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Illustration (with Advanced Practice) MA

Illustration (with Advanced Practice) MA

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Full time | Teesside University Middlesbrough | 2 years | JAN-26

Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

JAN-26

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

MA - Master of Arts

Subject areas

Illustration

Course Summary

You explore traditional and future-facing definitions of illustration, becoming a flexible practitioner ready to face the industry’s changing needs. This is a highly practical course, utilising methods through which illustration can be created and applied by challenging making and thinking. This approach enables you to become competitive, recognisable and adaptable. You work on illustration practices, processes and outcomes, including commercial, editorial, authorial, sequential, multiform or active/participatory. You produce work for print and publishing, international competitions, children's picture books, zines, graphic novels, digital and screen-based production including animation, motion or large-scale installation. You study at our School of Arts & Creative Industries, led by Teesside University and MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), an international contemporary museum and gallery. You gain a full artistic experience, learning in a social space that inspires dynamic ideas, fuels collaboration and allows you to build local, national and international networks with industry professionals for your future illustration career.

Modules

A picture speaks a thousand words, but how do pictures tell a story? You explore the capabilities of the single image to communicate on its own. You engage in creative and innovative ways with typical commercial outputs. You explore book covers, posters and promotional material that use illustration - each time reconsidering the communicative potential of the single image. You create single images that suggest a larger narrative, intended to quickly deliver information, atmosphere, and pique curiosity. Your assessment is 100% ICA based on a wordless piece of visual communication.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,968

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£10,000

Entry requirements

You will normally have a first degree in related discipline (2.2 minimum) or relevant experience or equivalent qualifications. You are expected to be a confident and independent learner with a good understanding of the design process, idea development and critical thinking. You are asked to present a portfolio of work or a completed project showing the development of your work from behind the scenes, or an ongoing project showing the progression and direction of your work.