Graphic Design and Typography MA

Overview

Develop an innovative approach to typographic communication on this practise-based MA. Collaborate with other students and professional designers to challenge preconceived ideas and further your professional practice.

Our MA Graphic Design and Typography is a student-centred, practice-led course that will allow you to experiment with diverse and innovative techniques, advancing your typographic practice to postgraduate level.

Whether you are an established professional designer or a new graduate or have come to graphic design via a different professional route, you will receive the training you need to develop your understanding of the business and social contexts of graphic communication as well as your practice.

At the end of the course, you will use all the skills you have developed to research and complete a final visual project relating to your own specialisms.

Assessment

You will demonstrate your progress through a combination of portfolio work, evaluative commentaries, blog participation, group critiques, one-to-one tutorials, presentations, logbooks and analytical reports, and a 6000-word research essay.

Careers

Our Master's course will equip you for professional employment or self-employment in graphic design and design consultancy, as well as related fields like brand development, art-editorial design, publishing, typography/typesetting, advertising, and media design. It will also give you a basis for a teaching career, or to continue on to a research degree, such as our PhD Graphic Design and Typography. You will also acheive Intermediate awards: PG Cert, PG Dip.