Getting Into Art & Design Courses - Brossura

Burnett, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844554848 ISBN 13: 9781844554843

Casa editrice: Trotman, 2012

Riassunto

Art and design courses are one of the most popular subjects to study - making the application process fierce. Help is at hand. This is your complete guide for getting into art and design courses from choosing which course suits you to nailing your interview.

With hundreds of course variations Getting into Art & Design Courses helps you to narrow your choice and even includes practical tips and advice to help you write your application. With information and advice on the interview and your future career options, including:

-How to apply to Universities and institutions and when
-Application preparation if you’re an international student
-ALL the funding options available to you
-Help with presenting your portfolio
-Advice on how to make your interview stand out

Make sure you get onto the art and design course of your choice.

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L'autore

James Burnett has been teaching for more than 25 years and is the Director of Studies and a careers and university advisor at MPW, the education specialists. He has written several books in the Getting Into series and writes regularly for the education pages of national newspapers.

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INTRODUCTION

The first decade of the new millennium saw artists rival rock bands, footballers and soap stars in the amount of column inches in the press they received. Headlines advertised the enormous sums of money that were paid for works such as Damien Hirst’s diamond-encrusted skull, and the Turner Prize brought arguments and debates that had previously been confined to the art world to a wider public in a way that had not been seen since the Tate’s famous ‘pile of bricks’ controversy 25 years earlier.

But art and design is not just about world-famous painters and sculptors. In 2011, Apple briefly became the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, and its success was not only based on products that had accessible user-interfaces and seamless functionality between different devices: people bought Apple products such as iPhones and iPads because they were beautifully designed – the work of Jonathan Ive, who studied Industrial Design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University). British art schools have a history of inspiring and training generations of the world’s greatest artists and designers. The architect Zaha Hadid (a two-time Stirling Prize winner) studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer - who brought elements of punk fashion into the mainstream – studied at Harrow School of Art, and Jimmy Choo, the footwear designer was a student at what is now the London College of Fashion, part of the University of the Arts London. The interior designer and creator of the Habitat chain of shops, Terence Conran, studied Textiles at Central St Martins, now also part of the University of the Arts London.

A walk down any town high street will immediately demonstrate the importance of fashion designers to the way that we spend our money; and graphic designers and web designers persuade us buy the latest music, television sets or ready-meals. The Beijing Olympics ‘Bird’s Nest’ and ‘Water Cube’ introduced us to a new and exciting world of architecture, as did the new London office developments the ‘Gherkin’ and The Shard. As you will see in Chapter 1, studying at art school is not just about Fine Art (painting, sculpture etc.), but an opportunity to focus your creative talents on disciplines that lead to exciting (and often lucrative) jobs.

In applying to art school you are taking the first step towards what will hopefully become not only your chosen career but also a lifetime journey of experimentation, invention and discovery. Perhaps you already have a strong feeling for a particular discipline, such as fine art, film or fashion and textiles. Or maybe you are unsure which discipline is for you but just know that your instinct to work with colour, line, form, shape and pattern – to question, experiment and explore – is something that you have to develop. Either way, this book is specifically designed for you.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Trotman
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844554848
• ISBN 13: 9781844554843
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile