College of Art and Design

College of Art and Design of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, formerly known as the Department of Industrial Art and Engineering of Tianjin University of Light Industry, was founded in 1985. In 2002, Tianjin University of Light Industry was renamed Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and the College of Art and Design was established in the same year. At present, the college has more than 2000 undergraduates and postgraduates. It is an art design college with a large scale, complete professional Setting, and superior teaching conditions, integrating professional teaching, creative design, theoretical research, and social practice with certain influence.

The college has two master's programs in design and seven undergraduate programs in Product design, Environmental design, Visual Communication Design, fashion and costume design, public art, animation, and performance. The college has a strong faculty, totaling more than 100 teachers. The teachers have a reasonable age and knowledge structure, advanced teaching and experimental methods, and have laid a solid foundation for scientific research and high-level personnel training.

The college is a first-level discipline and a key construction discipline in Tianjin. Product design and animation are the first batch of brand majors in Tianjin. Product design, visual communication design, clothing, and apparel design are the first-class professional construction points in Tianjin. Visual communication design and fashion and costume design are applied majors in Tianjin. Each year, the college selects outstanding students from the freshmen to study in the "Excellent Art and Design Talent Experimental Class". The Art and Design Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of the college is a provincial and ministerial teaching platform, and each major has studios and research centers to build professional practice platforms for students' creation. The college implements the "postgraduate exemption system", and selects outstanding graduates from the graduates to enter the postgraduate stage without examination. It has good cooperative relations with the University of Creative Arts in the UK, Birmingham City University in the UK, the University of West Bohemia in the Czech Republic, and California State University SAN Bernardino in the United States. We carry out student exchange programs, priority postgraduate admission, and other educational modes, and regularly hold workshops and academic exchange visits to expand students' international perspective and international development channels.

In recent years, the faculty and students of the College have made remarkable achievements in various art design research and creative activities, and have completed more than 100 national art planning projects, the Ministry of Education and Tianjin planning projects, participated in various international and domestic exhibitions and won awards for many times, and published many teaching materials and monographs.

The College will maintain and carry forward its traditional advantages and college-running characteristics, adhere to people-oriented, take teaching quality as the core, take training of application-oriented innovative talents as the goal, emphasize the combination of art and science, promote the continuous improvement of teaching level with discipline construction, and realize the scientific development, innovative development and sustainable development of personnel training. Strive to build a first-class art and design college with distinctive characteristics in China.

Product Design

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Specialty Introduction: Product Design is the first batch of Tianjin brand specialties, the first batch of Tianjin first-class undergraduate specialty construction point, Tianjin 15th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Five-Year key construction specialty, China Toys and Baby Products Association director unit. Product Design major was founded in 1987, is the earliest design undergraduate major established by our college, and is the only professional with the toy professional graduate training qualification. It has won some special investments such as "Central and Local University Characteristic and advantage-subject Laboratory Project" and "Central Support Local University Laboratory Construction Project", and won the second prize in national higher education teaching achievements, and the textbooks have been approved by the Ministry of Education's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" national textbooks. The faculty of this specialty is strong, and the proportion of teachers with senior titles accounts for 69.2%, and the college has achieved remarkable achievements. The teachers and students have won the highest award of the Red Dot International Competition, known as the Oscar of the design industry (Red Dot Supreme Award), the German IF Award, and the European Product Design Gold Award.

Specialty features: Product design is one of the first majors to try the "combination of art and engineering" mode of education. After years of active exploration, the specialty has established a curriculum system and personnel training model conducive to the growth of product design talents. Formed a talent demand-oriented, with "practicality" and "innovation" as the core, with artistic quality and ability as the main body, and integrated digital technology, production technology, humanities, social sciences, and other knowledge, and from product form innovation design to deep product creation and product innovation development.

Training objectives: Product design professional training has a "thick foundation, wide caliber, heavy ability", "knowledge, ability, quality" coordinated development, has a solid basic theoretical knowledge of product design and product modeling ability, good professional skills, and professional quality, They can be engaged in the design, management, scientific research or teaching work focusing on product innovation in enterprises and public institutions, professional design departments, teaching, and scientific research units, and can also be engaged in visual communication design, information design, environmental facility design or display design related to product design. They are high-quality applied talents with all-around development of morality, intelligence, body, labor innovation spirit, and practical ability.

