Swansea College of Art UWTSD Book

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Transforming Lives to Change the World; One Student at a Time.

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Surface Pattern & Textiles 20 Design Crafts 30 Glass 32 Architecture 38 Automotive & Transport Design 44 Product & Furniture Design 52 Creative Advertising 58 Graphic Design 64 Illustration 70 Fine Art 76 Photography 84 Film & TV 92 Set Design 98 Music Technology 100 Animation 104 Games Design 108 Foundation 114 Postgraduate 118 Research 122

Olivia Hutchings Surface Pattern Design Orangebox External Project

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Foreword An art college education is unlike any other form of university education. Its uniqueness lies in the way in which it fosters, directs and encourages individuality, creativity and innovation. The UK has an amazingly rich and diverse range of art colleges with a distinguished heritage of producing globally recognised artists, designers, animators, filmmakers and performers. Swansea College of Art, as the oldest and most established art college in Wales is part of that respected tradition. Since it first opened its doors in 1853 the College has been at the forefront of developments in art, design and media education in the UK. For almost 165 years Swansea College of Art has drawn inspiration from two worlds, a modern city on one side and the rugged beauty of the Gower Peninsula on the other.

It’s this fluid and dynamic mixing of the two that has energised Swansea College of Art to become one of the UK’s leading art colleges.

Throughout our history we have always combined links to industry with the world of the gallery. Our courses enjoy strong working relationships with major global and UK brands, with regular live projects supported by companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, H&M and Hasbro. Our links to the film industry in South Wales ensure that our students get valuable work experience and placements on major network TV and Film productions. As you would expect, the College also works very closely with a number of established and new galleries. This provides opportunities for our students to undertake placements at the galleries as well as curating exhibitions of their own work. The flip side to this is that the College also plays host to major touring exhibitions such as the Association of Illustrators’ World Illustration Awards.

A key feature of the Swansea experience is the opportunity given to students to internationalise their experience by spending a semester studying abroad at one of our partner universities in

North America. For those not wishing to spend an extended time overseas there are opportunities for shorter visits either on an exchange or on one of the regular international trips run by course teams.

Although we place great importance on developing employability skills, we also recognise that an art and design education is a voyage of selfdiscovery. We believe passionately in allowing our students time and space to explore and find their own direction and it really is amazing what evolves.

Maintaining currency in the world of art, design and media is vital. The College has a thriving research culture and has attracted significant funding to support research projects. Most of our lecturers maintain their own active practice and exhibit at national and international venues. This ensures that all our students benefit from working with leading artists and designers either based at the College or visiting as part of a live project team or residency.

As part of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Wales’ oldest university with the third oldest Royal Charter in England and Wales, we are rightly proud of our traditions. It’s good to have traditions but it’s even more important to be innovative, creative and forward-looking. An example of that visionary thinking can be seen in the partnerships we have forged with universities across Europe as Swansea College of Art leads the EU-funded Arts & Humanities Enterprise Hub. This type of progressive project will ensure that Swansea College of Art UWTSD continues to deliver an international art college experience in a contemporary university long into the future.

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This is Us

It’s All About You Three of our graduates were part of a team awarded an Oscar in 2017 for their work on the Jungle Book.

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Our students receive some of the highest levels of staff contact time in the country.

It is due largely to our students and our graduates that we have built the reputation that we have. Many have gone on to distinguished careers in the arts, or have established multimillion pound design companies. Others work for companies such as Lego, McLaren and Monsoon and some graduates are working for well-known filmmakers and media producers, including the BBC and ITV. Our external projects aim to apply your individual creativity and extend your endeavours by engaging with the external market place.

These projects have been operating successfully for many years and have often provided employment for students upon graduation.

Award Winners Our students regularly win awards and are given the opportunity to exhibit throughout their courses. Graduate shows take place in Swansea and London, with students showcasing their work at prestigious exhibitions including New Designers and D&AD New Blood.

Jon Williams, Kelly Whitcombe, Cameron Ridgeway and Linh Duong (Graphic Design) recognition at New Designers.

Nick Thatcher (Product Design) Winner of the New Designers Innovate-Ingenuity Award.

Bethan Yates (Glass) 2nd place in the Contemporary Glass Society new graduate review.

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This is Us

What Makes Us So Special Founded over 165 years ago...

We are small, friendly, and informal with just over a thousand students in the faculty. This means that the staff are approachable and available to help, support and challenge you. It also allows excellent access to our generous studio spaces and facilities, all of which have the most up-to-date equipment.

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4th in the UK

1st in Wales

for University of the Year

for Art & Design

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2020

The Times Good University Guide 2021

3rd in the UK for Design & Crafts

5th in the UK for Art

Guardian League Table 2021

Guardian League Table 2021

8th in the UK

9th in the UK

for Fashion & Textiles

for Student Support

Guardian League Table 2021

Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2020

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What We Have We respect and celebrate our traditions.

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This is why we have retained traditional equipment and processes in the areas of glass, ceramics, printmaking and photography. But we are also forward-looking and our campus is bristling with new technology. Studio spaces, crit rooms and computer suites are available allowing students fulltime access to facilities. So, whether you choose to work with traditional processes or new technologies, or across both, we have it here for you. The creative possibilities are as exciting as they are wide.

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It’s All About Who You Know

This is Us

We have designed modules that will help you gain professional skills and make excellent links with the creative industries and the gallery networks so that when you graduate you already have a ‘foot in the door’.

Naomi Urch - Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, SCA Graphic Design Graduate

Matt Boyle- LEGO, SCA Graphic Design Graduate

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Tom Felton - Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter

Cerys Matthews

Micheal Sheen

Our students benefit from a range of industry placements and live projects with creative companies such as Sony, H&M, Orangebox, Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren Automotive.

Students also have the opportunity to showcase their graduate work to clients at our end of year exhibitions, including New Designers and D&AD at London.

We also have an extensive list of visiting lecturers and professors of practice who work with our students to help them develop their projects to industry standards.

All our programmes benefit from a team of highly qualified staff who are research active, exhibiting both nationally and internationally and often involved in projects with Industry.

Many of these staff have gained international reputations for their innovative research and creative practice.

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Swansea Arts Scene Shortlisted for City of Culture 2021, Swansea is home to a variety of arts venues including galleries, music venues and theatres. The city also hosts a variety of art festivals throughout the year.

Mission Gallery: a contemporary visual art and craft gallery, with which Swansea College of Art has been a major partner, successfully assisting with the delivery of public programming and residencies.

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery: a major Welsh gallery adjacent to Swansea College of Art. It is a centre of excellence for the visual arts in Wales. The gallery has hosted a range of major national and international exhibitions since 1911.

Elysium Gallery: an artist-led, not-for-profit, social enterprise comprising more than 60 studio spaces and a contemporary art gallery in Swansea city centre.

Volcano Theatre: a small, energetic, responsive arts company. Art across the City Locws International: an award-winning artist-led charity that was established in 1999 with the aim of making the arts more accessible to the public.

Galerie Simpson: an independent not-for-profit gallery space showing international and local artists.

Swansea Grand Theatre: historic performing arts venue hosting comedy, touring theatre, pantos and dance.

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Taliesin: hosts a broad programme of events and a variety of live performances. From dance and drama to jazz and world music.

Creative Bubble: takes students’ creativity to provide fun, exciting and unexpected events across Swansea city centre.

The International Dylan Thomas prize: a leading prize for young writers, presented annually, named in honour of the Swansea- born writer and poet Dylan Thomas.

The Garage: is a back-to-basics live music venue.

Swansea also has a strong Jazz heritage and hosts Swansea International Jazz Festival. UWTSD is also home to Jazz Heritage Wales.

Swansea is also home to a vast range of independent art venues including Cinema & Co.

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The Creative Power of Water Get a good feeling about the place

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Swansea is a seaside city, a great place to live and study: big enough to offer you the space you need; small enough to make you feel that you belong, it’s full of possibilities and like-minded people. Located next to the Gower Peninsula an “Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty” with breathtaking stretches of long sandy beaches, offering spectacular and inspiring scenery all on your doorstep.

We have all the amenities and cultural activities you would expect to find in a university city - theatre, cinemas, galleries, museums, restaurants, bars and a great student night life. We also have an awardwinning maritime quarter, National Waterfront Museum, Wales National Pool and numerous sporting options including surfing, mountain biking, paddle boarding, climbing and tennis to name a few. And what’s more, the cost of living here is very reasonable compared with most other university cities. Swansea has a really friendly personality and is the perfect location to begin your creative journey.

Don’t Just Take Our Word for it...

Our local blue flag beaches are frequently winning awards. Rhossili Bay was described as ‘The supermodel of British beaches’ by The Independent, and was voted Wales’ Best Beach in 2018 and 3rd in the UK by TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards.

Condé Nast Traveller named Swansea in their Top 10 city breaks 2019, stating that Swansea has stealthily become the new hothouse for culture in Wales. Also, The Sunday Times named Mumbles, Swansea as the best place to live in Wales 2018.

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BA (Hons) / MDes

Surface Pattern & Textiles

Surface Pattern & Textiles This 3 year BA, or 4 year MDes programme delivers industry ready design skills through a multidisciplinary and innovative learning experience.

Students are immersed in textiles, materiality, print, colouration, making and concept development. This enables our Surface Pattern and Textiles graduates to pitch to the broad and ever changing context of contemporary practices within the creative sector; print design, textiles for fashion, textiles for interiors, stationery design, design led crafts, makers.

We have an enviable range of digital equipment and facilities including state-of-the-art computer suites, lasercutters and engravers, digital textile printers, a digital embroiderer and water jet cutter. Our non-digital equipment is equally impressive with full facilities for dyeing, screen printing, stitch, metalwork and much more. In addition to this, you will have your own personal space in our lively, light and airy studio accommodating all years of the course.

We focus on creative inspiration, which will allow you to fully develop your individual voice and style.

The studio culture is at the heart of the Surface Pattern and Textiles student experience – this engenders a professionally focused, collaborative learning environment, with the intention of mirroring the workplace with a positive, engaging, open approach to working with others.

SP&T is designed to nurture our learners and identify their uniqueness and identity as designers of the future.

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Emma Vaughan

We gradually increase their levels of autonomy as they progress, with the ultimate goal of producing confident, resilient and highly creative problem solvers; exactly what the design world needs now.

Their experience starts as it means to go on, with an immersive and supportive introduction to the programme at Level 4, discovering what can be possible across this rich educational platform.

Steeped in creativity, their learning also address the potential career pathways available to them as multidisciplinary-skilled graduates.

Students are encouraged to invest in shaping their own learning, readying them for the workplace. It is intended that the breadth of their prevailing experience in level 4 & 5 gives them great confidence and vision in actioning this by the time they find themselves at Level 6 and if they stay on for Level 7. The secure foundations of the collaborative, supportive, well-structured programme brings the best out in our students.

Zara James

Marie Wilkinson

Becca Davies

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Surface Pattern Design enables you to choose from...

