Master of Arts - Visual Communication - Illustration

Students will take the next step towards their career in visual communication with this illustration-focused MA. With an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, the Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will empower students to enter their field with a clear vision and sense of their role as a designer in today’s world. Whilst building strong industry connections through tutors and placements, students will also become more flexible and independent in their learning.

London Metropolitan University's Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will enable students to pursue their ambitions to work as a visual communicator with specific expertise in illustration.

Thanks to an interconnected approach to research and design, students will utilise both theory and practice to develop a portfolio of professional-level work that demonstrates their complex problem-solving capabilities, creativity and critical thinking. They’ll engage and develop their skills through collaborative, multi-disciplinary practices.

The core modules will promote critical thinking through design practices, enabling students to work both speculatively and on fully-realised outcomes. Through design research methods and design project development students will form and refine a project proposal, which they’ll go on to complete as their final major project.

Throughout this course students will notice an emphasis on recurrent central elements such as socially-engaged design. They’ll be encouraged to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of visual communication practice.