The planning scheme for art study abroad has always been the primary consideration for many art students to study abroad. A good planning scheme and learning plan can make you easily apply to the dream foreign art school! How to make a study plan for art students studying abroad? How to teach students according to their aptitude? Today, the secret is revealed! Take Sun's interactive design portfolio as an example!
Sun, a student of Natural Light Art, studied in Beijing, Zhejiang University, majoring in architectural design, and applied for a master's degree in interactive design user experience, innovative design, industrial design, and service design in the UK. Under the 4-month long-distance training of teachers studying in Beijing Xiaohua of Natural Light Art, we completed the interactive design collection and passed the internal professional review of Natural Light Art, and successfully received a sack of offers! Royal Academy of Arts service design, Royal Academy of Arts innovative design, Lunyi LCC service and user experience design - Goldsmith industrial design, Loughborough user experience design, Loughborough innovative design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University interaction design.
Customization of art study abroad planning scheme:
So how on earth do we formulate the offer tactics according to the students' personal conditions?
First, study the background of students : Since the student consulted with the IDE innovation design major of the Royal Academy of Arts before, most of the majors applied for industrial design background. At the same time, the student also considered the application of industrial design and interaction design user experience direction. As the students have architectural design background and do not conflict with many majors, they have sorted out the intersections of industrial design, interactive design and innovative design according to their teaching experience, and are ready to apply for these majors with a collection of works.
After the art study abroad program, the goal was successfully achieved!
Most of these disciplines are affiliated to the School of Innovation and Design of the university. They follow the common design thinking, analyze and investigate, and find out the way to solve problems, but the final form of design is different.
The second step of studying in natural light art: setting standards
Judged by British and American School of Design Tutoring of overseas works The following principles have been formulated based on several analyses:
1. Foreign art students will be able to demonstrate the positioning and exploration process of the problems solved by design in their works:
Be able to write problem descriptions, opportunity descriptions, conduct research on problems, recognize the limitations encountered in solving problems, and start from problems to write research questions. Students can completely record the steps of the whole design, including finding problems, defining problems, user research, collecting second-hand data, putting forward value propositions, scheme design, screening design schemes, model making, user testing, and collecting feedback.
2. Works of art studying abroad demonstrate the ability of design and research:
Art overseas students can carry out design research independently, and can skillfully use various ethnographic research methods, including: user observation, interview, tracking, questionnaire, cultural research, visual testing and other methods. And be able to use various media to show their sense of process and authenticity of in-depth research.
3. Foreign art students can use scientific methods to analyze and process data in design research:
Foreign art students can use a systematic and fluid way of thinking to build data processing model charts, and can use the most intuitive way to enable readers to find problems and their own unique views and perspectives on problems.
4. Artistic works focus on the ability of hand painting expression and display (industrial design):
Foreign art students can use hand painting as a communication tool, which enables people of any cultural background to understand the changes in students' thinking process without using words. Hand painting will be able to include simple storyboard drawing, product design sketch, and text description. Students will be able to use the theoretical knowledge of graphic design to layout and distribute their hand drawings according to visual logic.
5. Foreign art students will demonstrate their ability to make renderings (industrial design) in their works:
Foreign art students can use 3D software and rendering software to create product brochures, product display boards, and renderings will include human-computer interaction pictures, product explosion pictures, product and environment integration, and photographic renderings.
6. The speech of art students abroad can demonstrate the ability to demonstrate innovation iteration and final physical model (industrial design):
Foreign art students will be able to use 3D printing technology or make the final physical model of the product by themselves. The accuracy of the model will be very close to the final effect, and they will be able to show the production process, physical user testing, feedback collection, and final conclusions.
7. Be able to draw wireframe (user experience):
Art students can understand the design specifications of IOS and Android devices, including size, size, and industry rules, and can use hand drawn, prototype software, and plane software to build product wireframes, which can present the complete logic of the product and the distribution of interface content.