Teachers: Strong professional teachers, the proportion of old, middle-aged, and young people and the structure of learning is reasonable. Among the teachers, 30.8% are selected as "Discipline Leading Talents", "Tianjin Young Innovative Talents", "Excellent Young Teachers Funding Program" and "Teaching Master Training Program" of Tianjin universities. There are 8 master tutors, accounting for 67%. More than 92% of the teachers are master graduates. They come from famous international and domestic professional colleges such as Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Jiangnan University, Tianjin University, and the University of Warwick, etc. They have strong teaching and research ability.

Student awards: Red Dot Supreme Award, European Product Design Gold Award, IF Design Award, American IDEA Award, and many other international awards. It has also won first prize in various domestic competitions such as Challenge Cup, Internet +, industry, and art design many times, with a total of more than 500 awards. Students have obtained more than 400 patents.

Graduate Development: Graduates of this major have very broad employment prospects. Through systematic training and training, graduates can have a relatively complete knowledge structure in product design. After graduation, most of them can successfully enter well-known design units or other enterprises and institutions to engage in product creative design, product development, design planning, design management, etc., or engage in teaching and scientific research in colleges and universities. Can also rely on professionals, engaged in other related design work. Graduates can help enterprises solve practical problems in a relatively short time and grow rapidly in the enterprise to realize their value; Or successfully establish a personal design brand; Some students go to graduate college or study abroad.

Visual Communication Design

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Professional introduction: Visual Communication Design has a history of more than 20 years. In 1991, it majored in packaging and decoration design and then changed its name to Visual Communication design. This major is a first-class professional construction point in Tianjin, an application-oriented major in the "13th Five-Year Plan" comprehensive investment planning, and has an innovation team of Tianjin colleges and universities, as well as backbone talents such as the "Excellent Young Teachers Funding Program" and famous teachers in Tianjin colleges and universities. He has written and published textbooks "Advertising Planning and Media Creativity", "Commercial Display and Visual Identification System Design" and "Logo and Corporate Image Design". By utilizing the existing two first-class courses in Tianjin and one excellent course on ideology and politics in the new era of Tianjin colleges and universities and their own MOOC resources, we will create some shared courses with points and aspects, and adopt the education model of "curriculum ideology and politics + first-class curriculum construction + aesthetic education" to promote the construction of "new liberal arts". This major implements collaborative education under the guidance of the studio and creates a trinity teaching model of "teaching + practice base + application development". "Competition" promotes learning, combining production and teaching, deepens the students' professional research ability, and makes the knowledge structure ability more comprehensive and systematic.

Training goal: Based on the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, facing the whole country, striving for the domestic first-class, Tianjin's top visual communication design. Relying on the college's advantages and characteristic disciplines, this major organically integrates "light industry" and "art" to cultivate high-quality applied talents with international design cultural vision and Chinese design cultural characteristics, integrating traditional print (printing) media and modern digital media, with innovative spirit and practical ability.

Faculty: It has a high-level teaching team composed of professors, associate professors, and doctors.

Cooperation and exchange: Focusing on the characteristic disciplines of the light industry, we have established professional chains of food, packaging, visual communication design, and printing to serve the national "Belt and Road" Initiative and the industrial development needs of Tianjin. A comprehensive interdisciplinary talent training system has been established to meet students' individual needs and expand their abilities through the credit system. It also has exchanges with universities in France, Britain and Japan.

Student awards: The major has achieved remarkable achievements in running colleges, and the teachers and students have won more than 50 domestic and foreign design awards. Including the "Asian Alliance Beyond Design Competition" silver Award, "China Star Design Art" award and "National Packaging Design" silver award, "China Design Yearbook" gold Award, "Xu Chengji" Chinese Elements Silicone Creative Product Design "silver Award," Chuang Youth "college Award Silver Award," Golden Deer Award "and" Teda Cup "bronze award.

Graduate development: Graduates can be engaged in the teaching, research, and management of visual communication, website construction, software development, graphic design, advertising planning, interactive design, and brand promotion in professional design enterprises, communication agencies, marketing departments of large enterprises, research units, and other fields; Some students go to graduate college or study abroad.

Environmental design

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major Introduction: The Environmental design major was established in 1999. In 2006, it began to train postgraduate students in the "direction of Environmental design". Up to now, more than 900 senior professionals of different levels have been trained in the national environmental design industry.

Specialty Features: Environmental design is a comprehensive subject based on aesthetics, design, psychology, architecture, and landscape architecture. The major of environmental design focuses on interior space design and landscape design. It includes the environment and facilities plan, space and decoration plan, shape and construction plan, use function, and aesthetic function plan.

