Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1-2 years
Can graphic design make a real difference to people’s lives? Our MA Graphic Design is unique in evolving your design practice while exploring and developing your role as a creative designer who wants to effect social change.
This could include issues such as behavioural and perspectival change community cohesion integration and diversity and environmental challenges.
Whatever your background you will advance your visual practice in the key areas of design including research textuality materiality concept development visual communication and typo/graphic innovation – leading to a more individualised more coherent and more competitive professional portfolio.
You'll augment this with more advanced knowledge of the complexities of socio-environmental problems gaining insight into institutional and government structures learning how to collaborate effectively and rethinking how creative project development and management can play a central role in society.
This will enable you to gain the confidence to progress your career as a graphic designer and take an active creative role in social and environmental change-making processes.
As a postgraduate student at ARU you’ll have access to a dedicated base studio along with specialist studios including film photography and printmaking.
You'll also be able to make use of (and receive training in) all our other creative resources and facilities including mono screen risograph letterpress and photographic printing.
A good honours degree (or equivalent) normally in a related subject. Applicants with professional experience are also encouraged to apply.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.5 ( Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
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Our Masters course will equip you for a career as a freelance graphic designer (editorial publishing packaging UX and UI design advertising self-initiated projects) as well as creative roles in areas of graphic design advertising branding design consultancy media and communication PR and publishing; and design and consultancy roles in project teams focused on sustainability and socio-environmental development and change implementation in institutes organisations governments and companies.
You could also find work as a designer in areas such as type design; typography; sign writing; promotion; book and magazine design; gallery artist or curator; illustrator; animator; motion graphics; UX UI and experience design; design or gallery technician; web designer; online/social media content provider; and visual creative and director in areas such as interactive storytelling vlogging image mapping interactive books data-visualisation design for games or networked and automated storytelling.
Core modules
Typographic Enquiry
Design Methods and Contexts
Visual Text
Practice Through Partnership
Masters Project Graphic Design
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