Programme summary for MA Print Design

About the programme

MA Print Design at UEL offers a unique opportunity for the students’ creative practice to evolve through risk taking and experimentation. The aim of this programme is to provide opportunities for imaginative and innovative creative practice in response to new contexts, materials, processes, environments and art forms. Students’ benefit from our strong collaboration with UEL’s digital print bureau “Fab Pad” and fully equipped specialist print and dye workshops.

Programme structure

The programme can be followed over twelve months full time or twenty-four months part time.

The programme consists of 2 x 30 credit (single) modules and 2 x 60 credit (double) modules

Creative Practice
The main aims of this module are to develop advanced independent, original work and research within the subject area, and to facilitate students to critically reflect on their own work within a wider context of professional process and progress. Students will achieve this through a series of projects that encourage creativity, problem solving and group work.
Options
The programme has a 30 credit ‘option’ module that enables the student to diversify their studies through Fashion Exploration and Practice, Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries and new options in other design areas to be validated at a later date.

Professional Engagement
The programme has a 30 credit ‘Professional Engagement’ module that facilitates opportunity for outward facing professional activities that could take the form of publications, exhibitions, collaborative projects, internships, or the design and organisation of workshop activities. Students are encouraged to collaborate and build on their strengths when designing their proposals for the module.

Negotiated Practice
The main aim of this module is for students to develop a coherent and sophisticated body of work for exhibition or presentation, as appropriate to their proposal. The module culminates in a final exhibition of work, which will demonstrate a sustained and advanced level of practice necessary to achieve a Masters qualification.

Career opportunities

This programme will equip the graduates with a set of transferable skills suitable for work in the creative industries and specialist skills relating to surface, print, visual communication and analysing within the Fashion/Textiles industry.
Job titles might be:
Print/Surface Designer
Fashion Print Designer
Interior Designer
Textile Entrepreneur
Textile Designer/Maker
Visual Analyst
Textile Artist
Illustrator
Design Provocateur
Design Director
Studio Manager
Project manager
Design Academic

Support

The university provides a comprehensive range of support services for students that include: residential/student finance advice/careers advice/study skills development/IT/learning resources. The programme provides strong personal tutor guidance and professional advice related to the practice. Visiting artists, designers and other professional practitioners regularly visit the programme and study trips to working environments are an important component.

Admission

The programme is suitable for:

Applicants with an honours degree in Print/Surface/Textile Design
Applicants with a good honours degree in an Art or Design discipline, with a particular interest, experience and potential for developing creative and innovative approaches to print design
Qualified textile/fashion print design professionals who wish to readdress their professional practice through creativity and innovation.
Relevant lecturers from Higher Education Institutions wishing to upgrade skills.

Applications are welcomed from the EU and overseas.
Students whose first language is not English will have achieved a score of 6.0 in IELTS or equivalent. International qualifications will be checked for appropriate matriculation to UK Higher Education postgraduate programmes. Eligibility for students without degree equivalent qualifications will be assessed on the basis of a personal statement and a portfolio. Places will be offered after a successful interview (in person or online) with a member of the programme team.

Accredited Learning
Students that apply to enter stages of the programme may be admitted through normal Accreditation of Experiential Learning (AEL) or Accreditation of Certificated Learning (ACL) processes, or through an approved articulation agreement. Therefore such applicants must be able to demonstrate and evidence that they have the required learning outcomes as listed in the modules for which they are seeking exemption.