Visual Communication: Graphic Design - MA

Why study this course?

Pursue your ambitions as a designer with this research-focused visual communication MA, specialising in graphic design. You’ll benefit from the creative and collaborative environment, staff expertise and industry connections our well-respected London-based school of art, architecture and design has to offer. Completing our masters course will enable you to engage in live briefs, refine all aspects of your practice, and hit the ground running as you begin a career in design.

Our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will allow you to develop a collaborative, multi-disciplinary and socially engaged approach to your practice as a designer.

With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, the course will empower you to graduate as a professional at the forefront of your field. You’ll leave the course with a clear sense of your own role as a designer in the world.

You’ll be supported to create meaningful connections between theory and practice as you implement an interconnected approach to research and design. You’ll work together with peers and tutors to develop innovative responses to exciting project briefs. In turn, this will help you to generate a portfolio of professional-level work and thus demonstrate your advanced problem solving, creativity and critical thinking skills.

This course will expand your critical thinking abilities through design practices, which will enable you to work both speculatively and on fully realised outcomes. Through design research methods and project development you will develop a project proposal to complete as your final major project over the Summer term. Your major project will be an ambitious and innovatice piece of graphic design work, which can help define your portfolio and future career.

With a particular focus on socially-engaged design, our Visual Communication: Graphic Design course will encourage you to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of graphic design practice.

At London Met's School of Art, Architecture and Design we foster a lively and friendly community of practitioners and a space to collaborate with fellow creatives, as well as meeting people form a diverse range of backgrounds and interests. Recent graduates have gone on to work for clients and employers including Sky, Arsenal FC, Blup studio, Found studio, BlowUp Media, Spring Studios, Penhaligans and River Island.

You will be required to have a good lower second class honours degree (2.2) in a relevant field (eg graphic design, illustration, animation, branding, photography, architecture, marketing, 3D design, multimedia, interiors), or an equivalent EU/international qualification.