Art and Design

Design is about solving problems creatively. Think about creating a new product, creating a website or poster to promote it, designing a retail space in which to sell it, designing packaging for the product to be picked up by the customer.

What is Interior Design?  That is the question! Lucky for you, I have prepared a little article on the ART that one sees and feels everyday but may not acknowledge or understand. Interior Design involves more than just drawing a straight line and fumbling a couple of cushions.

He’s been set on fire, shot, stabbed, he’s fallen off cliffs and roofs, crashed through windows and had a screen fight with James Bond – and he lives to tell the tale! That man is David Cronnelly, stunt man extraordinaire. We caught up with him at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, the UK’s equivalent of Hollywood, on a two week hiatus before beginning work on a new movie ‘Wolfman’, starring Anthony Hopkins and Benito del Torro.

Working in the Creative Industries is a dynamic and wide ranging career choice with many exciting opportunities available ranging from Fine Arts in many media including Painting, Film and Video, Interactive Media, Sculpture and Performance to Design and Craft in Graphic Design, Advertising, Fashion, Three Dimensional Design, Architecture and Spatial Design, Games Design and Film and Television.

The Arts Institute at Bournemouth has developed into one of the leading specialist education institutions in Europe focusing exclusively upon contemporary arts, design and media. Such providers are widely recognised as offering the best education in arts and design, and the Institute believes that in such environments the most creative and ground breaking work is produced.

What is The Fashion Retail Academy?

The Fashion Retail Academy is the brainchild of Philip Green, the owner of Bhs and the Arcadia Group, which includes the popular high street brands Burton, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Miss Selfridge, Topshop, Topman and Wallis. The Arcadia Group and London College of Fashion have worked together to produce an exciting and innovative new learning experience.

Croydon College offers full and part-time Graphic Design programmes at Further and Higher Education levels. The broad-based BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design programme at Croydon College enables students to learn the essential techniques and skills needed to pursue a career in this creative industry. The successful completion of this qualification can lead to a career in the Graphic Design, Advertising or Media industry.

Higher Education opportunities in art and design have never been as rich in diversity, as broad in scope and as useful to graduates in preparing them for a plethora of future career pathways.