Editorial designers guide the creation of successful periodicals, including newspapers, magazines, and websites, working according to a clear editorial plan. As a (graphic) designer with an interest in editorial work, your expertise is the creation of publications with complex information structures and short production cycles. This includes all aspects of a work, from writing and editing of texts to lay-out, visual design and production.
The editorial designer judges how texts and images will be interpreted in various contexts, and visualizes content-related choices in cooperation with text editors, authors, and publishers while anticipating cooperation with graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, information architects, screen designers, database constructors, and other professionals.
The editorial designer:
• designs processes that turn raw information into meaningful publications
• matches media and content to themes and contexts
• makes new connections between existing sources of information
• develops the identity of periodicals while ensuring continuity
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Fashion is a form of communication that is never culturally or politically neutral. Rather, fashion is loaded with meaning, signification, allusion, and citation. In today's multi-coded societies, fashion inhibits as well as facilitates communication between social groups, highly fragmented or homogenous. Transnational movements of people, cultural objects, and visual images play a vital role in creating a global network wherein fashion plays its role of communicator.
Fashion designers portray a clear-cut capacity to open up novel vistas of communication, design, and theoretical discourse. They are at the core of the world of communication and information. In the Master's Programme, you will investigate these topics:
• How and what does fashion communicate?
• What do fashion designers and their products signify?
• What is the role of the fashion magazine?
• What is the role of the world of the catwalks?
• How does fashion deal with a multitude of layers of information?
• How do fashion products shift to the status of icons of a certain time?
• How could concepts such as interconnectivity, interactivity, and performativity create novel trajectories in fashion theory?
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Interior design is more than the creation of shapes, materials and constructions in a functional, spatial setting. Interior design is the art of creating environments that communicate meaning in a cultural context. Today, interior designers work at the cutting edge of a forward-moving profession, in an increasingly complex design domain.
The interior designer is challenged by:
• vast, anonymous spaces of airports, shopping malls, and office tower
• screens and screen-based environment
• sustainability, flexibility, interactivity, and acceleration
What is the significance of interior design? What can it communicate? What do its shifts in styles and atmosphere tell us? Could a hyper-form of interior design emerge? Can interior designers become designers of virtual interior spaces? These are only a few examples of the broad and fascinating areas you'll be exploring as a Master student of Interior Design.
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Public space design searches for creative perspectives to reveal the hidden qualities and unexpected atmospheres of a place. How does one address the so-called ‘urban space’? How can one expose its disguised beauty?
The public space designer works with notions such as:
• increased levels of traffic
• multipurpose use of space
• various conceptions of place-making
• a network society producing network cities
These contribute to various urban insights and conceptions traversed by a chaos of furnishings, paving, functions and an array of signals. How to streamline this?
As a Public Space Design student, you will learn to use creative thinking (while meeting the technical and functional requirements) to produce solutions and provoke transformations. You will develop the skills to command integrated processes of designing, analyzing, furnishing, and maintaining public space.
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More about admissions for the MA Design
If you are a resident of one of 61 selected countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, you might be eligible for a NFP Fellowship. The NFP Fellowship is only availble to students applying for a MA in Design; pathways Editorial Design, Interior Design and Fashion Design.
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