Maker

Textiles for Interiors

pathway has materiality at the core, meeting the needs of students who wish to specialise as Designer Makers of the future.

suitable for students wishing to design and enhance interior spaces with innovative textiles, surfaces and wallcoverings – from commercial to conceptual.

Rebecca Davies

Zara James

Master of Design Textiles for Fashion for those students wishing to design for the farreaching and ever-changing needs of the fashion industry – from high street to high end.

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is an integrated Masters option within the programme that continues to a fourth year of study at Level 7.

This appeals to students who have the taste for a deeper level of research and innovation within their practice and are keen to fine tune their portfolios to their targeted employment route.

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Rosie Cook Surface Pattern Design Graduate Rosie Cook is a graduate of Surface Pattern Design.

She now lives in Stockholm working as a Printed Textiles Designer for fashion brand H&M, and still has her designs in the range of the interiors brand Made.com. Rosie has exhibited at a number of high profile national exhibitions including Interiors UK and New Designers One Year On. She has gained freelance work and launched her printed designs under her own named scarf collection Textiles Designer for and through Printed and Co. fashion brand H&M, Rosie’s colourful and playful and still has her style developed in her third year at designs in the range university through her love of painting, collage and pattern. She continues to be of the interiors inspired by travel, landscapes and the brand Made.com familiar coastline of Pembrokeshire. “Many of my achievements have stemmed from entering design competitions that made up part of the final major project. Everything I learned at Swansea has been useful in all sorts of ways from putting together a great portfolio to working on live design briefs�

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Balancing Creative Vision and Externality Surface Pattern Design

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The Surface Pattern Design programme is structured to enable our learners to graduate and continue working in their specialist field. We aim for them to graduate at a point of heightened creativity with an ability to identify and capitalise on opportunity.

This is done through a finely tuned programme, balancing creative vision and externality, where specific skills required in the practising field are identified and developed. Practical projects are contextualised from the outset through everyday research in sketchbooks right the way through to the programme’s careful partnering and industry links.

Live projects are peppered throughout the 3 years(BA) or 4 years(MDes.) Notable recent live projects include a substantial liaison with the H&M design headquarters in Stockholm, culminating in six students going on three-month, paid placements with the print design team. H&M visited Swansea from Sweden several times giving the students a real taste of the company, the expectations and the design process fostered within the brand.

Through our multidisciplinary outlook, we keep our students’ options open, exposing them to a broad range of differing sectors related to our pathway structures. For example, in the space of one year, students have undertaken another fruitful live project with stationery giants Hallmark UK, culminating in supported placements for 4 selected winners at their Design Headquarters. We also linked up with furniture design brand Orangebox, exploring ways to add value to fabric offcuts from the great variety of cloth and coverings used to upholster their products. The students’ innovative solutions saw their designs featured at the prestigious Clerkenwell Design Week at the Orangebox showroom.

Then, different again, was the Reimagine the Archive live project that we undertook with The National Museum of History at St Fagans. Students explored the museum collections through unprecedented archival access, seeking to identify a starting point for their own reimagining of a historic design object. This project culminated in Pop Up interventions of their design work in the unique St Fagans museum set up.

A live brief takes the students through a usual rigorous design process of drawing, shop reporting, competitor research, customer profiling, mood boarding, colour analysis, pattern development and design visualisation. The live Live projects nature of the projects make are peppered new demands on the students throughout the - demanding that they are 3 years (BA) or succinct in their design choices, 4 years (MDes.) constantly focused on the brand and the customer profile, at the same time as ensuring that there is a sound creative vision in response to the brief, and their designs are original and inspiring!

H&M visited Swansea from Sweden several times giving the students a real taste of the company

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Surface Pattern Facilities Our specialist Workshops include:

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Our specialist facilities include traditional print studio, dye lab, roller heat press, flat heat presses, steaming, washing and drying facilities, stitch room, digital textile printers, a digital embroiderer, computers, a 900-needle bed needle punching machine, our cutting and engraving equipment, plotter, laser and water jet, and finally a small metal work and leather tooling workshop.

Students can also access the mind-boggling breadth of the Institute’s facilities through our open access approach, but Surface Pattern students will most definitely encounter printmaking, glass, ceramics and enamel through the expertise within our programme teaching team.

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Surface Pattern & Textiles

New Designers Final year students have the opportunity to take part in the New Designers Graduate Exhibition in London.

The programme boasts several award winners from over the years but we really hit the jackpot in 2020 scooping two well deserved wins against the backdrop of a less than straight forward final semester! We know that the skills they have learned through the programme have truly prepared them for this level of resilience.

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The virtual event invited students to respond to a plethora of live briefs from their prestigious design world partners. We were so thrilled that four students were shortlisted and two won; Zoe Noakes winning The Colour in Design Award, and Grace Exley winning the Wilko Retail Design Award.

We have friends in high places Our Professors of Practice

Jan Koen Lomans Multidisciplinary artist and researcher Jan Koen Lomans has been collaborating with the Surface Pattern Design programme for years, so it seemed fitting for us to nominate him as Professor of Practice. From his base in the Netherlands Jan visits once a year to work with our students and produce work on our Graphixscan laser engraver, the largest in Europe! This collaborative partnership has been so fruitful in it’s yield; in return for the work and support undertaken with Surface Pattern Jan has supported our students to visit the Netherlands and work with him on his personal research projects, and exhibit with him at events including Dutch Design Week and Object Rotterdam. This mirroring of practice is invaluable and our students have appreciated the role of our Professors enormously.

“Going to OBJECT Rotterdam was an amazing experience. I was able to get a taste for setting up an exhibition stand and working as part of a team to create a stunning body of work that I was proud to talk about with visitors to the event.” – Abbie Joslin – MDes SPD “Through working with Jan I learned key skills about how to display and put up my work, while interacting with people from across creative industries. Gaining contacts with other artists and companies has helped me with research for my current work. I plan to use this information when looking for employment after I graduate and hope to be able to use the experience to inform my future exhibitions.” – Stacey Mead – MDes SPD 29

Design Crafts

BA (Hons) / MDes

Design Crafts From glass to jewellery, our Design Crafts course gives you the freedom to discover your creative voice and will help you to plot a career path among the diverse possibilities on offer.

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The Design Crafts degree will give you the skills you need to work across materials including glass, ceramics, jewellery and mixed-media before choosing specific areas to focus on. You will develop traditional hand-making skills as well as knowledge and experience of contemporary processes such as laser cutting and engraving, waterjet cutting and 3D printing. You will be supported in the development of your creative ideas and designs throughout the course.

Our team of established craft practitioners and experienced technicians will support the development of your creative ideas and designs throughout the course and introduce you to current innovations in materials and processes to ensure you have the most up-to-date skills and knowledge.

You will study a wide range of processes including: ceramic construction; glass processes including casting, fusing and slumping, cold techniques and pâte de verre; traditional and contemporary

jewellery techniques; multi-media casting as well as a variety of construction and forming processes for wood, metals, plastics, fibreglass, resins and electro-forming.

You will be introduced to computer-aided-design (2D and 3D) so that you can work with processes including 3D printing, laser engraving and cutting, waterjet cutting and CNC milling.

The experience of such a wide range of materials and processes will allow you to develop a highly personal approach to achieving the creation of bespoke or batch produced high value artefacts and luxury goods for a variety of applications including: architecture, interior design, art objects (for sale through galleries or by commission) and jewellery.

The course will be delivered through a series of taught workshop-based sessions, tutorials, workplacements, live-projects, design briefs and competitions, all underpinned by visual studies and historical and contextual practices.

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Cert HE / BA (Hons) / MDes

Glass

Glass

These unique programmes’ offer you an exciting opportunity to become a specialist in working with and understanding the properties of the fascinating material of glass. Practical skills and making are core to the glass department.

With a strong heritage and tradition of stained glass, complemented with cutting-edge technology and contemporary approaches, we strive to protect the traditional and innovate for the future.

The glass course at Swansea is the longest running stained glass course in the UK. With a history of over 80 years, the glass department at Swansea College of Art continues to thrive and innovate in its delivery of CertHE, BA, MA and PhD programmes. This unique heritage makes Swansea a focus for glass education. Our alumni include a number of the leading figures within Architectural Glass such as Alexander Beleschenko and Martin Donlin. Our graduates and alumni boast an impressive portfolio of international architectural commissions and projects. External projects are a consistent feature within the glass course.

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Gina Bowles

You will undertake commercial projects with the support of the university’s Architectural Glass Centre, ensuring you leave with the necessary skills and experience for industry and employment.

From traditional hand-painting and warm glass through to a host of digital applications you will be supported to develop your creative ideas and achieve your ambitions. You will have the creative freedom to work with a range of glass processes and applications, from architecture to product and fine art.

The course is delivered through workshops, tutorials, projects, live briefs and competitions.

Our research-active staff will introduce you to current innovations in materials and processes to ensure you have the most up-to-date skills and knowledge.

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Sarah Knighton Glass Graduate

Glass

From iconic architecture through to contemporary studio practice, Glass offers a wealth of exciting career opportunities.

Our Glass course will provide you with a platform to discover your creative voice and help you to plot a career path amongst the diverse possibilities on offer.

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The Swansea course felt like home to me, the environment was comfortable and all the staff worked together like a family. Everyone was welcoming and inclusive. It was a fun, lively, enriching atmosphere to be a part of.

Students were from all ages and walks of life.

The teachers were so passionate about glass there was a free flow of ideas and sharing of information. As a mature student, I had no art background but the teachers showed me how to unlock my potential.

It was a fun The glass course gave me a lively, enriching strong foundation of knowledge that I have built my career upon. atmosphere to I had not thought about working be a part of in stained glass conservation during my studies but have since found that I can use new techniques and materials within a traditional craft. I was taught both modern and traditional techniques and application.

I work for Holy Well Glass, a leading Independent conservation studio. I started as temporary summer worker nine years ago and am now the studio manager in charge of a small team and am in the process of applying for ICON accreditation. Holy Well works on all manner of architectural glass from a scheme of medieval stained glass in Winchester Cathedral presbytery to ornate leaded lights at Windsor Castle. The work is full of variety, both in the stained glass we work on and the challenges it presents us.

Stained glass, despite being a traditional craft, constantly evolves and we as practitioners constantly learn and evolve along with it.

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The Swansea Course Felt Like Home To Me Sarah Knighton, Graduate

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Glass Facilities Our specialist Workshops include:

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Dedicated design studios with individual workspaces, traditional and specialised workshops with comprehensive advanced CAD computer suites, dedicated wood, metals, plastic and ceramic workshops. Glass painting studios, facilities for glass acid-etching, kilns for glass fusing, forming, slumping and casting. Workshops including sandblasters, screen-printing and mould making, water jet and laser cutting machines, 3D printers and CNC technology.

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Architecture

Mohammad Shirazi 3rd Year Student - Swansea Waterfront Urban Design Study

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Architecture Architecture, as a discipline, operates within the construction and culture industries. It is this combination of the practical and the artistic, the functional and the expressive that makes architecture such a challenging field of operation.

