Artist Designer Maker
Cardiff Metropolitan University
UCAS Code: AM20 | Foundation Degree - FD
Entry requirements
48 UCAS Points
Access to HE where you have achieved a Pass Diploma with 45 Passes
GCSE/National 4/National 5
Applicants should normally have three GCSEs at grade C or above/grade 4 or above to include English Language and Maths. For Welsh applicants we will accept either GCSE Mathematics or Mathematics-Numeracy. Five Scottish National 5 subjects at grade C or above to include English Language and Maths.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
The Artist Designer Makers Foundation Degree will teach you how to creatively develop your own style, reflecting the imaginative way you see and communicate with the ever-changing world.
The FD Artist Designer Maker is a course that has making at its heart. You will gain hands-on experience with materials from metals, glass and ceramics through to wood and textiles. Using traditional techniques along with the latest technology to create new and original ways of making.
You will develop your own unique style and consider where your work sits within creative practice. You will learn from professional practicing artists, designers and makers, sharing their passion and acquiring new skills.
Ceramics - Modelling, throwing, mould making, casting, firing and glazing
Metal - Small metalsmithing with copper, brass and silver, welding, soldering, and enamelling
Wood - Joinery, marquetry
Glass - Casting, fusing, slumping and painting
Textiles - Stitch, print and construction
Digital fabrication - 3D printing, laser cutting, 3D digital modelling, scanning, digital stitch, digital print textiles
You’ll learn to work independently and creatively in a variety of contexts, as we support your enthusiasm to design, manufacture, market and sell your own work.
We’ll support you in developing professional skills in every assignment, including creative problem solving, project management, working to a brief and completing work to a deadline.
Through continuous self-reflection, you will develop and identify personal strengths, helping you to recognise transferable skills and how they’ll be useful for future employment.
**Please note: Applicants are encouraged to apply direct to Coleg Gwent for this course. Provider Apply URL https://enrolment.coleggwent.ac.uk/ For course enquiries please contact Coleg Gwent 01495 333777 [email protected]**
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Cardiff School of Art and Design
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