CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN
ILLUSTRATION BA (HONS) UCAS Code: W220 Entry requirements: Minimum Tariff: 300 Illustrators bring ideas to life; they have a talent and an ability to illuminate often very complex subject matters in a way which resonates with people, and captivates imaginations. Stemming from a desire to communicate beyond words, illustration is a diverse and expanding discipline, originating in gesture and, now, encompassing drawing and print as much as sound, moving image, 3D modelling and new technologies. The work of an illustrator helps to shape our experience and interpretation of the everyday. It can be encountered through magazines and advertisements; it can enable the understanding of science, medicine and health, psychology, politics, and more; and it remains integral to the film and animation industries. Illustration has a unique, personal staying power – treasured by those who have loved its enhancements of particular literature and narratives – but it also has the power to confront, provoke and disrupt conventional thinking on a much larger scale. The Illustration programme at CSAD is taught by an experienced team of dedicated illustrators and researchers, whose experience and specialist subject areas range from editorial to fine art illustration, from puppetry and music to animation design and production. We lead in teaching narrative form, with an approach that connects art, information, science and technology, rhetoric, forecasting, and memory. The briefs you will be set present opportunities to experiment using different media. Some assignments will see you unpicking theories of illustration; some will invite you to take inspiration from hidden corners of the city, while others will immerse you in creative philosophy.
Our role is to foster your curiosity, expand your critical and creative breadth, and underpin your artistic development with a practical understanding of illustration’s broader contexts and purposes. Throughout your studies, you will be encouraged to work with and learn from your peers – not solely from illustration but, occasionally, through briefs which span across the undergraduate programmes. In your second year, you have a real opportunity to enhance your development through travel, learning about illustration in other cultures through an Erasmus programme or a study visit to Rajasthan. Everything you do at CSAD – from your academic and practical work, lectures and seminars, and extracurricular projects, to your industry placements and final year exhibition – is shaping your development into an illustrator with a distinct voice, technical range and critical insight. It is this combination which equips graduates of the Illustration programme with the skills, experience and confidence to succeed as creative professionals. It continues to be a launch pad for students aspiring to create their own practice, or build upon expertise through further education, as well a pathway for many others into the professional worlds of film, publishing, animation, theatre, fine art, and new media.
Further information: Admissions Tutor: Amelia Johnstone ajohnstone@cardiffmet.ac.uk
YOUR PLACE AT CSAD Meeting applicants is important to us. We like to show you around, answer your questions and talk to you about your work and aspirations. No doubt you would like to look at our facilities and the Llandaff campus and find out more about accommodation, transport in the city and finances. This year we will be holding seven ‘Big Interview Events’ in our new building. The aims are to welcome candidates applying for places, give you the information you need, and conduct interviews. We will have a lot to show you and will be able to answer all your questions about studying with us and living in Cardiff. The dates of our ‘Big Interview Events’ are as follows, but we will be conducting interviews throughout the year for people who miss these or who are unable to attend on these dates. The Interview Days for 2015 entry are:
10 DECEMBER 2014 28 & 30 JANUARY 2015 4 & 6 FEBRUARY 2015 11 & 13 FEBRUARY 2015
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CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN
WHY CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN? BECAUSE YOU WANT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PASSION FOR ART & DESIGN
commitment, you will be encouraged throughout to establish a greater sense of what makes your creative identity both valuable and unique.
Your studies are built around three fundamental aspects of what it is to be an artist, maker, or designer: unique skills; creative ideas; and an ability to contextualise these in a professional situation. These essential qualities – which are dependent upon one another – will form the basis for each of your briefs and assignments, throughout your three years at CSAD. They will be the markers of your progress towards being a well-rounded graduate; an individual who possess not only the talent, but also the confidence, experience, and insight, to thrive as a creative professional in today’s world. Your core skills will be a consistent focus, as you explore both new and established mediums and identify those practices that you’d like to pursue further. In terms of your ideas, your tutors will be encouraging you to constantly reflect, question, and asses; to explore how and why the world came to be as it is and how it might be re-thought or re-imagined. Contextualizing your skills and ideas is about gaining practical and professional experience. You will have a choice of projects to undertake, where you will collaborate with students from across the school’s other disciplines. You will also have the chance to take up placements with an employer or voluntary organization. You may elect to join a research group or exhibit your work. You also have the chance to travel and study in Europe, India, Korea, Australia, Morocco or America. You can even begin to build your own business or creative professional practice. With at least half of your studies delivered through teaching and the other half through your own
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS You need to be among people who will share in your passion and help you reach your potential. Our entrance expectations (300 UCAS points) and rigorous, but friendly, interview process create an expert community of students who are serious about their studies in art and design. You will be joining other imaginative, curious and astute students artists, makers and designers in our studios. People who are at the top of their game will teach you. CSAD staff, academic and technical, as well as some of our administrative staff, are practitioners in their own right. Our academic staff are engaged in front-line research and in business projects which ensure that we teach from a real position.
BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART AND DESIGN STUDIOS AND TECHNOLOGIES Professional artists and designers need excellent studios and workshops – and that’s what we provide. Our new facility on the Llandaff Campus is an ideas and creative factory, with extensive workshops and resources. Almost everything and anything we have available is for our students to use, from digital stitch and plaster moulding to our metal foundry and our rapid prototyping workshops. We are also home to the only MIT accredited FabLab in a UK university.
BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART AND DESIGN CAREER You will study three modules each year and, at the end of each year, you’ll have just one single formal assessment. You will be developing your work and improving it throughout the year, following the example of professional artists and designers; this is how they work, so it’s how we work too. You learn by thinking, enquiring and practice. We work closely with design companies, arts and maker organizations, as well as the professional art and design community. There are tangible opportunities for you to gain work experience, bring your skills to a community project, and make professional contacts of the sort that have proven invaluable to countless graduates before you. In your final year, you can elect to produce a detailed business plan instead of a research dissertation. Indeed you can navigate your three years with either a business or an academic focus. It’s up to you. We even have an incubation facility to support our best graduates in the establishment of their companies. All of our Undergraduate programmes can be extended to study up to Masters level as an MDes or MFA (Professional Masters), MA (Academic and Creative Masters) or MPhil (Research Masters). All students achieving a 2:1 or above are guaranteed a place on one of our Masters programmes.
BECAUSE CARDIFF IS AMAZING Cardiff has such great provision for the arts, entertainment and sport. The mountains and sea are within such easy reach. What’s not to like?
FOUNDATION
UNDERGRADUATE
TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE
RESEARCH DEGREES
• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies
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HNC Building Technology and Management (Ystrad Mynach)
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HND Architectural Design & Technology
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Master of Fine Art (MFA) Master of Design (MDes) Master of Design (MDes) SADI
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BSc (Hons) Architectural Design & Technology BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker BA (Hons) Fine Art BA (Hons) Ceramics BA (Hons) Textiles BA (Hons) Graphic Communication BA (Hons) Illustration BA (Hons) Product Design BSc (Hons) Product Design BA (Hons) Photographic Practice (Bridgend)
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MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only • Art & Science • Philosophy • Ecologies • Death and Visual Culture
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Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills: Art & Design
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MA Ceramics MSc Advanced Product Design
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Foundation Degree in Applied Art & Design (Bridgend) Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiff and The Vale College) Foundation Degree in Contemporary Textiles Practice (Cardiff and The Vale College) Foundation Degree in Graphic Communication (Cardiff and The Vale College)
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MPhil PhD Professional Doctorate in Art Professional Doctorate in Design
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