Course summary

Challenge ideas in the field of contemporary graphic design. You’ll learn to operate using hybrid forms of visual communication to develop your own creative practice. Develop your creative practice within the fields of contemporary graphic and communication design. This master’s will encourage you to challenge the established conventions of the creative, communicative disciplines to enhance your own ideas and concepts. As part of your course, you’ll:

• Examine this field of study by integrating theory and practice

• Explore research-led practice at an advanced level

• Focus on your area of specialism, helping you to develop your problem-solving skills

• Investigate a range of concerns through a variety of practices, methodologies and media

• Explore the relationship between traditional forms of communication and the emerging, evolving digital practices employed by contemporary practitioners

• Benefit from the school's close links to industry and creative businesses in the Yorkshire region, throughout the UK, and beyond

• Your tutors have extensive experience of working as active practitioners, allowing you to gain from their industry knowledge and professional networks

• Study within Leeds School of Arts - one of the largest university arts communities in the north

• Gain access to a vast range of ideas, skills and facilities which will allow you to take your practice in whichever direction you want to

• Leeds has a thriving creative sector; home to hundreds of innovative start-ups, agencies, design businesses and countless other opportunities for graphic design graduates