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

We offer an opportunity for designers to build or extend their creative practice into an exciting and innovative graphic design portfolio.

The course allows you to build on your existing creative and practical

skillsets by applying theory, research, and critical thinking skills to your design practice.

You will refine and develop your design skillset through experimentation and speculative design approaches, engaging with contemporary advances, challenges, and debates within the field. Alongside your creative and practical development, your postgraduate studies are supplemented by opportunities to engage with industry professionals through talks, workshops, and studio visits.

The course is structured to encourage new ways of thinking about and interrogating design practices and conventions, building on your existing skills and working towards an exciting, informed, and innovative portfolio of graphic design work. You will explore many themes, processes, and technologies throughout the course supported by expert designers, researchers, and practitioners.

MA Graphic Design focuses on building innovative and progressive approaches to communication design and graphic media. Students develop professional skills necessary to succeed in the creative industry such as presentation and pitching, collaboration, and networking. The course would be particularly appealing to recent graduates, early career designers, or those seeking to develop a strong graphic design portfolio.

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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 professional development 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.

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.