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unusual facts about Art and Design



Leicester College

The creative heart of Leicester College, St Margaret’s Campus is where courses in Art and Design, Fashion and Footwear, Computing, Media, Photography and Print take place.


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1878 in art

23 November - Frank Pick, English transport administrator and patron of art and design (died 1941)

Aki Kondo

After graduating from the Junior College of Art and Design at Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kondo was hired to work in the Design studio of San-X in 1997.

Alex Coles

DesignArt (Tate Publishing, 2005), his first book, triggered a debate about limited edition design, principally in the art and design market.

Annabeth Robinson

Using Second Life and other Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVEs), Robinson explores their potential as a medium for art and design practice whilst examining its educational potential.

Arte Sustenibile UNO

Arte Sustenibile UNO is an international art and design exhibition first established in Germany in 2008 at Bad Urach, close to German city of Stuttgart.

Blake Gopnik

In 2011 he was hired away by Tina Brown, the famous editrix, to be the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and its Daily Beast Web site, where he wrote notable features on Warhol, Damien Hirst and the (still pending) collapse of the art market.

Chief Magazine

Zipco and Smith originally became friends while attending the Pratt Institute of Art and Design.

Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty

After leaving the United States Military Academy in 1984, Keenan enrolled in the Kendall College of Art and Design in Michigan to pursue an art career.

Diamonds for Breakfast

The album cover portrait of Lear, with Tiffany-designed diamond tears running down her cheek, is notable in the history of art and design as it was one of the first major assignments for French photographers Pierre et Gilles.

Digital Media Arts College

This school of art and design attracts faculty with appropriate academic and industry credentials to teach a curriculum around graphic design, computer animation, game art, website design and visual effects.

Don Ritter

Ritter has held tenured professorships in art and design at Concordia University in Montreal and at Pratt Institute New York City.

ECAL

École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, a university of art and design located in Renens, Switzerland

Erinc Seymen

He graduated from Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2006 and received his MA from Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty, with a thesis about Bob Flanagan.

Foundation course

This approach to preparing art and design students for degree level study had its origins in the writings of Herbert Read, and Coldstream, Thubron and Read regularly met to discuss their ideas at Read's house in the village of Stonegrave, North Yorkshire.

Franz Anatol Wyss

Wyss trained in the School of Art and Design (Kunstgewerbeschule) in Lucerne between 1960 and 1961 and then the Art School of Zurich from 1965-66 with Bruno Stamm.

Heinz Tesar

For various international competition entries he has received the first or second prize: e.g. for Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), the University Library in Amiens (1991), the Synagogue in Dresden (1997), the Museum for Art and Design in Ingolstadt (2000) and the Museum of Medicine in Padua, Italy (2004).

Heller in Pink Tights

Cukor had never been pleased with the "look" of most westerns and he hired George Hoyningen-Huene, a famous Russian-born fashion photographer and 1920s illustrator who was an expert at art and design.

LCAD

Leeds College of Art, Leeds, England, formerly Leeds College of Art and Design

Manchester College

Manchester Metropolitan University, formerly Manchester Polytechnic, formed in 1977 by a merger between Manchester College of Art and Design and Manchester College of Commerce; in 1983 the City of Manchester College of Higher Education was also folded in

Marty St. James

Marty St James (born 1954) is a British performance artist and Professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire, he is perhaps best known nationally and internationally, for his portrait of Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew: The Swimmer – commissioned in 1990 by the National Portrait Gallery and recently migrated to new digital formats.

Master of Research

Although a relatively new degree, research Master's degrees are increasingly popular with a number of the Russell Group Universities such as Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of Liverpool and the University of London as well as in universities with significant art and design departments such as the Faculty of Arts (University of Brighton) and University of the Arts London.

Max Krehan

In 1919, when the now-famous Bauhaus school of art and design began in nearby Weimar, its founder Walter Gropius established a workshop in production pottery, with the intention that it would be taught at a factory in Weimar.

North Kowloon Magistracy

The Savannah College of Art and Design is granted the right to use the building of the former North Kowloon Magistracy for its Hong Kong branch campus, which is its first campus in Asia and will be in addition to campuses in Savannah, GA, Atlanta, GA and Lacoste, France.

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

In the field of art and design, NTU has links with a wide range of companies, professional bodies and institutions on an international level, including Apple, Arcadia Group, Broadway, Fashion Institute of Technology, Marks & Spencer, Ralsey Group Limited, Association of Illustrators, Sony, and Sophie Stellar.

Sarah Myerscough

She then gained a BTEC Foundation National Diploma in Art and Design at Blackpool and The Fylde College in 1999 and spent the next three years at Lancaster University where, in 2002, she gained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Fine art: Practice and Theory.

The Art Institute of Vancouver

The Calgary Sun reported that in 2005 over 200 students were enrolled in The Art Institute of Vancouver's 18-month game art and design diploma program.

Xi Zhang

"Xi Zhang -- a traveler to the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design,all the way from Kaifeng, China  •• brought with  him  an almost  uncanny.  fully  formed spirit of contemporary Chinese painting.  This small,tight,color-splashed show at Plus Gallery sealed the deal, reminding us  that  we  had  a  skilled genius in our midst."Susan Froyd  Twelve  Denver  arts flashbacks from 2012, Westword,Dec.

Yusof Ghani

Ghani was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.