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Arts University Plymouth: Design (Communication)
| Institution | Arts University Plymouth View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | Arts, Design and Media |
| Web | https://www.aup.ac.uk/ |
| Study type | Taught |
MA
Summary
Build on your knowledge and practical experience of illustration, graphic design and other communication media to explore how social, critical and technological paradigms are reshaping visual communication. Create a feature project prototype or series of artefacts, developed from concept to display for an external client.
Build upon your knowledge and practical experience of illustration, graphic design and other communication media to explore the way current social, critical and technological paradigms are changing the way designers create and distribute narrative-driven artefacts or brand-led campaigns.
This course pushes the boundaries of how we structure and convey stories and subjects through an interdisciplinary community of practice, challenging you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills to explore how that style can be expressed across many media and sectors.
At a glance
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Award: MA Design (Communication)
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Who it’s for: previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing
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Project outcome: a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client
Developing your style and visual methodology
This course will challenge you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills necessary to explore how this style can be expressed across many media and sectors.
You will learn how to develop new, emerging ideas into a visual methodology that speaks successfully in a crowded contemporary visual culture.
Working with briefs, partners and real-world challenges
You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively or with external partners on briefs that prioritise co-design, participation and reflective evaluation as a process that will give you the confidence to work generatively.
This course aims to expand the potential reach and form of your designs. You will be encouraged to research and identify a compelling social, environmental or business challenge made visible or more accessible through your designs, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed through a full journey, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client.
Visual language beyond words
You will strengthen your ability to use visual language (form, colour, type, motion, light, image, character) in a dialogic process that captures the expressive potential of communication beyond words at the threshold between language and lived experience.
Workshops, tools and how your work takes shape
Through your study you will have access to an extensive programme of practical workshops and material and digital resources for experimenting with how your work takes shape. You will have the opportunity to test how both traditional and emerging technologies might inspire new ways of realising your designs and ideas.
Why choose this course?
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Build upon your previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing to focus on a research project that will give you a broad cultural perspective on visual communication design.
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Learn within a multidisciplinary community of practitioners supported by a regular visiting lecture programme of industry professionals and leading designers.
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Professionalise your ideas by working with an external client or real-world challenge, helping you to build industry connections that sustain your career after you graduate.
Careers and future opportunities
Career opportunities include: Communication Designers, Graphic Designers, Visual Designers, Illustrators, Brand Designers, Interface Designers, Storyboard Designers and Packaging Designers.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Channel Islands;England;Northern Ireland;Wales;Scotland;Republic of Ireland | 10050 GBP for Per year |
|---|---|
| EU;International | 17500 GBP for Per year |
Summary
Build on your knowledge and practical experience of illustration, graphic design and other communication media to explore how social, critical and technological paradigms are reshaping visual communication. Create a feature project prototype or series of artefacts, developed from concept to display for an external client.
Build upon your knowledge and practical experience of illustration, graphic design and other communication media to explore the way current social, critical and technological paradigms are changing the way designers create and distribute narrative-driven artefacts or brand-led campaigns.
This course pushes the boundaries of how we structure and convey stories and subjects through an interdisciplinary community of practice, challenging you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills to explore how that style can be expressed across many media and sectors.
At a glance
-
Award: MA Design (Communication)
-
Who it’s for: previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing
-
Project outcome: a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client
Developing your style and visual methodology
This course will challenge you to deepen your personal style and approach and develop the theoretical and practical skills necessary to explore how this style can be expressed across many media and sectors.
You will learn how to develop new, emerging ideas into a visual methodology that speaks successfully in a crowded contemporary visual culture.
Working with briefs, partners and real-world challenges
You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively or with external partners on briefs that prioritise co-design, participation and reflective evaluation as a process that will give you the confidence to work generatively.
This course aims to expand the potential reach and form of your designs. You will be encouraged to research and identify a compelling social, environmental or business challenge made visible or more accessible through your designs, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed through a full journey, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client.
Visual language beyond words
You will strengthen your ability to use visual language (form, colour, type, motion, light, image, character) in a dialogic process that captures the expressive potential of communication beyond words at the threshold between language and lived experience.
Workshops, tools and how your work takes shape
Through your study you will have access to an extensive programme of practical workshops and material and digital resources for experimenting with how your work takes shape. You will have the opportunity to test how both traditional and emerging technologies might inspire new ways of realising your designs and ideas.
Why choose this course?