This course embodies a fresh approach to architectural education that is rooted in it its locality but with a broad global perspective. Architecture is fundamentally about meeting the needs of people in ways that respect their culture and values and the character and traditions of their communities, while offering them the best that new technology and contemporary international design culture can contribute to the shaping of their environment.

The course is the first stage (Part One) of the three stage process of professional qualification as an architect. The course is prescribed by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the University is seeking recognition of the course by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The long-term plan for the School is to develop a route that offers the three part qualification cycle that leads to entry to the UK Register of Architects.

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The establishment of the BSc in Architecture ( Part 1) is the first part of this process. We are planning to launch a MArch (Part 2) in the Academic Year 2021/22.

We promote an approach to building design that is responsive to its physical and cultural context.

Whether in the city, the country or on the coast, design should be responsive to both functional requirements and its physical location.

With theoretical underpinning, students are encouraged to practice within and across all mediums. The course emphasizes learning by doing and making, by responding and engaging with the interface between idea and material. Students are encouraged to be experimental with material and concept, forging complex social communications through all aspects of architectural practice.

Aneurin James 1st Year Student - Student Pavilion Design. Structure, Concept, Model & Visuals

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Architecture

William Holland 3rd Year Student - Swansea Waterfront Contemporary Art Gallery

Sona Koroghli Architecture Graduate

The course was a journey of discovery, and there are many things that I liked about it. During the course, I became acquainted with the world of Architecture, which my lecturers introduced us to by sharing their knowledge and valuable experience. I encountered different work from amazing artists and Architects, also, on my study trip to Barcelona, I saw the beautiful stained glass windows of Sagrada Familia, listened to the sound of fountains in the Plaรงa Reial square, walked down the It also taught me narrow beautiful stone alleys, how to follow the all of which overwhelmed my idea of sustainable mind with new discoveries!

It also taught me how to development to provide a better life follow the idea of sustainable development to provide a better life, and helped me to figure out what I want to do in my life and discover what I am capable of.

The whole experience was very motivating - I think I found myself during the architecture course.

Lee Harries 2nd Year Student - Dunes Project Plan

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Architectural Facilities

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For all students we provide dedicated studio space in the IQ Building in SA1. There are dedicated PC workstations within the studio space with software packages such as AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup and Adobe CCS full suite with associated A1 plotters.

Students have access to workshop facilities with a variety of traditional and computer aided model making facilities, such as 3D printers and laser cutters. The studio space contains small break out rooms for group work and seminars.

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BA (Hons)

Automotive & Transport Design

Automotive & Transport Design

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Our vision is to produce design professionals with a high level of skills, creativity, cultural and aesthetic awareness coupled with sensitivity towards a sustainable future.

This course explores the changing nature of transportation in all its forms. Students are encouraged to generate radical vehicle concepts that challenge established conventions but not at the expense of fundamental human needs.

The programme integrates traditional studio practice and clay modelling with state-of-theart digital tools, with students utilising the latest versions of industry-standard computer-aided design and visualisation software.

Staff practice, industrial contact and live projects ensures that students are fully prepared for the demands of employment. Recent collaborations have been with: Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren Automotive, Lotus Cars Westfield, Sports Cars, Arup, Honda, Nissan, Modec Vehicles and Pembrokeshire Sports Boats. Students also have the opportunity to exhibit at New Designers London.

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BA (Hons) / MDes Automotive Design Automotive Design gives students the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and abilities to undertake the design and development of new production cars and motorcycles, based upon a clear understanding of proportion, volume and surface design principles. Automotive design involves complex surface development and refinement

and will normally require a well resolved clay model derived from good orthographic views.

Experience with clay surfacing is very important in the development or a future car designer as it gives a better understanding of proportions and 3D surfacing. It also opens the doors to the career of Automotive Clay Sculptor.

Jay Morris

BA (Hons) / MDes Transport Design Transport Design explores transportation in all forms from a concept design approach, including boats, caravans, concept cars and motorcycles, agricultural vehicle, trucks, motorised 2/3 wheelers, transport systems, ‘blue skies’ concept vehicles to film set vehicles and so on. Our vision is to produce design professionals with a good level of Ruben Lansley

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intellectual ability and creativity. We aim to develop designers capable of designing forms of transport/ vehicles from an ‘inside-out’ or unique approach, supported by research and future predictions in technology, aesthetics and environmental considerations. So if you want to do something different, Transport Design is for you.

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Students are supported by experienced clay modellers working in the industry, most recently during a live project with Jaguar.

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Something that you just don’t get anywhere else Patrick Carton, Graduate

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Patrick Carton Exterior Designer McLaren

I loved every minute of my time at Swansea and I do miss the close-knit community there. The thing I value the most from the course was the one to one tuition that I had - that is something that you just don’t get anywhere else and it really gave me a head start when I graduated and I really wouldn’t be where I am today without the expertise, time and effort put in by the staff on the course.

Graduates from our courses have found employment with some of the world’s most established names in manufacuturing and design consultancy, such as:

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Automotive, Transport and Product Design Facilities Our specialist Workshops include:

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Fibreglass layup and spray facilities, professional automotive clay tables and surfacing tools, traditional hand tools, resin and plaster casting, vacuum casting, sand blasting, acid etching, cold glass processing, warm glass forming, enamelling and electro-plating, welding, cutting, routing, milling, turning, thermo-forming equipment, CNC machining & routing centres, 3D printing (Ultimaker, Objet & Stratasys machines) and digital scanning technologies (Artec, Roland).

Our Wacom Cintiq workstations run the latest versions of industry-standard 3D design and visualisation software Autodesk Fusion 360, Alias Automotive, SketchBook Pro, Speedform, V-Red, Solidworks and Adobe Creative Suite. You can also access water jet and laser cutting equipment, ceramics, screen printing, photography, film and video editing and motion capture studios in our Dynevor Centre for Art, Design & Media just two minutes walk from ALEX.

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BA / BSc (Hons)

Product & Furniture Design What would we be without Product and Furniture Designers?

Product & Furniture Design

We define the world around us; we give it form; we give it material quality; we make it usable and sensible and most importantly we design the future. Our vision is to produce design professionals who are able to respond creatively to the changing needs of people in a commercially and environmentally sustainable manner. Could that be you?

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Adam Higgins

Georgia Hatton

Studying Product and Furniture Design at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD offers you a unique opportunity to focus on your creative development. We are proud to be able to run concentrated, small teaching groups and regular ‘one-to-one’ tutorials, where, as a student, you will focus on developing your understanding and individual professional growth.

We have excellent facilities that integrate traditional studio and workshop practices with state-of the-art digital and prototyping tools.

Throughout your studies: You will be encouraged to learn and grow the skills and knowledge to produce both digital and physical products; You will engage with industry in ‘live’ projects; You will push the boundaries of your intellectual capacity; You will develop innovative product ideas and You will have the opportunity to Study Abroad and undertake an Industrial Placement.

We see You as INDIVIDUALS and are dedicated to helping you explore ways to achieve your full creative potential.

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BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design

Product & Furniture Design

This course explores the creative inter-disciplinary and human-centred aspects of three dimensional product design. You will be encouraged to be diverse in your thinking and practical approaches, and challenge perceived boundaries within your design exploration. The course will equip you with the confidence and a wide range of skills to begin your career. You will question the roles that designers play and the impacts that design and designers can have on social, political, environmental and commercial contexts.

Approaches for idea generation, form development and product interaction are explored through studio and workshop practice, state-of-the-art digital tools, allied with a sound understanding of materials and manufacturing through 3D printing and other prototyping facilities.

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BSc (Hons) Product and Furniture Design The course philosophy is to produce professional design graduates who are creative and innovative, and can design productsand furniture that not only look good but work well. There is a strong emphasis on design optimisation and technical awareness in regard to material choice, manufacturing criteria and product architecture, allied with the knowledge of realising a design outcome through sustainable practices and commercial integrity. You will be encouraged to explore new ways to solve problems, and introduced to state-of-the-art digital design tools and prototyping technologies to explore your design thinking and shape our future relationships with the products we need or don’t need.

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Keira Gwynn Project Leader Marketing @ R82, Denmark Specialists in assistive products for disabled children and adults

Keira is the originator of scallop, a unique and fun seat that focuses on three factors, simplicity, portability and versatility. It provides a seating solution for those who require extra support while floor sitting or sitting on a chair. This was an idea developed at Swansea College of Art then commercialised by R82 and launched globally in 2017.

“I cannot believe I’m actually here, developing my idea into product reality. The programme gave me opportunities to find myself and explore my potential, culminating in me gaining an internship and then a I cannot believe full time job with R82, a company I’m actually which designs high-quality aids here, developing for children and teenagers with special needs. my idea into They were interested in taking product reality my undergraduate project further, which resulted in me undertaking further research during my master’s degree to demonstrate a definite need and consolidate the design features.

The past two years have been a like a whirlwind, with trepidation and excitement. After a global launch the product, called SCALLOP, is now in production and distributed worldwide. It’s really rewarding for me to know that my idea is now helping kids with special needs all over the world participate in everyday activities and enjoy their lives to the full.

Product Design is one of those disciplines where you can visualise and create your imagination; there is no better feeling than seeing your outcome putting a smile on someone’s face.”

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BA (Hons)

Creative Advertising

Creative Advertising

Advertising is undergoing a huge transformation. New technologies and innovations are making this an extremely exciting and creative area of study and our course embraces the amazing opportunities that lie ahead.

The Creative Advertising course at Swansea College of Art encourages and supports students’ evolution by inspiring contemporary, creative thinking to solve the communication problems of the future.

The growth in digital innovation, along with the proliferation of new advertising platforms, means greater opportunities for advertising creatives than ever before. Therefore, we mentor our students to be ideas-driven, media-neutral, team players with a 360 degree strategic view. Our belief is that a core idea will always have a place.

By studying on our course you will become highly skilled in creating relevant ideas that reach and touch the hearts and minds of audiences.

Advertising is more cross discipline than ever before, so you will find yourself exploring ideas through a multitude of creative techniques from photography to film, graphic design to

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copywriting, AI to AR, disruption to experiential, blogs to vlogs and social media to name just a few. The possibilities are endless, but we don’t expect you to be an expert in these areas, as we’ll help you explore these avenues to bring your ideas to life through experimentation, collaboration and risk-taking.

The advertising industry is populated with driven individuals, so we look for passion, enthusiasm and curiosity as essential traits in our students. We like to meet individuals who are constantly inquisitive and who may already have a creative output like photography, blogging, music, drawing, a YouTube channel, Instagram feed or anything that displays creative activity.

The Creative Advertising course is part of the D&AD University Network. In fact our students have won four international D&AD New Blood awards in the last five years. Membership of this network gives our students the opportunity to profile themselves, and their work at the D&AD New Blood Festival in Shoreditch, London, during the final year of the course. The festival is a great opportunity to meet industry creatives from some of the top advertising agencies in the country.

