MA Illustration

Our Illustration Master's degree course is ideal for illustrators who want to diversify their professional practices through exploring narrative communication to engage diverse audiences.

The fine details

You will learn to reposition information in a strategic and engaging way, bringing complex information to life to effectively tell stories. Experimenting with an array of storytelling and narrative methods, you will master the roles of illustration and how to take advantage of immersive illustration technologies. This course is designed to help you propel your illustration business.

Key study topics

• How creative narrative and storytelling methods can be used to make complex information accessible
• Expanded models of professional illustration, including collaborative, interdisciplinary, facilitation and commercial practices
• The use of illustration foster community, facilitate dialogue, witness and document human experience and knowledge
• Illustration as a distinctive empathetic, intersubjective communication discipline operating with specific behaviours, mechanisms and principles
• The expansive application of illustration to communicate and transfer knowledge across disciplines and professional fields, with an emphasis on social practice
• How to develop your creative practice with exposure to different methods of digital and physical production
• Explore storytelling techniques using immersive technologies to engage mass audiences
• Experiment with how narratives can be told across media and platforms in linear, nonlinear, interactive, participatory and immersive ways