Master of Art & Design

The Master of Art and Design is an interdisciplinary, modular research degree for art and design graduates and creative professionals. The degree is highly flexible, enabling students from a variety of backgrounds to extend and develop their area of interest. Specialist areas include:
• Digital Design (animation, moving image, gaming, web, post production and film)
• Fashion (knit, print, textile, fashion and costume design)
• Graphics (typography, illustration, animation and short film, photography and graphic novel)
• Product Design (product and furniture)
• Spatial Design (interior, furniture, urbanism, performance, installation, moving image, digital environments, exhibition design and spatial theory)
• Visual Arts (multimedia, painting, print making, sculpture, installation and performance)

The Master of Art and Design enables students to explore and develop a body of work at an advanced level.
On-campus candidates enjoy dedicated individual studio spaces, specialist facilities with extended access hours, and library and learning centre facilities. Off-campus students have regular weekly online sessions, weekend residences in their geographic locations and in Auckland. They also benefit from a flexible library delivery service.
Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Design
The postgraduate diploma brings together visual artists, spatial designers, graphic designers, fashion designers, filmmakers, curators, entrepreneurs, digital designers and product designers to expand their notions of art and design. This qualification provides a strong platform of art and design research, enabling students to extend and develop their area of interest.

WHAT THESE QUALIFICATIONS COVER
The first year focuses on contextual, technological, methodological and interdisciplinary issues and practices. The course work completed in the first stage of the degree provides the basis for the development of independent research and thesis production in the second year.

MASTER OF ART AND DESIGN
The Thesis
A thesis brings original thinking to bear on something that engages your personal or professional interest. Students may propose topics of an applied professional, technological or academic nature and will be required to make an original contribution to knowledge through the project in which they are engaged. Research is a student-directed process, which is
supported by supervisors and seminars.

FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT PAPERS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE QUALIFICATIONS, VISIT W.AUTARTDESIGN.AC.NZ

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
• Animation
• Architectural and interior design
• Curatorial practice
• Design
• Digital design
• Fashion design
• Film
• Fine arts
• Gaming
• Product design
• Research
• Teaching
• Television
• Web development