MA in Graphic Design

This is for you if

you are empathetic and creative, have good collaborative and critical attitude; if you set yourself high standards and want to produce high quality, valuable graphic design work. If you have graduated in a different field, you can still switch and choose our training.

During our Master Program, you can become a graphic design artist who is able to respond to actual situations and present creative and artistic solutions, and who is able to create and implement high quality work on every job platform.

We are flexible, fresh-minded program, our virtue is openness. With the help of our faculty of renowned, leading professionals in various fields of Graphic Design, we give you maximum scope to find your individual style and build your own artistic brand.

We invite you as fellow creatives to join us in a good mood, artistic institution that encourages teamwork, integrated design practice, state-of-the-art design thinking and a good atmosphere, which underpins the creative work with the right theoretical knowledge.

Practical opportunities during education

From the archaic classical printing, reproduction-graphics processes to the most modern digital printing machines, our students have at their disposal technical and technological possibilities that allow them to produce the results of their design work in the Workshops and Studios of the Department, whether it is 3D printing, laser cutting, Risography printing or bookbinding. The cross-disciplinary project-based teaching methodology also extends our students' skills towards integrated designing processes. With the help of our collaborative partners, our students take part in real-life assignments that allow them to gain professional experience by working with clients during their training.

The training will give priority to:

• individual consultations, mentoring by teachers;

• focus on practical work and creativity;

• creative solutions to realistic, real-life, often challenging problems, actual tasks;

• team work alongside individual achievement;

• an integrated, cross-disciplinary project-based teaching methodology.

What can you study with us?

• the ability to solve problems with a practical, functional design focus

• design knowledge that can be used across all graphic design interfaces

• innovative graphic solutions based on freedom of experimentation

• innovative solutions based on individual identity, but which can also be developed in teamwork

• Socially sensitive communication strategy building and creative thinking that reflect social problems

• the methods of Design Thinking

• a practice-oriented, creative design attitude, able to respond to real-life, real-world situations

Structure of the Program

• The first semester focuses on typography, book design, illustration, infographics, packaging design, image identity, branding

• The second semester involves your specialization. You can develop your knowledge focused on the selected area, in all surfaces of Graphic Design, or in Graphic Art and illustration

• The third semester includes complex, integrated design processes, experimental design tasks in both specializations.

• In the fourth semester, your instructors help you to create complex visual messages as a result of the research process, to implement the myBRAND portfolio and the diploma work.

Specialization

• Graphic Design specialization:
  Our master's program builds on the experience you gained in your bachelor's degree, giving you the practical, real-world skills that you need to pursue Graphic Design at a high level. Choose this specialization to develop your individual artistic voice in traditional Graphic Design surfaces and new media fields. We prepare you for your career, so you can design and execute the most impactful, multi-faceted creative visual messages in all areas of Graphic Design.
  
  Graphic Art specialization: 
  If you are looking to develop your own independent artistic expression and if you are looking to develop your excellent manual skills in illustration, comics, book cover, poster and book design, choose the Graphic Art specialisation!
  
  
  • What can you study with us?
    • Typography, logo, pictogram, identity, packaging, book, poster and web design, branding, identity design, infographics and infodesign
      
      
  • ​Main topics:
    • Graphic Design Studio Practice; Creative Graphic Design Studies; Experimental Design; Data Visualisation; Branding; Product Design; Complex Design; Print Media; Web Design
      
      
  • What can you study with us?
    • In addition to complex Graphic Design and typography tasks, you can also study unique and reproduced graphic genres, art book design, creative bookbinding, Pop-Up book design, manual and digital illustration.
      
      
  • Main topics:
    • Graphic Design Studio Practice; Reproduction Graphics; Book Design; Poster Design; Graphic Design Techniques; Illustration Design; Comics; Creative Graphic Design Studies; Experimental Graphics; Graphic Installations.

Career Opportunities

• Independent artist, graphic designer, illustrator and graphic artist
• In graphic studios, creative agencies as Art Director or Graphic Designer
• Work in the online and print media as an illustrator, image editor, artistic head, DTP editor or web designer

Main Topics

• Design studio practice,
• Creative graphic design exercises,
• Experimental design,
• Data visualization,
• Brand building,
• Product design,
• Complex design,
• Print media,
• Web design

Quotes

“School assignments are colorful, there can be many “good” solutions. Everybody can show the side where they are really good at, in our work emphasis is on individual approach.” Graduate student Marcell Puskás

“The graphic artist is responsible for the message, its artistic and aesthetic quality, however, beyond this, they have to take social and ecologic factors into consideration. What effect does the message have? What materials to use when packaging is designed? What effect will it have on the environment? We would like to introduce our students into the experimental workshop of (re)interpreted graphic design so that we can change the world together.” Gyula Július DLA

Application Requirements

• IELTS min. 6.0
• Bachelor’s degree from a relevant field
• Portfolio of previous works
• CV and motivation letter