Master's degree programme

You do this in the form of practical upskilling based on the highest standard within your field of expertise. But also in the form of project work, where you are challenged to develop the field's methods and techniques by working with issues within your focus area. In other words, the Master's programme sharpens your awareness of relevance and context, while at the same time developing your skills in design.

Through the education, you get to influence how you want to develop your professional skills and specialise in that which you are passionate about. You receive continuous guidance from professional experts who want to meet you exactly where you are in your design process.

At the beginning of your studies, you will receive a specialised course over five weeks in design practice and prototypes within your subject area, so that you can develop your design at a high aesthetic and functional level. It is essential that you are equipped to put your design solutions in a relevant context with a high degree of finish and high fidelity.

During the course, you will be offered various workshop and technology-driven masterclasses.

Before you hand in your Master's project at the end of the programme, which must be carried out in collaboration with an external partner, you will do an internship and test your skills and competences.

The five subject areas
At Design School Kolding we can support professional development within the following five subject areas:

• Accessory Design
• Fashion Design
• Industrial Design
• Communication Design
• Textile Design

In your application you must choose the subject area in which you wish to develop and advance your design projects, as you will receive professional sparring, guidance and be challenged on your practical skills within that specific subject area.

This means that if, for example, you have a bachelor's degree in Textile Design and want to continue developing yourself professionally in this field, you must choose Textile Design. If, on the other hand, you want to move from the Textile Design to the field of Communication Design, you must choose Communication Design. Whether you are accepted to the programme will depend on the quality of your portfolio in relation to the subject area in question.

If you come with a bachelor's degree that covers several of our subject areas, you must choose the area in which you want to improve your skills.

• want to have an influence on your own education and feel that you do
• can apply your knowledge and practice as well as develop and advance your design professional level from the BA programme
• likes to explore and has room for wonder
• is a knowledge resource and may want to be involved in artistic development work
• has deep knowledge and professionalism and at the same time manages to be pragmatic and thereby create change
• would like to become aware of your own professional identity as a designer in order to contribute to the profession and to the world

With that objective in mind, you will gain a deep and extended understanding of design methods, techniques and theory and thus supplement the knowledge as well as the competences and skills you bring with you from your bachelor's degree.

The education is structured as a cross between the design skills you have acquired on your relevant bachelor's degree (subject area), which is further developed in a thematic context (focus area) that you develop within.

Based on your subject area
In the Master's programme, you take the expertise from your bachelor's degree as your starting point. We work based on the following 5 subject areas:

• Accessory Design
• Communication Design
• Fashion Design
• Industrial Design
• Textile Design

In your application you must choose the subject area in which you wish to advance and develop your design projects, as you will receive professional sparring, guidance and be challenged on your practical skills within that specific subject area.

Choice of focus area
Along with your choice of subject area, we ask you to choose between 3 thematic focus areas:

• Social design (Design for People)
• Sustainability and design (Design for Planet)
• Play and design (Design for Play)

The focus areas are a unique opportunity to link and develop your subject area and your learning to topics and industries that you are passionate about and see yourself contributing to in the future.

Please find more info about the focus areas further down on the page.

Practice and relevance
The Master's programme prioritizes collaboration with the private and public sector as well as individual subjects based on concrete cases. Both collaborations and subjects focus on practice and relevance.

In your daily life, you will work with tools, techniques, concepts and methods in an appreciative, international and interdisciplinary environment with skilled and dedicated teachers and easy access to workshop facilities.

Your title
The Master's programme ends with an exam project, and you are awarded the title MA of Arts.

On your diploma, we will also indicate your special combination of subject area and focus area, e.g. Communication Design for Play, Textile Design for People or Industrial Design for Planet.