Design (Graphics)

The Design (Graphics) program from Sheffield Hallam University builds up through the year and across the course modules. You’ll gain new research and practice skills and learn how to manage them appropriately within your professional design practice. We’ll encourage you to position your practice within and across disciplinary boundaries, developing an individual design approach, collaborating in interdisciplinary settings, and communicating ideas and projects to relevant audiences.

Learning on MA Design builds up throughout the year and course modules. You’ll gain new research and practice skills and learn to manage them appropriately within your professional design practice. We’ll encourage you to position your practice within and across disciplinary boundaries, develop an individual design approach, collaborate in interdisciplinary settings, and communicate ideas and projects to relevant audiences.

Key facts

• Be part of an interdisciplinary design program which promotes social and cultural innovation.

• Develop your specialist skills and knowledge in a collaborative studio environment.

• Innovate with materials, technology and conceptual thinking.

• Extend existing material practices in response to the needs of our rapidly changing world.

Careers and opportunities

This course prepares you for a career as a

• independent design practitioner

• designer

• design manager

• maker or manufacturer

• company-employed designer

• postgraduate student at PhD level

The aim of this course is for you to achieve your personal employment ambitions — whether as a design professional in the creative industries, or in related areas such as research, retail, marketing, and education.

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for international design companies and consultancies as well as gaining PhD scholarships.

Courses include:

• Creative Design And Positionality

• Design Lab: Synthesis And Manifesto (Graphics)

• Methods For Research And Practice