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Design (Luxury Brand Management) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: The course is designed to balance the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required to succeed in design management roles in complex, international based luxury brands; built upon the principles of creating and developing luxury brands in a generic sense, it primarily focuses upon the world of luxury branding in fashion and fashion accessories.(read more)
Design (Fashion Design) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: The practice-led pathway allows students to extend their knowledge and understanding of fashion design through an individually negotiated project, underpinned by research and creative practice; students work across traditional and experimental boundaries, critically evaluating their working processes, methodologies and ideas.(read more)
Theorising Visual Art and Design (tVAD) MA (Res)
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Research areas include: Contemporary practice, criticism and histories of art, design and the applied arts; practice-based research and the role of the artefact; aesthetics and philosophical issues in art and design; space, gender and visual culture; design and material culture in the 20th century.(read more)
Design (Interior Design Management) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This pathway is presented at Elisava in Barcelona; it is structured to develop knowledge and understanding of interior design methods for students from a range of practice-based interior design and related design backgrounds, and to focus on the practicalities of marketing and delivering interior design services.(read more)
Fine and Applied Art MA
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Course offers the opportunity to advance technical, research and professional survival skills alongside studio practice.(read more)
Design (Communication Design) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: Students are encouraged to analyse critically their practice in relation to contemporary issues and theories of communication design from local and global perspectives, enabling them to challenge conventions, production methods and their audience, while developing their practice and ideas.(read more)
Design (Product Design Management) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This pathway is presented at Elisave in Barcelona; it maps the connections between product design, marketing, management and manufacturing in the constantly evolving field of product design; it analyses the relationship between the aesthetic and functional values of product design and the commercial values that drive new product success.(read more)
Design (Fashion and Textile Marketing) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This programme develops a focused view of the professional buyer and consumer; the impacts of globalisation, fast fashion and sustainability are key issues that impact upon on the highly discerning fashion and textile consumer.(read more)
History of Science, Technology and Medicine MA (Research)
University Of KentStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine has a strong postgraduate research group, and supports full or part-time research; recently completed theses include projects on: 19th-century literature and science; the relations between instrument makers and natural philosophers; the history of home computers; the construction of engineering science in Britain; and the history of Porton Down.(read more)
Interior and Spatial Design MA
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course provides students with the tools to develop creative ideas and acquire entrepreneurial and industrial skills for career development.(read more)
Urban Design MA
University Of KentStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: This interdisciplinary programme aims to provide students with up-to-date knowledge for future speculation, insight and design of the city; it proposes a particular perspective of the city combining the strength of architectural history and theory with the study of the contemporary city, to provide an understanding of urban design that addresses the dynamic conditions of the cities today.(read more)
Design (Architectural Design Management) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: This pathway is presented at Elisava in Barcelona; it introduces the interfaces between architectural design and the marketing and management challenges essential to the success of architectural practice.(read more)
Communication (Art and Design) MA
University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff (Uwic)Study modes: Part time day
Course description: The course focuses on the professional and applied aspects of creativity generated in the realm of contemporary communication; students strengthen their existing practice and generate new work within a negotiated programme of learning supported by experienced academic staff and technician; the course offers opportunities for experimentation and stimulating cross—disciplinary collaboration.(read more)
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Art and Design (Studio Practice) MA
Loughborough UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course offers specialist facilities in: Textiles; 3-dimensional design; fine art; and visual communication.(read more)
Design and Branding Strategy MA
Brunel UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: This Master's prepares students from design and other creative disciplines to design innovative strategies and act as a catalyst for change in the design, branding and related professions and businesses; participants engage with high-level skills and creative thinking and learn to clearly communicate strategies for successful brand building, futures forecasting and change management.(read more)
Art and Design (Practice) MA (Res)
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: Research areas include: The ways in which practice advances knowledge; the relationship of theory to practice in art and design; the role of the object in knowledge creation; the relationship between knowledge and interpretation; taxonomies of knowledge and their embodiment in practice.(read more)
Multi-Disciplinary Design MA
University Of UlsterStudy modes: Full time
Course description: The strength of the course will lie in the debate that is generated between the variety of practitioners that the course is aimed at; drawing together multimedia design students and textile designers, product designers and visual communication practitioners, applied artists and interior designers it will create a broad based knowledge bank from which to draw upon.(read more)
Design Strategy and Innovation MA
Brunel UniversityStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening
Course description: The course creates closer links between design and industry and to widen the horizons of design management students, enabling them to make informed reference to the world beyond design (to users, the market, new technology, economics, politics, law and the global environment); includes option of professional membership of the Chartered Society of Designers.(read more)
Design (Textile Design) MA
University Of SouthamptonStudy modes: Full time
Course description: The programme prepares students for further research or practice,
drawing on their creativity and knowledge; students develop critical thinking skills, refine their textile design skills and undertake design research; students acquire a critical understanding of their subject from different cultural and professional perspectives, and benefit from international and industrial links.(read more)
Graphic Design MA
University Of HertfordshireStudy modes: Full time | Part time evening | Part time day
Course description: The course enables students to adopt an enquiring and critical approach to the graphic image, its uses and potential uses in contemporary practice; social, political, environmental and commercial contexts and the processes by which signs operate to convey meanings in various environments are key aspects of study in this discipline area.(read more)
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Design For Interaction Ma
University Of Westminster
Yannis, November 2007Overall score
University of Westminster is an overall interesting environment of learning, though applicants must be careful of the course they choose. Some courses the teaching level is not of high-level.
