Masters Degrees in Illustration

Develop your existing knowledge and experience as a designer, exploiting our significant research expertise to enhance your own design and research skills to a new level.

The MA Digital and Visual Communication offers study in a broad range of digital and visual communication theory and practice. The Course attracts students from a wide range of disciplines and from all over the world, giving it a strong international flavour.

A central element of the course is the application and testing of communicative drawing, as well as drawing with identified purpose and intent.

Contemporary illustration practice has grown to encompass a broad range of ambitions and opportunities for image makers and storytellers.

Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s illustration as well as engaging in the academic study of children's literature, to gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between image, text, readers and context in the world of children’s literature.

Immerse yourself in exploring professional and practical approaches to children’s illustration as well as engaging in the academic study of children's literature, to gain an in-depth understanding of the relationships between image, text, readers and context in the world of children’s literature.

Follow in the footsteps of acclaimed children’s artists. Work with a dedicated support team of internationally-recognised illustrators to develop your own personal visual vocabulary.

Do you want to develop your creative and technical abilities and take your illustration skills to postgraduate level?.

Postgraduate study in illustration reflects the diversity of the subject and the opportunities that exist in areas such as publishing, advertising, graphic and web design, theatre, television, art galleries and museums.

This course celebrates the role that illustration plays within a global context providing opportunities to immerse yourself in the diversity of practice that increasingly defines the subject in the 21st century.

This course celebrates the role that illustration plays within a global context providing opportunities to immerse yourself in the diversity of practice that increasingly defines the subject in the 21st century.

Develop your own voice on this unique illustration course - the only one of its kind with a specific academic focus on authorial practice.

On the MA Illustration degree you will develop your professional skills as an Illustrator. You will work with design professionals of international standing.

The MA Children’s Book Illustration course is aimed at both professional practitioners wishing to pursue a sustained period of time developing new ideas or recent graduates wishing to focus their studies and refine ideas at an advanced level.

Our. MA Illustration. course encourages you to question the nature of your practice and its context and position relative to the creative industries.