Visual Communication - Illustration

This Visual Communication - Illustration MA program from London Metropolitan University with an emphasis on research, experimentation and creative risk-taking, will empower you to enter your field with a clear vision and sense of your role as a designer in today’s world.

The Visual Communication - Illustration program from London Metropolitan University will enable you to pursue your ambitions to work as a visual communicator with specific expertise in illustration.

Quick Facts:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Career opportunities:

Following completion of their Visual Communication: Illustration course, you will find yourself equipped to pursue a variety of career routes. Opportunities for professional employment may include:

• freelance illustrator
• in-house illustrator
• book cover designer
• art director
• storyboard artist
• creative director
• print designer
• image researcher

• project manager

Graduates from their School of Art, Architecture and Design's visual communication cluster have continued on to successful careers in a range of design roles. Whilst some are now working for well-known and highly regarded companies including Territory Studio, Manchester United Football Club, Iwoca and Blow Up Media, many graduates have taken the plunge and set up their own independent studios and freelance practices, such as Studio Theolin and Karl Fitzgerald.

Courses include:

• Design Project Development
• Project as Professional Practice: Graphic Design
• Research Methods: Success in Design
• World Building
• Design for Change
• Material Culture