Communication Design: Typeface Design pathway

Entry requirements

A first or 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent from a university outside of the UK) in a design related subject. For exceptional candidates without such a degree, convincing evidence of relevant professional experience. Additionally, a substantial practice portfolio with typography and typeface design work.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course integrates shared elements of study and pathway-specific elements. This Typeface Design pathway allows for specialisation and a deeper engagement with Communication Design.

The Typeface Design pathway focuses on the development of multiscript typefaces for text-intensive applications. Students work on defining, planning, and designing a multiscript typeface family, exploring issues of character complements, the development of family styles across scripts, and the relationship of convention and modernity in typeface design.

• The global reference programme in the field
• First university-based pathway in this subject
• Highly international student body, with a wide range of backgrounds
• Pathway combines practical and academic elements into a signature model for design education
• Design and research areas are global in perspective, with a wide variety of typographic scripts covered

Information for international students

IELTS: 7.0 overall with no element less than 6.0 (or equivalent).

Fees and funding