Our Illustration master's degree course will help you to engagingly convey complex information to effectively tell stories. Experimenting with an array of storytelling and narrative methods, you will master the roles of illustration and how to take advantage of immersive technologies.In a recent survey, our postgraduate courses scored 91% student satisfaction for creativity and design, and 93% satisfaction overall.Throughout your MA Illustrationcourse in London, you will explore the roles of illustration today and its wide-ranging professional applications moving forward. You will experiment across narrative and storytelling methods, which will enable you to present and reposition information in a strategic, accessible and engaging fashion.You will examine complex knowledge, data and information and bring it to life with empathy, which will freeyou to tell stories that need to be told and ensure that no message is lost in translation.Join the new MA Illustration course where creative minds prosper. By taking on consultancy and organisational roles, as well as developing your own illustration practice, this master's programme is designed to make you truly industry ready.Key study topicsHow creative narrative and storytelling methods can be used to make complex information accessibleExpanded models of professional illustration, including collaborative, interdisciplinary, facilitation and commercial practicesThe use of illustration to foster community, facilitate dialogue, witness and document human experience and knowledgeIllustration as a distinctive empathetic, intersubjective communication discipline operating with specific behaviours, mechanisms and principlesThe expansive application of illustration to communicate and transfer knowledge across disciplines and professional fields, with an emphasis on social practiceHow to develop your creative practice with exposure to different methods of traditional and digital illustrationand physical productionExplore storytelling techniques using immersive technologies to engage mass audiencesExperiment with how narratives can be told across media and platforms in linear, nonlinear, interactive, participatory and immersive ways.As it crosses so many creative boundaries, there are unparalleled opportunities for contemporary illustrators to work with time-based, sequential and narrative forms including graphic design, advertising and publishing, fashion and product design, animation and games design.
