Foundation Diploma in Art Design & Medi | TYDA | Art Design | Media

What’s your goal?

Age 16 years or older with a passion for Art, Design or Media?
Are you looking to build on your ideas and develop your own style in a chosen field?
Do you want to learn and develop a creative project?
Are you planning to study in one of the Top-Ranked universities in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia or Ireland?
If you are not native English speaker but you have IELTS 5.0 or equivalent or higher English Language proficiency?

Level 3
Foundation Diploma in Art Design and Media

If you have answered these questions with yes, this Level 3 Foundation Diploma is the ideal course for you.

Course Overview

The SEG ABC Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art, Design and Media is designed to provide its students with the skills, knowledge and understanding to make informed decisions, facilitating progression to Higher Education in the areas of Art, Design and Media, or into related employment. This Foundation Diploma programme builds prior experience, linking skills already acquired, with ideas and challenges which extend your critical independence and provide students with a full understanding of the career opportunities in art, design and media.

16 years or over, 1 ‘A’ level preferably in a creative subject, GCSE / IGCSE Art or photography or good portfolio or equivalent.
Mature students require no exam qualifications, some ability to draw and paint and a desire to succeed are required. Send an example of your work if unsure of level.
International students, equivalent overseas qualifications will be considered along with an IELTS score of 5.0 (with a minimum of 4.5 in each skill), or equivalent.

Course Structure

The course comprises three distinct stages; Exploratory stage, Pathway stage and finally Confirmatory stage.

Exploratory Stage

In the exploratory/first stage students will explore and experiment with and gain an understanding of the principals of and have practical experience of Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, 3D Design, Fashion/Textiles and Lens Based Media.

Pathway Stage

In the pathway/second stage students will reflect on previous experience consider their strengths, area of interest and ambition to then specialise in one of the pathways areas.

Confirmatory Stage

The third and final stage ask students to confirm their learning by undertaking a final major portfolio, a self-set project (portfolio) using the learning and experiences from previous exploratory and pathway stages.

Pathways & University Progression

The Fine Art pathway explores what it is to be a contemporary fine art practioner today. You will identify both contextual and historical elements of the subject and gain practical experience, theoretical knowledge and understanding. Once some of the fundamental aspects have been established and you have started to develop a visual vocabulary the assignments will allow you to adopt an experimental approach and work with both traditional and new media. During the pathway you will put together a portfolio of work to support an application to a degree course in Fine Art.

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Fine Art, Illustration,Fine Art with Sculpture, Painting and Drawing.

The design process is common to the fashion/textiles pathway and unites a wide range of fashion and textile specialisms. You will be to gain an understanding through practical experience and supporting theory of how this works in the world of fashion and textiles. You will be able to identify your strengths and areas of interest that will enable you to select the right area for you to work in and then put together a portfolio of work for application to study Fashion or Textiles at degree level

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Menswear, Womenswear, Sportswear, Fashion Atelier, Millinery, Shoe Design, Make for Fashion, Fashion Marketing, Fashion Business, Textile Design.

3D design is a broad area of practice, a number of areas come under this banner including, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design, Furniture Design, Product/Industrial Design, Silversmithing and Jewellery Design, Theatre Design. Although these areas seem diverse they have the design cycle/process in common. The work of this pathway focusses on the design cycle, teaching you the fundamentals of this while putting it into operation with a range of generic assignments enabling you to gain an understanding of and experience of the constituent areas as listed above. From this you will be able to put together a portfolio for you chosen subject and make an application to a degree course in a 3D subject of your choice.

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Spatial Design, Product Design, Automotive Design, Silversmith and Jewellery Design, Model Making, Theatre Design, Visual Effects Design, Applied Arts, Design Crafts.

The Visual Communication pathway focuses on approaches to Graphic Design and Illustration. This pathway will equip you with the fundamental practices of contemporary two-dimensional design and will focus on a range of areas including typography, packaging design, narrative illustration. You will explore the use of and gain practical experience using of a wide range of digital design platforms including the adobe creative suite. This will be supported by appropriate theoretical underpinning.
During the pathway you will put together a portfolio of work to support an application to an appropriate degree course.

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Communication, Illustration.

The creative media pathway focusses on many of the new digital technologies that are evident in the creative media industry today. You will be introduced to the fundamental aspects of this practice and you will experience many of theoretical and practical aspects that will give you the knowledge and understanding you will need to in the first instance progress in education and then into a career in the creative sector.
You will put together a portfolio that will enable you to make an application to a degree course in an area of creative media.

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Film Production, Media and Communication, Digital Media Design, Television and Media Production, Animation, Creative Media Technologies

The photo-media pathway will focus on contemporary digital photographic practice and how this impacts on and where it is placed in the world today. You will gain both practical knowledge and theoretical understanding through broad assignments and online workshops This will enable you to identify and establish your photographic practice and put a portfolio together to make an informed application to a photography degree course.

BA (Hons) Degree Progression Options:
Photography, Commercial Photography, Fashion Photography, Lens-Based Media.