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Have you or any one you know recently completed an MFA or MA in related creative arts (graphic design, games design, digital arts, sound design etc) and could spare me 20 mins to share your experience please get in touch.
... or if you are considering an MFA or MA I would equally like to hear from you.
Thanks
Dan
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- @Sophie Lydon Thanks Sophie - I will DM you
- Hello I recently completed an MA Fine Art course, I would love to talk about it and answer any questions you may have?
- @Geoffrey Bunting Thanks for this - very insightful. I appreciate the frank response.
- I completed an MA in graphic design in 2020, before moving into a journalism diploma.Due to disabiltiy, I undertook a remote course (there were only two available in the UK at the time, and I took the cheaper, at University of Hertfordshire). My experience was mostly negative. I had one very good tutor, who was going above and beyond her pay to make sure students were attended to while every other tutor we had was mostly absent and not particularly helpful.This is with the caveat that UH's design masters program is pretty poor, and on-site courses always reflect on remote options. I'm not sure whether there are more remote options available now, only that UH shuttered theirs because no one wanted to do it.I did, with the help of that one good tutor and by just being a good designer, escape with a BIG first/distinction but ultimately the MA has done little good. I took it on to possibly move into lecturing, but the goalposts moved in the two years I was at it and I've little energy, time, or interest to get a PhD. Especially now I've moved into journalism and am having a much better, much easier time of work.Frankly, that MA, and the poor way we as students were supported, provided the foundation of that move. A couple of events after really did it, but seeing how little one can get for a not insignificant amount of money really turned my head away from design.So, what to take from this? Why would you want to do an MA? Is the qualification going to do anything for you? Bearing in mind that qualifications have little bearing on good design jobs, the portfolio is what counts. Is there an meaningful outcome to doing an MA for you? If the answer is yes, then great. If no, you're probably better off somewhere else.But, to eke out a positive, being in an educational environment rather than professional did give me the resources and the space to create good work. Nothing that will do anything for me in future, but it did remind me, within a string of tiresome client work, that I was very good at what I did back then.
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