We ensure commercial relevance through our industry connections and provide guest lectures to add credibility to the course. This improves graduate work opportunities and many of our third year students take up internships. Once completing the course you will be equipped to land your dream job in the creative industries. Many of our alumni have gone on to work for agencies such as AMV BBDO, 180 Kingsday, Saatchi & Saatchi, iCreate, TBWA, Elvis, Golley Slater, S3 Advertising, Bluegg, 360i, DVLA and some have even set up their own freelance business.

As well as teaching excellent core creative and design skills, we also develop your transferrable skills throughout the degree which will equip you to follow your desired career path. Our past graduates now work in many diverse roles such as, Agency Creative, Digital Designer, Graphic Designer, Art Director, Copywriter, Planner, Account Executive, Social Media Manager, Content Creator, Public Relations and Events Manager to name but a few.

Throughout studying with us, our students benefit because we have smaller class sizes than many universities, which means there is considerably more contact time with lecturers, along with plenty of individual and small group tutorials. This creates a dynamic creative environment where you can confidently develop your conceptual skills and ideas whilst being fully supported by your lecturers.

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I graduated in 2016 from the Creative Advertising course at Swansea College of Art. At the end of our final year, our whole class attended the D&AD New Blood exhibition in Shoreditch, London. The event was truly special, rubbing shoulders with industry legends and getting inspired by the people you’ll be working alongside in the industry. I was lucky enough to get scouted for a 3-month internship at a global agency based in Amsterdam, 180 Kingsday.

I’ve been an Art Director at the agency for 4 years now, and worked with a multitude of clients on projects including DHL, PlayStation, ASICS, Under Armour and two global campaigns for Qatar Airways.

The last few years have been exciting for me. I’ve won 5 awards for the Thanks Plants film that pays homage to the positive effects of greenery. I have been named as one of the top digital minds under 30 in the Netherlands. I also had the privilege of being chosen as one of twenty five creatives in the world under 30 to join the Young Lions Creative Academy at the 2019 Cannes International Festival of Creativity.

I had an intense week of talks and workshops with legends such as Sir Martin Sorrell. It was a week that will greatly impact my career.

So far, my time in the industry has been anything but dull. I feel very lucky to be in an ever changing and exciting field and although I’ve learnt an incredible amount about the industry since I’ve left university, I wouldn’t be where I am today if not for the building blocks that the Creative Advertising course has given me. The tutors were fundamental in equipping me with the right tools to enter the industry.

I found constant excitement on the course and it helped me grow and progress. It’s about creating problems and solving them, learning new skills that unlock new opportunities, and building a path to a career that suits you. The tutors were vital in my process and guiding me in the right direction with their extensive knowledge of advertising and branding.

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Graphic Design

BA (Hons)

Graphic Design The Graphic Design course at Swansea College of Art prepares students for dynamic and diverse futures in the ever-widening world of visual communication.

Transform your creativity into a vocation.

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Ben Ballantyne

Beth Curtis

Patrick Glavee

Jordan Gittins

Georgia Mcdonald

Graphic Design might take the form of magazines, newspapers or books, packaging, posters, information graphics, logos and corporate identities or signage systems. It may transmit its message via web design, motion graphics or user interface design. We interact with graphic design every day as we navigate our world.

Armed with words and images, skills and imagination, our graduates are equipped and capable of making meaningful visual interventions and contributions in the creative landscapes that they enter.

The course is delivered by a passionate staff team, nurturing students in a supportive, friendly learning environment, with a professional, industry-reflective work ethic.

Your personal aspirations are very important to us and we will strive to empower you with a graduate portfolio bursting with the creative confidence you need to make a smooth transition into the working world of design.

Our Graphic Design students attain some of the most exciting national and international careers on offer, year after year.

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Daniel Alcorn Graphic Design Graduate

Graphic Design

From working for a Premier League football club to founding a design festival I’ve found my time since graduating in 2010 an incredible experience that has enabled me to follow all of my hopes and dreams as a designer.

After a brief period as in house designer at a catalogue retailer I moved to Aston Villa Football Club in 2012 as Creative Designer, working alongside the marketing team to produce season ticket and kit launch campaigns, special edition programmes and installations including decorating the dressing room at Wembley for the FA cup final.

Towards the end of my time at the club I progressed to designing more for screens and delivered the club's new website as well as several video campaigns and motion graphics.

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For the past 3 years I have been working at a digital agency called Substrakt designing and building digital products for arts organisations including Royal Academy of the Arts, American Repertory Theater, Pallant House Gallery and Kiln Theatre.

During my time in Birmingham I have run numerous events aimed at the creative community culminating in the foundation of Birmingham Design Festival with my pal Luke Tonge. Now heading into its third year, BDF welcomes thousands of visitors to the city every June with speakers including Aaron Draplin, Anthony Burrill, Verònica Fuerte and Astrid Stavro.

My time at Swansea allowed me to discover my passions in design and hone my skills in a welcoming environment that pushed me to create work that I love. The course is structured in a way that encourages you to try different approaches and then allows you to focus on your best qualities which feels like a perfect approach.

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Illustration

BA (Hons)

Illustration The lively and creative atmosphere in our studios provides a comfortable, friendly and stimulating environment in which to thrive and develop your skills and ideas.

There is space and opportunity to work large-scale, 3D, create installations and make the studios your own.

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Alice Samuel

Owen Harry

The Illustration course here at Swansea enjoys a reputation for producing a diverse and eclectic range of graduating illustrators who are confident using their own creative voice. The broad and dynamic programme is designed to develop both creative and professional skills, blurring boundaries with Fine Art, Graphic Design, Animation, and other disciplines. It reflects and embraces the diverse nature of contemporary illustration and will encourage you to challenge the concept of what illustration can be and to pursue a personal direction in your work.

You will explore a wide range of techniques, materials and styles in order to determine personal strengths. As you progress through the course we help you discover what kind of illustrator you want to be, the area of the industry that interests you and your eventual career direction, enabling you to realise your full potential as a visual communicator.

Within our department, we have an impressive range of digital equipment and facilities including a

dedicated suite of iMacs, WaCom tablets and large Cintiq drawing screens, as well as a laser cutter.

Our non-digital facilities are equally exciting: a printmaking studio for Lino, Screenprint, Etching & Collagraph, and a letterpress studio with four Adana letterpress machines and bookmaking equipment.

All of this gives you a fantastic opportunity to experiment and explore the creative potential of combining traditional techniques with state-of-theart digital technology.

It is an extremely exciting time to be an illustrator and this course will provide the platform for you to learn required skills and techniques, develop your individual approach and unique visual signature and understand the needs of this rapidly evolving and vibrant industry. This course will inspire and ignite a spark that will encourage you to exceed your own expectations.

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I have so much love for illustration and I think a lot of credit for that should be given to my tutors at Swansea College of Art, who have been so inspiring and encouraging.

Graduating university is bittersweet: I am excited at the prospects for the future, but also so sad to leave such a huge part of my life as an illustrator behind as I embark on the next chapter of my life as a freelance illustrator. If I could do university all over again, I would in a heartbeat.

The course has really prepared me for the real world and has provided me with countless opportunities that have given me credibility as an illustrator: In my second In my second year, I was commissioned to illustrate a children's book called Nature's year, I was commissioned Nasties. I had the chance to meet the publisher, Canolfan Peniarth during the annual design to illustrate a week which the university hosts every year. I children's book approached them and asked if they would offer called Nature's me an internship. Not only did they do that, but they liked my work so much that they asked me Nasties. to illustrate Nature's Nasties, written by Lady Carol Barratt. And of course, I said yes!

This opportunity has opened the doors for so much more! I have just illustrated a Welsh educational book called Gofal! Gofal! about road safety for the same publisher, and there are plans for a second Nature's Nasties book to be made next year!

I have thoroughly loved studying illustration at Swansea College of Art because I was encouraged to find my own style and niche, and I have gained so much industry knowledge from my tutors and guest speakers such as Nina Cosford, Nicola Davies and Lou Bones from the Association of Illustrators. At the end of the third year, students have the opportunity to showcase their work at the biggest exhibition for graduates in the UK. The New Designers show in London has given me so many leads and contacts, which are invaluable.

My work has been featured in Digital Arts Magazine, along with a fellow student from Swansea College of Art, for best new talent in New Designers. I also have been offered representation from Plum Pudding illustration agency and I am currently being considered for representation by The Bright Agency, which has been a goal of mine since the second year.

The opportunities that the University provided me have given me so much publicity and have prepared me for my journey towards becoming an illustrator.

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Fine Art

BA (Hons)

Fine Art

Studio, Site & Context The Fine Art Course at Swansea College of Art has an established reputation as a centre of excellence and innovation in the visual arts. This is a studio based course where students engage in dialogues with internationally recognised artists.

“Through seminars and tutorials, we constantly remind ourselves that the cultural, political and poetic worlds are not outside our studio walls, but that these walls are of these worlds. As spaces of discourse, the past, present and future are fluid fields for learning, context and invention” - Professor Tim Davies.

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Abigail Eckberg

Darren Mundy

Hannah Thomas

Laura Wright

Owain Sparnon

At Swansea all our full-time students are allocated their own personal space. This is complimented by a broad range of workshops; life drawing studio and additional bookable installation spaces. With theoretical underpinning, students are encouraged to practice within and across all mediums. The course emphasizes learning through making, both responding and engaging with the interface between idea and material.

Our students are introduced to and then free to explore the potential of painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, performance, site specific and sculptural processes.

Students are encouraged to be experimental with material and concept, forging complex social communications through all aspects of Fine Art practice.

Through a series of workshops, demonstrations, visiting guest lecturers, students will develop a thorough and mature understanding of contemporary practice. By exploring ideas through research methods and developing a personal work structure that incorporates time management and professional practices, enables students to experience a rich, dynamic and varied programme.

Students learn curatorial practice through all exhibitions generated through the course, learning the various mechanisms of presentation that is appropriate to their art practice. An attitude of professionalism is embraced on our course whether one engages or uses traditional methods to the more disruptive, political, playful or anarchic.

The Fine Art course has excellent connections to the contemporary art world and its community.

We have instigated partnerships in Swansea with Elysium Gallery and Studios; Volcano Experimental Theatre; the Mission Gallery; Galerie Simpson and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. UK, national and international links include The Beep Painting Award and the Artes Mundi Prize. Each year study visits are organized and have in recent years included London; Berlin and the Venice Biennale. There are also a number of worldwide studio exchanges.

The lecturing staff have many years of professional experience having exhibited in China; USA, Central and South America; Canada; Africa; Australia and throughout Europe. Their works are represented in many international collections and have been included in major exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and Artes Mundi Art Prize.

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Alexander Duncan Fine Art Graduate

Alexander Duncan grew up in Swansea where he studied on the Foundation Art and Design Course before completing his BA in Fine Art at Swansea College of Art in 2007. On graduating, Alex collaborated with fellow UWTSD graduate Jonathan Anderson on several twoperson shows, including Real Estate at Elysium. In 2011, shortly before moving to London, Alex had his first solo show Surge with Mission Gallery.

