The MA Graphic Communication Design course at Central Saint Martins encourages students to critically engage with graphic design through research and design creation.
MA Graphic Communication Design explores how the production of knowledge is intertwined with its form, context and circulation. The course takes an expanded approach to the idea of research, combining studio and writing practice to engage critically with graphic design as both a creative practice and a subject of study.
Through iterative and open-ended experimentation with visual media and tools of communication, students develop work that investigates existing knowledge, activates positions and projects new forms of knowledge – within and beyond the discipline.
Engaging with studio and writing practice as a form of rigorous enquiry, students and staff together explore how graphic design is a situated and relational discipline that both reflects and reconfigures its cultural, social and environmental conditions.
From this position, our community of practitioners critically interrogates the academic and professional contexts for practice as well as the very nature of the discipline itself, continually co-defining and re-defining the expanding field of graphic design.
School: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Course: MA Graphic Communication Design
Type: Postgraduate
Location: London, UK
Course dates: starts September 2026, with a duration of two years (60 weeks) extended full-time
Application deadline: 18 March 2026
Applications to this course have now closed.
What will I learn during this course?
– Skills in typography, book design, and illustration, as well as emerging digital and social practices
– Experimentation with visual media and tools of communication
What are the requirements?
– An honours degree
– Alternatively, an equivalent EU/international qualification
– English language requirements: IELTS level 6.5 or above, with at least 5.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (please check our main English language requirements webpage)
What facilities and resources are available?
– Term-time access to a range of open technical facilities, including the Loan Store, Digital Fabrication Bureau, Digital Labs, Digital Print, Paint/Surface, Photography Studios, 3D Capture Lab and Casting
– Term-time access to specialist facilities including Digital Make, Physical Computing Lab, Mixed Reality Lab, Media Studios (Video and Sound, Film), Letterpress, Printmaking and Publications
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