Professional-level “Design” is becoming increasingly demanded in the fields of graphics, product planning, architecture, urban environment, and communication, while its creative methods are evolving on a daily basis. Particularly because everyone has access to a computer today, designers now more than ever need to present richer ideas and bolder creativity. The Faculty of Design trains students to become working professionals, who can respond to changing demands. Every faculty member is a leading designer at the forefront of the industry, making the faculty a very hands-on place. Additionally, our collaborative programs with the external world and private business not only strengthen students’ theoretical knowledge and skills but also ensure they are widely applicable in the professional world. The Faculty of Design facilitates the emergence of true specialists equipped with the skills for next generation design.
Departments & Courses in the Faculty of Design
Three approaches to design professionalism
The Possibilities of Visual Design
Next generation designers trained by leading professionals; visual media evolving daily. Posters, advertising, bookbinding, web design, mobile phone content…The fields and possibilities of visual design are ever expanding. Especially due to the fact that today, everyone enjoys “designing” with only limited knowledge and computer skills, the Department of Visual Design prepares students to become true specialists. Considering that in the world of design, the techniques, theories and media through which design is presented are rapidly advancing, our faculty members, leading designers themselves, assist students to foster a kind of creativity that can remain one step ahead. Cooperating actively with each other, our three courses – Graphic Design, Illustration, and Digital Creation – cultivate creativity that crosses genre boundaries. Designers who have studied here will pioneer media and creative fields for the next generation.
The True Meaning of Product Design
Gaining understanding of unlimited expansion in the three directions of object-based, information-based, and space-based design, in the city of tradition and innovation that is Kyoto. This course deals with everything used by people in daily life, from getting up in the morning until going to bed at night. Product design’s limitless evolution in these three directions – object-based design (home electric appliances, mobile phones, interiors, everyday goods), information-based design (packages and displays that transmit information), and environment-based design (public spaces and shops) – enriches our everyday life. Seika adds to these features the unique perspective of Kyoto. The city has long generated cutting-edge techniques and products while also conserving its historical traditions. Kyoto is known for being environmentally conscious and draws continued attention from around the world. We collaborate with the companies and factories that have been shaped by Kyoto’s nature and its characteristics. A new program, the Kyoto Design Axis course, for which students of both the Product Communication Design and Life Creation Course can register, has been created for this purpose. Advance with new “Kyoto Design” from Seika!
The Future and Dream of Architecture
Pursuing architectural creativity as spatial design with infinite possibilities. Architecture is not only about high-rise buildings, residential houses, schools, or train stations, but also about room interiors, streets, and parks, even extending to the virtual world of cinema and cyberspace. We consider all these spaces as the realm of design and fully explore them. Architecture is about “design with infinite possibilities”: the thinking expressed in a space and the responses felt by the users of the space matter more than the functional aspects of constructing pillars and building walls. Planning residential housing, for instance, requires imagining the family who will live there and creating scenes that will long remain in their memories, and actualizing the image of how a home should be. At the Department of Architecture, put into reality what you think architecture truly is.
Traditional Crafts Internship
Kyoto Seika University offers outstanding opportunities for students to gain familiarity with living traditions through its special Internship Program at traditional craft workshops and industry. By working with master artisans, participating students’ own creativity is stimulated, and they experience the unique benefits of studying arts in Kyoto.
Faculty of Design Elective & Special Course Faculty Members (in Japanese)
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