Features of the Department of Industrial Design
We offer a diverse range of selective courses where students can experience and study design in many genres.
We offer courses where students can meet with instructors to review and consider their future directions.
We offer courses where students can suggest designs for local communities and industries.
Purpose of education
- We aim at nurturing designers who are willing to pursue their original designs to create a world of their own, by helping our students to acquire basic knowledge and expressive skills.
- We aim at nurturing human resources that will contribute to the revitalization of social communities and industries through creating designs that will increase public understanding.
Design --- the materialization of dreams
In the Department of Industrial Design, you will learn how to take imaginative
or conceptual ideas and transform them into real objects, using knowledge and
skills acquired in the individual courses.
We welcome you to explore a wide range of design subjects across many genres.
Let's get people excited about design!
Graphic Design
You will learn a diverse range of skills applicable right across the field
of graphic design, such as those related to typography, editing, producing posters,
advertisements and packaging, and developing a corporate visual identity, as
well as generalized skills.
We aim to encourage and foster students' abilities to communicate and express
themselves and their ideas with individuality, suitability and style in a rapidly
changing information environment.
Motion Graphic Design
“Image design” refers to animated graphics developed using the skills of graphic design. Students will work on a variety of projects, including developing logos and jingles of a few seconds in length, to commercials and titles lasting up a minute or more, to music clips and short movies several minutes long, using various techniques such as live action, animation and more.
Package Design
Package design is a comprehensive field within graphic design and includes diverse processes such as 3-D modeling, 2-D graphics and printing. One of the most important aspects of package design is how it relates to people. With that in mind, students will learn how to think about appropriate functions and forms in order to design and produce original pieces.
Illustration
The world of illustration --- which can found in all sorts of interesting forms across all media --- can be very enticing. However, it is not easy for illustrators to fully understand this chaotic world on a large scale. To draw as if you were trying to express your feelings to those you love --- that is the essence of illustration. At its most fundamental it is about connecting with people, rather than technique or knowledge. This may be easily forgotten, but it may contain the key to attaining your unique style.
Constructive Art
The Constructive Art Course encourages you to become familiar with and understand the figurative elements common to all figurative expressions, including shapes, colors, materials and style, while simultaneously studying various applied expressions through practical training and theory. This course focuses on all types of design construction and aims to produce students with broad knowledge and experience of artistic culture and a figurative sensitivity that can be used as the foundation for figurative expression. The wide-ranging skills and understanding acquired will be greatly beneficial for a variety of professional occupations.
Web Design
Websites, now one of the major means of the transmission and reception of all kinds of information, can be regarded as a media frontier. What is demanded of the designer in the creation of a website? What is the relationship between people and information? In this course you will learn not only the skills and tools for graphic expression but also delve into the processes of website design, including basic programming, planning and proposing skills.
Architectual and Interior Design
Architectural design is not limited to buildings. It extends to internal as well as external spaces and further out, to the city spaces where we go about our daily lives. In the Architectural Design course, you will study the designs of a wide range of living and other spaces, including interiors, buildings, and town-planning as you examine the multitude of relationships between humans, objects and functions.
Architectual History and Design
The study of architectural history and design has a very special position in art and design education. It is the study of the achievements of the past, which gives us the insights, ideas and tools we need to proceed. Without definite goals and planning we cannot assure ourselves of a rich, comfortable human environment in this age characterized by the pursuit of modernization. Therefore, studying architectural history must closely relate to the essence of architecture. We want to apply arts to the researches and works.
Planning of Design
Design planning helps us to realize visions of a peaceful, pleasant, and spiritually rich society. The goal of design planning is to bring to successful fruition proposals that move and excite both ourselves and the people around us, and to ward off complacency. Taking a form similar to that of the storyboards used in film production, design planning allows you to examine and manipulate various subjects such as at stage (space), tools (objects), characters (humans), and stories (information).
Product Design
Design so familiar and entwined with lives that we don't even notice it --this is product design. “Things” already exist in abundance around us. Proposing new “things” requires an approach that focuses on people’s ways of thinking and living, which allows us to discover new relationships and meanings between function, form and modeling. In the Product Design course, you will get the necessary training in thinking in these terms, the skills needed to materialize and develop the ideas, as well as the methods to communicate and express the ideas.
Public Design
Public design is “design that doesn't belong to anyone but is equally enjoyed by everyone.” It aims to help people to live healthy and affluent lives by designing shared tools, devices, spaces, landscapes and so on that smoothly integrate complex interactive factors. Students will learn a methodology for determining the optimal solution, focusing on the realizations they have through real practical experiences. They will learn processes by which to make ideas a reality, ways of communicating and expressing their intentions, and how to come up with feasible ideas by defining the essence of the task from multiple viewpoints.