-
Build upon your previous study or experience in graphic design, illustration, photography or marketing to focus on a research project that will give you a broad cultural perspective on visual communication design.
-
Learn within a multidisciplinary community of practitioners supported by a regular visiting lecture programme of industry professionals and leading designers.
-
Professionalise your ideas by working with an external client or real-world challenge, helping you to build industry connections that sustain your career after you graduate.
Careers and future opportunities
Career opportunities include: Communication Designers, Graphic Designers, Visual Designers, Illustrators, Brand Designers, Interface Designers, Storyboard Designers and Packaging Designers.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Channel Islands;England;Northern Ireland;Wales;Scotland;Republic of Ireland | 10050 GBP for Per year |
|---|---|
| EU;International | 17500 GBP for Per year |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Communication Design at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Communication Design places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | BA 2.2; equivalent professional experience or portfolio; exceptional project proposal. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| EU | 17500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| England | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 9500 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 17500 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Communication Design at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Communication Design places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | BA 2.2; equivalent professional experience or portfolio; exceptional project proposal. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| EU | 9275 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| England | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 5320 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 9275 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Communication Design at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Communication Design places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | BA 2.2; equivalent professional experience or portfolio; exceptional project proposal. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| Channel Islands | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| EU | 17250 GBP for Whole course |
| England | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 17250 GBP for Whole course |
Summary
Arts University Plymouth is an arts university for the 21st century, preparing students who are uniquely placed to provide creative solutions to the complex global challenges of a changing world. We are the city of Plymouth’s first and only specialist arts university, allowing us to offer our students a dynamic and unique learning experience.
The university was recently voted 2nd in the UK for Facilities in the annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards, 3rd in the UK for Student Support, and 4th in the UK for Lecturers & Teaching Quality. Arts University Plymouth was crowned the 2024 Winner in South West England for the categories of University of the Year, Facilities, Student Support, and Learning & Teaching Quality.
Why choose MA Communication Design at Arts University Plymouth?
We place you at the crossroad of material traditions and futures. Design is an expanding area of practice that encompasses both industry standards and an exciting exploration of new design thinking seeking to build more sustainable businesses and ethical creative practices. Our MA Communication Design places you at the forefront of the creative and societal forces that are challenging design norms in order to reimagine production and consumption for a changing world through new modes of practice.
A pro-active, Interdisciplinary community. New ideas and design practices do not develop in isolation. You come to university to be challenged, supported and to take risks in a context that will inspire you to innovate and understand design as an active process of inquiry into market demands, new technologies, transforming supply chains and challenges to our environment. The course encourages conceptual exploration and hands-on iteration through multiple disciplines and cultures of making.
Accelerated personal development through guided, practice-led research. We believe design is a research-led enquiry into human relationships with each other and our planetary ecosystem. This enquiry is pursued through an iterative, material-led examination of the links between human need, human behaviour and human community, leading to new insights and solutions. Your personal learning is accelerated through common units navigated via your individual discipline and professional objectives.
World-class workshops and facilities: During your time on the course, you will have access to one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school. Our FabLab is the first of its kind in the UK and gives you access to state-of-the-art resources for developing a 21st century skillset that will prepare you for leading new design methods and practices, making you adept at navigating design’s complex material and digital interface.
Sustainable ethos and specialist knowledge: Built into our Postgraduate programme is an emphasis on the sustainable, non-extractive and regenerative approaches to working with materials, which not only provides a meaningful link between the past and the future of design, but puts you at the forefront of contemporary design thinking aimed at developing new, more sustainable industries. We provide an opportunity to develop specialist practices that give you the tools and knowledge to contribute to a growing design sector focused on building a circular economy.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | BA 2.2; equivalent professional experience or portfolio; exceptional project proposal. |
| Location | Main Site Tavistock Place Plymouth PL4 8AT |
Fees
| Republic of Ireland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
|---|---|
| EU | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
| Channel Islands | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| England | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Scotland | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| Wales | 5150 GBP for Year 1 |
| International | 9200 GBP for Year 1 |
A Little Bit About Arts University Plymouth
As an MA student at Arts University Plymouth you will join our Postgraduate Centre, an active, cross-disciplinary community of makers and thinkers.
Founded in 1856, the institution has been granted full university status and is formally recognised as Arts University Plymouth following approval by the Privy Council, becoming the city of Plymouth’s specialist arts university. Arts University Plymouth is a specialist arts university offering a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in art and design, and media.
Students benefit from industry standard workshops and studios and state-of-the-art equipment …
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