Olivier de Serres

Courses

 

 

Foundation Course

120 students
4 groups of 30 students

Aims

  • Gaining knowledge and skills in art and design.
  • Gaining access to undergraduate courses in art and design.

Course content

  • Cultural training (French, Sciences, foreign languages…).
  • Artistic training (art history, art in practice, 2D and 3D composition…).

 

Undergraduate Courses in Design

390 students
From 30 to 45 students in each section and in each year.

Aims and outcomes

BTS courses are aimed at developing the students' creative potential and skills and at gaining access to postgraduate courses and careers as assistant designers.

Course content

Cultural and Scientific Training

Students are asked to improve their analytical and communicative skills and to develop their awareness of the issues at stake.

Artistic, Technical and professional training

Students are encouraged to develop their imagination, aesthetic sensibility and critical judgement and to become proficient in doing art so as to be able to express and translate their ideas two-dimensionally.

Studio teaching allows students to learn how to analyse the starting points of a project and to become aware of a brief's constraints in order to see the creative process through to completion.

Research and experimentation lead to modelmaking and prototyping. Traditional and new techniques are combined.

On completion of the first year, students have to do a four- to six-week placement.

Ceramics

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong skills in ceramics.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in architecture and decoration.

Course content

Theoretical teaching is combined with experimenting with materials.
The course focuses on developing analytical skills encouraging creativity and aesthetic sensibility, gaining proficient artistic skills, improving one's knowledge of conventional modes of representation and acquiring a strong knowledge of materials and processes.

Event and point of purchase communication

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and strong skills in 3D communication.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers as assistant designers.

Course content

Studio teaching enables students to develop their analytical, creative and communicative methods and to gain the graphic, artistic and technical skills they need to apply these methods three-dimensionally.
It is complemented with cultural and technological training.

Industrial design

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and strong skills as product designers.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers as assistant designers in design agencies or industries.

Course content

The course is composed of a set of complementary modules. It is aimed at developing the students' capacity for synthesis through the study of artistic, scientific, economic and literary subjects.
It relies on sound cultural knowledge to be supplemented with technical, managerial and marketing skills and the practice of 2D and 3D composition.

Spatial design

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and strong skills in spatial design.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers as assistant designers in architecture, urban design, furniture and lightning design, exhibition, museum, theatre design…

Course content

The course focuses on the creation of all aspects of the human habitat.
It enables students to consider interventions in the natural and built landscape within a broad context of concerns.

Visual communication

Two pathways :
• graphic design
• multimedia design

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and strong skills as graphic designers.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and careers as assistant designers in advertising, corporate indentity and branding, packaging design, graphic design for publishing…

Course content

The creative process is studied in relation with the technical and financial requirements
Research in visual communication is carried out jointly with the marketing, technology, photography and audivisual teachers.

Textile design

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and strong skills in textile design.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in all areas of fashion and textiles.

Course content

Studio teaching encourages creativity and innovativeness. It gives priority to tactile and visual approaches and experimentation.
Students are provided with an extended cultural, artistic and and professional knowledge.

 

Undergraduate Courses in Art and Craft Design

90 students
Core curriculum : 20 to 25 students in each section and in each year.
Studios : 5 to 12 students in each section and in each year.

Aims and outcomes

The courses are aimed at training designers-makers in art and craft design who will have the ability to work indenpendently or collaboratively.

Course content

Training relies on an equal balance between technological, economic and sociological knowledge, expressive skills and  creativity. Projects, activities and research are based on interdisciplinary practices. Final graduation is evaluated by a panel equally composed of professionals and teachers.
On completion of the first year, students have to do a four- to six-week placement.

Fresco / Mosaic

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong skills in fresco and mosaic.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in the fields of architecture and its environment, interior design, furniture design...

Course content

Even though they are very different, mosaic and fresco share the common feature of being aimed at surface decoration, whether this surface be architectural or part of furniture.
The basic wall work is carried out jointly to develop technological skills and the sense of craft integration in architecture, i.e. the choice of technique and material according to specific requirements.

Lacquerware

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong skills in lacquerware.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in the fields of architecture and its environment, interior design, furniture design, object and accessory design.

Course content

Students are taught three lacquer techniques (vegetal lacquer, “"vernis gras", contemporary synthetic lacquers) and their two or three dimensional applications.
They also study ancient and contemporary Asian and European art history.

