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Communication design is one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines of design. It is aimed at developing convincing and trustworthy messages and creating effective means of interaction.
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Key aspects of our study program
The Communication Design specialization combines traditional imaging and design with the latest technologies and moving images. However, tools are supposed to inspire communication designers, who consciously and responsibly develop effective messages. You must understand the people with whom you communicate and you must know what you want to convey. What you do, as a communication designer, will influence someone’s choices, decisions and experience.
The Communication Design program will teach you how to work in a 2D and a virtual environment. You will draw, print, photograph, and film to later transform these images in many different ways. You will create multilayered multimedia stories and functionally complex systems, and you will design simple tools making life easier for users.
Our study program, which strongly relates to the surrounding environment, will allow you to understand the practical dimension of the communication design profession. While working on your projects, you will combine various forms of communication, including paper, digital elements, events, film, as well as activities in public space. You will learn how to use analogue and digital tools, and you will complete complex projects based on the knowledge concerning human behavior, society and culture.
„The Communication Design specialization focuses on sustainable and participatory design. Our students leave School of Form as socially responsible communication designers, sensitive to the needs of users and the environment in which we live.”
Filip Zagórski
Coordinator of Communication Design specialization
Choose your tool tract
During your 3rd year of study, you will select your tool tract. You can choose between:
Illustration
where you will perfect your skills and develop competencies related to the use of various illustration tools and techniques, both analogue and digital, such as drawing, illustration, screen printing, photography, film, and animation.
Visual Systems
where you will focus on the tools required for designing complex visual systems that combine elements of typography and illustration.
Communication Design – Key skills and knowledge
You will complete individual and team projects, including publication design, visual identification, spatial graphic design, and interaction. While working on these projects you will also develop a prototype, technical documentation and a description.
Furthermore, you will learn user experience (UX) and interface design, illustration, and how to prepare photographic and film documentation.
You will focus on your favorite tools and practice skills related to the equipment that will become part of your future career. You will acquire animation skills and will learn how to use the tools aimed at designing for Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR & VR).
You will participate in Master Classes, led by our collaborators, renowned professionally active designers, who work in Poland and abroad. During Master Classes you will have an opportunity to learn about new tools and design strategies, but most of all, you will meet acclaimed individuals, specializing in design and related disciplines, such as science, art, and business.
Moreover, you will participate in some inter-specialization projects conducted in collaboration with our business and community partners, and you will complete a module that will help you to successfully enter the job market.
Under the supervision of two thesis advisors, you will work on your communication design graduation project, that will include both, a design and a description component.
You will also complete over 800 hours of professional practicum, which will give you an excellent opportunity to use your practical skills in an actual professional environment. School of Form provides you with an opportunity to complete your practicum with one of our partnering businesses/organizations however, you may also secure the practicum with another organization of your choice.
Student Projects
3ME
ESPE
Holobox. Visualisation communication
Soma
Dollar pop-up store
Return home
How good to have a neighbour
Hands
Touch the light
What makes you blush?
Dissolving memory
Studios and Workshops
You will have an opportunity to work in our specialized studios and workshops equipped with state-of-the-art tools and machines. This way, you will be able to work on your own projects, including those extending beyond the curriculum, and consult your work with teachers. Some studios and workshops are accessible to students during school hours. Others are open at specific times and students may work there under the supervision of teaching assistants and specialists. This is what you will learn over the course of your studies:
You potential career path
- illustrator
- graphic designer
- animation designer
- photographer
- photo editor
- motion designer
- mobile app designer
- visual identification designer
- interface designer
- UX designer
Our Graduates
300 graduates have already completed studies at School of Form. Here are some of them:
Faculty
Our faculty comprises acclaimed expert-practitioners, renowned designers who combine technological expertise with humanistic sensibility and who share the wealth of their professional experience with students.
