MFA Design (Illustration)

Course summary

Placing emphasis on personal research, this course gives you the chance to develop your own interests and ideas in a challenging and supportive environment. Academic staff are design specialists, researchers and practitioners who will support you to expand your practice and develop an independent, autonomous approach. You benefit from studying within a cross-disciplinary, vibrant, international, collaborative and supportive postgraduate environment. You can work alongside our Design Futures consultancy, and with researchers from the ADRC. We also have contacts with leading design agencies and organisations, museums and practitioners, and encourage you to work collaboratively with them.

Future careersThis course prepares you for a career as a independent design practitioner, designer design manager, maker or manufacturer, company-employed designer,postgraduate student at PhD level. The aim of this course is for you to achieve your personal employment ambitions — whether as a design professional in the creative industries, or in related areas such as research, retail, marketing, and education. Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for international design companies and consultancies as well as gaining PhD scholarships.