Master's degree programme
- DURATION
2 years / 4 semestre / (120 ECTS)
- APPLICATION DEADLINE
1st of March at 12PM
- ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
No
- SEMESTER START
September
- TUITION FEE
€ 14,000 per study year for non-EU citizens
- PLACE
Kolding School of Design
Find the subject area for you
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.
The Master's programme for you
- 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
People, Planet, Play!
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.
Accessory design
På fagområdet accessory design kan du udkomme med designprojekter, så forskelligartede som smykker, sko og tasker. Uddannelsen placerer sig i krydsfeltet mellem industrielt design og beklædning. Fælles for produktgrupperne er, at de er karakteriseret ved at være dekorative og funktionelle objekter, som vi bærer på kroppen. Du kommer altså til at arbejde med formgivning af objekter i spændingsfeltet mellem identitet og produkt.
Amalie Grauengaard
Beklædningsdesign
Fagområdet beklædningsdesign er for dig, som er fascineret af beklædning – uanset om du er interesseret i æstetik, funktion eller hvordan tøj afspejler identitet og samtid. Gennem prototyper, som du udarbejder analogt og digitalt, bliver du skærpet i dit valg af materiale, farver, komposition, proportion og løsninger og udvikler dine kompetencer indenfor formgivning.
Kommunikationsdesign
På fagområdet kommunikationsdesign skal du skærpe din evne til at designe kommunikation og skabe budskaber, der opfylder en præcis målsætning. Du arbejder med at skabe stærke, visuelle fortællinger, der berører mennesker følelsesmæssigt og engagerer dem i dine budskaber. Det gør du ikke bare med det formål at skabe noget, der er smukt og æstetisk – det handler også om at påvirke folk til at foretage en handling eller ændre adfærd.
Mahmud Sahan
Industrielt design
Fagområdet industrielt design dækker over en bred gruppe af designprodukter fra barbermaskiner over grundvandspumper til dronepostkasser, der selv afhenter breve og pakker. Fælles for hele fagområdet er, at du kommer til at arbejde i spændingsfeltet mellem æstetisk formgivning, funktionelle aspekter, produktionstekniske muligheder og menneskelige hensyn. Du skal udvikle koncepter og produkter, som baserer sig på visionære forestillinger om den fremtid, dit design skal være med til at skabe.
Tekstildesign
På fagområdet tekstildesign formgiver du blandt andet materialer og overflader, som vi har tæt på kroppen. Derfor er det vigtigt, at du forstår din bruger og den kontekst, materialet skal anvendes i og det emotionelle potentiale, tekstilerne rummer. Som tekstildesigner brænder du for at forstå og udfordre nutidens systemer, produktionsformer og brugspraksisser, for derved at kunne skabe noget nyt og bedre i fremtiden.
“Along with your subject area, we ask you to choose between 3 thematic focus areas. 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.”
Focus areas: People, Planet, Play
Begin your training today
Design School Kolding welcomes all talented and motivated students to our Master’s Degree Programme.