Study experience
Lecturers are not helpful AT ALL. Course was 10 hours a week but we barely did half. Why did we pay for this?
Facilities
The library is good but VERY noisy. Computers on high season, end of exams etc are not enough. Sports facilities are very very poor.
Postgraduate life
I was not a member, don't know about them. Not well advertised.
Job prospects
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Lots of pluses, but a few minuses...
Graphic Communication MA
University Of Glamorgan
Tom, May 2010Overall score
The Atrium, (The Glamorgan campus where I study,) is a FANTASTIC building. Really, I couldnt praise it more highly. The facilities are the best outside of central London that I know of. The building fits in an enormous amount for somewhere that doesnt really look that big from the outside. It's beautifully designed. The lecturers in the main are incredibly enthusiastic, experienced, lovely people. Add to that the huge choice of accomodation, (there's 2 halls of residence within a 5/10 minute walk of the Atrium, as well as the Trefforest campus a 20 minute train journey away, before we even mention all the private accomodation around Cardiff...) and it's position close to an excellent range of nightlife and other benefits and you really can't go wrong!
Study experience
The MA course is...well, 'relaxed' is probably the word I would use.
The lecturers are very knowledgable, lovely people, and always very enthusiastic. They know their chosen fields down to a T, and are always happy to share their knowledge and experience if it will help with a brief, (even if this is a piece of work you are doing proffessionally, outside of the course.) The briefs given are interesting and varied, with full tutoring given on any new or relevant software, techniques and theories.
However, the 'relaxed' comes into it when it comes to deadlines. I fully expected to be under a lot of pressure completing this MA; I thought that, by Christmas of the first term, i'd be tearing my hair out, throwing all-night work sessions fuelled by pizza, numerous performance enhancers and caffeine-filled soft-drinks. The truth is that this has just not happened, nor has it needed to. Instead of the 4/5 week turnaround I expected on each project, some briefs have been 'pushed back' so as not to clash with other hand-ins. This has meant that some briefs have had up to 8/9 weeks spent on them.
Now im not complaining about doing a relaxing course. However, when working in industry, I fully expect to be set briefs that I have a day, a week, maybe ten days to complete IF IM LUCKY. I have questioned a few times during this course whether a)extending deadlines and b) 'fudging it' so that we're not having to hand-in two projects in a week has really been a good idea with regards to building experience in our chosen field...
All-in-all, I give the course an 8 out of 10. Yes, it has been a little too 'easy' for an MA course at times, but the content, tutors and variety more than make up for it.
Facilities
I've already mentioned this. Put simply: AMAZING.
Postgraduate life
I can't really comment as I dont have much experience of them due to being an MA student. However, the uni has a good reputation for providing groups for international students, and are very accomodating should anyone wish to set-up a new group or society.
Job prospects
I have my fingers crossed that I've made the right decision ditching a £16,000 a year financial services job in order to get a job I a) enjoy and b) could potentially make a lot of money from. I'm pretty confident that the course has given me most of the skills I'll need to get there, and to be honest I know that my tutors will be there to help me even after I graduate; Glamorgan is that sort of place.
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Design
Architectural Design MA
University Of Sheffield
Alex, May 2010Overall score
I really love being at uni, my course is perfect for me and I have made great friends with my flatmates and other architecture students. I would definitely recommend both the university and Sheffield as a city, I have friends at Hallam and they enjoy the experience just as much. I would say to people coming that it would be a good idea to research all options and choose the one that suits you best and don't base your whole opinion on one open day, though it would be a good idea to visit beforehand.
Study experience
My course is a lot more creatively based than I first thought, which was a relief as I really enjoy that aspect of design. With the depth of learning and also opportunities for work experience, I think that it points towards a career maybe more than other degrees which is a positive in this economic climate. For academic advice, I would say if you have such a highly coursework based degree don't leave things until the last minute and enjoy your time in the studio.
Facilities
The library is very new and open 24 hours. They have recently changed the computer booking system to make it more user friendly. Each subject building also has its own facilities, which for my course I end up using more. The union is the best in the country and has been for years, and now it is getting a new facade and entrance foyer. Sports clubs and teams are extensive and if there isn't a society for your chosen sport, you can make one.
Postgraduate life
There are many societies, I am a member of my subject society and the art one. At the beginning of term fair they all set up stalls for you to join.
Job prospects
At the moment I hope to stay on for part 2, like a postgrad. I think my course is very focused on the career as it is professionally accredited.
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