Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Off Site
Practical
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6203GD-JAN-MTP
Aims
- Support students to propose and undertake ambitious and impactful visual communication projects relevant to their future within postgraduate study or professional practice.
- Support students to develop their professional practice with the skills, knowledge, and agency to articulate their own voice, plan for, access, create and sustain fulfilling futures with confidence.
- Support students to develop mastery in their discipline.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Propose, develop and manage self-directed projects that positions their practice within their context of their future plans.
2.
Demonstrate a critical and professional use of media, skills, techniques and working methods relevant to contemporary graphic design and illustration practice.
3.
Design, compose, present and communicate a coherent professional portfolio of finished coursework that reflects a distinctive agenda for their future.
4.
Evaluate their practice in the context of their future plans.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
This syllabus is indicative:
This syllabus is indicative:
- Projects: personal briefs, found briefs, live briefs with external partners, or competition briefs
- Project management: proposals, development, and planning.
- Personal practice: picture books, printmaking and editorial illustration, drawing, photography, graphic novels, content creation, editorial design, typeface design, moving image, visual identity, creative including art direction, emergent technology.
- External print production services: e.g. Newspaper Club
- Designing and producing a portfolio: websites, social media, printed matter
- Presenting projects, self-promotion, positioning
- Diagnostic onward planning workshop
- Careers network resources: course networks; LJMU Student Futures; Liverpool creative community, regional and national networks and directories.
- Introductions to freelancing, starting a business, pricing etc
- Association of Illustrators (AOI) masterclass
- Industry practitioners and alumni workshops, presentations, and panel discussions
- Studio tours
Module Overview:
This module is the culmination of the programme and offers you the opportunity to propose and undertake an individual programme of study that will position your work in a professional context. A series of workshops, industry focussed skills sessions, and portfolio development exercises will prepare you for the transition to postgraduate study, entrepreneurship or employment.
This module is the culmination of the programme and offers you the opportunity to propose and undertake an individual programme of study that will position your work in a professional context. A series of workshops, industry focussed skills sessions, and portfolio development exercises will prepare you for the transition to postgraduate study, entrepreneurship or employment.