Design for Visual Communication

Overview

As a current student or graduate of Postgraduate Diploma Design for Visual Communication, you can apply to join the Design for Visual Communication programme at the University of the Arts London (UAL) – an additional 60-credit unit where you’ll be supported by tutors to pursue a self-directed project and achieve an Master’s award upon completion.

This unit will enable you to advance your portfolio even further with advanced critical skills that demonstrate a high level of design research and practice.

Delivered online to accommodate flexible learning while enabling you to develop your own self-structured learning journey, you’ll engage with the course through tutorials, peer-to-peer feedback, workshops and community building sessions.

You’ll also be encouraged to pursue a project that can be achieved in collaboration with a company, charity, cultural institution or other organisation.

What to expect

• The 20-week MA unit provides an exciting, challenging and unique opportunity for current PG Dip Design for Visual Communication students and graduates to engage with an extended, research-led period of practical study.

• You'll build on a deep understanding of the fundamental principles of design in practice with critical, contextual design thinking and research in an applied context.

• Supporting the focus and diverse ambition of our students towards purposeful and applied practice, this phase will provide scope for you to specialise more intensely in a subject area of your choice that you’ll develop in consultation with your tutor.

• Core teaching and learning methods include one-to-one tutorials; asynchronous workshops and lectures; synchronous community events, presentations, seminars and workshops; and supervised technical workshops.

• You’ll have access to the full range of LCC’s online facilities such as workshops and support sessions from the Library, Academic and Language Support, Enterprise and Employability. Plus access to facilities such as the Digital Space and Creative Technology Lab, amongst others.

• You’ll be prepared to use your design skills and literacy in the context of business, policy, strategy, social activism and creative directorship, in addition to other leadership roles that value critical and creative thinking grounded in practical and technical skills.