Message is currently inviting PhD applications within the following areas:
Visual communication — animation, drawing, illustration, graphic design, publishing and typography
- History and contexts
- Interdisciplinary practice
- Traditional, contemporary and emerging media/technologies
- Authorship, message, audience, markets and narrative
- Narrative, editorial, identity & brand, information envisionment
- Communication design for social and behavioural change
- Ethics and sustainability
- Communication design and curatorial practice
- Archives and Community
- The functions of illustration
- The elucidation of meaning in children’s publishing through illustration
- Web design as a form of graphic communication from critical, historical or aesthetic perspectives
- Web typography and it’s implications — such as web/open fonts, typography in the age of content management, responsive web design, accessibility
- The impact of digital interactivity on engagement with visual narrative
- Visual communication, spirituality and contemplation
- Pedagogy