Training objectives: The major of environmental design aims to cultivate the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and labor, adapt to the needs of the industry and local social and economic development, have good professional ethics, have solid professional basic knowledge and professional skills, be able to use modern design technology to engage in indoor and outdoor space environment design, and be familiar with relevant technologies and practice methods in this field. Capable of engaging in interior design, architectural decoration design, landscape design and design research and development, management, and research in enterprises and public institutions in the fields of architectural decoration engineering and design, environmental planning and design, exhibition design, etc., high-quality professionals with comprehensive environmental design ability and strong innovative spirit and practical ability.

Teachers: There are 11 full-time teachers, of which 63.6% are teachers with senior titles, including 2 professors, 5 associate professors, and 4 lecturers. The teachers with doctor's degrees and master's degrees account for 72.7%, and there is one "university discipline leading talent" and one "Tianjin Young Innovative talent".

Student awards: The environmental design major has made remarkable achievements in running colleges, and students have won many awards. It won the first prize, third prize, and excellence Award of "The Tianjin Youth Art Exhibition and the 7th Tianjin Youth Art Festival" in 2016; The 4th, 5th and 6th "Chinese Cup" National College Students Environmental Design Competition have all achieved success; The third prize of the 8th China University Art Works Academic Year Exhibition in 2017; Won the Best Award in the Chinese Contemporary College Student Art Works Yearbook in 2019; In 2019, the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" college design graduation Design Exhibition won the second prize, the third prize and the excellence Award; The first prize of graduation design Exhibition of "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" University design majors in 2021. Undergraduate students have obtained some authorized patents and published some academic papers.

Graduate development: This major can apply professional knowledge to work in interior design, garden design, landscape design, architectural decoration design, exhibition design, construction supervision, and other related fields such as architectural decoration units, planning and design units, urban construction institutions, and scientific research units. In recent years, students have been recommended or admitted to Beijing Institute of Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai University, Shanghai University, Fuzhou University, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and other colleges and universities for master's degrees. So far, many students have gone to the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other countries to study design majors.

Public Art

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major Introduction: This major carries out teaching and academic research in line with the concept that "art integrates science and technology, art serves life". Based in Tianjin and facing the whole country, it has cultivated outstanding professionals of the same level for the country and society. In recent years, the teachers and students have achieved excellent results in various international and domestic exhibitions and professional competitions.

Training objective: This major aims to cultivate specialized art and design talents who have comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty, and labor, master the basic theory, basic knowledge, and basic skills of public art major, have the creative ability to combine theory and practice, and carry out art creation and design in specific public Spaces to meet the corresponding needs of urban environment beautification and humanistic care.

Teachers: This major has strong teachers and a reasonable structure. The professional teachers graduated from Japan National University of Education, College of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Nankai University, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and other famous professional colleges and universities at home and abroad, and have strong teaching and research abilities.

Students won awards: Public art teachers led students to actively participate in various competitions, among which fiber artworks were selected twice and exhibited in the National Art Works Exhibition area in Tianjin; Organized students to be selected into Tianjin College students Innovation and Entrepreneurship training program for many times; Led students to participate in many awards such as the art design of Tianjin Metro station public area.

Graduate development: Graduates can be engaged in creation, design, research, teaching, and art project management in government departments and enterprises and institutions such as urban planning bureaus, architecture and planning departments, design institutes, and professional design institutions at all levels. The proportion of graduates who go to graduate college and study abroad is increasing year by year.

Fashion and Accessory Design

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Major Introduction: Founded in 1985, it is the earliest art and design major in our college. So far, it has trained a large number of senior professional talents for the country and is an influential high-level talent training base for the garment industry in China. This major is application-oriented in Tianjin's "13th Five-Year Plan" comprehensive investment planning, a first-class undergraduate professional construction site in Tianjin, a governing unit of China Garment Teachers Association, and a garment CAD certification examination unit of the Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of Education. In 2004, the major began to recruit master's students, in 2010, began to recruit foreign students, and in 2013, established the "excellent talent training experimental class", which provides a solid foundation for the personalized training of talents.

Professional Features: Based on the concept of new liberal arts education, this major focuses on the cultivation of art and design quality and ability, focuses on the transformation and upgrading of new technologies and new modes in the clothing industry, integrates into multi-disciplinary and multi-field cross-running colleges, and forms a combination of design art, clothing culture, clothing materials and production technology, brand planning, intelligent design, and digital technology. Formed the fashion design education into a "fashion, culture, science, and technology" comprehensive force, deep development of the college characteristics.

