Compulsory Courses
Industrial Product group
for students with a background in product or industrial design
Industrial Design Project (44 hrs/ semester, 18 ECTS)
Workshop (28 hrs-1 week)
Color Drawing (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Visual Arts (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Methodology workshop (28 hrs-1 week, 1 ECTS)
Solidworks (22 hrs/semester, 2 ECTS)
Brand Design group
for students studying product design, graphic design or visual communications
Brand Design Project (44 hrs/ semester, 18 ECTS)
Workshop (28 hrs-1 week)
Narrative images (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Visual Arts (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Methodology workshop (28 hrs-1 week, 1 ECTS)
Computer graphics (2D) (22 hrs/semester, 2 ECTS)
or 3D computer graphics (22 hrs/semester, 2 ECTS)
Connected Environments group
for students with a background in space design, interior design, interaction design or multimedia design
Connected environments Design Project (44 hrs/ semester, 18 ECTS)
Workshop (28 hrs-1 week)
Color Drawing (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Visual Arts (33 hrs/ semester, 2.5 ECTS)
Methodology workshop (28 hrs-1 week, 1 ECTS)
Sketchup (22 hrs/semester, 2 ECTS)
Elective courses
These classes are open to all students in the International Class, whether they are in Industrial Product, Brand Design or Connected Environments
(if space available)
Mock-up workshop (21 hrs/ 1 semester, 2 ECTS)
French language and culture – for International students only (33 hrs/ semester, 2 ECTS)
3DS Max (22 hrs/ semester, 2 ECTS)
Computer graphics 2D (22 hrs/ semester, 2 ECTS)
Course Descriptions
Methodology workshop: at the beginning of each semester students are familiarized with the design methodology applied at the school through a week-long workshop.
Workshop: students are asked to research a given topic and follow a project through to its final stages, taking into account all the constraints relating to time and precise specifications.
Visual Arts: This workshop explores the dimensions of the creative process, from theory to practice. The course will draw on issues of international contemporary creation to open the student up to new perspectives in sensitivity, reflection and method. Students learn how to choose a direction for their project and make decisions that will allow them to follow an art project from initiation to completion. The class is centered around the object and its references.
Color Drawing: this course aims to deepen the student’s knowledge of a variety of drawing techniques, graphic codes and representation systems specific to the different design disciplines. These techniques are explored in their different forms (including signs, graphics, color, composition, representation of space) and through various approaches (formal analysis, observation, interpretation, expression and communication).
Narrative images: this course offers students -whether they are graphic designers or not- a practical and theoretical approach to visual storytelling. Through both concrete exercises and detailed examinations of various artists and designers’ work, with a particular focus on bande dessinée (i.e. the French term for comic strips) as a specific language, this course hopes to provide design students with the analytic tools to understand how sequential storytelling (combining text with images, dealing with time and space, using visual rhythms, etc.) can stimulate their own reflexion and feed their creative process.
Mock-up Workshop: Mock up is an important part of the design process and product development process in order to verify and test dimensions, overall impression, and shapes.The mock up workshop intends to practice and experiment, through a step by step project, some basic manufacturing processes from technologies, tools and materials available in the school workshop.
The objective of the course is to give students a skill and a know-how on technical options when preparing their work for manufacture and fully inform them about how their designs can be produced efficiently and effectively.
2D Computer Graphics: Photoshop and Illustrator
SketchUp : students learn to master SketchUp, a 3D sketching software for the conceptual phases of design.
French language classes: international students benefit from three hours of language tuition per week. Groups will be assembled according to the language level of students.
French Culture: a cultural program of outings, cultural and architectural visits and film performances allowing international students to discover national and local landmarks, customs and artistic heritage.
Solidworks (3D): introduction to the CAD program Solidworks
3DS Max: students are familiarized with 3DS-Max, a professional 3D animation rendering and modeling software package.
Applications for the academic year 2014/15 will open by mid-November.
