Graphic Design MA

You’ll begin your year examining your own practice and developing your research skills – these units will run throughout the year as you build towards your Major Project.

Practice and Process
During this unit, you'll examine the advanced specialist tools, methods, concepts and processes relevant to graphic design practice through a series of projects, workshops and advanced technical sessions that relate to your own research and aspirations.

Research Methods
This unit enables you to undertake a focused and rigorous investigation into the purpose and process of research at postgraduate level within the field of Graphic Design.

As you build upon the topics covered in Term one and continue honing your practice and research, you'll begin to develop your ideas for your Major Project. 

Professional Practice
This unit will enable you to develop a framework within which to formulate your Major Project. You'll undertake a rigorous investigation into existing practice - researching, questioning, challenging, debating and addressing key debates relating to Graphic Design.

Major Project: Conceptualization and Development
The Major Project is the culmination of your studies and will form an exposition of the central ideas and concepts developed throughout your MA. It is an opportunity to resolve previous projects and demonstrate evidence of advanced conceptual, theoretical and technical capability over a period of self-directed study.

Major Project: Continuation and Realisation
With all three of the year’s units still continuing to support you and encourage you in your work, you’ll spend the final term producing and refining your Major Project.

The body of work you produce should draw upon your experience prior to this MA, the work you have developed in the other units and your aspiration for work or further study on graduation.

Tuition fees
The course fees per year for 2021 entry are:

• UK students full-time - £10,400

• International and EU students full-time - £17,500 (standard fee)
• International and EU students full-time - £16,800 (full early payment fee)

Additional course costs
In addition to the tuition fees please see the additional course costs for 2021 entry. 

To support all of our current students and our recent UK and EU alumni to progress to the next level of study, we have developed a new range of fee discounts across a range of courses.

• Read more about fee discounts

You'll benefit from well-established industry links with corporate, media, cultural and creative organisations.

Our course has links with:

• Design Bridge
• Pearlfisher (design group)
• FutureBrand
• The Brewery
• The BBC
• Imagine
• Bloom
• Interbrand.

We also have regular guest lecturers and recent guests have included:

• Richard Williams - Founder of Williams Murray Hamm
• Tim Perkins - Group Director of Design Bridge
• Philip Carter - Founder of Carter Wong Tomlin
• Helen Healy - Picture Editor for the Guardian newspaper.

MA Graphic Design alumni go on to work in a diverse variety of exciting careers. Employment opportunities include:

• Graphic design
• Museum design
• Web or interactive design
• Picture editing
• Freelance design or illustration
• Brand design
• Packaging design
• Retail design
• Art direction
• Design management.