Makers are designers, artists, and craftspeople who findinnovative ways of working across a broad range ofmaterials. They combine traditional skills,with newtechnologies. The result may be a functional product, adecorative artefact, an installation or an expressiveobject. The common thread is the Maker’s ability toresearch, experiment and create.

The Artist Designer: Maker programme at CSAD producesprofessional makers who can innovate for an ever-changing world. The course will introduce you to a broadspectrum of materials including metal, ceramics, glass,textiles, wood, plastics, paper and resins. You will workacross a range of processes and applications, gaininghands-on experience in new technologies such as basicprogramming, 3D printing, laser cutting, scanning, Arduinoand Augmented Reality.

With our MIT endorsed Fab Lab, you will develop digitalskills of industry standard, with the opportunity to work inareas such as 3D modelling, animatronics and interactiondesign.

Our motivation is in seeing you develop into a confidentmaker with a distinct voice, a competitive portfolio andthe knowledge required for the modern economy. Yourexperience will benefit from opportunities to collaboratewith students from across the School’s disciplines,developing your communication and teamwork skills asyou come to appreciate the unique skills and perspectiveyou have to offer.

You will add to your professional portfolio through workplacements, exhibition opportunities and live designprojects with institutions such as the Design Museum. Inyour second year, you have the chance to travel abroadthrough an ERASMUS programme, broadening yourunderstanding of making in other cultures. Then, in yourfinal year, you decide between producing a thesis ordetailed business plan, based on whichever you feel willbest support your individual aspirations for life after CSAD.

Each year, a number of graduates will stay with the Schoolas part of our Masters programmes, or pursue careers ineducation either as educators themselves or as academicresearchers. Others will progress into any number of roleswithin the art and design worlds, with current alumniincluding sculptors, model makers and practitioners.

Further information: Admissions Tutor: Ingrid Murphyimurphy@cardiffmet.ac.uk

ARTIST DESIGNER: MAKER

Entry requirements: Minimum Tariff: 300

YOUR PLACE AT CSAD

Meeting applicants is important to us.

We like to show you around, answer your questions andtalk to you about your work and aspirations.

No doubt you would like to look at our facilities and theLlandaff campus and find out more aboutaccommodation, transport in the city and finances.

This year we will be holding seven ‘Big Interview Events’in our new building. The aims are to welcome candidatesapplying for places, give you the information you need,and conduct interviews. We will have a lot to show youand will be able to answer all your questions aboutstudying with us and living in Cardiff. The dates of our

‘Big Interview Events’ are as follows, but we will beconducting interviews throughout the year for peoplewho miss these or who are unable to attend on thesedates.

The Interview Days for 2015 entry are:

10 DECEMBER 201428 & 30 JANUARY 20154 & 6 FEBRUARY 201511 & 13 FEBRUARY 2015

ARTIST DESIGNER: MAKER BA (HONS) UCAS Code: W291

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

WHY CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN?

CARDIFF SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN

TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE• Master of Fine Art (MFA)• Master of Design (MDes)• Master of Design (MDes) SADI

• MA (Cardiff School of Art & Design) Specialist Pathways only• Art & Science• Philosophy• Ecologies• Death and Visual Culture

• Postgraduate Certificate in Research Skills:Art & Design

• MA Ceramics• MSc Advanced Product Design

UNDERGRADUATE• HNC Building Technology and

Management (Ystrad Mynach)

• HND Architectural Design & Technology

• BSc (Hons) Architectural Design &Technology

• BA (Hons) Artist Designer: Maker• BA (Hons) Fine Art• BA (Hons) Ceramics• BA (Hons) Textiles• BA (Hons) Graphic Communication• BA (Hons) Illustration• BA (Hons) Product Design• BSc (Hons) Product Design• BA (Hons) Photographic Practice

(Bridgend)

RESEARCH DEGREES• MPhil• PhD• Professional Doctorate in Art• Professional Doctorate in Design

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FOUNDATION• Cardiff Diploma in Foundation Studies

(Art & Design) (Bridgend) - allied programme only

• Foundation Degree in Applied Art & Design(Bridgend)

• Foundation Degree in Ceramics (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in ContemporaryTextiles Practice (Cardiff and The Vale College)

• Foundation Degree in GraphicCommunication (Cardiff and The Vale College)

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BUILD A LONG AND REWARDING ART AND DESIGN CAREER

You will study three modules each year and, at the end ofeach year, you’ll have just one single formal assessment.You will be developing your work and improving itthroughout the year, following the example ofprofessional artists and designers; this is how they work,so it’s how we work too. You learn by thinking, enquiringand practice.

We work closely with design companies, arts and makerorganizations, as well as the professional art and designcommunity. There are tangible opportunities for you togain work experience, bring your skills to a communityproject, and make professional contacts of the sort thathave proven invaluable to countless graduates beforeyou.

In your final year, you can elect to produce a detailedbusiness plan instead of a research dissertation. Indeedyou can navigate your three years with either a businessor an academic focus. It’s up to you. We even have anincubation facility to support our best graduates in theestablishment of their companies.

All of our Undergraduate programmes can be extendedto study up to Masters level as an MDes or MFA(Professional Masters), MA (Academic and CreativeMasters) or MPhil (Research Masters). All studentsachieving a 2:1 or above are guaranteed a place on one ofour Masters programmes.

BECAUSE CARDIFF IS AMAZING

Cardiff has such great provision for the arts,entertainment and sport. The mountains and sea arewithin such easy reach. What’s not to like?

commitment, you will be encouraged throughout toestablish a greater sense of what makes your creativeidentity both valuable and unique.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO STUDY WITH LEADING ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

You need to be among people who will share in yourpassion and help you reach your potential. Our entranceexpectations (300 UCAS points) and rigorous, but friendly,interview process create an expert community ofstudents who are serious about their studies in art anddesign.

You will be joining other imaginative, curious and astutestudents artists, makers and designers in our studios.

People who are at the top of their game will teach you.CSAD staff, academic and technical, as well as some ofour administrative staff, are practitioners in their own right.Our academic staff are engaged in front-line research andin business projects which ensure that we teach from areal position.

BECAUSE YOU WANT EXCELLENT ART AND DESIGN STUDIOSAND TECHNOLOGIES

Professional artists and designers need excellent studiosand workshops – and that’s what we provide. Our newfacility on the Llandaff Campus is an ideas and creativefactory, with extensive workshops and resources. Almosteverything and anything we have available is for ourstudents to use, from digital stitch and plaster mouldingto our metal foundry and our rapid prototypingworkshops.

We are also home to the only MIT accredited FabLab in aUK university.

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN YOUR PASSION FOR ART & DESIGN

Your studies are built around three fundamental aspectsof what it is to be an artist, maker, or designer: uniqueskills; creative ideas; and an ability to contextualise thesein a professional situation.

These essential qualities – which are dependent uponone another – will form the basis for each of your briefsand assignments, throughout your three years at CSAD.They will be the markers of your progress towards being awell-rounded graduate; an individual who possess notonly the talent, but also the confidence, experience, andinsight, to thrive as a creative professional in today’sworld. Your core skills will be a consistent focus, as youexplore both new and established mediums and identifythose practices that you’d like to pursue further.

In terms of your ideas, your tutors will be encouragingyou to constantly reflect, question, and asses; to explorehow and why the world came to be as it is and how itmight be re-thought or re-imagined.

Contextualizing your skills and ideas is about gainingpractical and professional experience. You will have achoice of projects to undertake, where you willcollaborate with students from across the school’s otherdisciplines.

You will also have the chance to take up placements withan employer or voluntary organization. You may elect tojoin a research group or exhibit your work. You also havethe chance to travel and study in Europe, India, Korea,Australia, Morocco or America. You can even begin tobuild your own business or creative professional practice.

With at least half of your studies delivered throughteaching and the other half through your own