MA Information Design

Course Director: Paul Luna

This course builds a base of knowledge, experience and skills for the reflective practice of design. You learn to observe, evaluate and analyse to support your creative practice.

Projects range from dealing with complex texts, to design support for wayfinding, to instruction and procedural explanations.

Course structure

There are three main components:

• Practice of information design
• Core module
• Dissertation

Practice of information design

You develop your practical abilities through projects that explore the design of complex material for different users. Projects cover a wide range of practical applications of information design, such as interaction design, wayshowing, complex typography, and editorial design.

Core module

You develop your knowledge and analytical skills through lectures, seminars, directed reading, and student presentations, looking at topics such as texts and readers, methods of enquiry in information design, professional judgment and decision-making.

Dissertation

You choose a topic in consultation with staff that focuses on an aspect of information design, leading to a written study of between 10,000 and 13,000 words.

Teaching and learning

You are taught by Departmental staff who cover theory, practice and evaluation of design. Visiting professionals and academics also contribute, and there are visits to leading information design studios.

You are mainly taught in small groups in an informal and relaxed environment.