Visual Communication: Illustration MA

**Why study this course?**<br/>Take the next step towards your career in visual communication with this illustration-focused MA. With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, our Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will empower you to enter your field with a clear vision and sense of your role as a designer in today’s world. Whilst building strong industry connections through your tutors and placements, you’ll also become more flexible and independent in your learning.<br/><br/>**More about this course**<br/>Our Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will enable you to pursue your ambitions to work as a visual communicator with specific expertise in illustration.<br/><br/>Thanks to an interconnected approach to research and design, you’ll utilise both theory and practice to develop a portfolio of professional-level work that demonstrates your complex problem-solving capabilities, creativity and critical thinking. You’ll engage and develop your skills through collaborative, multi-disciplinary practices.<br/><br/>Your core modules will promote critical thinking through design practices, enabling you to work both speculatively and on fully-realised outcomes. Through design research methods and design project development you will form and refine a project proposal, which you’ll go on to complete as your final major project.<br/><br/>Throughout this course you’ll notice an emphasis on recurrent central elements such as socially-engaged design. You’ll be encouraged to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of visual communication practice.<br/><br/>The course is full of opportunities for growth:<br/><br/><br/>- professional industry practice – work on live project briefs with industry partners (such as the public realm improvements scheme with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and The City of London Corporation) <br/><br/><br/>- situating your practice – how to formulate a clear direction for your practice<br/><br/><br/>- improving complex problem solving and critical thinking<br/><br/><br/>- collaborative and multi-disciplinary working<br/><br/><br/>- building knowledge through research and development<br/><br/><br/>- the challenge of expertly communicating and presenting your thinking and outcomes<br/><br/><br/>- opportunities for exhibition<br/>