MA Illustration
Ravensbourne University London
Key Information
Campus location
Greenwich Peninsula, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
1 year
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
Bring knowledge to life.
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*
*Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2020
Why study this Illustration master's degree?
- Embrace the natural storyteller in you
- Explore cutting-edge storytelling and narrative methods
- Augment your understanding of immersive illustration technologies
- Supercharge your illustration business
- Tap into exceptional industry connections
- Study in a stunning new building in London's Design District
- Be a legacy maker for The Institute of Creativity and Technology
Throughout your MA Illustration course in London, you will explore the roles of illustration today and its wide-ranging professional applications moving forward. You will experiment with 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 free you to tell stories that need to be told and ensure that no message is lost in translation.
Join the new MA Illustration course in our new flagship building, The Institute for Creativity and Technology, 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.
Ideal Students
Illustrators who want to diversify their professional practices through exploring narrative communication techniques.
Curriculum
Key study topics
- How creative narrative and storytelling methods can be used to make complex information accessible.
- Expanded models of professional illustration, including collaborative, interdisciplinary, facilitation and commercial practices.
- The use of illustration fosters community, facilitates dialogue, and witness and document human experience and knowledge.
- Illustration as a distinctive empathetic, intersubjective communication discipline operating with specific behaviours, mechanisms and principles.
- The expansive application of illustration to communicate and transfer knowledge across disciplines and professional fields, with an emphasis on social practice.
- How to develop your creative practice with exposure to different methods of digital and physical production.
- Explore storytelling techniques using immersive technologies to engage mass audiences.
- Experiment with how narratives can be told across media and platforms in linear, nonlinear, interactive, participatory and immersive ways.
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Career Opportunities
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.