Design Management and Entrepreneurship De Montfort University

Overview

This Design Management and Entrepreneurship MA course offered at De Montfort University is aimed at entrepreneurs in the design industry with ambitions to apply their creative and analytical skills to business and social contexts.

Key facts

• Your studies will explore and analyse business models, spanning from small and local to multinational corporations and social enterprises, preparing you to respond to the demands and contemporary challenges of the global design industry. 
• The course is designed for students with a good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite applications, such as Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign, and will develop these technical skills to an advanced level.
• With us, you will discover design management and design thinking, and gain a thorough understanding of brand management. We will teach you to examine the role of design in service industries, and develop your business planning skills with an awareness of international markets. You can also further your understanding of marketing, web presence and in-store retail design and explore creative solutions to the major sustainability issues within the industry.
• Throughout the course we will empower and support you to challenge conventions, experiment boldly, and take risks. We will help you to develop new ways of thinking about design, and prepare you to embrace a high level of executive responsibility in any design, creative or digital media technology business. 

• Many of our graduates pursue careers as project managers in varied sectors of the design industry. Previous graduates have secured roles with companies such as multinational retailer Next, creative design agency mark-making and bespoke lighting manufacturer JPR Lighting Limited. Others have gone on to run their own creative businesses with the support from the university’s Enterprise team.