School of Design

 

Have you ever thought about how apparently insurmountable creative problems are resolved?  Functionalism, universality, and timelessness, once the hallmarks of modern design, no longer appear to be applicable.  Today, artists and designers are searching for a sense of equilibrium and optimism in a world which appears to alternate between cultural conformity and increasing chaos.

In the UK, a new wave of design innovation is fuelling a creative renaissance, with large and small companies recognising the strategic and economic importance of creative thinking applied to business problems.

This radical symposium and exhibition brings together a diverse range of individuals who think and work at the margins.  The exhibition of past and current students’ work offers you a first hand opportunity to witness the next generation of design talent.

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BA (Hons) Fashion Studies: This course reflects the way in which the world of fashion has evolved to become a diverse and multi–faceted international business.  BA (Hons) Fashion Studies is unique in its breadth of study, ensuring the development of the full range of practical, conceptual and professional skills necessary to work in the fashion industry. Fashion is about evolutionary and radical change; it is about creativity and communication, image and innovation; mixed with business and consumer awareness.  It is best understood when it is seen within its cultural context and in the light of the social, technological and political influences which shape it.

BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen & Stage: This course is an intense learning experience that prepares costume designers and interpreters for high quality work across a broad spectrum of work opportunities. Graduates are working at the forefront of the discipline, making significant contributions to industry in the major theatres, television production companies and film sets around the world.

BA (Hons) Costume for the Screen & Stage graduates have recently worked on the feature film Elizabeth and the stage musical The Lion King.  Other recent employers include The Royal Opera House, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The English National Opera and a significant number of television drama productions and commercials.

BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design: New technologies are changing the contexts in which  Three DimensionalDesign is created and within which it is consumed. The ‘virtual’ is fast becoming as significant a realm for design work as the ‘physical’, while developing interface technologies are blurring the boundary between the two.

Social changes mean responding to the needs and perceptions of a global, but highly fragmented and diverse, ‘audience’. Designers are called on to negotiate meanings.  BA (Hons) Three Dimensional Design (Product Design and Interior Design) offers a dynamic learning environment, engaging with product, interior, furniture and exhibition design in order to explore and contextualise three dimensional design.

BA (Hons) Modelmaking for Design and Media: The rise of the contemporary ‘model designer’ is indicative of the changing nature of the discipline, where graduates are expected to take control of the creative interpretation process. This represents the raison d’être of this innovative degree. Interaction between cognitive and creative ability with highly tuned manipulative making skills is vital for the contemporary modelmaker graduate.

BA (Hons) Modelmaking for Design and Media has achieved European acclaim, in its forward-looking approach to design reflecting the changing discipline within contemporary industry.  The course develops graduates who are capable of instigating and leading this change through confidence in their own capacity to adapt to the future. 

FdA in Fashion: When we think of fashion we perhaps think only of a few famous catwalk models or a number of well known designers, but there are many thousands of opportunities waiting for the appropriate candidate, in a business that is constantly evolving, inventing and re-inventing careers.  Whether students’ interests are in design, buying, merchandising or technical disciplines there are endless possibilities within the fashion world.

FdA in Fashion is a diverse course providing a realistic insight into the variety of career possibilities in the fashion industry.  The course utilises industry methods to solve complex problems and aims to convey some of the buzz of working in an environment that is constantly inventing and reinventing the skills necessary to achieve success. The course develops students’ creative, design and fashion business awareness

FdA in Interior Design: Interior Design practices vary considerably in size and scope, from large multi-national offices to smaller regional design consultancies.  This course has been conceived using the experience and knowledge of a range of established designers working within the creative industries.

FdA in Interior Design is an exciting new Foundation Degree exploring the many design skills and challenges presented by a dynamic and developing three dimensional environment.  Students are introduced to the complex issues involved in the design of internal and external spaces.   In addition, the students on this new course have already achieved national acclaim in a number of regional and national competitions and projects.

The Design Collection

Established in 1988, the Design Collection became a registered museum in 2001. The Design Collection Museum at the Arts Institute offers a unique study, teaching and reference resource primarily for use by researchers and students of the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and increasingly to a national audience.  Comprising 8000 artifacts of predominantly 20th and 21st century mass-produced design and popular culture, the items are selected specifically to celebrate iconic design artifacts of the 20^th and 21^st century.

The collection promotes an awareness of the major design eras.  The museum benefits from creative partnerships with significant professional organisations, nationally and internationally. Our primary aim is to create a portal for sharing established and current bodies of knowledge for researchers and academics and provide access to themed exhibitions housed within a newly designed space in the Arts Institute’s Library

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