Canterbury School of Visual Arts

A GUIDE TO

ART & DESIGN

LAUNCH 04.05.17 EDITION

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CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS We are proud and delighted to announce the formation of the Canterbury School of Visual Arts at Canterbury College. Art and Design at Canterbury College is an exciting and highly successful department.

Our recent GOOD Ofsted inspection celebrates the high levels of outcomes for learners, the confidence exhibited by our students as they explore creative disciplines, engage in innovative project work and a range of live opportunities. All of which support their progression and career aspirations.

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Deciding what to do next after GCSE’s can be a complicated business with lots of options to choose from.

If you are interested in Art and Design then this guide is designed to help you make that choice by describing the different Art & Design courses we run at the Canterbury School of Visual Arts at Canterbury College.

We aim to support your studies from Level 1through to Degree Level. We are here to answer any questions you may have and welcome you to visit our outstanding facilities.

Whatever your preferred course you can expect to receive high quality teaching and the chance to participate in a broad range of innovative work related activities within a creative, supportive and encouraging environment.

Join us at the Canterbury School of Visual Arts and share in our success.

Alumni

Students who have completed their courses at Canterbury College have made a name for themselves in the creative world with many succeeding internationally and working in thriving creative practices.

David Doran

After studying on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design at Canterbury College and BA Illustration at Falmouth University, David began a promising career in illustration. He is now running his own studio and has completed commissions for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has Just published his first illustrated book called Alphabet Cities.

Joel Wade

After completing the BA (Hons) Visual Arts in Graphic Design at Canterbury College, Joel now works as Senior Infographic Designer at the Telegraph Newspaper.

Simon Stamatiou

Moved to the Potteries after his degree and has produced work for sale and throwing demonstrations at Gladstone Pottery Museum, Wedgwood Visitors Centre and the British Ceramics Biennial.

Marcus Drinkwater

Faye Nicholls

After studying on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design at Canterbury College and BA Graphic Communication at UAL LCC, Faye began a promising career in Graphic Design. Her clients include Lolas Cupcakes, Warl Group and she is now a Designer for Wallis Fashion.

Alex Hartop

After Studying on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design and BA Hons Visual Arts at Canterbury College, Alex has had a successful career to date working as a designer for Hornby Hobbies and is now working as a designer for Wahl.

Will Branton

After studying on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design at Canterbury College and BA Graphic and Media Design at LCC University, Will has launched his career with his own range of soft furnishing designs and has worked on projects with a variety of clients including: Ogilvy and Mather NY, IBM, US Tennis Open, Ohh Deer, BFI, Topshop and Urban Outfitters.

After studying on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design at Canterbury College and BA Photography at UAL LCC, Marcus began a promising career in Photojournalism. His clients include BBC, BBC Stories, Trip Mag and BBC Mundo.

He was recently shortlisted KOLGA TBLISI Award 2017.

Hallum Harvey

Dave Burke

After completing the BA (Hons) Visual Arts in Graphic Design at Canterbury College, Darren has pursued a successful career as a motion graphics designer for the Times Newspaper.

After studying Art and Design at Canterbury College Dave began a career as a sculptor and modeller. He is now senior Sculptor at Madame Tussauds. His work on the Star Wars exhibits was featured in the Telegraph Newspaper Website.

Sophie Higgins

After studying Art and Design at Canterbury College Sophie quickly moved into the workplace and has worked in the Fashion Design industry ever since. She has been employed by Next, Avanti, and Oyuna. Sophie is currently the Assistant Ladieswear Designer TU Clothing for Sainsburys.

After studying on the Extended Diploma in Art and Design at Canterbury College and BA Fashion at Rochester, Hallum is now working as a designer for Tom Ford.

Darren Burchett

Madeleine Hackney

After completing the BA (Hons) Visual Arts in Graphic Design at Canterbury College, Madeleine is now lead creative for EAT.

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It’s been a busy year...

A W A R D S

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This year we have had a number of events showcasing the talent and hard work of the students studying at the Canterbury School of Visual Arts at Canterbury College. These included the bi-annual John Millest Art exhibition that featured work from both staff and students and raised valuable funds for the Trust.

