Graphic Design Communication MA

The course aims to align current social and cultural issues alongside emerging design practices. It will give you a solid introduction to the debates and methodologies that are at the forefront of contemporary design. You will learn how to challenge and expand this knowledge within your personal design practice.

The course will enable you to become an advanced thinker and versatile practitioner. You will be a designer with the ability to respond to both familiar and unfamiliar challenges.

What to expect

• A practice led course underpinned by critical design thinking and exploration
• Teaching from experienced postgraduate tutors. Each of which has their own personal specialist design / art practice and research
• To work in a variety of spaces in proximity to technicians, subject experts and your peers
• To study themes in contemporary design practice and discourse including habitable worlds, material worlds, environmental ecologies, new desires, aesthetics and the exchange between digital and material cultures
• To develop a rigorous design process. This will provide you with the means to use critical thinking, shape materials and forms, generate and communicate content, develop prototypes and engage with audience testing
• Access to library and special collection resources, shared studios and exhibition spaces
• To seek inspiration and knowledge from tutors, college wide lectures, UAL postgraduate community events and London’s cultural industries
• To have access to Camberwell's shared workshops that include printmaking, photography, film, moving image, digital, plastic, ceramics, wood and metalwork.