Alex went on to study for an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of The teaching staff Art graduating in 2015, the same year he truly care for their was selected for the London Open at the students and manage Whitechapel Gallery and was the recipient to find each student’s of the Wakelin Award by the Glynn Vivian Art individual strengths to Gallery. In 2017 Alex had his first international progress their skill set. solo show Blow in at Aldama Fabre Gallery, Bilbao. He works between Swansea and London where he has his studio and co-directs a project space ArtLacuna. “The teaching staff truly care for their students and manage to find each student’s individual strengths to progress their skill set.”

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Fine Art Facilities Our specialist Workshops include: All Fine Art students have dedicated studio spaces. Our excellent facilities also include metal, wood, resin and ceramic workshops, as well as laser and water-jet cutting and digital studios/darkrooms.

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Curator at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Karen is a passionate advocate for the contemporary arts in Wales and has been an inspirational collaborator with Swansea College of Art for many years, commissioning staff and students for exhibitions, curating projects and by getting involved in our teaching programmes. During her career Karen has organised both contemporary and historical exhibitions and has developed a particular interest in socially engaged practice and how contemporary art can be a catalyst for social change. At Chapter Arts Centre, where she began her career, Karen focused on solo exhibitions and commissions with artists such as Lucy Gunning, Nick Crowe and Orlan. Later at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery she curated shows such as Displaced: contemporary art from Colombia which included the artists Oscar Muñoz, José Alejandro Restrepo and Maria Elvira Escallón.

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Luxemburg exhibition Ffolly and the city wide project Lets see what happens... (2013) which included the work of 7 artists from Wales and China across five sites in Swansea. In 2005 Karen was appointed Curator for the Wales at the Venice Biennale and showcased a group exhibition including work by Peter Finnemore, Laura Ford, Paul Granjon and a residency with Bedwyr Williams.

In 2013 Karen became the Director and Curator at Artes Mundi where she has shaped a rich programme of expanded activity outside the prize including exhibitons, community projects and socially engaged commissions working in partnership with organisations in the UK and beyond. Recent high-profile commissions include Broomberg & Chanarin’s Divine Violence with Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno and Bedwyr Williams’ Traw with 14:18 NOW. Karen is now back as Curator at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery.

As Professor of Practice Karen continues to forge her close relationship with Swansea College of Art and we look forward to many more exciting collaborative projects with her.

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Photography

BA (Hons)

Photography Through tutorials and critiques, students are encouraged to produce photographic work that asks questions of their subject and just as importantly, tests the parameters of photographic practice. The course offers a broad and friendly programme that allows students to explore a wide range of techniques, materials and styles in order to determine personal strengths and eventual career directions.

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In addition to extensive traditional photography facilities and darkrooms, our digital provision includes Mac suites running the latest Adobe software. All our Macs are linked to professional proofing and inkjet printers, a specialist colourmanaged digital darkroom with Hasselblad Flextight scanners and large format printing and a store facility that gives you access to medium and largeformat film cameras, professional digital SLR, medium format Hasselblad digital cameras and location lighting equipment.

We believe that it’s essential for your work to have a professional finish and to this end practical projects are supported by workshops. Having access to additional practical knowledge ensures that you can use the University’s excellent facilities with confidence, make informed choices about method and equipment, and ultimately produce work to an exeptional standard. Workshops cover: processing and printing, including historical print methods, fibre-based black & white; the use of various camera formats from medium format roll-film and 5 x 4 film, to digital (including medium format); digital workflow and printing; video (shooting and editing); exhibition installation and projection; studio, and location lighting.

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BA (Hons) Photography In the Arts

Photography

This course enables you to explore and challenge the conventions of contemporary photographic art. You are encouraged to undertake an extensive, risk-taking enquiry into the possibilities of the medium, with experimentation at the core of the course’s philosophy. The course encompasses a wide-reaching understanding of all aspects of photography; its history, theory, and practice, and as such reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of photography within the contemporary arts.

Much of the course is self-directed, allowing for a flexible approach to image-making in relation to both subject-matter and technique.

While focusing on the notion of photography as conceptual art practice, the course also emphasises the importance of linking individual photographic development to commercial applications. The photography department has strong links with both the art and commercial media industries, which are utilised and strengthened by the regular visiting lecturer programme.

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BA (Hons) Documentary Photography & Visual Activism Our Documentary Photography and Visual Activism degree course at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD teaches students traditional, practical documentary and photojournalistic skills alongside contemporary strategies for becoming visual activists, who empower their subjects whilst engaging with communities and networks to raise awareness about inequality and injustice as a means for social change.

“The Documentary Photography & Visual Activism degree at Swansea College of Art UWTSD rightly challenges documentary photography norms and embraces expanding its meaning, a perfect fit for this moment in time as documentary photography is being transformed by digital technology, social media and new means of distribution.”

Michelle Bogre, Professor Emerita, Parsons School of Design

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Verónica Sanchis Bencomo

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Verónica Sanchis Bencomo is a photographer, writer and curator, currently based in Hong Kong. Since graduating from the Photojournalism course in 2010, her collaboration with the cultural magazine, Ventana Latina resulted in a monthly feature, Fotografia Latina, in which she interviewed photographers that work in Latin America. In 2014 Verónica founded Foto Féminas, promoting the work of female Latin American and Caribbean photographers, internationally, in exhibitions and publications.

Verónica contributes to platforms including The Photographic Museum of Humanity (United Kingdom), Yet magazine (Switzerland) and Atlas Fotografia e Imagen (Chile). She continues to work on her own projects and recently published an artist book, Blaze, in collaboration with the poet, Cristina Gálvez.

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Photography Facilities Our specialist Workshops include:

Extensive traditional photography facilities and darkrooms, digital provision including Mac suites running the latest Adobe software linked to professional proofing and inkjet printers, a specialist colour-managed digital darkroom with Hasselblad Flextight scanners and large format printing, and a store facility that gives you access to medium and largeformat film cameras, professional digital SLR, medium format Hasselblad digital cameras and location lighting equipment.

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Film & TV

Film & TV

Our Film & TV degree course at UWTSD Swansea College of Art is designed around the idea of story and storytelling – as any professional will tell you, story is the most essential part of any film or programme.

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As a student storyteller, you will discover how to build an effective moving image production around a core story idea, with script, directing, cinematography and sound combining to create strong narratives. You will learn how to create a range of stories ranging from drama, documentary, music, fashion films to online content, you will be experimenting in every aspect of storytelling from initial concept to final delivery.

You will not be taught boring film theory in a class.

Instead your lessons take place not just in our brand new campus, but also in cafes, abandoned buildings, theatres, beaches, and many other locations. As a result during the first year you will be expected to experiment with cinematic practices (camera, lighting, editing, writing etc). In modules such as Investigating Spaces, Textual Practices 1, and Applied Storytelling Practices 1 you will be learning new approaches to storytelling in film & TV that will begin the hard process of trying to make your voice and contribution to film a truly unique one. The main production for this year will be on creating content either short film festivals and/or a YouTube web series or scripts.

The course philosophy is placed upon the applied practice of storytelling for the screen. This has resulted in our students’ productions winning awards for fiction and non-fiction at many festivals and awards ceremonies, including the Royal Television Society Wales Student Awards, Screentest: The National Student Film Festival, Cardiff Mini Film Festival and Ffresh. Alongside these festivals, you will also run our very own Copper Coast International Film Festival now in its 5th year.

As a student, you will be trained in technical crafts within job specify roles in our weekly craft sessions (such as 1st AC, Production co-ordinator, DoP, sound etc). Finally, Our students have worked on a variety of film and television shows such as Brissic (2020), Dark materials (2020), The Old Guard (2020) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission Impossible – Fallout (2018), Sherlock (2012), Atlantis, The Grand Tour (2016), Overlord (2018), Fury (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014),The Collection (2016), Bang, (2017), Will (2017)

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Since graduating in 2011, Dave Clarke has made a successful career as a Master Grip working on a host of film and TV shows, including Paddington 2, Casualty and many others. For the past five years he has been working as a Grip Assistant initially and more recently as a Grip. He is now in charge of the Grips department, providing support and rigging solutions to the camera department. From such simple equipment as tripods and camera heads to more complex track and dolly combinations as well as car rigs and cranes.

Film & TV Facilities Our specialist Workshops include:

Our film course has excellent facilities and equipment for film & television production and post-production. For location production, students can use a wide range of HD DSLR, XD-CAM and 4K cam­­era kits, including Canon and RED cameras, with prime lens kits, along with Kino, Arri and Dedo lighting kits and sound recording equipment.

Professional camera sliders, shoulder rigs, track & dolly and Steadicam systems can also be used to create fluid camera movements.

For post-production, computers across the Faculty are equipped with industrystandard software including Adobe Creative Suite (including Premiere, Photoshop, After Effects), ProTools and DaVinci Resolve, Final Draft, MovieMagic Scheduling and MovieMagic Budgeting.. These editing systems deal with uncompressed high definition footage in real time.

The department also has large plasma and 3D LED screen TVs and digital projectors for screenings.

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BA (Hons) / MArts

Set Design

Set Design

Think, for a moment, about your favourite films and TV programmes. Think about how amazing the sets are. Think about how sets give characters and ideas a home. Imagine being part of a wonderfully creative industry and doing this for a living. The Set Design degree can make that happen.

It can develop and harness your creative and imaginative thinking, fuel your fascination for visualising, creating and building astounding environments and sets. It is for people who want to use their passion and creativity to design and make those environments. This is a course that transforms generalists into specialists. There are very few similar courses nationally or internationally and none of them have the same driving ambition for students and such a range of approaches.

Based in Swansea, we have direct links to a range of production facilities and studios. We are able to facilitate on set work experience in the Film & TV industry. We are unique in having our own student-run, fully equipped TV station and use it to showcase student work and give airtime to virtual set designs. We bring in expertise from world-class professionals at Bad Wolf Studios, Three Cliffs Production, Pinewood Wales, Dragon Studios, Bay Studios in Swansea and our multi million pound

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development of S4C’s new corporate headquarters.

Most importantly, these studios are crying out for our students and consistently offer jobs to graduates. We support all of this with great studio space, facilities and excellent equipment from Canon, Red, Sony, Dedo, Kino Flo, Manfrotto, Rode, Sennheiser and Litepanels.

If you want to research historical periods, develop visualisations, construct breathtakingly beautiful scenes, re-create existing landmarks or transform narrative and screenplay ideas into film sets, then the Set Design course needs you.

We are looking to put together a course of passionate individuals with an interest in history, design, the arts, graphics and contemporary culture; people that want to become talented set designers and work in a thriving and vibrant industry.

We expect people to come from a wide range of technology, design, humanities, arts-based and apprenticeship backgrounds.

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BA (Hons)

Music Technology Compose. Create. Collaborate.

