Master of Design and Production

Overview

Hear from four alum of the Master of Design & Production

Graduate attributes

The focus of the Master of Design and Production is the practice of design for creative arts productions, with majors in stage design, production design for screen or graphic design. The degree provides graduates with design skills and understandings that will equip them to engage and make a meaningful contribution to the development of work in the creative arts.

Those skills or understandings are:

• a grounding in design history, theory and technology enabling them to develop innovative, complex and responsive designs relevant to time, place, people and culture;
• the ability to manage a design practice and work collaboratively as leaders of and within teams to realise designs in a creative arts context;
• highly developed creative, critical and reflexive thinking, promoting an ability to situate themselves and their practice within broader contexts and solve problems with ingenuity and agility;
• the ability to employ resources, materials and technologies to produce responsible and sustainable designs.

Become a creative player in the arts and cultural sector

With the skills gained from your Masters, you can take on a variety of graphic design and artistic projects, performance styles and art department roles. Professional roles may include Graphic Designer, Production Designer, Art Director, Costume Designer, Set Designer, Set Decorator or Props Master.

Graduate pathways

Upon completion of the program, graduates can elect to undertake further study in one of our research degrees.