International Design Degree Program by Cardiff Met University

Course Overview

​The BA/BSc International Design programme is a one year Level 6 award that allows students from anywhere in the world to convert their diploma into an honours degree. We invite students from any field of design to join us in the creative and thoughtful development of novel design solutions and outcomes and to become a designer with a truly global outlook.

This programme offers you the opportunity to create and learn alongside people from another part of the world and to extend your skills as a strategic designer with an international focus. It will also prepare you for further postgraduate study, doctoral research and publishing if that is your ambition.

The International Design programme builds upon your individual strengths and experiences as an emerging professional designer. It will build your self-confidence and self-development by teaching you how to think strategically and to creatively confront new challenges. The programme is designed around you and is supported by expert tutors who will encourage you to decide upon your own direction and strategies.

The programme welcomes students from any design background including Graphic Design, Fashion or Textile Design, Interior Design, Product Design, User Experience Design or Craft Design. You will work together within in an interdisciplinary design environment strengthening your existing skills and practices within an international context. You will generate a body of work that has international scope and awareness and will make you highly employable and comfortable with diverse International clients.

The world needs creative and flexible designers who can take a broad and creative view of design and welcome new and unfamiliar ideas and techniques. You will join other students many of whom speak and write English as a second language, and are studying abroad as a learning adventure.  Although most of our students are from the UK, Cardiff School of Art & design is home to creative students from every continent. You will have the chance to work with and alongside these students and to make friends and future colleagues around the world. Some previous experience or knowledge of European design would be useful to you but is not essential.

​Course Content​

​​​The focus of the programme is to not only support and develop your skills as a practicing designer, but to provide you with the skills and flexibility to continually position your work within unfamiliar international contexts.

Through a combination of seminars, workshops, and studio-based practice, you will be supported by a dedicated team of academics, practitioners and experts to develop a range of interdisciplinary skills to creatively adapt to the demands of an international design environment. These include;

• ​Knowledge of how to shape design for particular social, cultural and economic contexts and market circumstances;
• Advanced design skills as well as the skills of international design negotiation and promotion;
• Knowledge of how to act as global citizens and problem solvers, and to negotiate complex cultural nuances through design practice;
• The Development of nuanced visual thinking and visual communication skills to communicate within an international, interdisciplinary context.
• An awareness of emerging global issues of concern and also the barriers to creative design.​
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Modules:

Subject (Orientation):
Is design really global? Or do designers unwittingly reinforce their own economic, historic, social and cultural models. This module will teach you how to play with ideas that question and develop your design practice. You will explore how designers might think in parts of the world with which you are not familiar, or know only from what you have seen in films or on TV. You will develop a deeper understanding of how your own practice has economic, historic, social and cultural practices embedded in it that you might not realise and which seem foreign to others who do not share that context.

As a part of your subject module you will also explore visual thinking and visual communication strategies that will help you to creatively explore unfamiliar international contexts and communicate your ideas amidst a diverse range of language abilities.

Constellation:
Your Constellation module will support you in the development of a deeper understanding of how to map and position the international historical, socio-cultural, economic and theoretical context of your subject work. We recognise that English may not be your first language and so the programme tutors will work closely with you to help you write a dissertation, a technical report or to present your project verbally and visually.

Exhibition:
Built around a major project and an exhibition brief, the module will give you the chance to develop a professional presentation of your design strategies and solutions. This presentation will be the culmination of your work on the International Design programme and should provide you with a substantial basis on which to build your future career as an International Designer.​

Camper Summer Workshop

「DDP-CAMPER Creative Workshop」 학생 추천 협조요청

안녕하십니까? 서울디자인 재단 DDP입니다.

‘DDP’와 스페인 유명 의류 신발 브랜드 ‘CAMPER’가 공동으로 크리에이티브 디자인 워크숍을 6월에 진행할 예정입니다. 국내외 각각 10명씩 독창적이고 창의적인 디자인 전공 대학생을 모집하려고 합니다. 선발된 대학생들은 신발과 관련 악세서리를 위한 새로운 컨셉을 만들고 발전해 나가며 캠퍼 실무진 및 다양한 기술진들과 함께 소중한 경험을 하게 될 것입니다. 워크샵 개요와 추천요청서 메일로 첨부하여 송부드립니다. 좋은 학생 추천 부탁드립니다. 감사합니다.

1. 사업개요

- 사 업 명 : 「DDP-CAMPER Creative Workshop」

- 주 최 : 서울디자인재단(DDP), 캠퍼(CAMPER™)

- 기 간 : 2016년 6월 16일 ~ 6월 25일

- 장 소 : 동대문디자인플라자(DDP)

* 워크숍은 스페인 캠퍼 본사 워크숍 디렉터 5명이 영어로 진행

** 국내에서 선발된 10명과 해외(유럽지역)에서 선발된 10명이 2인 1조 팀을 이뤄 진행

2. 대상조건

- 서울 소재 디자인대학, 산업(제품) 및 패션(의상) 전공

- 대학 4학년 또는 졸업한지 1년 이내

- 영어로 의사소통이 가능한 자

- 제출서류 : CV(자유양식, 영어) 및 포트폴리오(2개 모두 PDF로 제출)

- 최종선발인원 : 총 10명

* 1차 서류 통과자(5배수 선발 예상)는 3월 30일 인터뷰 예정

3. 신청방법

- 기 한 : 2016년 2월 22일 ~ 2월 29일

- 방 법 : 5명 내외 대학생 추천가능 

- 접 수 : cozylove83@seouldesign.or.kr (메일로만 접수가능)

- 문 의 : Tel. 02-2153-0066

- 담 당 : 서울디자인재단 DDP경영단 상생본부 전시컨벤션팀 선임 배준우

4. 결과
- 손정환, 김민, 이정수, 하준일, 권지현 추천

Open Style Lab Summer Workshop

I would propose, your students first provide a portfolio related to Fashion & Technology. From that portfolio, we can pick 1 or 2. They can apply here at this link and send us a CV & Portfolio to hello@openstylelab.org. 

The date for Open Style Lab Summer program 2016 is 10 weeks:

June 3 (Friday- introduction day) - August 13th (Sat- showcase day)

COSTS & REQUIREMENTS FOR ONE STUDENT - Fashion

Airfare Roundtrip (Korea- NYC) - 

    June 2 boarding and departs August 14 

= 1,586.86 USD

= 1,928,264.99 about 2,000,00 Won

Housing - 1,200 per month total for 10 weeks 

(2 full months and 1/2 the month of August) is approx. 3,000.00 USD

Transportation/Food - 2,000.00 for 3 months is suggested.

Material Costs & teacher's fee = 5,000 USD   

Application Fee- (If chosen) 200.00 USD

Total estimate:  $12,000.00 USD

Other Requirements for the participation (English Score, Portfolio, Personal Essay, etc)

• IELTS Score= band of 6.5 or higher
• TOFEL = 110/120 or higher 
• Portfolio requirement of 3-5 pieces that demonstrate fashion tech
• The same fill-out questionnaire form online for other Designer applications as I've mentioned above. They can go here: http://www.openstylelab.com/apply-2016/ and choose "Designer"
• Speaking and writing is most important - We will have an interview after portfolio review

3. Acceptance Procedures (Registration - Apply - Filtering Process - Interviewing - Issuing of Acceptance Letter and so forth)

• Apply via online (form again)
• Interview via skype
• Send acceptance letter with OSL mark for official approval.  
• Will send instructions on who to contact, where to stay, where to come by Friday June 2nd (MIT IDC)

* The fashion students that have applied so far are some of the best and mostly recommended from CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America). The engineering students will be mostly from MIT.