Now, with the arrival of the digital media era, Japanese art schools have also started new exploration, breaking the single image of Japanese style in everyone's mind of "indifference", "minimalism" and "emphasis on tradition", but combining the needs of the times, integrating new teaching methods, and creating a new direction of art disciplines. Today, we will take Jingjing University in Kyoto, Japan as an example to lead you to understand the graphic visual design direction of Jingjing University.

Graphic visual design of Jingjing University in Kyoto

When it comes to Jingjing University in Kyoto, more people will think of its unique cartoon design. In fact, Jingjing University in Kyoto is the first university in Japan to join CUMULUS (International Union of Design and Art Colleges). It also has the top teaching strength and learning resources in the field of visual design.

Works of Weiwei Kawabata, a student of Graphic Design Department

According to the direction of creative media and training, Jingjingda Visual Design Department is divided into two majors, one is traditional graphic design, the other is digital design.

For the creation of the digital design profession, Jingjingda believes that the expression of contemporary art is developing constantly, which transcends the boundaries between traditional academic disciplines and integrates theoretical achievements in different directions. In order to expand the boundary of visual communication design, it is also necessary to create a new design discipline to adapt to the training of talents in the new era.

Graphic Design

In graphic design, graphics, text and communication are the main elements in the teaching process. In the course involving [pictures, illustrations and graphics], students will learn to create visual effects based on color and shape;

In the [Text] course, students will learn format design and design history, which are important elements of design. In this unit, students will deepen their skills in generating and landing inspiration and how to communicate with users and convey ideas. Click to see Graphic Design Collection Cases 。

Student works of Graphic Design Department

In addition, students also have many opportunities to challenge interdisciplinary expressions, such as video, interaction, photography, animation, etc., and present their own works to the society.

Rich practical projects of graphic design department

In general, the training purpose of graphic design major focuses on three points:

a. Use the expressiveness of "image" and "text"

b. Skills for shaping and communicating ideas

c. Focusing on social themes and embodied in personalized design

Digital Design

This major combines two representative characteristics of visual communication and digital media and creative media, Kyoto Seika University Through this interdisciplinary major, we hope to respond in the digital age, train students to participate in and create new content, and promote the expansion and integration of art design.

The school aims to train designers and creators suitable for this era. In the course plan, students should first deeply study people's psychology and the mechanism of obtaining needs, as well as how to create objects to participate in people's ideas.

Students will also learn the power to spread social ideas and personal ideas and voice them through digital design (such as interaction, games, movies, and digital art). In addition, students will lay a foundation for more persuasive expressions and works of production design by studying marketing and management knowledge.

String Theory, a student work of Digital Design Department

The friar stage of Jingjing University in Kyoto has established a common basic subject for all disciplines. The purpose is to help students master a comprehensive way of artistic expression, not just a single discipline or means of expression, while integrating knowledge of various disciplines.

Similar to the British and American art schools, the elite friar course also has many project based practice courses. In the field of visual design, students will conduct communication design research based on the real market, making full use of the expression form of visual information and the constantly developing media.

Numerous practical projects of Digital Design Department

In addition to the instructors responsible for the main teaching tasks of each student, the school will regularly invite designers active in various professional fields and practice frontiers as instructors to create a more market-oriented education and research environment. In each graduate school's [practical research project], there will also be experienced research consultants who will provide detailed guidance according to each student's research topic.

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