PTBOCanada Featured Post: Fast Forward Your Creativity With Fleming College's Integrated Design and Visual and Creative Arts Programs

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At Fleming College, you can explore your creative career opportunities in accelerated and integrated programs.

Complete one of their two-year diploma programs in either Integrated Design or Visual and Creative Arts in just three semesters. Develop your portfolio and go on to advanced studies or launch a studio practice.

In the Integrated Design diploma program, you will earn both a two-year Ontario College Diploma (two semesters) and a one-year Ontario College Certificate (one semester) in two years in a three-semester program while discovering what kind of designer you are meant to be. Fashion designer, interior designer, graphic designer, product designer, creative careers, the possibilities are endless. This accelerated program is equivalent to two years of study at other Ontario colleges.

Integrated Design is the only foundational design program of its kind in Canada where students can discover and begin to understand the complexities and challenges of our new Digital Age and find integration and new forms of expression in their work through the machine-made, the handmade and the otherworldly.

This is an innovative and intensive program where you will be introduced to the breadth of design and design thinking through a series of inspirational lectures, collaborative and individual exercises, problem-solving assignments, and hands-on material research.

The program is structured around five design principles that form the foundation for a career in any design discipline:

  • Dream (big… and then dream a little bigger)

  • Communicate (effectively… efficiently and with conviction)

  • Collaborate (with the best… but don’t forget the rest)

  • Experiment (with life… but take responsibility for your actions)

  • Apply (yourself now… make it happen)

Foundational learning acquired in semester one builds to semester two. Semester two is where you will use the extensive studio time to experiment with different kinds of materials and methodologies to find new ways of working while developing your design processes, methodologies and a culminating design thesis project.

In the final semester, you'll have time to fully explore and focus on a specific discipline. Choose one of our accelerated 15-week Ontario College certificates (equivalent to two semesters of study at other colleges) to complete your diploma:

Throughout the program you will be exposed to a broad range of material practices and design categories including material culture/sustainability; communication/graphic; fashion/ textile; exhibition/environmental graphic; interiors/architecture/landscape architecture and mixed media/public art.

While further education will be needed to advance in a chosen design discipline, graduates will have developed hands-on material experience, their own design voice and a unique skill set that they can parlay into a small, independent art, design or craft practice/business.

Some graduates have turned their design thesis projects into viable design businesses after leaving the program. In this ‘gig’ economy, it is important that students learn entrepreneurial skills, in addition to digital and hands-on skills. Design entrepreneurship is an integral component of the program which prepares graduates to launch successful independent careers.

In Visual and Creative Arts program, you will develop a powerful focus throughout the process of looking, thinking, making and talking about visual artworks.

These skills are essential in art making, regardless of your choice of visual media and medium. Experiences in and outside the classroom will expand your perspective on both current art practices, and your pathway into that world. This perspective allows you to make the best choices in your pursuit of future careers in your own studio practice, in the fine art or cultural sector, or in a commercial art enterprise.

You will develop your portfolio and artist’s documents in the Visual and Creative Arts Diploma (VCAD) program, which will provide you with a gateway to more advanced studies through our articulation agreements with major Canadian art education institutions.

Start with the first two semesters of required foundation courses, and then select one of our accelerated studio art certificates to complete your two-year Ontario College Diploma. You can complete your VCAD experience in just three semesters of time.

You will have 12 foundation courses plus your choice of one studio certificate of nine choices to select from:

Foundation Courses

  • 3D Design

  • Art History - The Recent Century

  • Contemporary Art Investigations

  • Drawing Disciplines

  • Visual Documentation

  • Business for Artists

  • Concept Development

  • Design I and ll

  • Media Explorations I and II

  • Portfolio and Presentation

  • 2 General Education Electives

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