Our Visual Communication: Illustration MA course will enable you to pursue your ambitions to work as a visual communicator with specific expertise in illustration.

Thanks to an interconnected approach to research and illustration, you'll utilize both theory and practice to develop a portfolio of professional-level work that demonstrates your complex problem-solving capabilities, discipline-specific skills and creativity and disciplinary practices, working together with peers and tutors to develop innovative responses to exciting project briefs.

Your core modules will promote critical thinking through visual communication, enabling you to work both speculatively and on fully-realized outcomes. Through illustration research methods and design project development you will form and refine a project proposal, which you’ll go on to complete as your final major project in the summer term, your major project will be an ambitious and innovative piece of illustration work, which can help define your portfolio and future career.

Throughout this course you’ll notice an emphasis on recurrent central elements such as socially-engaged design. You’ll be encouraged to explore the social, cultural, ethical and economic impacts of visual communication and illustration practice.

At London Met's School of Art, Architecture and Design we foster a lively and friendly community of practitioners and a space to collaborate with fellow creatives, as well as meeting people from a diverse range of backgrounds and interests. Recent graduates have gone on to work for clients and employers including Kong animation studio, Sky, Shotopop, Penhaligon's, River Island and the Life of Pi Broadway production puppet-making team.