module. Through self-initiated projects you will develop your independent thinking, problem-solving and problem-setting skills, enabling you to show real engagement with current issues and critical or theoretical contexts that shape your field of practice. You will apply your subject knowledge, research skills and critical enquiry to propose an original project that responds to or challenges issues, situations and problems encountered on the course, engaging appropriate critical methodologies to identify a contemporary question or issue, in so doing focusing on a defined area of art or design practice as a ‘testing ground’ for your Independent Major Project next term.
Creative FuturesYour position as an emerging designer will be strengthened through Creative Futures, in which you will work with other MA students to explore art and design in a social context, exploring the critical, technological, environmental, geopolitical and ethical issues that impact on contemporary creative practice—and the ways in which artists and designers today are responding to the challenges we face today, while speculating about what tomorrow may bring.
As part of this module you will have the opportunity apply for an internship (including competitive internships offered by our partner Hearst Magazines UK). Alternatively, you will identify and approach an industry mentor, or design and develop a professional or industry-facing project around your own emerging practice. By building on your engagement with the contemporary professional practice of your discipline and the exploratory projects you have completed, you will have the confidence to develop a proposal for your final MA project to be realised in Semester 3.
UAL L3 Foundation Diploma Graphics & Illustration