In January we held our first MARS Awards which invited submissions inspired by the subjects Maths, Art, Religion and Science. Our students across the school responded creatively to an open brief with work that explored the themes of the MARS exhibition and independenty.

UAL Photography Level 3 students take part in a live project, working with Canterbury Cathedral, documenting behind the scenes and showing the highly skilled people who keep the landmark maintained.

Our students collaborated with highly talented Street artist, Greg Stobb from Squirl-art to create a street mural for Love Lane, Canterbury. Many thanks to Canterbury City Council and Squirl-art for the opportunity and support.

The MARS Award winning artist Kacey Unsworth, received a prize of an iPad Mini (UAL Level 2 Art & Design)

Students from the UAL Graphic Design & Illustration course travelled to London Borough Market for their recent Book project. This trip opened their eyes to the work behind the market and its efforts to be a sustainable organisation. Their resulting book designs were celebrated in our recent Good Ofsted report and will be taken to Borough Market to be presented later this year.

#SAVE THE FISH! Our big fish sculpture made a tour of Canterbury city centre, led by students from the Art and Design Department the fish enthralled passers-by who were keen to find out about Canterbury College School of Visual Arts. The fish will be continuing its tour taking residence in the Turner Contemporary in Margate before resuming its position at Canterbury College.

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Outstanding Facilities

Art Studios

Three purpose built double height Art Studios, ideal for Life Drawing and multi discipline art workshops.

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Newly opened Sculpture and Ceramics

Dedicated Plaster Room and Slip Casting Lab, Glaze Lab, Potters Wheels, Five Electric Kilns, Laser Cutter, Casting Stones from Canterbury Cathedral, Rubber Melting and casting equipment. Stoneware, Porcelain, Earthware.

Photographic Studio 24 feet long studio with 15 foot ceiling space, fully equipped with professional lighting equipment as used within the industry.

Also available industry standard full frame DSLR’s for use to create high end imagery.

Darkroom

Fully equipped, ventilated and lightproof darkroom, housing 14 professional enlargers for 35mm to medium film format. Film processing sink and drying cabinet. Prime Enlarger Lenses. An array of 35mm and medium format cameras available to hire for all students. Liquid light processes are available to print photographic images onto objects. Professional DJI Drone for aerial photography and 4K video.

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Printroom

Our magnificent Albion Press, Etching Press, Silk Screen Beds, Exposure Cabinet, Electric Guillotine, Heat-press, Letterpress Block Collection. This room can be used for techniques such as Lino Cut, Dry Point, Letterpress, Silk Screen, Embossing and Cyanotype.

iMac Suite

21 iMac Computers with A4 Scanners.

70 Macbook Pro Computers HP DesignJet T1200 44 Inch Large Format Ink Jet Plotter 5 Wacom Cintiq 13Hd Graphics Tablets 17 A3 Wacom Intuos Portable Graphic Tablets A3 Inkjet Printers

Graphic Design and Illustration Studio Based Learning Environment Provides a professional understanding of Graphic and Illustration Processes.

HE Art and Design Studios

Includes two fully equipped digital design studios with iMacs and Macbook Pro computers. A bespoke project space for the purpose of screen and letterpress printing.

Palette Gallery

Professional Art Gallery over 3 floors covering over 2000sq feet of exhibition space with STAS hanging System.

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Level 1-3 Provision

UAL Art & Design

Accredited by the University of the Arts London, our Level 1 and Level 2 UAL Art & Design courses will develop your knowledge, practical skills and understanding of a comprehensive range of art and design activities.

You will study units that include drawing and painting, printmaking, graphics, fashion and textiles, 3-D design, time-based (film/animation) ceramics and contextual studies. You will have the chance to visit galleries and museums and be encouraged to take your next step in an art and design career and apply for a Level 3 course in either Art and Design, Graphic Design and Illustration, Photography or Fashion and Textiles.

