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

  1. Support students to propose and undertake ambitious and impactful visual communication projects relevant to their future within postgraduate study or professional practice.
  2. 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.
  3. 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: 
  1. Projects: personal briefs, found briefs, live briefs with external partners, or competition briefs 
  2. Project management: proposals, development, and planning. 
  3. 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. 
  4. External print production services: e.g. Newspaper Club 
  5. Designing and producing a portfolio: websites, social media, printed matter 
  6. Presenting projects, self-promotion, positioning 
  7. Diagnostic onward planning workshop 
  8. Careers network resources: course networks; LJMU Student Futures; Liverpool creative community, regional and national networks and directories. 
  9. Introductions to freelancing, starting a business, pricing etc 
  10. Association of Illustrators (AOI) masterclass 
  11. Industry practitioners and alumni workshops, presentations, and panel discussions  
  12. 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. 

Assessments

Presentation

Portfolio