22 Visual Design Master's Degree Programs

The Visual Development MFA program provides advanced coursework in still life painting, figure drawing, character design, concept painting, layout design for animation, and other core skills of professional visual developers. The goal of each graduate student is the completion of a signature thesis book showcasing design work for a story-based project.

Learn how to select and use the best visual communication tools and techniques with our Master's Course in Graphic Design - Focus on New Media at IED Firenze

This Advanced Digital Video (VFX) and Motion Graphics Master is aimed at anyone interested in the world of digital video, visual effects (VFX) and Motion Graphics. No prior knowledge or qualification is required for the completion and correct monitoring of this Master.

Learning to do and to think: with the Master in Visual design, students learn the methodology for developing - through design - strategic and effective concepts, for composing and narrating visual stories capable of giving shape to complex communications. Experimentation in various creative areas allows for exploratory forays into differentiated fields, both commercial and cultural, from the analogue to the digital world. In addition to projects with internationally renowned professionals, students are engaged in method lessons, where they acquire more specific knowledge for research, art direction and branding.

By fully understanding the importance of the user experience and the various aspects of digital design, your work can fuel technological innovation.

This Master’s Degree in Audiovisual Innovation and Interactive Environments is composed of four interrelated thematic modules that deal with the disciplines and themes of visual culture; art and new media; real-time video; off-screen audiovisual; motion graphics; generative graphics; physical interaction design; tangible interaction; interaction systems design; interactive narrative; generative audio; musical composition and sound design; electronic prototyping; the design, control, and simulation of light; digital manufacturing; wearables; virtual reality; mathematics and physics for audiovisual.

The Master’s degree in Data Visualization Management is a specialized program in collaboration with Camilo Jose Cela University. This program focuses on the effective presentation and communication of data through visual means. This field combines elements of data analysis, graphic design, and information technology to create informative visual representations of data.

The East London Visual Arts and Film program is designed for a new generation of storytellers: artists who share a passion for visual and performing arts across a wide array of media and want to learn by making their own projects in a hands-on, intensive program.

Embark on an evolutionary educational journey that merges art with groundbreaking technology. Our Master's program in Realtime Art and Visual Effects integrates the principles behind leading real-time graphics platforms and intricate procedural generation tools. It's about mastering the interplay of creativity and technology and spearheading the next era of immersive digital narratives.

Master Houdini, Maya, and the most advanced visual effects techniques with an international master’s degree that prepares you for Hollywood, European studios, and the video game industry.

The Máster Universitario en Artes Visuales y Multimedia responds to the impact of image technologies and the creative potential of programs for the generation, treatment and technical manipulation of digital images. These changes are transforming the modes of production and dissemination of artistic practices, which merge with other professional and economic sectors in the information field, where the image, the visual, takes on an increasingly relevant role.

Students cultivate interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research ability through the acquisition of theories related to visual design and nurture talents who can contribute to the industrial society by cultivating design approaches based on theory and creative problem-solving skills. A future-oriented visual design study that extends to the areas of user experience design and image design, which are the areas of information transmission through digital media, from the concept of visual design, which was commonly used as graphic design, centering on print media. It advances into various fields such as visual information design, editing/public relations design, media/video design, user experience design, and cultural content design.

The Master in Design and Visual Culture sees design and visual culture in a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective, where our students do work in several areas such as visual communication, graphic design, illustration, digital interfaces, motion design, photography, typography, editorial design and animation.

Mixing creativity, graphic design, and strategy, visionary branding starts with understanding the values of a company and culminates not just in the ability to convey meaningful stories, but also, takes the viewer to the edge and to the unexpected with an innovative, disruptive approach that combines an exciting visual representation and bespoke tone of voice, to build a memorable and lasting relationship with the public.

Exploring the essential qualities of visual communication in human society, while studying the techniques of visual transmission in a variety of information media.