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| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The role of the graphic designer is expanding constantly as visual communication needs become increasingly demanding. This course will enable you to meet these demands by helping you to develop your ability to think strategically and create clear, meaningful and appropriate work. It will encourage you to become open and sensitive to changing cultural, social and political climates, and, while seeing the big picture, demand perfection in the detail.
What will you study?
You will work on a number of challenging, experimental projects using a wide range of media to develop your intellectual aesthetic considerations and your technical understanding. Projects are often run with other students and professionals, such as musicians, scientists, product designers and architects, as a way of offering an opportunity to explore and develop dynamic and innovative communication.
The business and social context of communication design is covered in two series of six-week seminars. Your masters project will culminate in a gallery assessment show, which will include your professional portfolio of supporting work.
Contents
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Modules
* Exploration and Innovation
Through a range of innovative projects, you will explore themes stimulating investigation of new areas of practice, both creatively and technically. You will:
* further develop your critical understanding of different approaches to the creative process within your particular discipline, whether it is Illustration, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Animation, Drawing or Interactive Design; and
* begin developing an innovative body of work for inclusion in your portfolio which reflects your creative ambitions.
* Visualising Ideas
Building on the Exploration and Innovation module, you will begin work on more complex projects. Both set and self-initiated, these projects:
* will stretch your individual ability and maximise your creative potential;
* may be individually driven or undertaken with colleagues from within your own or other disciplines, depending on your projects' content, audience and final resolution; and
* will allow you to challenge established practice and build on your own creative values through personal development planning.
Once again, you will be expected to finish selected projects to a high standard for inclusion in your portfolio.
* Building Interdisciplinary Practice
Responding to the changes and new demands of the creative industries, this modules focuses on your team-working skills. External advisors from industry will set and review ambitious projects which:
* may be large and complex;
* will involve high-levels of creativity; and
* will test and develop your ability to negotiate, manage and co-ordinate your own and your colleagues' work to bring projects to a successful conclusion.
You will re-present work in the context of your portfolio, making your own contribution clear. You will also have the opportunity to develop an understanding of your career opportunities, build networks and cultivate professional practice.
* Practice Research Project
You undertake two substantial projects during this module, based around an issue which needs to be communicated to a group or an identified 'window of opportunity'.
Normally one brief will be set and the other self-initiated, although both will encourage questioning. The set brief will be open to negotiation, rewriting or re-positioning. The second, self-initiated brief encourages independence and should be born out of autonomous research and reflection upon reading interests or concerns. It could also be an extension of a subject which has already been touched upon during earlier projects.
In the development of projects you will research and liaise with outside agencies as appropriate. Most importantly, the self-initiated part of this module acts as a fore-runner to the final 'Major Project' - the success of these projects will indicate the appropriateness and readiness for the next stage, completion of the Major Practice Research Project.
* Major Practice Research Projects
Assessment: Portfolio; exhibition; masters project
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
* Applicants should have a good BA(Hons) degree or equivalent qualification in graphic design or a related subject, such as moving image, graphic communication, illustration, 3D design, advertising, photography, packaging, computer-related design, architecture or fine art.
* We also welcome applicants with relevant experience, which demonstrates the necessary skills and intellectual achievement needed to undertake the course.
* You must submit a portfolio of slides, CDs or video compilation
* International students must have an IELTS score of 6.5 or equivalent
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
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