Preparatory year Design

This preparatory year enables students to strengthen their skills in drawing and applied arts, providing a rich and global vision in each of these fields.

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Location

Montpellier, Toulouse
Duration

1 year, full-time, classroom-based
Hours of lessons/year

+750 hours of teaching
Evaluation

Continuous assessment, evaluation of projects and knowledge
Final assessment: end-of-year cross-disciplinary project
Oral presentation of the artistic portfolio of the year's work
Prerequisite

Bac (all subjects) or equivalent level 4 qualification

Preparatory Year Design

What if transforming the future was just a stroke of the pen?

Through a solid grounding in the basics and fundamentals, the preparatory year in Design is an opportunity to experiment with all aspects of applied art and to discover the diversity of the professions involved.

What does this preparatory year involve?

You have the passion
We teach technique.

Throughout the year, the key word is artistic practice: plastic expression, drawing, colour & form, visual arts, etc.

Everything is done to enable students to acquire a solid grounding in applied arts and drawing, through a complementary approach combining vocational and technical teaching.

By the end of this preparatory year, our students will have built up the perfect methodological, graphic, cultural and technical toolbox to enable them to become the professionals of tomorrow.

Objectives

Acquire the technical and creative foundations through drawing practice
Refine your critical eye and analytical skills
Assimilate a methodology for work, research and creation specific to design
Develop the skills needed to develop personal graphic and plastic worlds, (…) as part of a design project.

Our teachings

Graphic Design

Familiarise yourself with typography, page layout, pictograms, posters and the relationship between text and image.
Space Design

A practical approach to techniques for representing space, space design, and the design of volumes, structures, interior spaces and architecture.
Art history

Module based on the study of artists and artistic movements in history, in the field of plastic and applied arts.
Observational drawing and sketching

Acquire notions of proportion, value, composition and analysis through observation. Develop rapid perception of space and movement, and memorise shapes.
Technical drawing and perspectives

Develop techniques for spatial representation, the perception of volumes and perspectives, and notions of lighting.
Colours

Colour theory, colour and language, chromatic research, material research, light and shade, study of different materials, use of geometric shapes..
Plastic expression and experimentation

The plastic field, articulation between the different elements, interaction between content and form, plastic rhythms, etc
Written and oral expression and communication techniques

Learn to write and speak coherently so as to be able to defend your projects.
English

Acquire oral fluency on a variety of subjects relating to current affairs, culture, art and design.