Warsaw, Poland

Graphic Design and Multimedia Art

Master's
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⇑Graphic Design and Multimedia Art at PJATK

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: www.pja.edu.pl/en/

⇑Why study Graphic Design and Multimedia Art (Master's) at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology?

Dlaczego warto studiować w Polsko-Japońskiej Akademii Technik Komputerowych
Why study it:

The Graphic Design and Multimedia Art master's programme at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (PJAIT) is a full-time course lasting 3 semesters and taught exclusively in English. It is meant for bachelor's graduates who want to develop their own original project in an international, interdisciplinary setting.

Programme: three modules and a mentoring team

Education at this level is built on three modules. The humanities and research module teaches you to gather and analyse the material behind advanced individual projects. The IT and practical module gives you workshop skills and advanced tools, and the artistic and design module deepens your creative skills under the guidance of mentors. Each student works under a three-member mentoring team of their choice, drawn from the humanities, engineering and art. Materials, tools and methods are agreed individually, and the project grows through a series of consultations. In daily work you use Unity, Blender, Maya, TouchDesigner and Adobe CC.

Specialisation: XR, UX and AI laboratories

You can focus your project in one of three laboratories:

  • XR Lab – advanced tools for creating XR, VR, AR and game design projects
  • UX Lab – advanced user experience design tools that support the practical part of your diploma project
  • AI Lab – applying artificial intelligence components in projects, with exercises on neural networks

Exchanges: Erasmus+ and international exchange

Part of your credits can be earned abroad, at a partner university or in a selected European design studio with Erasmus+ funding, and intensive exchanges open the way to workshops, presentations and exhibitions.

After graduation: lead designer in international teams

Graduates are prepared to work in international, interdisciplinary creative teams as a lead designer or an artist leading multimedia graphics. Depending on the chosen scope, you can work in real space, XR, VR or AR, solving design or artistic problems with UX and UI in mind and with AI tools.

You can also create independent projects and artworks of your own, and your work may gain international recognition while you are still studying.

Based on the programme pages at pja.edu.pl.

⇑Test: Is Graphic Design and Multimedia Art the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Think back to your final project from your undergraduate degree. How do you see it now?

2. Could you describe your artistic stance and the themes you work with?

3. How do you feel about art and media theory?

4. At Master’s level you’ll present your work, write about it and discuss it at critiques in English, in a group with artists from many countries. How does that sound?

5. You get the chance to show your work in a small gallery. What do you do?

6. An agency offers you a commercial commission that’s quite far from your style. What do you do?

7. How do you approach new tools such as generative technologies, interactive installation software or creative coding?

8. You’re co-creating a project with a musician and a programmer. How do you go about it?

9. How do you organise your work on a long-term art project?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Graphic Design and Multimedia Art?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.
Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns). Design has different connotations in different fields (see design disciplines below). In some cases, the direct construction of an object (as in pottery, engineering, management, coding, and graphic design) is also considered to use design thinking.
Graphic Design
Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving using one or more of typography, photography and illustration. The field is considered a subset of visual communication and communication design, but sometimes the term "graphic design" is used synonymously. Graphic designers create and combine symbols, images and text to form visual representations of ideas and messages. They use typography, visual arts and page layout techniques to create visual compositions. Common uses of graphic design include corporate design (logos and branding), editorial design (magazines, newspapers and books), wayfinding or environmental design, advertising, web design, communication design, product packaging and signage.
Multimedia
Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
Art
Usually the work of several generations is needed to develop that formal system which later is called the style of the art, from its simple beginning to the wealth of elaborate forms... The interest of the artist is concentrated on this crystallization, where the material... takes, through his action, the various forms that are initiated by the first formal concepts of this style. After completion the interest must fade again, because... "interest" means... to be with... to take part in a process of life... [H]ow far the formal rules of style represent that reality of life which is meant by the art cannot be decided from the formal rules.
Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)
Design
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald Norman (2002), The Design of Everyday Things, Introduction to the 2002 Edition
Design
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. The assumption is that somewhere, hidden, is a better way of doing things.
Attributed to Harry Bertoia, Knoll Design, p. 66 in: Carlotte & Peter Fiell (2005) 1000 Chairs. Introduction

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