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CPIT Bachelor of Design elective courses are taught as two day/four week blocks in your first and second years and as a major study of at least a full day per week in your final year.

Illustration

Studying Illustration will enable you to develop your creative, conceptual and practical skills. You will also be taught the flexible, professional approach you’ll need to communicate ideas and narratives in pictorial form; and how to produce your original illustrative artwork to publication standard. Your work will demonstrate creative problem-solving solutions and document your own personal visual vocabulary in a range of media and techniques.

Photography

In Photography you’ll learn about the behaviour of light-sensitive materials. In addition you will have the chance to research the work of other photographers, to learn the techniques of exposure and lighting used to communicate through images. This study will give you the necessary experience to commission and direct photographic assignments as a designer. If you wish to further your own skills as a photographer, you may do so with independent study in your final year.

Print Studies

Print Studies forms a major part of the Imagemaking Focus, and can also form part of the 3D and Graphics focuses. It is flexible and diverse, and an established strength of the School’s teaching programme.

With practical studies in printmaking you’ll learn to realise two and three dimensional creative designs and/or illustrative concepts to gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and process of effective design.

The separate print processes of silkscreen, relief (e.g. woodblock), intaglio (e.g. etching), textile and mixed media are available separately in your first and second years. In your final year you can choose to concentrate on printmaking for such areas as design and illustration for print production, garment and interior design, jewellery, or the book arts.

In Print Studies you’ll learn both traditional and current print technologies, from fundamental to advanced processes. The editioning aspect of printmaking is acknowledged, but it is the ability to create unique, one-off impressions that is emphasized.

Graphics

In Graphics you’ll integrate all the skills and processes you’ve developed across the programme to produce creative and individual solutions to specific visual communication problems. This discipline will encourage you to develop mature professional attitudes and practices. In this way you’ll become an independent, creative, analytical, and innovative designer.

Advertising

Advertising will teach you the planning, conceptual thinking and visualisation processes required in advertising work. You’ll learn how to apply your graphic design skills in a commercial setting, in the role of a professional advertising ‘creative’. This elective is available in both the second and third years.

Typography

In Typography you’ll learn about the manipulation of type and lettering as a design element. This will extend and develop your aesthetic judgement, and foster a deeper understanding of the changing role of typography in visual communication. This elective is available in both the second and third years.

Time Based (Animation)

In Animation you’ll learn about 2D and 3D animation; video production; and stage, TV, and film set design. This will prepare you for further study in both digital and traditional 2D, and 3D animation; and also time-based media, for both the web and other interactive platforms. This elective is available in both the second and third years.

3D Studies

Ceramics and glass casting techniques will introduce you to clay and wax as mediums for fired works. These techniques also provide a broad base of knowledge for wider sculptural practice.

Fibre

The Fibre elective will introduce you to woven fibre materials as a sculptural medium. This includes garment and soft furnishing construction and pattern-drafting techniques, and the related skills of textile printing and dyeing.

Fine Metals

In Fine Metals you’ll experience the fine metal workshop environment, and learn the skills of jewellery and fine metal-working.

Wood/Metal

The Wood/Metal elective will introduce you to wood, metal-working and the basic operation of a range of equipment which can be useful across many disciplines. This is a complement to studies in 3D Design, with a specific focus on line and plane in building materials such as wallboard, steel tubes and rods. You’ll become familiar with these common materials which have multiple uses for the craftsperson and sculptor.

Wood Skills

Wood Skills includes the full range of wood and woodworking techniques. You’ll discover their applications in furniture making and a broad range of sculptural uses, and also explore wood carving as a creative medium.

Sculpture

The Sculpture elective will introduce you to a studio workshop environment. The emphasis will be on 3D design practice and the integration of mixed-media skills and a range of techniques. You’ll have the opportunity to extend your experience with your preferred 3D media through an applied project. The choice will be yours, as the sculpture medium encompasses a wide range of potential materials and techniques. Working on your project will give you an opportunity to experience concept development, problem solving and the social or environmental issues associated with your chosen media and/or techniques.

Professional Practice

In addition to the above subjects, Professional Practice is available to all students, for one semester in your final year (three hours per week). This is your opportunity to acquire the necessary skills and experience to confidently apply for career positions within the art, design and architectural professions. Professional Practice fosters closer links with the art, craft, design and architecture professions, and will develop your research skills as well as your verbal and written communication abilities.

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