Course General Description

The objective of the Visual Design Master‘s syllabus is aimed to preparing specialists corresponding to the international standards and Master‘s qualification of visual design, who would be able to perform artistic research individually, evaluate and interpret phenomena of the visual design and cultural processes in wide local and international contexts critically and analytically, able to use innovative solutions, develop their professional creative activity as individuals as well as in an interdisciplinary team; able to work professionally as designers and creative managers in agencies, publishing houses, editorial offices, internal company divisions of design and marketing, etc.; competitive in the internal as well as external markets and prepared for continuation of the Doctor of Arts degree studies or to work in the sphere of education of arts, to be able to fulfil diverse public and personal requirements of harmonious environment, and to form the harmonious environment.

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.