Music Technology

The Creative Music Technology degree is a practice, studio-based programme, focussing on digital creativity and content creation.

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The course gives students the opportunity to compose, create and collaborate in a wide range of media applications. Students will engage in studio composition, sound design and production for TV and Film, animation, computer games audio design, music video, broadcast, performance and sound engineering.

Intensive training is offered in our fully equipped suite of studios at the university, boasting a wide range of industry standard software and hardware and purpose built recording and performance spaces. The creative music technology department is a vibrant and key player in the cross disciplinary ethos of the Swansea College of Art.

The Creative Music Technology department is a pioneer in innovative teaching and learning practice.

We operate the “connected campus studios� where students and staff are able to collaborate, record and perform High Definition audio exchange between studios, at home or on campus, in realtime through a combination of remote login and cloud-based audio-packet streaming. In this way, students have access to specialist facilities to record performers, artists and musicians in-house, or remotely from any studio in the world.

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BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology Music Technology aims to cultivate wide-ranging technical and aesthetic skills associated with the broad subject of music technology. The music technology department is a vibrant and key player in the cross disciplinary ethos of the Swansea College of Art.

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Jake Bourton Audio Producer

“The course, along with support from the lecturing team, broadened my mind musically, artistically and in technological respects. A particularly exciting aspect of the course was being given the freedom, confidence and belief in my own ability to pursue interests in film and television sound.

To aid this I undertook work placements in industry, which would not have been available without the course. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to get into industries working with sound.” Jake has worked on a number of productions including: Sunshade Films – Driscoll Manor, Long Coats and Crisp Packets, Feature Film, Tornado Studios – The Rebels

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Computer Animation

BA (Hons

Computer Animation This animation degree is all about bringing your designs to life. We use classical 2D animation techniques, modelling clay miniatures and concept designs to help you forge and control 3D designs and stories and worlds. You will enjoy the creative freedom to explore animation across 2D and 3D, models and movement, lighting and look development. Like so many of our graduates we want you to use this as the turning point in your career, to develop the best reels for work in the industry and beyond.

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“YOUKANTE" character by TOMMY NELSON.

Emelie Jensen

Raj Joshi

This course is one of the most established in the UK. Since 2003 our graduates have gained key industry experience with world-leading production companies, VFX studios, games studios, commercials, TV, and many other entertainment fields. Graduates have gone on to work on the feature films Interstellar, Jungle Book, Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Beasts, Hostel Transylvania, Thor, Skyfall, Prometheus, Chronicles of Narnia, Mand of Steel, Iron Man 2, Kubo and the two strings, Boxtrolls, World War Z, and many, more. All of our team encourage the use of solid design techniques, to incorporate classical animation and production stages wherever possible. We know the value of

understanding anatomical structure in figure work; we dedicate time on using character animation styles and principles; we help in the design and development of imaginative sets and story scenarios. This all takes place during concept work and pre-production before seeing the creations take shape in 3D. Staff have strong academic experience teaching these subjects, with extensive animation series, film and games title credits. In turn, our 3D Computer Animation students gain invaluable industrial insight and animation support that enables them to pursue the right path in the creative industries and latest exciting frontiers in modern digital animation.

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Anthony Bloor Head of 3D, Advertising MPC, London

Helen Duckworth CG Modeller & Texure Artist

Anthony was one of the first students to complete the BA 3D Computer Animation degree in 2003. He started work at MPC in 2005, working as a Lighter and Generalist on the BAFTA winning ‘Hogfather’, (Best VFX). His 3rd year film at Swansea – PLATFORM ZERO – helped to catapult him into the industry where he continues to develop cutting edge 3D artist and animation work, first nutured here at Swansea.

Since becoming co-Head of the 3D department in 2013, Anthony has worked with numerous agencies and clients, overseeing a huge range of award-winning creative 3D work, personally supervising the design, build and animation of well-known sequences that include animated snakes (cocktails), fire-breathing monsters (ice gum) and Barry, the talking platypus (insurance ad).

Helen developed a close relationship with Aardman Animations (Bristol) in her final year, she subsequently went on to work for them in their CG department with the digital modelling on commercials and the film PIRATES. She works principally on the models and character designs but has also contributed to texturing and the lighting and look development on many award-winning films. The experience with Aardman led to more 3D projects on the film Boxtrolls and Kubo and the two strings, with Laika, and then to become a Senior Modeller with Sony Pictures Imageworks and her work on the characters, sets, props on the Hotel Transylvania films, The Smurfs and Storks.

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BA (Hons)

Computer Games Design

Computer Games Design

The Computer Games Design course equips students with the essential skills used in the games industry, and knowledge of its practices, along with the ability to academically analyse and evaluate their own work.

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Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan

Gemma Suen

Richard Morgan

Our modules of study all feed into a single game idea over the first two years of the course, allowing students to work within a production group to develop work using a simulated development cycle. The first year of the course sees students working within their teams to produce all concepts, characters, assets and game documentation.

In the second year each student implements all work from the first year into a game engine environment and eventually into the creation of a working game demo. The third year develops these ideas further with the students producing a game demo/proof of a concept, based on their own specifications, as part of their final major project.

The final year of the MArts is designed to offer the opportunity to gain both a master’s degree and to negotiate the transition into industry.

The programme is a member of Sony’s PlayStation® Academic Programme. This exciting partnership provides access to the PlayStation development tools and the same professional hardware used by game studios around the world to create ground-breaking games on PlayStation.

Our graduates have gone on to work with prominent and successful companies such as Rockstar North, Electronic Arts, Criterion, Creative Assembly and Traveller’s Tales being involved with the development of Burnout Dominator, the Harry Potter series, Grand Theft Auto V, Halo Wars 2, Little Big Planet, Alien Isolation and the Lego Star Wars series.

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Dan Brewer Senior Designer Creative Assembly

David Alden Technical Concept Artist at Rockstar North

I started my career as a Designer at Supermassive Games. During my university course, I was very interested in augmented reality, with my dissertation questioning whether it could be the future of gaming. Supermassive Games were starting work on an Augmented Reality party game as a launch title for the Playstation Move controller (Start the Party) on PS3 and were after a designer to work on it. Very luckily my enthusiasm for augmented reality technology set me apart from the other candidates and I was offered a job a few weeks later. During my six years at Supermassive, I was lucky enough to work on almost every project they shipped, including: Little Big Planet DLC, Concept pitching, internal narrative drama prototypes, Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, Wonderbook: Walking with Dinosaurs, Airship Aces, Spy Ops and the BAFTA award winning Until Dawn.

After this I joined Creative Assembly as a senior designer to work on Halo Wars 2. During the two years that we worked on Halo Wars 2, I took a key role in delivering the core gameplay and multiplayer experience. To this day, I’m enjoying my time at Creative Assembly, everyday using key skills that I picked up during my time at Swansea College of Art.

I currently work as a Technical Content Artist in Rockstar North where I have been working for more than five years having started there immediately after leaving Swansea College of Art. In that time I have moved from QA to Art Support due to my university taught understanding of games art language and again to my current title with my practical skills. My role has me working on game map art every day, from the conception, design, implementation and technical set up, with a great team of like-minded, passionate artists and support hands.

I wouldn’t be where I am now without my time on the Computer Game Design course, which gave me the skills and language to communicate my ideas and methods within the industry, for giving me an amazing knowledge base to build upon, and for the confidence to put my work and myself into the games industry to continue my career as a Games Artist.

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Swansea College of Art was recently selected to join Sony’s PlayStation®First, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Global Academic Programme.

This exciting partnership gives our Creative Computer Games Design students access to PlayStation development tools; the same professional hardware used by game studios around the world to create ground-breaking games on PlayStation.

“Through PlayStation First we’re giving students the chance to cut their teeth on console development early in their career. We want them to have the skills our industry needs. And we want to inspire this next generation of developers to create new games and experiences.” Luke Savage, Sony’s Senior Academic Development Manager PlayStation First recognises the world’s leading game development courses to help foster the new wave of game developers. The programme is unique as it provides access to the full PlayStation software and development hardware for teaching purposes in computer engineering, programming and software development and game design.

The collaborative nature of all the work our students create gives them a better understanding of what it’s like to work productively and apply their core strengths to any industry project. This philosophy is advanced by our inclusion into Sony’s PlayStation®First programme which helps to further bridge the gap between academia and industry.

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Cert HE Art & Design

Foundation The Cert HE Art and Design Foundation course provides the basis for the study of art and design. This makes it the preferred route into specialised study within higher education. The programme is predominantly visual and practical, with elements of written work, and develops students’ understanding of concept, contexts and making.

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Huw Edwards

Caitlin Noble

The Course is an introduction to study within art and design, a foundation or basis for students entering ‘art school’ and encountering, for the first time, studio based teaching and learning, characterised as enquiry and learning through drawing, making and process, writing, research, presentation and discussion. The course enables student progression through production of a portfolio of practical and visual work, examples of written work and a final exhibition.

Students are introduced to specialist study areas that might lead on to further study in areas including Fine Art, Painting and Drawing, Illustration, Graphic Design, Advertising and Brand Design, Games Design, Digital Arts, Animation, Film and Video, Photography, Automotive, Furniture, Interior, Product,

Production and Theatre Design, Architecture, Jewellery Design, Fashion, Textiles, Surface Pattern, Craft, Architecture, Glass, Music Technology and many more.

The course is taught entirely at Level 4.

This represents a clear progression from A Level whilst still permitting students the time to consider BA specialist options in the context of a full art school experience.

We maintain the ethos and magic of Foundation, allowing students to build a bedrock of experience and skill whilst discovering new areas they might not have had chance to explore previously. This, we believe is essential to success at degree level and vital in terms of making the right decision for a future career in the creative industries.

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The course is based in a beautiful studio in the recently renovated ALEX Design Exchange where it originated more than 100 years ago. We also work across the Dynevor Campus and offer our students full access to purpose built workshops, facilities and resources in the art school, working alongside our degree students. The art school boasts some of the best facilities in the area with both traditional and state of the art equipment available for all Foundation students to take advantage of.

We also support further applications. via UCAS, to courses in our own faculty, and elsewhere, with students’ progressing to a variety of degree courses in universities throughout the country.

Many ex-Foundation students, now graduates, are practising artists, fashion, product and graphic designers, teachers and lecturers. Some are curating and working as arts administrators and educators in museums and galleries. Some have become designers in the industry or are working as architects. We recently celebrated our 100-year birthday with an alumni show at Mission Gallery which highlighted the broad range of exciting careers our students have had following the course. Many of our alumni said their time on their Foundation course was one of the most valuable and key years in their arts education, guiding them on the right pathway to their specialist subject areas.

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Postgraduate Study Our MA Contemporary Dialogues Portfolio creates a unique learning platform from which students are encouraged to broaden their creative experience through experimentation, collaboration and interdisciplinary discourse. As part of the interdisciplinary platform students are encouraged to broaden process, exploring a wide range of approach and material together with the development of theoretical understanding.

