Use 7 projects to solve problems in undergraduate and graduate stage? Is illustration and plane the main object of interdisciplinary learning linking multimedia art and sound art? Real course experience of UAL and RCA? The thoughtful studio curriculum combines various teaching modes such as workshop, lecture, tutorial, and critical to gain a real overseas classroom experience! Give you a chance to improve comprehensively! This kind of immersive experience of overseas courses is only in this May! Only in natural light! With Jonny from RCA and UAL! Special plan for the 5th anniversary of natural light, STUDIO by teacher Jonny.

Stimulate each other's ideas, and obtain multi-dimensional ability and thinking improvement under the combination of professional knowledge explanation+hands-on practice and creation. The special plan for the fifth anniversary of Natural Light is the latest overseas connection course of Product 4.0. This course project will take you to experience the most authentic overseas art teaching, from basic to professional, from ability learning to thinking divergence!

　　 STUDIO course highlights:

　　 UAL、 RCA Real course experience

As a project course specially planned for the 5th anniversary of natural light, the studio course invited Jonny from the British campus as the main instructor.

Teacher Jonny is an independent designer, currently studying in RCA/ Royal College of Art Visual Communication Specialty. He graduated from CSM/Central Saint Martin College BA Graphic Design with a bachelor's degree and two design awards in 2015. He is good at graphic design and illustration, and he also knows how to integrate more art forms into his creation. In addition, he fully integrates sound art and multimedia art into artistic expression!

This time, I will feel the charm of artistic creation together with teacher Jonny, gain the ability to express artistic creation in different dimensions, break through my own thinking, improve the cognition of consciousness, and open up new imagination!

Jonny's Sound Art Works

　　 Studio courses stimulate creativity more

This course is divided into four parts. For professional students at four levels, the natural light is more intimate for students with different professional intentions, and each student is provided with a course with learning advantages.

Students will combine various teaching modes such as workshop, lecture, tutorial and critical under the teaching mode dominated by studio. It not only gets the improvement of illustration or graphic design professional dimension, but also the divergence of interdisciplinary thinking consciousness. It can also comprehensively upgrade its comprehensive artistic quality, communication ability, team cooperation ability, mutual inspiration of creativity, artistic expression of ideas and full display of the art of thinking.

This time, Jonny will open your creative mind with the teaching concept of overseas art schools! In studio, students collide with each other's creative ideas. At the same time, Jonny will also pay attention to each student and give the most challenging teaching plan according to their personal situation!

Jonny's Sound Art Works

　　 More targeted, 1+1 ＞ 2

This course is not only a specially planned project for the 5th anniversary of Natural Light, but also a course after the new upgraded product 4.0 of Natural Light! Cooperate with overseas art schools to give students a more meaningful teaching experience.

The more targeted course division is different from the short-term courses proposed by most institutions in the market, and also different from any project or workshop. This course is not only directly taught by overseas tutors, but also divided into four levels: majors and applied grades. At the same time, it is aimed at four levels of student groups. Each student has targeted professional courses and practical experience. Pay attention to each student, and let your ability show to the maximum!

Jonny's work

　　 STUDIO Course content:

　　 Project 1

　　Fast Thinking/Idea

　　This famous Central St.Martins creative exercise asks students to produce super fast solutions to lots of very different creative problems. By responding to lots of very different imaginary assignments in a short space of time,they must think decisively and using their first instincts.

　　This skill is highly valuable to the creative process， and the large amount of ideas produced in the workshop can be later transformed into larger projects.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook， and a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　　 Project 2

　　Music&Art

　　This workshop explores the way art can express music, the way music can express art,and the exciting conversation between of the two.It briefly looks at the history of art and music working together,and some amazing examples of their unity.

　　It then invites them to respond visually to a variety of different sounds and musical ideas. It aims to develop in students their own sense of how they can translate sound and music into image and culture,and to inspire them to explore this exciting world further.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook, a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　　 Project 3

　　Logo Design

　　The logo is one of the greatest challenges in graphic design, calling for huge communication in an extremely simple design.It briefly explores the history and theory of logo design,and what goes into creating an effective,memorable logo.

　　It then challenges students to create logos using the creative processes of a professional graphic designer.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook and a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　　 Project 4

　　Experimental Drawing

　　Constructed from various famous British art school drawing exercises, this workshop aims to deconstruct what most students understand as‘drawing’.

　　It challenges them to use marks to describe things far beyond the ordinary visual world, and explore the limits of what drawing can communicate.It aims to provide a new vocabulary of visual expression,open up a world of creative possibilities,and provide a bold and exciting set of artworks for portfolio.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook, a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　　 Project 5

　　Character Design

　　Creating interesting characters with depth and personality lies at the heart of all good illustration. The workshop explores how illustrators can draw inspiration from many different places to develop relatable characters with a life of their own.

　　It breaks down the process of character design to research, sketching,development,composition and situation.Using this method students are guided in a way that retains their own style of illustration,but ensures they are challenged and innovating.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook, a variety of pens/pencils/paints/colour.

　　 Project 6

　　Personal Mapping

　　Maps have been used throughout human history as a tool for understanding the incredible complexity of the world. Today we are used to seeing maps which describe physical space on a large scale,but there have always been many other forms of map.

　　This workshop explores a variety of other‘maps’and explores the many different realities and experiences they can describe. It encourages students to produce their own maps,which describe their own lived experience.

　　It allows them producing work which is innovative and personal, and provide them with a new set of creative tools and ideas.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook, a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　 　Project 7

　　Branding

　　Branding brings life into companies and products, giving them a personality of their own that can be recognised across the globe.To create a brand,designers must carefully understand the existing character of the client.They must then finalise this character and express it across a wide variety of media,keeping it consistent throughout.

　　This workshop invites students to explore this exciting, powerful process.As would happen in a professional agency,they work in groups to produce their own brands using the Stanford design process and close instruction.

　　Students will need paper/sketchbook, a variety of pens/pencils/colour.

　　 Course arrangement&registration:

Graphic major

Illustration

　　 Course location: Natural Light Beijing Campus

　　 Recruitment scope: 15 persons per shift/limited number

*Internal students will be selected according to their majors and English;

*External students need a simple interview

　　 Course fee: Special feedback for the fifth anniversary, free participation, limited number of places, until the application is full;

　　 Professional scope and suitable population: Intention to apply for graphic major Illustration Design Study Abroad High school and undergraduate students.

Today, Natural Light brings you courses about RCA real course experience in overseas art schools. If you have any questions about institutions, majors, courses, etc., please come to Natural Light for free consultation.

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