The UAL Level 2 Art and Design course is equivalent to 4 GCSE’s and will prepare you for further education in Art and Design, or employment in a related industry.

This qualification will form the main part of your Canterbury College study programme. Our study programmes combine your main qualification & involve work related opportunities, English, Math, plus a series of enrichment activities and workshops.

Accredited by the University of the Arts London, our Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art & Design will provide you with the necessary skills & portfolio to enable you to take the next step in an Art and Design career and apply for a degree in a specialism of your choice. This course will teach you a range of practical skills including drawing, painting, printmaking, 3-D design, portfolio preparation and contextual studies.

It provides an opportunity for those who have an interest in the Visual Arts to explore, develop & test their creativity within a qualification structure, which is stimulating & demanding, whilst being supportive in the transition from further to higher education.

Local businesses & organisations are happy to work with our students. All students who want to progress to higher education externally are successful & are also offered a place within our own HE provision.

This qualification will form the main part of your Canterbury College study programme. Our study programmes combine your main qualification & involve work related opportunities plus a series of enrichment activities and workshops.

Internal progression options could include FAD at Level 4 (Foundation)

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Level 3 Provision

UAL Graphic Design & Illustration Accredited by the University of the Arts London, our UAL Extended Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration course will enable you to explore a broad range of graphic design and illustration processes and give you a confident understanding of visual communication. This course has a strong vocational emphasis, and will introduce you to 2D, 3D and time based subjects in order to realise your strengths.

You will additionally develop skills in digital illustration, animation, graphic techniques including typography, printmaking, composition and layout design.

You will become familiar with using the creative cycle: a valuable skill recognised by employers. In this context you will learn to manage professional projects from research, to idea development and fully-realised graphic solutions.

The creative industries are one of the largest in the South East and include a very diverse range of creative careers. Previous students have progressed to undertake specialist courses in: Graphic Design, Illustration, Advertising and Marketing, Shoe Design, Fashion Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Fashion Design, Fashion Illustration, Product Design, Transport Vehicle Design, Animation, Computer Generated Art and Games Design.

The two year programme is equivalent to three A level Qualifications and will enable students to go on to a range of Higher Education courses.

Our Graphic Design and Illustration students participate in a broad range of work experience activities that give our learners essential professional knowledge. Our live projects connect our students with the local and national community allowing for future professional network opportunities.

Previous opportunities have led us to work with: Dreamland Margate, Borough Market, The Beaney Museum, The Powell Cotton Museum, Turner Contemporary, St Martins Hospital Canterbury and Canterbury Cathedral. This innovative work based environment provides a real life experience to the course where students can participate on a broad range of live projects, boosting confidence and preparing them for HE and the workplace.

Internal progression options could include FAD at Level 4 (Foundation) and HND Graphic Design.

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Level 3 Provision

UAL Photography Accredited by the University of the Arts London, the UAL Extended Diploma in Photography provides the opportunity to learn and develop a variety of techniques, creative processes and theories across art & design specialising in photography.

You will learn:

Digital Photography

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe RAW editing

Studio Photography

Black and White film processing

Black and White printing

Photographic analysis

Concept development The set assignments allow the exploration of different fields such as photojournalism, documentary, fine art photography and commercial photography depending on personal interests.

The two year programme is equivalent to three A level Qualifications and will enable students to go on to a range of Higher Education courses.

Internal progression options could include FAD at Level 4 (Foundation) and HND Photography.

Between 2015-2016, photography students were given exclusive access to the unseen areas of the Canterbury Cathedral to document the work that goes on behind the scenes including going to the top of the scaffolding during renovation, visiting the stone masons’ workshops, the stained glass workshop, archives and the library. The best images were selected by the Cathedral staff and showcased by the Cathedral next to Christchurch Gate.

To support the study of Photography within an Art & Design context, students will also develop drawing skills, learn about historical and contextual influences on Photography, as well as professional practice within the subject area. You will have access to state of the art facilities and can take part in international trips to enrich your learning.

