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Develop genuine skill, understanding and confidence, and take your practice to a professional level with our MA Design.

MA Design encourages a healthy interplay of approaches and ideas across the visual design and the applied arts. You may want to explore a particular design interest on the programme, or select a pathway in Visual Communication, Graphics, Textiles or Illustration. 

This is a practical design course, grounded in developing skills in all areas of professional, critical and research process. We encourage you to work both independently and collaboratively, alongside students specialising in range of areas including fine art photography, painting, media and ceramics.  

Over the course of the programme, you'll build a build a strong professional approach to your practice, and you’ll demonstrate this in a public show of your final MA project at the end of the programme.

On successful completion of the course, your new abilities will be clearly evident in the portfolios you’ve developed, and your increased confidence will help you to prepare your move into industry or to continued studies.

Working alongside other postgraduate students from Textiles, Visual Communication, Illustration, Graphics and Fine Art pathways, you’ll develop your own projects while undertaking practice-led research, theory and professional practice modules.

Specialist tutors and technicians will guide your progress, supporting you to create your own approach and make coherent and visually exciting design outcomes.

You'll use subject-specific studios and workshops and have access to technical equipment, specialist software and computers. Our excellent art and design library provides access to printed books, ebooks, magazines and periodicals and a range of other resources through interlibrary arrangements. You will be supported by a very enthusiastic team and a dedicated art and design librarian.

The Master’s programme culminates in a public exhibition. Our aim is for you to graduate with a broad, informed outlook, a genuine confidence in your abilities built through experience and the professional skills necessary to succeed in your chosen specialism.