Faculty of Kansei Design

The Faculty of Kansei Design has the Department of Creative Design, and the students may choose the Visual Design Course, Living Design Course or Regional Design Course in accordance with their career options. Kansei is a Japanese term referring to the human senses, feelings, and sensitivity. Our students learn how to design not only with making full use of their own kansei, but also with taking into account that of those who will be using or viewing their design products. As kansei has a wide range of meaning, the students will study the human mentality or way of seeing things, as well as the design methodologies such as sketching, computer graphics, and color management.

Department of Creative Design

Outline of the Department

The Department of Creative Design is dedicated to the study and research of designing with a particular emphasis on practical cooperation with regional residents and corporations as well as local governments. The department offers three courses: Visual Design, Living Design and Regional Design. Each of these satisfies the students’ interest to acquire a broad knowledge and practical skills in designing.

The Visual Design Course provides the students with the visual and graphical design techniques. The students will obtain highly practical skills to handle design software such as Illustrator and Photoshop along with the latest design methodologies. This course also offers the subjects required to be a teacher of fine art at junior high schools or high schools in Japan.

At the Living Design Course, the students learn a variety of design skills related to creating a comfortable space for everyone and to making user-oriented products with special emphasis on universal design and computer aided design (CAD). This course enables the students not only to acquire the skills necessary to design from goods in daily use to merchandized products, but also to develop the deep understanding of human mechanism.

The Regional Design Corse allows the students the skills to conduct and coordinate design workshops, where the regional residents, corporations and local government cooperatively participate, in order to contribute to the realization of the sustainable regional social system and the solution of a wide range of regional problems. The graduates of the course are expected to play a key role in the local consensus building.

Do you want to learn practical and current design methodologies? If so, the Department of Creative Design is ideally suited to meet your needs. We hope that you will find our two courses of interest.

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