This programme seeks to enable the student to further develop concepts in contemporary print design by recognising the importance of subject specific discourse and interdisciplinary practice. The programme has been designed to allow students to advance their own creative practice in relation to other areas of design and the visual arts. Students are encouraged to explore the possibilities of print as a process, it's future application and potential within the art and design arena.

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.

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.

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.

MA Print Design is situated in the dedicated building for the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts at the Docklands Campus. The building is home to programmes in Fashion & Textiles, Fine Art, Architecture, Graphic Design, Photography, Animation and Illustration. The proximity of this diverse culture of art and design practices will be integral to the learning community and environment of this programme. The programme is centred on individual creative practice and students are expected to be highly motivated and committed to self-direction and learning. All students will be supported by one to one tutorials and group seminars.

Critical Evaluations
These happen at key points of the programme to ensure satisfactory progression of the work.
Tutor/s provide formative feedback on a regular basis through studio seminars and group presentations. At the end of each module students receive written summative assessment feedback sheets that map achievement against learning outcomes.

Group Forums/Peer Reviews
Students present their work in a formal setting to other students on the programme and are asked to make a measured judgement on the achievement of the project and the ideas presented by their peers.

Seminars
A seminar is an informal round table discussion with presentation of work and ideas. These seminars are capable of being held in situ or virtually. Students must be prepared for seminars bringing relevant material and having read preparatory texts.

Lectures
Lectures take the form of studio group teaching usually around a particular topic delivered by one or more tutors. Also field trips off campus are research based and form part of the lecture programme.

Interdisciplinary Workshops
Practical demonstrations and hands-on learning take place as well as facilitating your own self initiated projects. These are available in keeping with access and entitlement as well as satisfying Health and Safety requirements.

Facilities
The Fashion & Textiles programmes have large open plan studios designed for a variety of needs and outcomes. There is a specialist Textile print and dye workshop, large garment manufacture workroom, Fashion/Textiles CAD suite, digital output laboratory, laser cutting facility and large-scale digital print bureau on campus. There are also extensive wood and metal workshops, photographic darkrooms and computer suites. Dedicated technical associates support all these facilities.

E-Learning
MA Print Design is supported by blended learning facilities in the form of the institutional virtual learning environment ‘UELPLUS’, web 2.0 social and professional networking sites and e-learning tools and technologies.

Study visits
Scheduled field trips to the UK and Europe will form an integral part of the contextual dialogue of this programme together with opportunities for International collaboration and workshops.

Postgraduate programmes strictly adhere to the University regulations on assessment. All coursework for assessment is double marked; practical 2D work, seminar papers and presentations - essay assignments are supervised and double marked.

All work for assessment is monitored/moderated by external examiners.
All modules are assessed by portfolio and/or presentation at the end of the module.

Through out their studies, students will keep an ‘e-portfolio’ in the form of an online reflective journal of their ‘personal development’ that will detail research, critical thinking, contextualisation, concepts, technical and practical development, practice and realisation.
The e-portfolio will be assessed in conjunction with the physical portfolio and/or presentation.
All modules contribute to the final award classification.

The aim of MA Print Design at UEL is to provide postgraduate level study within a highly creative environment that is designed to stimulate experimental and original thinking through practice. It aims to offer recent graduates the opportunity to further advance their creative responses to all areas of print design. It is also aimed at those who are returning to education from industry, and who may wish to reassess their direction and provide new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. We anticipate that students undertaking this programme will reassess their practice and emerge re-directed and renewed by the process.

Critical, cultural and contextual theory is integrated into the practice-based modules on this programme and therefore the programme does not assess this knowledge through a thesis or dissertation.

The programme is delivered within the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts, a dedicated building for Art and Design on the Docklands Campus. Print Design benefits from excellent workshops for specialist printing and dyeing and the on-campus digital print bureau Fab Pad. The Textiles area has established collaborative links with Fab Pad including exhibiting at Indigo; the international trade fair in Paris and New Designers graduate showcase in London.
All academic staff and technical associate support staff working in the school are professionally engaged creative practitioners and are recognised nationally and internationally.

Within the School there is a wide ranging and vibrant research culture centred on discourse, practice and inter-disciplinarity. Field trips abroad and in the UK will form part of the curriculum.

Printed Textiles has established an active and supportive network of alumni over the years, who provide a vital link between our programmes the industry and entrepreneurship. Many of our visiting speakers and guest lecturers are selected from our alumni data base.

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

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.

East London offers unrivalled access to the most important creative resources, as well as good transport links. There are also regular visits from important professionals who live and work locally. The Fashion Textiles area at UEL has genuine links with all sectors of the creative industries in the UK and overseas, which have been built up over three decades that will provide the programme with relevant current information, support, internships and careers.
The School of Architecture and Visual Arts have established collaborative links with GAFA and Tsinghua (China), Legenda (Malaysia), Vantan Design Institute (Japan) and Tallin Institute Estonia, which offer opportunities for students to exchange research and creative practice ideas. The School of AVA also provides a number of annual travel bursaries open to all subject areas enabling students to undertake research overseas.