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The MA Communication Design: Information Design Pathway combines the development of practical skills with the study of historical and theoretical issues, in a world-class research-intensive environment.

MA Communication Design integrates shared elements of study and pathway-specific elements. This Information Design pathway allows for specialisation and a deeper engagement with communication design.

The Information Design pathway focuses on the relationship between the presentation of information and user experience across different everyday applications and contexts of use. These include: data visualisation, document design, interaction design and wayfinding. Students examine and conceptualise services, experiences, and user journeys, and develop communication and visual systems that facilitate the effective delivery of complex information to users.

Why study MA Communication Design: Information Design Pathway at Reading?

• Access to world-class collections and archives
• Learn to apply a user-centred approach to support design decisions and generate new design opportunities
• Practice within a research-intensive environment, where equal emphasis is placed on design theory and practice
• Develop effective communication and visual systems
• Produce functional, aesthetic and highly crafted complex documents, interfaces and interaction environments

WHAT CAREER CAN YOU HAVE?

Our graduates have an excellent employment record. Many take up positions in type design studios, with publishers and general design studios, and wayfinding and information design studios. Previous employers have included Apple, Financial Times, Microsoft Typography, Monotype, Nokia, Oxford University Press and the Victoria & Albert Museum.