Synthetic materials

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong technical and cultural skills.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in the fields of architecture, interior design, event design jewellery, sculpture and industrial prototyping...

Course content

Students can either use plaster or flexible or rigid foams to create sculptures or volumes. Materials such as elastomeres, latex, resins, thermoformables are used to reproduce forms and elements.
Artistic training is prominent so as to encourage research and experimentation in the creative process.

Metal

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong technical and cultural skills.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in the fields of architecture and its environment, interior design, jewellery, sculpture and industrial prototyping...

Course content

Students acquire the perfect command of the creative process through the development of the necessary skills and practise and learn the metalwork creative techniques.
Studio teaching includes research work, prototyping, object design and sculpture.

Stained glass

Aims

Developing the students' creative potential and establishing strong technical and cultural skills.
Gaining access to postgraduate courses and to careers in the fields of architecture, interior design using stained glass or "dalle de verre" techniques.

Course content

Under the tuition of composition, architecture and studio teachers, students must complete projects from the making of models through to the creation of glass or translucent objects.
Cultural and artistic training include drawing, colour, composition, glass and material technology, management and marketing.

 

Postgraduate course in Design

3 pathways :
• Interior and environmental design
• Product design
• Visual communication

110 students
From 15 to 20 students in each pathway and in each year.

Aims and outcomes

This postgraduate course is aimed at training highly competent professionals in :

Graduates will work as project managers for companies or in creative departments in the fields of :

Interior and environmental design pathway

household equipment and material, building elements and the living habitat.

Product design pathway

household objects and furniture, machine tools and instruments and vehicles and equipment.

Visual and audiovisual communication pathway

expression and representation systems, event communication, audiovisual, communication, animation and multimetia.
   

This postgraduate course is aimed at training highly competent professionals who will work as project managers for companies or in creative departments.

They will have to :

  • take part in the analysis stage of a project, helping to define the users' needs and aspirations,
  • lead and manage the conception of a project with various partners,
  • define and promote the artistic qualities of the project,
  • supervise the technical making of the project,
  • collaborate with the executives before and after the design and making of the project.

 

Course content

  • Cultural training (human sciences, foreign languages, economics and management).
  • Artistic training (experimentation, art history).
  • Professional training (studio, applied technology, computer graphics communication techniques).

The course is aimed at developing critical methods that will ensure that projects are rooted in the current social, cultural and economic context.

There are three pathways that are complementary and in some ways similar and yet each with specific characteristics. The identity of the course relies for a large part on their co-existence. Some modules are common to all three pathways, some are specific to each one.

Students improve their knowledge and skills and extend their fields of research to any subjects that might be necessary to carry their projects through. This enables them to progress constantly, taking into account the new data they come across as well as the ever changing ideas, aspirations and technologies.

Studio teaching can include working on industry commissioned programmes.

 

First year

DS1

Cultural Training

Human Sciences

74 h

Foreign Languages

74 h

Economics & Management

74 h

Artistic Training

Artistic experimentation

148 h

Art history

74 h

Professional training

Studio

481 h

Applied technology

74 h

Computer graphics

111 h

Communication techniques

74 h

Total

1 184 h

 

The first year of the course is aimed at developing the students' research, analysis, and development methods.

Human sciences, artistic expirementation, techonological and technical approaches are taught to direct the students' progress.

Team work on common projects ensures collaboration between the three pathways.

On completion of the first year, students have to do a four-week placement.

 

Second year

DS2

Cultural Training

Human Sciences

66 h

Foreign Languages

66 h

Economics & Management

-

Artistic Training

Artistic experimentation

66 h

Art history

66 h

Professional training

Studio

627 h

Applied technology

66 h

Computer graphics

33 h

Communication techniques

66 h

Total

1 056 h


The second year is project-oriented with the students' research as a starting point.

The second year of the course is aimed at making students ready to work as project managers.It is project-oriented with the students' research as a starting point.Throughout the year, students must show autonomy in the way they handle their project. They have to synthesize their ideas, to formulate hypotheses and to take into account the sociological, psychological and political issues at stake in their projects. They have to make justified choices and to combine technical and artistic approaches while aiming at overall coherence.

The studio module consists in a dissertation and a project.

The dissertation should highlight the project's different stages : research, choices, development and completion. It is defended in front of a jury equally composed of professionals and teachers.