MA Illustration (with Advanced Practice) at Teesside University

This two-year master's explores how illustration is created and applied across commercial, editorial, authorial, sequential, multiform and participatory practice, with an Advanced Practice module adding a practice-based opportunity. Students study within a School led jointly with MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art).

Faculty: School of Arts & Creative Industries  |  Department: Art & Design  |  Duration: 2 years full-time  |  Intake: January or September  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Illustration for Communication, Integrated Practice, Speculative Illustration Practice, The Moving Image, a Masters Project and Advanced Practice. Research, theory and applied practice ground the development of an individual practice-based approach.

Career pathways

Graduates work as freelance or in-house studio illustrators across print, publishing and digital or screen, supported by tutors' industry networks and MIMA's visiting speaker programme.

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