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Postgraduate Courses in Design

London College of Communication is home to future-facing creatives. Together, we explore and rethink what communication is and why it matters. Working across Design, Media and Screen, our diverse, dynamic community creates and collaborates while making a difference in wider society. Take the next step in your professional career and broaden your creative horizons with a postgraduate degree from our Design school.

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  • Food products with their original labels replaced with data of each type of food.
    Amy Powell, 2019. MA Data Visualisation, London College of Communication, UAL.

    MA Data Visualisation  

    Research, interpret, critique and visualise data using a range of media, tools and techniques on this practice-led course.

  • Degree show display by a student, on the topic of 'what do Indian childhood memories smell like?'. Headphones, two books and other interactive items are displayed on the wall for visitors to interact with.
    MA Design Management and Cultures, LCC Postgraduate Shows 2017 - Work by Anjana Singhwi, Image © Lewis Bush

    MA Design Management  

    MA Design Management offers a creative and experiential approach to the study of design, problem-solving, business and leadership, global cultures, innovation and sustainability.

  • Installation shot of colourful cubes in a grid formation.
    Maysa Ghammachi, Home and its Shapes, 2019, MA Design for Art Direction, London College of Communication, UAL.

    MA Design for Art Direction  

    MA Design for Art Direction gives visual communicators and designers the practical, critical and conceptual skills to develop their potential in the field of art direction.

  • Image projection mapping of a face on a computer screen

    MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures  

    This course invites people from different creative backgrounds to come together around a shared interest in complex global issues, criticality, collective action and the future of design practice.

  • Front cover of a publication for The Dream Market with text across the page that reads 'We've created this thing called dream'. One illustration shows a hummington with an umbrella at the end of its beak.
    Gabriel Soto Escallón — The Dream Market (MA Final Major Project)

    MA Graphic Branding and Identity  

    On MA Graphic Branding and Identity, you’ll explore the strategic thinking underlying brands and look at how that strategy can drive creative expression.

  • Double-page of a book. Left-hand page is black with a grey circle, on the right is a William Blake quote.
    Work by Dario Gracceva

    MA Graphic Media Design  

    MA Graphic Media Design explores the use of graphic design as a critical tool to investigate the complexities of contemporary society.

  • Black and white poster featuring minimalist design and type.
    Image © Sophie Hallett

    PG Cert Design for Visual Communication  

    An intensive, vocational route into the graphic design profession that can provide a portfolio for further study at postgraduate level.

  • Blue poster with white visual lines printed on top exploring visual communication.
    2020. PG Dip Design for Visual Communication, London College of Communication, UAL.

    PG Diploma Design for Visual Communication  

    An intensive, vocational route into the graphic design profession that can also provide a portfolio for further study at postgraduate level, or acquire visual communication skills for your current profession.

  • A collection of 12 pieces of student work in a grid format
    2019, MA Illustration and Visual Media, UAL

    MA Illustration and Visual Media  

    MA Illustration and Visual Media explores the creation and contextualisation of images at a time of unparalleled possibilities for engagement in visual culture.

  • A Pile of Talk by Pipe Amatayakul

    MA Interaction Design  

    This is a dynamic, practice-led course that will prepare you with the critical and conceptual skills for working as an interdisciplinary designer in a world of emergent technologies in a shifting cultural and professional landscape.


  • MA Service Design  

    On MA Service Design develop and apply service design to a board range of societal and business challenges, working across disciplines, with stakeholders and experts.​

  • Image of student workshop where one student is holding a model phone pretending to take a photo, whilst other students use sticks with photos of people on which looks like they are walking across the screen.
    Student Workshop: MA User Experience Design

    MA User Experience Design  

    MA User Experience (UX) Design is a professionally focused, design-led course that will equip you with the specialist skills to conceive, prototype and produce human-centred experiences in an interactive digital context.

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