MA Graphic Design

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

N/A

Two mockups featuring the alphabet in black, lowercase letters displayed on two backgrounds: pink on the left and yellow on the right, showcasing a textured font.

Kieran Blakey

Lewis Brymner

Two close-up photos featuring textured pages as part of a booklet. One of them has a word that reads: 'Obelus' and a brown circular stamp, with contrasting shadows and light.

Mike Lewis

A photograph featuring intricate drawings of people with headdresses and crossbows. The drawings have overlapping lines in red, blue, and yellow, forming circular patterns on a white background.

Aditi Nagori

A surreal collage with overlapping images of people, abstract shapes, film strips, and vivid colours, centered on a red circular motif.

Lana Seabrook

Shweta Ponnu Subramanian

The Course

This course explores the fascinating relationship between design-led practice, industry engagement and critical analysis.

You will build a body of self-directed work informed by contemporary graphic design practice and emerging debates within the field of design. Driven by problem analysis, critical debate and design innovation you will develop briefs, engage with an audience and work collaboratively. Your investigation will explore the relationship between visual and contextual research, investigating the social, political and ethical contexts of your work.

You will be supported by teaching staff with diverse research and practical interests within graphic design and visual culture. You will source live briefs, work with clients and apply your contextual and industry informed knowledge and understanding to question why graphic design needs to exist and who is the audience - the focus is on becoming a problem seeker not just a problem solver.

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The Structure

Our postgraduate courses include both specialist subject modules and transdisciplinary core modules. Both are underpinned by independent learning. You will be supported with a variety of teaching and learning methods, including individual supervision, group tutorials, live briefs and project proposals, as well as being encouraged to collaborate with students from other postgraduate courses.

Our academic staff are engaged in contemporary practice in their specialism and will support, encourage and challenge you during your studies. All postgraduate students are taught together in research methods and business-related modules.

Postgraduate courses can be studied either full-time over one academic year or part-time over two academic years. Teaching is broken down into three teaching blocks per year.

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities aligned to their research interest.

Specialist Resources

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities by arrangement. These include: Mac suites with industry-standard equipment, library with curated specialist resources including our special collections, photography and filmmaking equipment, lighting studios and extensive printmaking facilities. Our digital print resource enables professional-standard, large-format digital printing and print finishing.