Training objectives: While cultivating students' all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, and labor, it enables students to master the basic theories and skills of clothing and clothing design, grasp and predict fashion trends, and carry out original design, production practical operation, clothing display, brand planning, and digital management. He is engaged in the design, development, promotion, education, and management of related products in the field of clothing and clothing design, and gradually grows into a high-quality applied talent with an innovative spirit and practical ability.

Teachers: This major has a strong faculty, high education, high professional titles accounted for a high proportion, It has formed a strong teaching team with national quality online open course leaders, "Tianjin Discipline Leading Talents", "Tianjin Youth Reserve Force Talents", "131 Innovative Talents" training program candidates, executive members of the Academic Committee of China Fashion Designers Association, experts of the college-Enterprise Cooperation Committee of the Ministry of Education, Top Ten young artists in Tianjin, and college-level teaching teams Wu has been approved by the national first-class curriculum, completed some national and provincial social science projects, art planning projects, published more than 20 monographs, teaching materials, published more than 60 papers, and trained students have won the title of "National Top Ten Fashion designers", new talent award and some gold MEDALS in professional competitions.

Cooperation and exchange: The major of fashion and clothing design not only actively carries out academic exchanges with professional colleges and universities at home and abroad, but also carries out exchanges and cooperation with enterprises and government agencies, and has achieved remarkable results. He has sent some teachers to well-known universities at home and abroad as visiting scholars, hired well-known Japanese designers, famous domestic clothing brand designers, heads of fashion trend institutions, etc., to exchange guidance with the college, signed cooperation agreements with Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center and some domestic clothing enterprises, forming a four-in-one education model of production, learning, politics and research.

Student awards: In recent years, students have won awards in some national competitions with outstanding results. Among them, he won 1 national top ten designer, 7 gold awards (and first prize), 6 silver awards, bronze awards, and several awards of excellence, and the level and number of awards are outstanding in the domestic college of the same profession. In addition, there are some students during the college won the national inspirational scholarship, Tianjin Excellent Student Cadre, Tianjin Binhai New Area "Excellent Red Cross Volunteer", Tianjin University of Science and Technology "Zhu Ying Scholarship", summer "three rural" social practice activities "advanced individual", "League work advanced individual" and so on.

Graduate development: After graduation, students can be engaged in product design and development, plate making, merchandising, brand design management, cultural communication, education, research, and other related fields such as clothing and apparel brand companies, fashion design studios, fashion media, and scientific research institutes. Many graduates have been admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, Donghua University, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Soochow University, Nankai University, and other universities in China for postgraduate studies, and have studied at St. Martins College of Art, London College of Fashion, University of Edinburgh, French ESMODE Fashion Institute, Italian Milan Fashion Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and other internationally renowned institutions. Outstanding graduates in some top domestic fashion brands as chief designer, design director, designer, brand director, and other positions, in the domestic fashion industry have a certain influence.

Animation

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Professional introduction: Animation major was founded in 2005, and is the first animation major opened in Tianjin. In 2008, it was invested by the central and local experimental center; in 2012 approved by Tianjin Brand Professional; the Council unit of Tianjin Animation Society. It has a national and local co-construction experimental teaching center, relying on regional development advantages and industrial planning needs, adheres to the open college direction, and establishes undergraduate and graduate student practice bases with the Sino-Singapore Ecological City National Animation Industry Park, Tianjin TV Sports Channel, and Binhai TV Station to serve teachers and students and share resources. The college has gradually formed the advantages and characteristics of cross-media, science, art, and humanities integration.

Training objectives: This major aims to cultivate all-round development of moral, intellectual, physical, and labor, master the basic theories, knowledge, and skills of animation, have the abilities of lifelong learning, adapt to social development, communication, and cooperation, animation design, and production, and be able to engage in animation design, production, research and development, management and other aspects in the professional fields of animation, games, film, and television. With the spirit of innovation and practical ability, broad vision of high-quality applied professionals.

Teaching staff: There are 18 teachers in the teaching team of the college and the enterprise, including 9 enterprise tutors and 9 full-time teachers; 4 associate professors and 5 lecturers; 3 teachers are foreign visiting scholars and 1 teacher is a domestic visiting scholar. One doctor, four masters. The teaching staff has a reasonable structure and strong teaching and scientific research strengths.

Cooperation and exchange: In 2016 and 2018, the animation major invited Professor Birgitta Hosea from the Royal College of Art to give lectures and exchange ideas in the field of experimental animation and documentary. Conducted professional discussions and exchanges with the University of Lancashire, Northern Arizona University, Mansfield University, Birmingham City University, University of Creative Arts, Communication University of China, and Beijing Film Academy. In June 2012, the 26-episode original cartoon "Legend of Three Children" co-created by teachers and students was invited to participate in the Annecy International Animation Festival in France. This major has established teaching and practice bases in the Sino-Singapore Eco-City National Animation Park, SkyTV Sports Channel, and Binhai TV Station respectively to jointly train high-quality practical talents who can adapt to the development of the contemporary animation industry.

