MA Illustration
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Course overview
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Starts: Sept 2024
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Duration: FT 1 year
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Mode: Full-time
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Fees: UK: FT £9,250 / INT: FT £18,000
Ideal for: illustrators who want to diversify their professional practices through exploring narrative communication techniques
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*
*Source: Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, 2020
Student work
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.
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 across 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 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.
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I was drawn to Ravensbourne because it was clear that they value interdisciplinary practices and collaboration. I feel inspired and supported by their creative and innovative stance within the industry. The MA Illustration course has been a space to discover how I work and how I can bring intention to what I do.”
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 to foster community, facilitate dialogue, 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 traditional and digital illustration 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
Meet the tutors
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"I have the chance to share ideas with inspiring people from around the world. Being guided towards a deeper comprehension of my own methodology as an illustrator has helped me to understand how I perceive, think and illustrate. It has been about exploring what I can do and growing in a more unique way.””