- Develop a unique creative voice: Discover what makes your work distinctive through advanced image-making, storytelling and visual communication skills.
- Explore the future of illustration: Reframe your creative practice through emerging technologies, immersive experiences, interactive media and the responsible use of AI.
- Learn through hands-on experience: Benefit from an embedded studio practice with like-minded students, technical workshops, field trips, and professional engagement activities, guided by award-winning tutors with decades of industry experience.
- Improve your practice through investigation, making, and experimentation: Utilise critical thinking and sophisticated research skills to generate innovative visual outcomes.
- Benefit from a personalised learning journey: Tailor projects to your interests, ambitions and career aspirations.
- Tackle real-world challenges: Use illustration as a problem-solving tool, responding to social, cultural and environmental issues that matter.
- Collaborate with industry, communities and external partners: Grow your network through direct exposure to guest lectures, valuable professional experience, and industry knowledge that supports your future career.
- Build confidence as a creative professional: Develop the entrepreneurial, communication and project management skills needed to thrive in a rapidly changing creative landscape.
- Create an ambitious major project: Shape your creative vision through a rigorous research and development process; showcase your talent to potential employers, clients or doctoral study providers.
- Graduate industry-ready for diverse career opportunities: From editorial illustration, publishing and animation, art direction and character design, to motion, games, digital media, creative technologies, research and academia, our MA in Illustration will lay the foundations for your creative future.