Student awards: The work "Competition" won the 2015 "Teda Cup" Youth Creative Advanced Competition gold medal, and the 10th Macao Design Biennale Silver Award; The microfilm "Beginning Heart" won the second prize in the Fourth Tianjin Film Festival in 2015; "Pretend to be Free" won the Silver Award of 2016 "Teda Cup" International Student Creative Design Competition; The work "Lifeline" won the Bronze Award of 2016 International College Students Creative Design Competition; The work "Distance" won the silver Award of 2017 "Teda Cup" International Student Creative Design Competition; The experimental animation short film Piedirosso was nominated for the Best Animated Experimental Short Film of the 2020 Youth Film Season. His works "Pretend", "A Letter to My Mother", "Fire Safety Popularization", "White Lies" and "Epidemic Diary" won the second prize in the 7th Tianjin College Students Animation and Digital Creative Design Competition in 2020.

Graduate Development: Able to engage in 2D animation design, 3D animation design, video shooting and editing, film synthesis and special effects, game art, and other work in animation, comics, games, film and television-related fields, and media production and distribution units in the media field. With the advent of the new media era, the high-quality employment trend of animation graduates in our college is good. The existing graduates in CCTV media, NetEase, Sina, industry help, ape counseling, Bilibili, Today's headlines, good transmission painting, Beijing billion and digital film and television, and other well-known domestic enterprises in the professional field of employment, the number of graduate studies and study abroad accounted for the proportion of fresh graduates increased year by year.

Performance

Length of schooling: four years

Degree: Bachelor of Arts

The performance major was founded in 2007. Based on teaching basic theory, knowledge, and basic skills, the major pays attention to the cultivation of students' practical ability and actively organizes students to participate in performance practice and competitions. Students have won more than 100 awards in various competitions at home and abroad over the years. Up to now, it has trained hundreds of professionals at different levels in the national performance industry. It is the major of the college's "Excellent Talent Education and Training Plan".

Training objectives: This major aims to cultivate the all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, beauty, and labor, have good artistic aesthetic accomplishment and master the professional theoretical knowledge and performance skills of fashion performance, and can be engaged in professional modeling, fashion director and planning, brokerage affairs, modeling design, fashion brand management and operation in agencies such as brokerage companies, fashion performance training institutions, media, news, and publishing agencies. High-quality applied talents with innovative spirit and practical operation ability.

Teaching staff: There are 7 professional teachers, whose research directions are related to fashion performance, fashion management, fashion communication, etc. 5 of them have master's degrees.

Cooperation and exchange: The professional and Shanghai Firestone cultural agency, Style Fashion international model company, Shanghai Yingmodel Cultural Development Co., LTD., Longteng Elite Model Agency Co., LTD., Tianjin Philharmonic Art College, Tianjin Tuoxing film and television information Service Center and other brokerage companies in the industry to establish a good relationship of cooperation.

Student awards: In recent years, students won the champion of 2020 Longteng Elite China Professional Model Competition; 2019 Longteng Elite · Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Model Contest champion; Top 5 of 2019 Longteng Elite Rising Star Model Contest; Silver Award of the 5th China College Student Fashion Model Contest; Top 10 of the 25th China Model Star Contest; The third place of the 12th Beautiful Girl · China Film and Television Model Contest; Bronze Award of the 4th China College Student Clothing Model Contest; Top 10 of 2019 Longteng Elite Supermodel Competition; Top 5 of the 31st Miss Model World Contest; Top 10 of the sixth season SIUF International Supermodel Competition; Top 10 of 2019Elite World Elite Model Competition; Top 10 of the 26th China Model Star Competition, International Potential Award; Top 10 of the 2017 Style International Model Contest; Top 10 in 2018 China All-Star Model Championship; The Best Popularity Award of the 5th SIUF International Underwear Supermodel Competition; Champion of Hebei Division of the 17th China Professional Model Competition; Champion of Hebei division of the 14th China Super Model Competition.

Graduate development: Graduates can be engaged in runway models, print models, and film and television advertising models in relevant institutions. In radio, television, fashion media, film and television entertainment companies and other institutions engaged in director, host, editor, new media marketing, and packaging work, can also be engaged in model training and model agency companies engaged in training instructors, planning, director, broker, and other work.