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Level 3 Provision

UAL Fashion & Textiles

If your plan is to pursue a career in fashion design or a fashion related specialism, our accredited UAL Art & Design Extended Diploma in Fashion & Textiles is the course for you.

Over the two years you will learn by completing projects and assignments using a broad range of techniques and materials. This course will give you an understanding of the fashion industry and design cycle, developing skills including trend research, fashion design, garment construction, illustration and fashion styling.

This advanced level course is designed to give you a broad base of knowledge and experience to prepare you for employment or progression to a higher level course or training in the workplace.

You will be assessed through a programme of creative assignments, tutorials, group critical discussions and selfevaluation. Some students may choose to progress to the UAL Level 4 Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art & Design.

The College has a working studio where students produce designs for real clients - this will allow you to gain valuable experience and confidence at producing images to a professional standard.

You will gain:

Practical 2D and 3D skills through research and design development

Organisation skills, planning and time management

Evaluative skills when reviewing personal work

Self-motivation and working independently inside and outside of college

Experience of team work to problem solve and be able to present ideas.

You will have opportunities to set up and take part in fashion shows and

photo shoots, as well as visiting exhibitions to use as a source of inspiration.

Internal progression options could include FAD at Level 4 (Foundation).

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Level 4-5 Provision

UAL Foundation Art & Design FAD The UAL accredited Foundation in Art and Design provides an essential introduction to the creative arts by allowing you to explore and to experiment with a wide range of media. It is designed to maximise creative exploration through an art and design based programme, which provides students with the opportunity to develop creative expression by learning an applied range of complementary art and design skills and processes. In addition, this course will help students develop communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

This foundation sees guidance offered by our experienced staff, helping you choose a specialist pathway that’s right for you. The course will give you the opportunity to explore a broad range of creative fields, developing skills and knowledge and preparing you for further educational and career-based opportunities in the worlds of art and design.

While studying on the course you will receive a comprehensive introduction to art and design subject areas through studio workshops, seminars and lectures.

Students will follow a programme of drawing and mixed media to develop practical skills and research methods. Exploratory and pathway units will be consolidated to propose and implement a personal Final Major Project.

Candidates may progress to an HNC/HND or a Degree in subjects such as, Computer Arts and Design, Graphic Design, Photography, Fashion, Design Illustration, Fine Art, Visual Communication, or 3D Design.

HND Photography This course encourages you to develop the knowledge and skills required to be a professional photographer. Projects blend creative and technical skills.

They include the exploration of fashion, reportage and location photography.

The course also embraces the contemporary use of video with the photographic image by developing your video shooting and post-production editing skills.

Importantly, the course also looks to enhance your creative use of visual language and wider understanding of photography through a self-directed research project and studies that prepare you for professional work. As you progress through the course, you will be encouraged to choose the direction of your project. This will be supported by individual and group tutorials, senimars and lectures. You will also be able to participate in yearly study trips to Amsterdam, Berlin and South Africa.

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Level 5-6 Provision

HND Graphic Design BA (Hons) Visual Arts HND Graphic Design This course is aimed at people that want to become professional graphic designers. You will develop the necessary underpinning skills and understanding required to become a graphic designer. You will explore the role of typography, branding, illustration, information graphics and packaging within contemporary design practice. The course will focus on developing your creative practice, working with employers to develop employability skills. As you progress through the course, you will be encouraged to choose the direction of your project, so you can explore and develop your own visual language. This will be supported by individual and group tutorials. You will also be able to participate in yearly study trips to Amsterdam, Berlin and South Africa.

BA (Hons) Visual Arts (1 year top-up) This is a top-up degree course for students who have already completed the HND or equivalent, who are seeking an in-depth creative experience. This course aims to develop students’ critical understanding of their chosen area of creative practice through the development of project work and an extended written assignment. The final module of the course encourages students to develop a series of appropriate promotional tools to prepare them for employment.

You will also be able to participate in yearly study trips to Amsterdam, Berlin and South Africa.

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The Canterbury School of Visual Arts Logo was designed

by Owen Kemp, studying the UAL Extended Diploma in Graphic Design and Illustration.

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