The School of Industrial Design and Ceramic Art

The School of Industrial Design and Ceramic Art, established in January 2016, can trace its history back to 1987 when it was called Department of Art and Design of Foshan University. With four undergraduate programs of Industrial Design, Product Design, Visual Communication Design and Digital Media Technology, the School has more than 700 full–time undergraduate students, and enrolls academic postgraduates under the secondary discipline of Industrial Design. 

The School of Industrial Design and Ceramic Art has 37 faculty members, including 29 full-time teachers with one professor and eleven associate professors. There are seven doctors and sixteen masters. Full-time teachers with a master’s degree or above account for about 79% of  the total. The School has specially recruited five high-level talents. Among teachers in the School, one has been awarded the honorary title of National Outstanding Teacher, one the honorary title of National Model Worker, and one the honorary title of Guangdong  Nanyue  Excellent Teacher. 

The School of Industrial Design and Ceramic Art has won a second prize for national teaching achievement and a first prize for teaching achievements in Guangdong Province. The school has two provincial engineering technology research centers with teachers presiding over a number of provincial and ministerial level projects including the National Foundation programs. In recent years, the School has done a lot in integrating production and education, and established two innovative design industry colleges in Foshan National High-tech Zone and Guangdong Industrial Design City. 

The School of Industrial Design and Ceramic Art has carried out stable and in-depth exchanges with many well-known international design institutes by actively expanding international engagement and cooperation, which has become a major feature and bright spot of its talent training. For instance, it initiated a teacher and student exchange program with the RMIT School of Design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia in 2007. It launched Internet-based international design workshops with ten international universities such as Northumbria University in the UK since 2010. The School has conducted many academic exchanges and design workshops with Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) since 2012, and signed a 2+2 project cooperation agreement. It has also held design workshops and teacher exchanges with the University of  Plymouth in the UK since 2014, and signed a 2 +2 project cooperation agreement.

 

Programs

    1. Visual Communication Design 

This program is designed to help students develop the basic theory and design practice abilities on visual communication design and creation, teaching and research with the “project-based and subject-oriented” teaching model, and become specialized professionals who can engage in art design and research, teaching, design management and other jobs after graduation.

2. Product Design

(1). Ceramic Design  This program aims to train students into specialized talents who have acquired the systematic theoretical basis of product design and solid product design skills that help them better adapt to the needs of local industries with modern design techniques and means.

(2). Ceramic Art  Students are trained to master the theoretical foundation of ceramic art, solid ceramic skills and high artistic accomplishment and ability of practice. Staying with us, they will become first-class artistic talents in a comprehensive ceramic art field that features personality and common thinking.  

3. Industrial Design

With the knowledge basic design, comprehensive design expression techniques, design theory and methods, design practice, students are going to be trained into high-quality technical talents with both creative design thinking and capability, and international vision and solid traditional culture endowment.

4. Digital Media Technology

Cultivate inter-disciplinary talents with information communication theory, digital media technology and design management capabilities in the digital network era.