Art and Design (Graphics)

Course summary

Studying Graphics Communication here at ED6 will give you the opportunity to work in our Adobe Suite working both digitally and by hand with your skills, we will be editing and creating both commercial and contemporary graphics to better explore all forms of artistic graphics and expand your skills and abilities. We also have access to the extensive supplies in the art rooms, where we can apply practical skills to our digital to create more interactive styles of creating art! Make a portfolio you can be proud of here with us! This course is ideal if you want to start a career in Art History, Practical Study or Public Space Exhibition work. This course is perfect for someone who wants to explore the progression of artists, techniques and creating new ideas to explore a range of materials and mediums. We offer a huge range of supplies and products to be used to create your personal portfolio and develop your skills in technique to enhance your future prospects, whether that be in industry or further education. We will study a range of artists and their techniques and abilities, as well as the history of their chosen mediums. We will be applying this knowledge to your portfolios and using that as the core bases for your growing skills and you will create your own final outcomes showing your progression across the 2 years with large-scale art pieces depicting your chosen paths. This course is a great starting point for anyone wanting to work in the industry creating and making things to be in the public eye, it will also give you a strong starting point for going to university, preparing you for the lesson structure and teaching style you will have in further education. Throughout the first year we will be working on your personal portfolio, we will focus on the first 2 projects that will make up a large portion of yourself representation when applying for jobs or applying for a university course. These projects will be looking at artists techniques and working with their techniques and mediums to experiment in new ways. We will also be writing a Personal Study in which we look at the differences between artists work and how best to apply that understanding to our own work and progression. In your second year we will finalise your portfolio and make a digital version for easier application to further education as well as write a further personal study into the creativity and application of technique within the art sector before settling on a topic for a final outcome.