Course General Description

The aim of the master’s study programme Graphic Design is to prepare professional graphic design specialists conforming to the international standards and the master’s qualification, who are able to independently and responsibly carry out research, critically-analytically evaluate and interpret phenomena and processes of visual communication and graphic design in a broad local and global cultural context, use innovative problem-solution methods, understand complexity of graphic-design-related solutions and evaluate their integrity in other art and science fields, persuasively present ideas for the specialised audience and the public as well as professionally perform research-pedagogical activity in the field of design education, expediently develop professional creative activity in the leader’s role both individually and in an interdisciplinary team, be competitive in the local and global markets and be ready to continue art studies in the third cycle.

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.