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MA - Master of Arts
Coventry (Main Campus)
Full Time
May 2028
1 Year
Designed for graphic design graduates, professionals and creatives repositioning their practice, whether your goal is to strengthen your portfolio, advance your career or progress onto a PhD. Personal Practitioner Voice: Shape your own perspective on design, hone your subject expertise, and build a portfolio that reflects who you are as a creative. Professional Edge: Broaden and deepen your understanding of contemporary graphic design principles across print, screen, motion and interactivity. Gain the practical skills and industry insight to define, future-proof and advance your practice. Critical Thinking: Develop the theoretical depth and research skills to contextualise your work within contemporary design discourse; whether you're strengthening your professional practice or laying the groundwork for further academic study. This course aims to help you: follow a focused line of enquiry, building on your skills and knowledge, and culminating in a final self-directed project focus on digital and analogue media, with an emphasis on contemporary graphic design practices focus on modern, relevant practices shaped by broader cultural debates within the graphic design field get a practical, ideas-based curriculum encouraging you to develop a unique professional voice get hands-on project-based learning that mirrors industry and professional creative team environments.
This module enables the development of research skills relevant for postgraduate study in the realm of creative arts and design subjects. The module addresses a number of different theoretical positions and visual languages used in contemporary art and design practice. The overall aims are to develop and enhance the theoretical and practical research skills required by professional artists and designers and to enable you to become confident in negotiating different visual and theoretical frameworks relevant for their chosen field.
This module deals with the nature of effective communication through design and aims to generate new ways of communicating. It questions established graphic design tenets, communication truths, methods, audience, behaviour and standards.
This module focuses on generating and maintaining currency and future relevance in graphic design practice, and on the dangers of cutting loose from reference points. It considers graphic design?s position in society, both as contributor and legatee.
This module provides students with a practical and flexible insight into a broad range of international art and design-based practices and contexts. It is designed to substantially increase students? knowledge, awareness and experience of a wide spectrum of professional contemporary art and design contexts in relation to their own specific practice and research.
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