Course General Description

Product and Visual Communication Design requires flexible thinking and quick adaptation to the existing situation. The designer’s profession is bound with the need for continuous development, learning new technologies, adapting to new tasks. A broad spectrum of professional skills and a solid foundation of general, humanistic and technical knowledge allow our graduates to adapt to the changing conditions on the job market. In this specialization, the curriculum is designed to promote holistic thinking, combining objects design, visual communication and space, supported by knowledge of the market, technologies, social sciences and arts and culture. Students learn techniques of visualization, both analog and digital, experience an intensive course of technology and design, but also attend painting, drawing and sculpture classes. Developing a purely artistic slant is exceptional in most design schools internationally.

School General Description

Traditions of art education in Warsaw date back to the reign of king Stanisław August Poniatowski and the Painting Studio at the Royal Castle, run by Marcello Bacciarelli. He became an honorary dean of the Department of Fine Arts created at Warsaw University in 1816 – the first academic art school in the Polish capital. Following the closing down of the University, the Department was replaced by a School of Fine Arts in 1844. And towards the end of the 19th century, Warsaw art education was continued by Wojciech Gerson’s Drawing Studio, which educated the most distinguished Polish artists of the turn of the centuries. Today the Academy of Fine Arts consists of 9 faculties: Painting, Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Media Art, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, Design, Interior design, Stage Design and Management of Visual Culture. It is the largest academic art school in Poland. Besides its educational functions it plays an important part in the cultural life of the city and the nation. Its international standing has been consistently improving as a direct result of the developing co-operation with academic centres abroad.