creativity

At Cardiff School of Art and Design, we specialise in delivering creative degree courses to prepare you for opportunities in a broad spectrum of careers.

Become one of our highly skilled graduates, ready to join the leaders, thinkers and entrepreneurs of the future.

Work with other artists, designers and makers across disciplines, sharing skills, ideas and experiences. Build your skills and experience in the context of social responsibility, global citizenship, inclusivity and wellbeing and play your part in creating a sustainable future for the world we live in.

With our capital city location, purposebuilt multi-million-pound facilities and opportunities for international travel, Cardiff School of Art and Design is the ideal place to continue your creative journey.

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Each of our undergraduate degree courses benefits from a unique curriculum made up of three elements designed to broaden your horizons, build your skills and prepare you for a creative career.

This is your specialism, your home during your time at university. Subject modules will immerse you in the practices, histories and theory of your chosen degree. You will be creatively and academically challenged, whilst building on your existing skills by taking part in studio practice projects, tutorials and workshops relevant to your discipline.

Our interdisciplinary field modules are designed to make you look around from different perspectives, work on projects in collaboration with students from other courses, noticing differences and similarities and broadening your experiences.

These modules introduce you to the wider world of ideas, theory and contextual studies within, outside and beyond art and design. You will learn how art & design contributes to and is influenced by a network of contemporary social, cultural, ethical, historical and philosophical settings.

Cardiff School of Art & Design offers an extensive range of facilities to help you realise your creativity, no matter what form it takes.

Our fully equipped workshops are staffed by expert Technician Demonstrators who can provide you with all the training, advice and support you need to make the most of them.

Our interdisciplinary curriculum allows students from all of our Undergraduate courses to access our whole range of facilities.

Audio Visual – Electronically controlled theatre lighting gantry for video production and performance. Bookable camcorders, lighting, microphones and audio recorders. Digital projectors, cinema screen and sound system and a range of specialist animation facilities.

Ceramic Works – Throwing wheels, kilns, plaster, enamelling, clay and glaze areas, glass-slumping kilns. External access to soda kilns and Raku firing facilities.

Computing and Software – IT and CAD suites loaded with a range of specialist software.

FabLab – 3D scanning and printing facilities, electronics, laser cutters and flatbed CNC machine.

Media/Technology – Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Interactive Media, Electronics, Hacking spaces, Arduino and Raspberry Pi coding suites, Interface Design suite.

Metal – Foundry and hot metal space, Mig and Tig welders, plasma cutters, drilling, bending and milling equipment, plus a facility for small-scale metal work, enamelling & jewellery.

Photography – Large and small lighting studios. Black and white darkroom for production of RC and fibre-based silver gelatin prints in 35mm, 120 or 5X4 format. Facilities for Photograms, Cyanotypes and Liquid Light processes. Photo edit suite with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop software.

Printmaking – Screen-printing, intaglio, engraving and stone litho facilities.

Soft Modelling – 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, mini-CNC milling machines.

Stitch and Print – Professional sewing machines, over-lockers and digital embroiderers. Digital print and lasercutting equipment.

Wood – Large and small diameter wood lathes, drum and disc sanders, X and Y axis panel saw, circular saw, spindle moulder, high-speed router, radial arm crosscut saw, bandsaws, pillar drills, mortice machine, scroll saw and surface planer/thicknesser.