As part of the interdisciplinary platform students are encouraged to broaden process, exploring a wide range of approach and material together with the development of theoretical understanding. Our MA Contemporary Dialogues Portfolio creates a unique learning platform from which students are encouraged to broaden their creative experience through experimentation, collaboration and interdisciplinary discourse.

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MA Textiles focuses on textiles as a medium for communicative and semiotic exploration capable of forming dialogues with other disciplines. As the medium is fundamental to human experience there is an emphasis on material culture cross-referenced with studies in phenomenology and critical studies. Students explore the diverse contexts of materiality as they pertain to language, metaphor and cultural use values.

MA Surface Pattern Design offers a design-focused experience that focuses on an ethos of creativity, innovation, vision, design and making skills, together with advanced contextual understanding and employability. Students can experiment across a range of disciplines, including design for interiors, fashion objects and jewellery/metalwork.

MA Glass is concerned with the study of glass in an environment and its effects and relationship with light and space. Glass as a material offers a unique place in design and architecture and the course offers the opportunity to explore this material, with particular reference to its applications in architecture. Glass in its many forms; mosaic, glaze, enamel and window faรงade, covers a broad association of surfaces, which offers the maker a rich and varied pallet.

MA VFX Our VFX programme is designed for graduates who wish to extend their knowledge and build their visual effects career at postgraduate level. The aim is to advance individual design practice and CGI, with a view to working in the VFX industry. Students will utilise a range of professional-quality library footage, either externally sourced or produced by students.

MA Fine Art celebrates an open, ideas based discipline which establishes a unique learning environment where concept and process are equally supported through expansive academic and workshop practice. Students thus have the opportunity to work within and across a wide range of mediums, which include, painting, video, performance, 3D practice, installation and print.

MA Photography considers all forms of practice but is particularly interested in the formulation of new individual practices across trans-disciplinary lines. The course ranges from documentary modes to conceptual practices driven by philosophical and critical studies. You will be encouraged to explore and experiment with the concept of ‘future photographies’ and to resolve projects into a range of physical and digital outputs through exhibition and publication.

MA Moving Image The Moving Image master's programme explores new means of attracting audiences, whether in the areas of promotion and advertising or within the exhibition and corporate sector, moving image for mobile devices, the web, and in every area of motion design.The programme has been designed for those looking for innovative, creative and critical learning, as you will engage with video, environmental, digital editing, sound and animation to develop your creative ideas and build a strong conceptual and technical basis for your development.

MA Sound Sound is an area of growing social, cultural and environmental importance, yet it is often overlooked and underappreciated in our overwhelmingly visual, screen-based society. It has great emotional power for communication through storytelling, music, and more subtle and evocative forms.This master's programme focuses upon the whole spectrum of sound as a social phenomenon in theory and practice, from listening, generating and recording to its potential for transforming our experiences, environments, lives and cultures.

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MA Product Design students embrace, reflect and address environmental, economic and social-cultural challenges through creative dialogue. The course challenges conventions through cross-collaborative experimentation and lateral thinking to harness both design ambiguity and innovative thinking in reflecting society’s desires and future product needs. It encourages a professional stance whilst incorporating new paradigms for the design of innovative and sustainable products, systems and services.

MSc Industrial Design utilises advanced digital technologies to validate a design direction, that considers both the intellectual and technical dialogues of realising a focused design outcome.

Students challenge conventions of creativity and technical augmentation in the service of innovation. This provides a platform of collaborative experimentation and design thinking that reflects the environmental, economic and technological challenges present in today’s consumer society.

MA Transportation Design proposes that innovative future focused design is central to enabling a response to our rapidly changing transportation needs. The course offers a unique approach that combines interdisciplinary and collaborative opportunities to build on design specific understandings of excellence in vehicle design. It encourages students to develop a broad philosophical understanding in order to facilitate an insight into human interaction and materiality.

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MA Visual Communication encourages the students to explore and develop new approaches and understandings to user centred visual design problems. With an emphasis on expansive creative thinking and problem solving the students develop a portfolio of practice led research that forms an extensive major body which may span a diverse range of outputs across the fields of illustration, graphic design, advertising and brand design.

MA Graphic Design As a graphic designer you will find your advanced practice is needed in a wide variety of areas within the creative industry landscape. Being part of the Contemporary Dialogues portfolio will enable you to develop different perspectives and thought processes within your own design practice.

This in turn will help you to respond to and to accommodate diverse client needs and briefs.

MA Illustration Exploring the ever-evolving market for illustrative visual material, this course uses traditional and digital methods to extend exhibition, publication and new interdisciplinary practices. Students will consolidate their expertise by identifying, exploring, and achieving future career aspirations within the postgraduate creative environment.

MA Advertising Central to the MA Advertising pathway is media-neutral ideation and interdisciplinary innovation. These are informed and supported by incisive strategic thinking arrived at through thorough research. This course will inspire and support the student to take a bold, media-neutral approach in the creation of compelling messages, realised through the application of refined craft skills.

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Research Degrees Swansea College of Art has an exciting research culture supported by an extensive list of academics who hold doctorates and associated expertise. These academics are engaged in innovative research projects that investigate collaborative art practices, contemporary craft, glass, health and well-being, creative pedagogy, event and situation, creative art writing, environmental studies, contemporary painting, digital practice, sound, photography and moving image and continental philosophy.

We offer a number of research degree options, including the master’s by Research (MRes), a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). All students contribute to the vibrant postgraduate research forum of experimentation, philosophical enquiry and practice-based exploration.

Supervision is offered for research through practice and/or via a written thesis, in a broad range of subjects.

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MRes – Art and Design

MRes - Creative Learning

The MRes offers research students the opportunity to develop methodologies for the integration of theory and practice. It is aimed at students wishing to engage in a period of philosophical inquiry, with the opportunity to include an element of creative practice, and offers a dynamic alternative to MA or MPhil study.

The MRes is delivered through a combination of structured learning, comprising lectures and seminars that facilitate critical thinking and a period of independent research.

Co-delivered between the Art & Design and Education, this course has been developed in response to changes in the provision in school education which places an emphasis on creativity and is aimed at those in the education sector. Creativity is increasingly a key factor to enabling innovation, problem solving and open thinking applicable to a wide range of disciplines and contexts. Other professionals, both in the public and private sector, may also benefit from this course.

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Master of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy

The MPhil affords students the opportunity for professional enhancement through the investigation of a topic relevant to their interests and the staff areas of expertise. An MPhil through practice based research or writing considers and comments on existing knowledge by demonstrating an in depth understanding of the topic examined and a degree of originality.

MPhil work will often lead to publication and may lead to a career in academia.

The PhD research degree encourages students to investigate a research topic under the supervision of a team of qualified academic staff. To gain a PhD, the student must produce an original contribution to knowledge in that field, that is then validated through expert opinion. At Swansea College of Art we have a wide research expertise across the disciplines of Art & Design as well as welcoming transdisciplinary proposals.

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Celf a Dylunio Swansea College of Art UWTSD embeds the importance of Wales and its distinctiveness through celebrating the linguistic and cultural assets and heritage of Wales. We aim to embed the culture and heritage of Wales within our teaching and learning, creating the opportunity for students to interact bilingually within a local and Global context. Bilingual teaching takes place in the learnerfocused environment of our dedicated studios and workshops.

Mae Coleg Celf Abertawe Y Drindod Dewi Sant yn cydnabod pwysigrwydd Cymru a’i chymeriad arbennig trwy ddathlu asedau a threftadaeth ieithyddol a diwylliannol Cymru. Ein nod yw mewnosod diwylliant a threftadaeth Cymru yn ein haddysgu a dysgu, gan greu’r cyfle i fyfyrwyr ryngweithio’n ddwyieithog o fewn cyd-destun lleol a byd-eang. Cynhelir yr addysgu dwyieithog yn ein stiwdios a gweithdai pwrpasol mewn amgylchedd sy’n canolbwyntio ar ein myfyrwyr.

Tomos Sparnon Artist Mentor (Welsh Medium) - Fine art Graduate Artist preswyl (Y Gymraeg) – Wedi graddio o Gelf Gain

During the past year I have been working as a Welsh Medium Artist in Residence at Swansea College of Art. In this role, I worked closely with Welsh medium students, promoted the Welsh language in the University and I had a studio space to develop my artwork. It has been a special year and I have benefited from many valuable experiences.

Prior to this, I studied a Fine Art degree at the College. I had a great time doing the degree and had excellent experiences studying. I had inspirational lecturers who challenged me to develop my work and to take risks. I learned a lot from them, including skills and techniques that will stay with me.

In addition, I had the opportunity to study most of my degree through the medium of Welsh - something that was very important to me.

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This enabled me to discuss my subject through the medium of Welsh in weekly tutorials, meet other students studying through the medium of Welsh and share ideas and experiences.

There were also opportunities to showcase my work in exhibitions with other Welsh students.

It was also a great opportunity to develop skills in both languages ​​and hear lectures from Welsh artists, including Marc Rees and Peter Lord. Furthermore, I received financial support through the university and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. I would highly recommend studying a degree through the medium of Welsh at Swansea College of Art. I am grateful to Swansea College of Art in general and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol for great opportunities over the last four years and for all support.

Yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, rwyf wedi bod yn gweithio fel Artist Preswyl Cyfrwng Cymraeg yng Ngholeg Celf Abertawe. Yn y rôl hon, gweithiais yn agos gyda myfyrwyr cyfrwng Cymraeg, hyrwyddo’r Gymraeg yn y brifysgol ac roedd gen i stiwdio i ddatblygu fy ngwaith celf. Mae wedi bod yn flwyddyn arbennig ac rwyf wedi elwa ar nifer o brofiadau gwerthfawr.

Cyn hynny, fe astudiais radd Celfyddyd Gain yn y Coleg. Cefais amser wrth fy modd yn gwneud y radd a chefais brofiadau ardderchog wrth astudio.

Roedd gennyf ddarlithwyr ysbrydoledig a oedd yn fy herio i ddatblygu fy ngwaith a chymryd risgiau.

Dysgais lawer ganddynt, gan gynnwys sgiliau a thechnegau a fydd yn aros gyda fi.

Ar ben hyn, cefais y cyfle i astudio’r rhan fwyaf o’m gradd trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg – rhywbeth oedd yn bwysig iawn i fi.

Roedd hyn yn fy ngalluogi i drafod fy mhwnc trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg mewn tiwtorialau wythnosol, cwrdd â myfyrwyr eraill oedd yn astudio trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg a rhannu syniadau a phrofiadau. Cafwyd cyfleoedd hefyd i arddangos fy ngwaith mewn arddangosfeydd gyda myfyrwyr Cymraeg eraill. Roedd hefyd yn gyfle arbennig i ddatblygu sgiliau yn y ddwy iaith a chlywed darlithoedd gan artistiaid Cymraeg, gan gynnwys Marc Rees a Peter Lord. Ar ben hyn i gyd, cefais gymorth ariannol trwy’r brifysgol a’r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Byddwn yn argymell astudio gradd trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg yng Ngholeg Celf Abertawe yn fawr.

