Communication Design MA
This course has been developed
in response to industry demand
for creative professionals with
specialist design skills.
Futures
Communication designers
commonly work across a wide
range of areas, offering a 360°
collaborative approach to
design delivery.
The Course
Communication Design helps you to
think creatively about design problems
and use technology to offer innovative
solutions. Analytical skills, together
with strategic and conceptual thinking
are developed to achieve successfully
targeted messages to the recipient.
This broad-ranging discipline is
concerned not only with developing
aesthetics, but also creating new
media channels to ensure the message
reaches its target audience effectively.
As technology has become more
prevalent, design has assumed more
importance and professionals need
to be able to offer new ideas to meet
client needs. You will develop your
own specialism, as well as collaborating
with students on other postgraduate
pathways, through rigorous analysis,
experimentation and practical testing.
You will benefit from the input of
professional designers working within
the future-thinking design industry.
Duration: 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
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Environment Design MA
Unit 1: Technology Issues
You will have the opportunity
to prototype ideas and engage
with industry standard processes,
techniques and technology relevant
to communication design.
Unit 2: Research Process
This unit provides the grounding
for research and development
skills needed for students’
individual projects.
Unit 3: Business and Innovation
This unit helps students develop
an understanding of business
and innovative practices in the
creative industries. It supports
students in turning their ideas and
skills into viable market propositions
and long-term business plans.
Unit 4: Concept and Prototyping
This allows students to further
develop their skills, to identify
a specialist area related to
communication design and
to pursue a single line of
inquiry, idea or theory embedded
in communication design and
research, and develop the concept.
Unit 5: Major project
This represents the culmination of
students’ investigation and the final
stage of the research strategy. This is
a substantial piece of self-managed
work that is underpinned by advanced
practice-based methodologies and
processes.
Entry requirements: Page 142
How to apply: Page 146
Term starts:
September 2018
This course investigates spatial design
in relation to interiors, architecture,
cities and natural environments.
Futures
This course is responding to the
emerging demand for architects
with an inter-disciplinary skillset
in urban planning, environment
design and sustainable cultures.
The Course
Environment Design aims to
produce new design and research
that takes forward questions inherent
in modernity. The course encourages
you to explore your own field of
research and practice. We are a
multidisciplinary team with staff
who exchange knowledge in
applied technologies, visual effects,
interactive digital media, moving
image, communication design and
fashion. The programme aims to give
students the skills to create methods
and techniques often offered by new
technology and the creative
processes involved in designing.
You will be encouraged to engage
with advanced practice within a global
context and explore the similarities
and key differences in emphasis of
different centres across the world
and to put your learning and design
solutions into context. Here you will
expand your own research and
practice, by developing and managing
an ind ividual programme of enquiry
and creative development in
Duration: 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
environment design. This will
culminate in the realisation of a final
major project fully informed by
professional and industrial contexts
and multi disciplinary perspectives.
Unit 1: Technology Issues
You will have the opportunity to
prototype ideas and engage with
industry standard processes,
techniques and technology
relevant to environment design.
Unit 2: Research Process
The Research Process and Technology
units will enable you to deepen your
conceptual thinking and technical
application through the development
of your individual practice.
Unit 3: Business and Innovation
The business context of new
technologies has transformed the
relationships between traditional
film, video and digital formats.
Unit 4: Concept and Prototyping
The Concept and Prototyping unit
will develop your main concepts
with reference to theoretical and
business contexts.
Unit 5: Major project
This represents the culmination of
students’ investigation and the final
stage of the research strategy. This is
a substantial piece of self-managed
work that is underpinned by advanced
practice-based methodologies and
processes.
Entry requirements: Page 142
How to apply: Page 146
Term starts:
September 2018
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