MA Communication Design

This course has been developed in response to industry demand for creative professionals with specialist design skills.

Communication Design helps you to think creatively about design problems and use technology to offer innovative solutions. Analytical skills, 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.

Communication designers commonly work across a wide range of areas, offering a 360° collaborative approach to design delivery.

UCAS Code
P042423

Duration
1 year full time/ 2 years part time

Validating body
Ravensbourne University London

Home/ EU tuition fees

International tuition fee

Course specification

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Selection criteria

We welcome applicants who are able to demonstrate their abilities through prior academic qualifications and/or previous employment.

To get a holistic view of your ability and aptitude to succeed on the course we will also consider your enthusiasm and interest in the subject area, how you manage the creative process, and your study and professional skills.

Further information can be found on the course specification

What your course will look like

Unit 1: Technology Issues

In the Technology Issues unit 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 and understanding of business and innovative practices in the creative industries. It supports communication design 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

The Major Project 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.

Alumni

Utkarsh Bhandari

Successes

Ravensbourne hosts the postgraduate degree show as part of London Design Festival

Entry requirements

Home/EU

First or upper second class honours degree (or equivalent non-UK qualifications) in a relevant subject, or an equivalent professional qualification in a related subject area.

If you are applying directly from an undergraduate degree course without experience or professional practice you must be able to demonstrate a good knowledge of your chosen subject area.

Non-EEA/EU
In order to be eligible for a course, you will need to be a competent speaker and writer of English. This also applies if you are from the European Union, or if you're from a country outside the EU. You will need a level of IELTS 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each section.

More information on entry requirements per country

Lecturers

Professor Jeremy Gardiner

Dr Brigitta Zics PgCert, MA (MKE) MFA (KHM) PhD

Alberto Villanueva BA (Hons) MArch MA (Distinction) PGCE FHEA

Peter Smith MA RCA

Paul Sternberg MA

Dr Nicholas Lambert BA (Hons) SOAS, University of London; DPhil University of Oxford

Professor Jeremy Barr

Peter Todd

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I’m very happy on the course: I’ve been able to combine 2D and 3D in my projects; in my final project I am developing paper folding techniques into packaging for the fashion brand Issey Miyake. There have been lots of group projects and this was a good way of collaborating with my course colleagues.
Nurdan Kocasoy, graduate

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