Rwy’n ddiolchgar i Goleg Celf Abertawe, y Drindod Dewi Sant yn gyffredinol a’r Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol am gyfleoedd gwych dros y pedair blynedd diwethaf ac am bob cefnogaeth.

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Students have the opportunity to exhibit throughout their courses. Final year students take part in the Swansea College of Art Summer Shows, an event, which takes place throughout Swansea. Some courses also take students to London to exhibit in galleries and at prestigious graduate design fairs such as D&AD New Blood and New Designers giving them the opportunity to showcase their work to industry professionals.

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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATION CENTRE CANOLFAN ARLOESI TECHNOLEGAU CYNORTHWYOL

ATiC is an integrated research centre, putting user-centred thinking and strategic innovation tools into practice in our cutting-edge User Experience research facility in UWTSD Swansea’s Innovation Quarter.

ATiC works with private industry, the UK’s National Health Service, research charities, and academic partners to help develop innovative products, services and systems in the health and wellbeing sector. Since its origins in 2004, through to our current partnership with Cardiff University School of Medicine, Swansea University Medical School and the Life Science Hub Wales, through the Accelerate programme, ATiC’s goal has always been to deliver transformational impact – with economic as well as health benefits – for the people of Wales and beyond.

Catalyst is a 31-month pilot project that will provide support to Life Science and Food and Drink businesses in Ireland and Wales around the theme of sustainability.

Catalyst offers a range of workshops, events, cross-border activities and 1-1 support to help Irish and Welsh businesses produce new products, processes and services and create new jobs.

The Arts and Humanities Entrepreneurship Hubs (AHEH) project, co-funded by the European Union, brings together a partnership of 14 organisations from 7 European countries from the worlds of Academia and Enterprise. The fundamental project goal is to improve the longterm prospects of our students and graduates and to equip them with the tools and confidence they need to succeed; outcomes could be social, cultural or commercial.

Through a comprehensive programme of activities, project partners are researching and developing innovative training programmes and materials, which are pilot-tested at regional and European level. We will be working with

students and enterprises on a set of live briefs and key challenges, and setting up long-term opportunities for collaboration, nationally and internationally.

As well as giving students the opportunity to learn new skills, gain experience and take part in European exchanges, the project gives us the opportunity to showcase the amazing skills and talents that our art and design graduates offer to enterprises.

The project will lead to the development of 7 new Hubs within partner Universities to fully embed entrepreneurship within Arts and Humanities education as well as offer long-term opportunities for European collaboration.

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Creative Industries Networks Swansea College of Art UWTSD is proud to be a sponsor of the BAFTA Cymru awards. As part of this relationship, we also host an annual audience with stars from the industry, most recently this has been Eddie Izzard.

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BAFTA CYMRU / INTO FILM CYMRU

H&M Live Project

Students visiting Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness and Sky as part of an alumni networking events.

BBC Radio One Academy event visiting Swansea College of Art

Students can gain work opportunites and creative industry experience throughout their courses at Swansea College of Art. Recently, students have visited Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, worked on film and TV shows such as Sherlock, Atlantis, Guardians of the Galaxy, and engaged in opportunities with the BBC, Jaguar Land Rover and H&M.

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Annual Events Celebrating our Creative Industry Links

Our two-day animation industry event offers students the opportunity to participate in talks and workshops from industry professionals from all over the world.

Guest speakers often include graduates working in the industry. These have recently included graduates who work for VFX studio The Mill, Double Negative and MPC. Ryan Morgan, for example, who worked as Modelling and Texturing Technical Director on recent blockbusters Guardians of the Galaxy, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, and The Jungle Book. Industry giants have also attended, such as EA Games, Blizzard, MPC, the Mill and Framestore.

Students were also given the opportunity to have their work critiqued by industry professionals.

Raphael de Almeida Pimentel, Animation Director, Luma Pictures

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We are one of the few UK Film courses that offer our students the opportunity to run an internationally recognized film festival. The festival attracts interest from around the world, giving an insight into the wider film market and an understanding of what it takes to make an award-winning film. The 2020 festival commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Design Week & Graduate Symposium ‘Design week’ and graduate symposiums offer students the opportunity to engage with prestigious designers and companies. Talks are often given by our graduates working within the industry, recently these have included graduates who now work for Lego, Sky Creative, Monsoon, Tigerprint and Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness.

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Frequently Asked Questions We love to chat to potential students and often hear many of the same questions – here are a few of the regular ones...

What is the ratio of applicants to acceptances?

How much contact time will I get with tutors and what about class sizes be?

Are there any scholarships or bursaries available?

Approximately 800 students apply each year for just over 300 undergraduate places.

We pride ourselves on the amount of contact time and support we give our students. Class sizes reflect this so you will always get the attention you need.

Yes, these include a Partnership College Bursary (Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion)

What sort of careers do graduates go on to do?

Our courses offer a route into many careers for graduates, see our course pages for more details.

Will I work with external clients?

All our course are externally facing and include live client briefs and/ or exhibition opportunities. Students are also actively encouraged to enter competitions.

What skills and qualifications do I need to apply?

Typically, we ask for 80-120 UCAS points (32 for our Cert HE programmes) but this can be balanced out by an amazing portfolio/interview or other work/life experience. If you’re not sure you have the qualifications to get onto one of our courses, please contact us to discuss your options.

What do you expect from applicants?

From you we expect energy, curiosity and commitment and the beginnings of a passion for your medium.

Can I study abroad?

During your time with us you will have the opportunity to study abroad with the Erasmus exchange programmes.

Students can also take up the opportunity to study a semester in the US and Canada with Study Abroad.

Many programmes arrange overseas visits such as to Venice Biennale and the Bologna Book Fair.

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How much access to the facilities will I get?

Students have access to the workshops, staff and studio spaces from Monday to Saturday during term time.

Will I get my own studio space?

Lots of our courses have studio spaces, these are allocated to students for the year allowing you to make the space your creative home.

Courses without studio spaces have extra space to use as critique rooms or large computer studios as the course requires.

Are your courses taught in Welsh?

No, students do not need to be able to speak Welsh, however some modules are available through the medium of Welsh. Scholarships from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol are also available.

How will I know this is the right course for me?

Our tutors are always happy to have further conversations to ensure you've made the right choice. Applicants are always interviewed; this is a great opportunity for us to see if you’re right for the course and for you to see if it is right for you.

I can’t see the course I’m looking for?

What is student life like in Swansea?

There’s lots going on, students have an array or theatres, galleries, music venues and excellent nightlife options available to them. There are also beautiful beaches and amazing sporting opportunities including surfing, paddle boarding as well as numerous cycle paths and green spaces to explore.

Can I come to look around?

There are set open days throughout the year. The dates will be on our website. If you can’t make one of the dates available we’ll try our best to make arrangements for you to visit on a day that is suitable.

If you can’t see the course you interested in we may still be able to help. All our courses are broad based and flexible. You will be given plenty of opportunity to specialise in the medium or subject that most suits your career plans. _______________________________ Any other questions?

Need any more information get in touch!

01792 481285 artanddesign@uwtsd.ac.uk www.uwtsd.ac.uk/art-design _______________________________

How to Apply

Study skills Study skills support is available to all students who need assistance with their studies, providing high-quality information, advice, guidance, practical and emotional support to enable all students to reach their full potential. A drop-in study skills service is available every day of the working week.

Accommodation Accommodation in Swansea is some of the cheapest in the country, there are a number of options available within a few minutes’ walk of the University.

All are centrally located and within easy access to transport links and the city centre. Please see our website for further details.

Full-time undergraduate applications are made through UCAS. Swansea College of Art comes under the University of Wales Trinity Saint David code T80.

Undergraduate programmes offered include: Cert HE (selected programmes one year); BA / BSc (three year full-time or six-year part-time); and, MArts /MDes / MMus (four years full-time or eight years part-time), these courses allow students to study for an extra year with the benefits of undergraduate funding, allowing you extra time tofocus on an industry-focused project.

MA / MSc / MRes One to two years’ duration and usually undertaken once you have an undergraduate degree.

Mphil / PHD Research degrees usually undertaken once you have a postgraduate qualification.

Applications for postgraduate and part-time study should be made directly to the university.

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The Art & Design interview Applicants are always interviewed and should present evidence relating to their chosen course at this time. If you are selected for an interview it is an opportunity for you to demonstrate your commitment to your chosen area of study and self-motivation, discuss aspects of the course and ask questions.

We normally start interviewing from December the year before entry. All our interviews are relaxed and informal and you will also be offered a tour of the faculty and facilities. If you have any concerns, need more details or have any additional support needs please contact us before your visit.

For most course interviews, you will be required to submit a portfolio of work as part of your interview. As a general guide, portfolios should contain examples of work (both finished and work in progress) that showcase your particular skills and interests. The content of a portfolio should be presented in a logical, ordered and simple fashion. We also love to see sketchbooks.

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UCAS Codes

Our Undergraduate Courses Course Title See Website

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Surface Pattern & Textiles (Fashion)

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Surface Pattern & Textiles (Interiors)

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Surface Pattern & Textiles (Maker)

Design Crafts

BA D100

MDes D110

BA W770

MDes 5H3M

Automotive Design

BA W240

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Transport Design

BA 9R37

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Architecture

BSc K100

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Product & Furniture Design

BSc PFU1

BA PFD1

Creative Advertising

BA W221

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Graphic Design

BA W210

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Illustration

BA W220

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Fine Art - Studio Site & Context

BA 2T12

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Photography in the Arts

BA W643

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Glass: Architectural Arts

Cert HE W776

Documentary Photography & Visual Activism

BA DPV1

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Film & Television

BA W610

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Set Design

BA 64D8

MArts 64D9

Creative Music Technology

BA J931

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Computer Animation

BA CAN1

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Computer Games Design

BA CGD1

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Cert HE F4W8

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Cert HE Art & Design Foundation

(For Post Graduate courses please visit our website)

Disclaimer University of Wales Trinity Saint David makes every effort to ensure that the contents and statements made in this publication are fair and accurate, and the University will use reasonable endeavours to deliver programmes and other services in accordance with the descriptions provided.

The University, however, reserves the right to make variations to programme contents, entry requirements and methods of delivery, and to discontinue, merge or combine programmes, both before and after a student’s admission to the University, if such action is reasonably considered necessary by the University. We will endeavour at all times to keep any changes to a minimum and to keep prospective students informed appropriately.

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Come for a Visit!

We really recommend you come for a visit and get a feel for the place.

Open days are held throughout the year and booking forms are available on the website. If you can’t make one of the dates available we’ll try our best to make arrangements for you to visit on a day that is suitable, just get in touch!

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Get in Touch! www.uwtsd.ac.uk/art-design artanddesign@uwtsd.ac.uk 01792 481000 swanseacollegeofart swanseacollegeofart @ArtSwansea swanseacollegeofart

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