32 Master Programs in Communication Design in Europe for 2024

The M.A. Communication Design and Creative Strategies is a future-proof program. It provides key competencies expected from creative heads in management positions, focusing on aesthetic production in advertising, marketing and visual communication. The aim is to master the entire design-oriented process of value creation both in theory and practice.

The proliferation of information and data available today provides both challenges and opportunities for how we understand, navigate and communicate our complex world. It also places communication designers in a potentially influential role as interpreters, facilitators and activators of knowledge, truth and insight.

The MA in Communication Design is the ideal next step for students who have studied a BA program in art and design and who want to further their knowledge in the field. It is also ideal for students with a business, humanities, cultural, and media studies background as well as Science and Technology Studies (STS).

MA Graphic Communication Design pursues a direct and in-depth connection between the applied arts tradition of graphic design and a critical and creative approach to communication. As a subject of study, graphic communication design cultivates a considered stance towards visual and other media. This stance is activated as an approach to challenging and reconfiguring culture. The goal of this course is to engage the tools of graphic design in experimentation with the basic forms by which knowledge is constituted and mobilised.

The course aims to align current social and cultural issues alongside emerging design practices. It will give you a solid introduction to the debates and methodologies that are at the forefront of contemporary design. You will learn how to challenge and expand this knowledge within your personal design practice.

In our Visual & Experience Design master’s program, students will gain an understanding of innovations in digital, computational, and physical interactions that permeate our daily lives. All topics will be delivered in sequential clusters, allowing the students to acquire and apply theories to real contexts, as well as to envision entirely new scenarios.

At the heart of your experience with us in Visual Communication is the shared commitment to ‘conversational practice’. By this, we mean a practical and discursive approach to making. We see communication as essentially, a conversation to form bridges, connect people and exchange ideas.

Our MA Visual Communication Design (Management), has been crafted to meet the demands of 21st-century design thinking and is unique in its focus on preparing you for emerging careers. Created for aspiring design sector professionals, the course gives you the opportunity to bring your creative talent to the foreground while learning vital modern disciplines in the business side of the design and visual communication industry. Accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), this MA is for future managers who will use design leadership techniques and apply design management strategies to drive successful outcomes in their organisations.

Our MA Visual Communication Design (Management), has been crafted to meet the demands of 21st-century design thinking and is unique in its focus on preparing you for emerging careers. Created for aspiring design sector professionals, the course gives you the opportunity to bring your creative talent to the foreground while learning vital modern disciplines in the business side of the design and visual communication industry.

The MFA Communication programme interrogates the fundamental ways in which communication shapes our lives, and uses this knowledge to develop new ways of experiencing, interacting and communicating with the world. The programme makes space for conversation, inter-cultural exchange, new ideas and diverse voices. You will explore social, political, environmental and philosophical implications of communication practices and how these may be manifested within the your chosen field of practice.

The Master of science program in Communication Design prepares a designer able to cope with strategic communication problems, providing innovative solutions and coordinating all the roles and competencies involved in a complex communication project.

Change is the only constant. Established business and managerial standards are being disrupted, current business strategies are being reframed. The secret of today's success on the market is not to merely create new customers, but to cater their needs in new ways so that new lines of products can emerge.

The objective of communication is to influence the knowledge, behaviour and attitudes of people. Therefore, we hack into city spaces, we create computer games for alcoholics, we change the way patients perceive waiting time, we design way-finding by use of sound, or we design posters for dyslexics.

The Master in Communication and Web Technologies (MCTW) arises to meet the training needs of professionals qualified in the conceptualization, development, and evaluation of communication solutions supported by Web technologies, promoting the ability to investigate and propose future solutions, both in current and emerging technologies.

The Master’s in Communication Design is a two-year academic program that equips students with the knowledge and tools necessary to conceptualize, develop, and manage all phases of communication projects. The second part of the program allows students to explore their passion within the industry and determine where their talents can make the most significant impact.