Art is usually good-looking and far away from utilitarianism in most eyes, but there is a profession that can coexist with beauty and connotation, art and commerce, and can achieve the goal of having beauty, brains and money! This major is fashion management. Today's interviewee Liu took three months to apply for the major of fashion management in Britain, and received three offers for the major of art management, namely, Manchester University, Leeds University and Birmingham City University. Now, let's take a look at the summary of Liu's students who applied for the UK Fashion Management Professional Portfolio Training.
Training summary of zero basis application for British fashion management professional portfolio:
I learned about natural light in November last year. In December, I decided to study in natural light and chose my favorite fashion management major. After more than three months of study and portfolio production, I have now received three offers, one of which is Birmingham City University One is the University of Manchester, the other is the University of Leeds.
Liu has just graduated from an international school. Before coming to Natural Light, he had no experience and foundation related to art or design, and he did not know foreign universities and majors very well. So when he first came here, he did not have any direction, nor did he know where his interests and advantages were.
In the face of Liu's situation, teachers of natural light did not rush to make curriculum plans. Instead, we should communicate with Liu first to understand her personality and ideas, what she is interested in, what the future development direction is, and what career she aspires to.
Then the teachers found that Liu really understood what he liked and decided that he wanted to study fashion management. The lack of direction is mainly due to the lack of understanding of art majors. For example, I am not clear about the admission standards of each major of the university. In addition, I applied for British fashion management on a zero basis, and I am worried that I cannot meet the requirements of the university. Secondly, it is not clear about the differences and curriculum settings among various majors, and it is worried that the selected majors are different from what I expected after enrollment.
Liu's works, please do not steal
Liu's situation is relatively common for students who are still high school students. Although fashion major is divided into the category of design, it is really complicated to subdivide it further. The general directions I know are fabric design, men's/women's clothing design, accessory design and fashion management.
Some of these majors look very similar, but in fact there are great differences. In order to let Liu students really understand the specific situation of the majors, the teacher, combining his years of learning experience, explained the differences between the majors, curriculum content, future employment, advantageous colleges and universities, and application conditions with Liu students in detail. After the guided communication, Liu finally chose his favorite major in British fashion management.
Liu's works, please do not steal
This major is very suitable for students who are interested in fashion as well as business and fashion culture. Fashion management will require students to make an objective analysis of the problems behind fashion brands, formulate corresponding strategic plans after evaluation, and help brands create a good brand image in the rapidly changing fashion industry for better development.
In terms of application, although no academic background or super design ability is required, this major, whether explicitly stated or not, actually welcomes students with socioeconomic and cultural research backgrounds. After all, it is a profession that needs to combine culture and dabble in the business field.
After determining the clear direction, the professional teacher first made a very comprehensive assessment of Liu's basic situation, and then formulated the intensive basic courses and portfolio project courses, hoping to give Liu students targeted and professional guidance in the most efficient rhythm.
Liu's works, please do not steal
For students who have zero foundation, weak foundation or apply for studying abroad in the art field, we usually do not recommend that they start to build a collection of works, because if the foundation is not good, the later collection project will not only be difficult to carry out, but even if it can be done, the quality will not be too high, and students will not grow from it.
Liu also started from the basic course. At the basic course stage, the teacher took Liu to learn the basic knowledge and skills related to fashion. Each class set a clear teaching purpose, and let students complete their homework on time to achieve the goal of combining concept with practice and comprehensively improving professional skills. For the fashion management major that Liu wants to apply for, he specially focuses on some general education courses, so that students can establish their personal style awareness and whole industry chain awareness at the beginning.
Liu's works, please do not steal
My first project was to introduce my favorite designer. I introduced Yoji Yamamoto. What attracted me was his understanding of fashion and his style of designing clothes. Most of his clothes were black and white. There is not much pompous decoration.
You should often hear the statement that interest is the best teacher. Some people agree with this statement, but many people do not agree with it. Especially in the learning of culture courses, many people feel that learning a subject well requires overcoming themselves and forcing themselves to learn.
But in the study of art, this state is thankless. Because art majors need creativity and imagination, which can be stimulated to the greatest extent in a pleasant and interesting environment on the premise of interest. If a person is not interested in what he studies, it is difficult to create anything more interesting on this basis. When an art practitioner is tired of art, it is difficult to have any desire for creation.
Natural light has always believed that the experience in learning is more important than the result. Therefore, we have always attached great importance to the learning experience of each student and worked hard to create a learning environment with a good atmosphere.
In the training course of British fashion management professional portfolio, professional teachers will patiently communicate and discuss with students, help students explore their industry related interests, and take students' interests as the starting point. This kind of teaching mode focusing on students' interests can protect students' enthusiasm for artistic creation to the greatest extent, stimulate them to expand their boundaries in interest, and become people who understand themselves and can express themselves with art. Such artistic literacy is also the most needed talent of foreign art colleges and art industry.
Liu's works, please do not steal
Students can choose topics according to their own preferences, but due to their level, they can't predict the feasibility of topics most of the time. At this time, teachers will help students solve problems and optimize topics. In general, although the work is done under the guidance of the teacher, the teacher will not eliminate any personal things of students. Only teachers with personal style awareness can convey this personal style awareness to students in teaching.
According to my own understanding, I also made some printed collages and cloth designs. At the beginning, I didn't know anything about collages. After three months of learning and under the guidance of teachers, I also had some understanding and views, and successfully received an offer from the university.
Liu didn't have any professional foundation in fashion management at the beginning, and this major requires a typical comprehensive major. Why do you say that? We can divide the skills of all art majors into several categories.
The first is the most basic painting skills, because no matter which major you apply for, you must submit some observational paintings. And every major should guarantee the most basic aesthetic level, such as composition, color, perspective, which are similar to the 26 English letters.
The second is innovation skills. For example, 2D software such as PS, AI, InDesign will be used in the composition of the collection of works. Students majoring in interior design and architectural design must be proficient in using 3D modeling software such as CAD, maya, etc. What's more, there are skills needed in the process of creative thinking realization, such as photography, handwork, and integrated material application.
Thirdly, it is the improvement of theoretical knowledge. As we all know, when applying to overseas universities, the admissions officer attaches great importance to students' ideological depth and problem-solving ability. If your work is just empty and beautiful but meaningless, it is difficult to get the favor and recognition of the admissions officer. Therefore, students need some knowledge of art history and art philosophy to support the concept of works.
The above three points will have different emphasis according to different majors. For example, sculpture and oil painting majors have no rigid requirements for mastering software skills, but animation majors need very sophisticated software technology. Fashion management majors have very average requirements for the above three categories.
In Liu's basic ability learning, the teacher made a detailed plan for the improvement of comprehensive ability. The course of design thinking and speculation enables Liu students to enhance their artistic perception ability. When thinking about the meaning behind the works, he can multi-dimensional cut into the theme and give play to his own opinions. The application of comprehensive materials such as printing and collage can develop creative thinking while exercising the ability of manual practice. The basic course of painting enables Liu to build his visual generalization ability in the manipulation of pictures.
Liu started with zero foundation and could not find a professional direction, then found his own interests and improved his comprehensive ability in all aspects in a short period of three months. Zero foundation applied for the British fashion management major, and finally applied to three colleges and universities with the joint efforts of teachers Fashion Management Study Abroad offer。
In the past cases of natural light, there are also many students who have zero foundation, weak foundation, or apply for changing majors. At the beginning, these students will be confused and easily lose confidence, but as long as they follow the teacher's guidance step by step, all kinds of problems will be solved. As long as students find what they really like, and pay time and energy for it, they will certainly gain growth in learning!
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