Overview
The course pushes the boundaries of how we structure and convey stories and subjects through an interdisciplinary community of practice which will challenge you to deepen your own personal style and approach to develop the theoretical and practical skills necessary to explore how this style can be expressed across many media and sectors. As a research-led, studio-based course, you will also learn how to develop new, emerging ideas into a visual methodology that speaks successfully in a crowded contemporary visual culture, whether honing your own brand or developing a visual signature on behalf of clients.
You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively or with external partners on briefs that prioritise co-design, participation and reflective evaluation as a process that will give you the confidence to work generatively, extending your practice through a framework for listening and responding to others whose perspectives are different from your own. As a creative practitioner whose work often transmits the stories, messages, and experiences of others, you will strengthen your ability to use visual language—form, colour, type, motion, light, image, character—in a dialogic process that captures the expressive potential of communication beyond words at the threshold between language and lived experience.
As a course that aims to expand the potential reach and form of your designs, you will be encouraged to research and identify a compelling social, environmental or business challenge made visible or more accessible through your designs, culminating in a feature project prototype or series of artefacts developed from concept to display for an external client.
Programme Structure
The comprehensive Masters structure, which is shared across our specialist subjects, enables our postgraduate students to focus on creative strategies and processes through three sequential units which support you in investigating, testing and developing your ideas. The core tuition focuses on training, research methodology, critical thinking, design, practice-led research methods and professional and conceptual frameworks. All of our programmes have access to outstanding workshop facilities in the university.
By combining learning units with specialist assignments and personal project proposals, you will be able to achieve depth and specialisation within your subject area, while at the same time develop a critical methodology through techniques that can be applied across the commercial, social and public sectors.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
- Part-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- StartingApply anytime.
Language
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Credits
Delivered
Campus Location
- Plymouth, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Design Communication Studies Graphic Design View 116 other Masters in Graphic Design in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.
- As part of the application, you will be asked to give the usual application details, to provide some digital images of your work, and to submit a short personal statement (300 words approximately). This personal statement is a chance to tell us what you want to do on your chosen MA.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents17500 GBP / year≈ 17500 GBP / year -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents9500 GBP / year≈ 9500 GBP / year
Additional Details
Part-time : UK: £5,320 International: £9,275
Living costs
Plymouth
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
The following international scholarships are available:
https://www.aup.ac.uk/international/finance#scholarships
Creative Scholarships (up to £2,000) - awarded on merit via a panel, applied to students entering the first year of study of either an Undergraduate or Postgraduate course. Applicants will need to meet benchmarks for excellence of portfolio and demonstrate a commitment to study.
Vice-Chancellor’s Arts University Plymouth Excellence Award (£3,500) - available to students entering a full time 1 year MA programme, awarded on a competitive basis by application and panel selection.
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Scholarships Information
Below you will find Master's scholarship opportunities for Design (Communication).
Available Scholarships
You are eligible to apply for these scholarships but a selection process will still be applied by the provider.
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