Communication Design: Typeface Design Pathway

University of Reading
Postgraduate MA Full-time 12 Months ArtFashion, textiles, and jewelleryGraphic designProduct design

About this course

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

This course integrates shared elements of study and pathway-specific elements. This Typeface Design pathway allows for specialisation and a deeper engagement with Communication Design.

The Typeface Design pathway focuses on the development of multiscript typefaces for text-intensive applications. Students work on defining, planning, and designing a multiscript typeface family, exploring issues of character complements, the development of family styles across scripts, and the relationship of convention and modernity in typeface design.

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

  • The global reference programme in the field

  • First university-based pathway in this subject

  • Highly international student body, with a wide range of backgrounds

  • Pathway combines practical and academic elements into a signature model for design education

  • Design and research areas are global in perspective, with a wide variety of typographic scripts covered

    For more information, please visit the programme page: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study/study/subject-area/typography-and-graphic-communication-pg/mres-typeface-design

  • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MA

    Location: Reading

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MA

    Location: Reading

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2141 Web design professionals
    3422 Clothing, fashion and accessories designers
    2142 Graphic and multimedia designers
    3421 Interior designers
    3411 Artists
    3429 Design occupations

    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Reading
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Art, Fashion, textiles, and jewellery, Graphic design, Product design