MA Graphic Design at Anglia Ruskin University

Discover how visual communication can be a powerful force for change. Enrich and advance your skills in graphic design research, process, and practice, and learn how to use them to change people’s lives for the better.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 12 months full-time; 2 years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Through a combination of lectures, practical workshops, group discussions and one-to-one tutorials – and supplemented with reflective discussion groups, guest lectures and excursions – you will take part in studio and practice-based learning, including developing and executing individual projects, and team-based learning in a live ‘real world’ project setting. The Typographic Enquiry and Visual Text modules will focus on developing your creative design practice, while the Design Methods and Contexts module will focus on advanced project building and development. Year 1: Typographic Enquiry, Design Methods and Contexts, Visual Text, Practice Through Partnership, Masters Project Graphic Design.

Career pathways

Our Masters course will equip you for a career as a freelance graphic designer (editorial, publishing, packaging, UX and UI design, advertising, self-initiated projects), as well as creative roles in areas of graphic design, advertising, branding, design consultancy, media and communication, PR and publishing; and design and consultancy roles in project teams focused on sustainability and socio-environmental development and change implementation in institutes, organisations, governments and companies. You could also find work as a designer in areas such as type design; typography; sign writing; promotion; book and magazine design; gallery artist or curator; illustrator; animator; motion graphics; UX, UI and experience design; design or gallery technician; web designer; online/social media content provider; and visual creative and director in areas such as interactive storytelling, vlogging, image mapping, interactive books, data-visualisation, design for games, or networked and automated storytelling.

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