Master of Arts [M.A] [Textile and Surface Design] From Birmingham City University

The choice of materials, processes and markets is up to you and you will have access to a wide range of workshop facilities. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with other fashion and textile students. The course accepts students from other backgrounds too such as graphic design or fine art who want to reorientate their career.

The Textile and Surface Design course is offered at Birmingham City University.

What's covered in the course?

Your learning will be focused on studio and workshop practice, featuring personal programmes of study and joint lectures and seminars.

YouÕll also enjoy specialist interpretations of art, craft and design supported by our highly experienced course team.

The course provides a forum to discuss and analyse the professional, commercial and cultural dimensions of textile and surface design in contemporary society.

Based at our city centre Parkside campus, you will have access to a wide range of conventional and CAD facilities available in constructed and printed textiles, 3D prototyping, ceramics and glass, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a faculty full of creative students.

Your learning environment will encourage you to become an adaptable, flexible and knowledgeable graduate, equipped to pursue a career in the textile and surface design field.

Why Choose Us?

• Study with one of the largest and most experienced providers of fashion and textile education in the world.
• Benefit from a unified programme and work alongside textile, fashion and surface designers.
• Access a wide range of facilities, including digital print and a Gerber fashion CAD suite.
• Network and collaborate with other fashion students, our wider postgraduate community and beyond.

• Enjoy a vast archive of fashion publications dating back to the 1930s.

Enhancing employability skills

YouÕll enjoy excellent opportunities for work experience and live industry briefs, giving you practical, professional exposure and an awareness of the challenges and opportunities of the sectorÊ

Our programme is designed to ensure that upon graduating, you are:

• A better and more confident designer
• A reflective practitioner who has learnt how to keep developing as a designer
• An independent thinker and researcher able to initiate your own creative projects individually and/or collaboratively
• Able to conceptualise and discuss the nature of your work both orally and in writing
• Critically aware of the context of your creative practice relative to the marketplace and the wider culture.