Designed for innovative and reflective practitioners keen to find a personal direction within the breadth and depth of their discipline, this course will provide a forum to encourage advanced levels of research, embracing an exploratory yet rigorous approach to practice and theory.
This postgraduate course sets out to test the products, processes and issues of graphic design in its widest sense, providing you throughout all aspects of your study with an opportunity to acquire a new perspective on graphic design and your practice. The course offers an environment where you will be encouraged to develop a design philosophy and an integrated theoretical enquiry in relation to your practice.
It focuses on experimentation in the areas of typography, the book, sign systems, multi-media design, theory and web design, and reflects the often blurred and fluid boundaries of contemporary graphic design.
This course is ideally suited to recent graduates, professional practitioners or designers in mid-career looking to generate something new about their practice and committed to reinventing and re-exploring the nature of design.
About the course
Unlike a purely research-based award, which relies primarily on independent study, the course will provide you with a range of research relevant skills and a teaching framework for three phases of development:
Phase one: September - January (15 weeks) Semester one is an exploratory and practice-centred stage in which you will define and develop your research project.
Phase two: February - May (15 weeks) Semester two brings together your research and practice towards an interim outcome, concluding with a project review during which time a recommendation would be made about the expected length of study for phase three.
Phase three: September - January (15 weeks) Semester three is the time in which the research project is realised both practically and theoretically.
MA students have access to the resources of the department and are supported by a knowledgeable and experienced technical team.
Refer to UCA website: www.ucreative.ac.uk For an explanation of qualifications, have a look at our IAG page on this site www.creativeway.org.uk/quals.
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