Monash Art Design & Architecture
Master of Design
Design is a rapidly transforming profession; the Monash Master of Design helps you develop the skills and knowledge you need to be at the forefront of your field. You’ll explore advanced principles in contemporary design, enhance your design practice, and get an industry-relevant qualification.
At Monash, we create designers that the world needs – independent, enquiring and socially responsible.
With specialisations in Interaction Design, Multimedia Design, and Design Research, Monash Master of Design graduates play a vital role as designers and potential leaders in the breadth of sustainable ways of designing for the world – from climate action through to social and cultural equity.
You’ll graduate with an industry-relevant qualification and a body of work that demonstrates your creative thinking skills; advanced capabilities as a design professional; conceptual maturity; and the ability to connect research and practice across the design disciplines.
In the first semester of your course, you’ll be provided with the necessary skills and the time to carefully consider what stream of design you wish to pursue. You’ll then progress into the next semester with confidence in the field of your specialisation.
Multimedia Design
Develop your skills in digital communication environments. This specialisation enables you to build a communication narrative utilising multimedia processes to fill community and business needs, and understand the end-user’s engagement with projects and projects, such as websites, apps and other screen-based media.
Interaction Design
Develop your skills in the design of contemporary artefacts, products and services. This specialisation gives you an understanding of the relationship between interactive activities, products and human behaviour through the use of a diverse range of interactive processes, including UX/UI, the application of advanced technologies, physical and virtual interface manipulation, and rapid prototyping.
Design Research
The Design Research specialisation is a pathway for students interested in fields of design in industrial, spatial, collaborative, communication, and motion design. This specialisation will challenge you to connect research and practice to become a highly thoughtful and engaged design practitioner.
Who is the Master of Design for?
The Monash Master of Design is suitable for anyone looking to expand their creative thinking skills and applying design thinking principles to their field. You don’t need to have an undergraduate degree in design to study the Master of Design; our foundational first semester will set you up for success within the course.
If you have a background in design and are looking to upskill, you may qualify for recognition of prior learning and shorten the duration of your studies by up to one year. You’ll build on your knowledge and skills and refine your expertise in your chosen specialisation.
Studio-based learning
The Master of Design at Monash is built around studio-based learning, which replicates the way many workplaces operate. You’ll work on live projects, engaging with the community or embedded within a design practice or research project, designed to set you up for future success after you graduate. You’ll develop your research skills to learn and apply knowledge drawing on case studies; and strengthen your graphic, written and spoken skills to communicate your ideas effectively.
Prerequisites
An Australian bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
Applications Open
Mar 1, 2025
