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Full time
1 year
SEP-25
MA - Master of Arts
Illustration Visual Communication
Taught
Why study this course?
Take the next step towards your career in visual communication with this illustration-focused MA. With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, our Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will empower you to enter your field with a clear vision and sense of your role as a designer in today’s world. Whilst building strong industry connections through your tutors and placements, you’ll also become more flexible and independent in your learning.
Our Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will enable you to pursue your ambitions to work as a visual communicator with specific expertise in illustration. Thanks to an interconnected approach to research and illustration, you’ll utilise both theory and practice to develop a portfolio of professional-level work that demonstrates your complex problem-solving capabilities, discipline-specific skills and creativity and critical thinking. You’ll engage and develop your skills through collaborative, multi-disciplinary practices, working together with peers and tutors to develop innovative responses to exciting project briefs.
Your core modules will promote critical thinking through visual communication practices, enabling you to work both speculatively and on fully-realised outcomes. Through illustration research methods and project development you will form and refine a project proposal, which you’ll go on to complete as your final major project in the Summer term. Your major project will be an ambitious and innovatice piece of illustration work, which can help define your portfolio and future career.
Throughout this course you’ll notice an emphasis on recurrent central elements such as socially-engaged design. You’ll be encouraged to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of visual communication and illustration 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 Kong animation studio, Sky, Shotopop, Penhaligon’s, River Island, and the Life of Pi Broadway production puppet-making team.
For this course (per year)
£10,500
For this course (per year)
£18,150
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.
London Metropolitan University is home to a diverse community of learners, mentors, practitioners, innovators, and thinkers, located in the vibrant centre of London, one of the most dynamic capital cities in the world. The university's mission is to transform lives through the power of education – it does this by welcoming students from all kinds of backgrounds and supporting them to achieve success. Each student forms an important part of...more