MA Design (Communication)
Build upon your knowledge and practical experience of illustration, graphic design and other communication media to explore the way current social, critical and technological paradigms are changing the way designers create and distribute narrative-driven artefacts or brand-led campaigns.
This course pushes the boundaries of how we structure and convey stories and subjects through an interdisciplinary community of practice, challenging you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills to explore how that style can be expressed across many media and sectors.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Award: MA Design (Communication)<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Who it’s for: previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Project outcome: a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Access to workshops and resources: Imprint Lab, Digital Print Bureau, Fab Lab South West, Multimedia Studios and Equipment Resource Centre</p></li></ul>
Work by Zara Mcdermott
<p dir="ltr">This course will challenge you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills necessary to explore how this style can be expressed across many media and sectors.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You will learn how to develop new, emerging ideas into a visual methodology that speaks successfully in a crowded contemporary visual culture.</p>
Work by Sue Lewry
<p dir="ltr">You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively or with external partners on briefs that prioritise co-design, participation and reflective evaluation as a process that will give you the confidence to work generatively.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This course aims to expand the potential reach and form of your designs. You will be encouraged to research and identify a compelling social, environmental or business challenge made visible or more accessible through your designs, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed through a full journey, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client.<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">You will strengthen your ability to use visual language (form, colour, type, motion, light, image, character) in a dialogic process that captures the expressive potential of communication beyond words at the threshold between language and lived experience<br /></p>
<p dir="ltr">Through your study you will have access to an extensive programme of practical workshops and material and digital resources for experimenting with how your work takes shape. You will have the opportunity to test how both traditional and emerging technologies might inspire new ways of realising your designs and ideas.</p>
Work by Alan Qualtrough
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Build upon your previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing to focus on a research project that will give you a broad cultural perspective on visual communication design.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Learn within a multidisciplinary community of practitioners supported by a regular visiting lecture programme of industry professionals and leading designers.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Professionalise your ideas by working with an external client or real-world challenge, helping you to build industry connections that sustain your career after you graduate.</p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">Career opportunities include: Communication Designers, Graphic Designers, Visual Designers, Illustrators, Brand Designers, Interface Designers, Storyboard Designers and Packaging Designers.<br /></p>
<p>You’ll explore how current social, critical and technological paradigms are changing the way designers create and distribute narrative-driven artefacts or brand-led campaigns.</p>
<p>It will challenge you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop theoretical and practical skills to explore how that style can be expressed across many media and sectors.</p>
<p>Yes. You can work collaboratively or with external partners on briefs prioritising co-design, participation and reflective evaluation, and professionalise your ideas by working with an external client or real-world challenge.</p>
<p>Your work culminates in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client.</p>
<p>You’ll have access to practical workshops and resources including the Imprint Lab, Digital Print Bureau, Fab Lab South West, Multimedia Studios and Equipment Resource Centre.</p>
<p>Arts University Plymouth graduates are offered a <strong>discount of 15% on Masters programme fees</strong>, regardless of when they studied with us previously. The discount applies if you studied on one of our pre-degree, foundation or undergraduate programmes.</p>
<p>MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.</p>
<p>Your portfolio should give us an indication of the work that you have made, organised or been involved in. For our postgraduate arts, craft and design courses, we expect to see examples of work you have created. <br /></p>
<p>The best deadline to submit your MA application by is <strong>1 July</strong>, however please be reassured that we can take late applications until the start of the course if places are still available.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a></li><li><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 (0)1752 203434</li></ul>
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