Discover how typographic communication can address the issues our society faces. Advance your visual practice in areas including concept development and textuality, and learn how to use them to change our world for the better.
“Our course leader Will's invitation to Type Thursday has been a good opportunity to network and gain a huge amount of feedback. My confidence as an individual and a designer has grown enormously.”
Dennis Amoah
MA Graphic Design and Typography student
Read more about Dennis's experiencesOur MA Graphic Design and Typography is unique in its focus on building your graphic design practice and exploring and developing your role as visual designer and creative.
The course addresses issues including integration and diversity, behavioural change, community cohesion, and environmental challenges.
Whatever your background, you will advance your visual practice in areas that are important for design, such as concept development, communication and typographic design and textuality. You will combine this with extending your knowledge on the complexities of socio-environmental problems; insight into institutional and government structures; creative project development and management; design methods; and collaboration processes. This means you will gain the confidence to progress your career as graphic designer and have an active creative role in social and environmental change-making processes.
As a postgraduate student at ARU, you’ll have access to a dedicated base studio, along with specialist facilities such as film, photography and printmaking studios. You will receive training in creative software such as Adobe Cloud – and can access training in all our other art and creative industries facilities, too.
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Alice Jenkins
Christopher Obasuyi
Lauren Maxwell
Ekaterina Samoshina
Ausra Cerkauskaite
Dennis Amoah
Negin Armon
Tom Sanalitro
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All our Graphic Design students have access to facilities including:
Our team of technical officers will be on hand to offer training and support.
As well as our dedicated digital facilities and design studios, you’ll have use of:
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Course Leader, MA Graphic Design & Typography
Our Masters course will equip you for professional employment or self-employment in graphic design and design consultancy, as well as related fields like brand development, art-editorial design, publishing, typography/typesetting, advertising, media design, creative consultant, and creative practitioner in institutional and organisational Change Making teams.
It will also give you a basis for a teaching career, or to continue to a research degree, like our PhD Art and Design, PhD Graphic Design and Typography, or PhD Fine Art. Take advantage of our Alumni Scholarship and save £400 on your fees.
As an ARU student, you can compete for funding to establish your own projects through The Big Pitch and the Andy Wilson bursary.
Our multidisciplinary research community considers the nature and definitions of design research and the ways our practices and pedagogy can be framed and contextualised.
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Improve your employability, progress in your career, and take on an intellectual challenge with our flexible postgraduate degrees.
Postgraduate study at ARUOur friendly, bustling campus is a stone’s throw from the centre of Cambridge, often described as the perfect student city.
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