8. Works of art focus on demonstrating prototype development capability (user experience):
Foreign art students can use various prototype development software to improve the design of wireframe, and master various popular styles, color matching and element application of UI design. The final UI display is perfectly combined with mockup or background pictures, with a sense of graphic design. The developed prototype can be viewed or displayed on the mobile phone.
9. International art students will demonstrate their basic graphic design ability in their works:
The layout of the student's work collection fully demonstrates the logical thinking of the students, the font length is moderate, and the design process is described in a large number of visual languages. The overall typesetting is in line with western aesthetics, and the font and paragraph styles are properly selected. The visual language is coherent and varied. The use of color is reasonable.
10. Art students can independently create personal websites (British students):
Foreign art students can use the html5 open source platform to establish personal works collection website, which has a sense of design and reflects the professional background and personal characteristics of students.
11. Demonstrate innovation ability and make a difference in works:
Foreign art students need to reflect the spirit of innovation in their works. Students' works not only have industrial/interactive design works, but also can show their works in business model innovation, service design, social innovation, design management, human-computer interaction, new material application, and installation art.
Step 3: Determine several requirements for the above planned scheme
The following themes have been roughly established:
1. Considering the architectural background of art students abroad, the works focus on the combination of architecture and service design, because they consider similar factors and are all designed for people's behavior. Thus, the art students' own construction work will be reshaped according to the service design thinking method, emphasizing how design changes people's behavior.
2. Industrial design works mainly focus on finding problems and solving problems. The source of the problems comes from the model making process of architectural design. Because students have been making models for a long time and found the cutting method very inconvenient, they have the idea of using industrial design methods to solve problems in the architectural design process.
3. Starting with the problem of haze, we should emphasize students' attention to social innovation. The problem of haze has been troubling people, but as an individual, people do not realize that haze is created by themselves. For example, I drive to work every day as smog as I drive to work, so I do not know that haze is caused by my driving, The project hopes to visualize the pollution created by people driving and saved by driving electric vehicles, which reflects the transformation of people's five senses in interaction design.
4. People's communication problems. Many foreign students will encounter language problems, but language problems are often not equal to communication problems. Students start with this and show their ideas designed for communication in an experimental way. Language ability does not represent communication ability. As designers, how can we use visual language to exchange ideas.
5. Research on the subject of autistic mathematics, autistic children often show great talent in the art of mathematics. How to identify this talent in children's infancy, students express their innovative ideas for autistic children through interactive games.
Summary of art study abroad planning scheme:
Comprehensive background+formulation principle, standard+theme selection, of course, this is just the general direction we give according to the situation of students! There is still one hundred million details. The natural light can't write down~~
A collection of art works for studying abroad, with the painstaking efforts behind it, the tutors' contributions, and the students' efforts!
The content of an article can not contain everything in a collection of works. It is like a customized curriculum for each student after numerous meetings and discussions, repeated deliberation and coordination, and the efforts of students~
Every myth, every miracle, is the efforts of countless people!
Instructor of interactive design portfolio
Collected Works Trainer Ren
Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD Master of Design Management
As a product manager designer, he devoted himself to the application of design thinking, ethnographic research methods, data visualization, etc. in non design fields during his postgraduate study in Savannah Academy of Arts and Design, helped and guided local practical innovation projects in the United States for many times as a consultant, and moved the design thinking class into traditional enterprises in the United States. Graduated from the Department of Industrial Design, Beijing University of Technology. Specializing in design methods and automobile design. He has won the Grand Prize of the National 3D Digital Modeling Competition in Beijing and the Second Prize of the National Competition. His graduation automobile design works participated in the National University Industrial Design Graduation Works Seminar that year and were rated as national outstanding graduation works. I look forward to helping the students studying in Natural Light Art to develop a competitive collection of excellent overseas works with my experience and unique insights on design.
Specializing in: service design, industrial design, interaction design
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