Image & Sound/ArtScience
The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Music and Dance (Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire) offers a masters programme for students who feel attracted to combining an interest in studying creative and performing arts with an interest in developing scientific skills. The programme is an extension and re-formulation of the Image and Sound curriculum, which has been on offer since 1989. It is organized in such a way that individual creative and performing qualities will be developed in combination with the exploration of the basic principles underlying the making of art. This means that besides
discovering individual forms of expression, students will take part in research projects and courses covering all aspects of the process of creation itself. More information about ArtScience / Image and Sound: page .
Post Graduate Industrial Design
The Post Graduate Course Industrial Design is a part-time education for students from an international field offering the right mix of skills, culture and industry. It exists since 1950 and is the oldest recognized education in the field of Design in the Netherlands. Teachers who are full-time professionals in their respective fields will teach Industrial Design. The course consists of six separate blocks of half a year each. The student will receive credits for each block, resulting in the diploma after six blocks. Classes will be on Thursdays and Fridays from 16:00 to 21:45 hrs. An additional ten to fifteen hours a week should be taken into account to work on assignments.
More information about the Post Graduate Course Industrial Design?
Mail to coordinator Jacob de Baan: info@jacobdebaan.com
For general information or to make an appointment with a coordinator, please contact the Student administration office at +31 (0) 70 315 47 70.
Type & Media
Type & Media is a full-time one year postgraduate course that gives participants the possibility of delving deeper in type design for different media: not only type for print, but also for film, television, video and the interactive media. The many facets of type design in relation to typography for the different media are covered in various assignments, both practical and theoretical.
As a student you work intensively in small groups of no more then twelve, under the guidance of expert teachers. Discussions with a number of leading graphic designers with different views provide you theoretical depth. Besides type design, typographic design and detail typography, there are activities focused on typography for screen and television, newspaper typography, lettering and instruction in specialized software programs and digitizing. Also various excursions and conferences, like the yearly conferences of AtypI Association Typographique Internationale and Typo Berlin, are organized, as well as different activities in the field of type, like the two-yearly Gerrit Noordzij Award.
In addition to the assignments specific to this course, you can follow the calligraphy and the lettering and type divisions of the regular course in Graphic Design.
Those subjects distinguish this regular course at the Royal Academy from other academies. Individual study space is provided for each student, as well as a fast computer with the latest software installed. You can also make use of all the facilities in the academy’s various studios and workshops. Because of the international character of the course, it is taught primarily in English. Regular professors are Jan Willem Stas, Erik van Blokland and Peter Verheul. Visiting professors are among others Frank Blokland, Petr van Blokland, Francoise Berserik, Peter Bilak, Robin Kinross, Paul van der Laan, Frans van Mourik, Christoph Noordzij, and Just van Rossum.
More information about Type & Media?
Please contact Jan Willem Stas: jw.stas@kabk.nl
Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts
The University of Leiden and the Academy Fine Arts, Music and Dance founded the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts. It enables students of both the Institute and the University to attend classes at the other school. These may range from just a few to many, and from optional courses, subsidiary subjects and minors to two full simultaneous studies. In other words, these involve school programmes that allow a combination of an arts education and academic studies via the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts. The Optional Subjects Guide of the University of Leiden - www.studiegids.leidenuniv.nl -
provides a full list of all optional subjects per faculty that are offered during one school year. Minors are developed in the fields of philosophy, management, mathematics and
information technology. On the other side, the KABK is developing minors for students from Leiden in the fields of visual arts, graphic art and graphic techniques, fashion development and design. The Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts offers the master programmes Media Technology and Photographic Studies.
For information:
www.kunstenwetenschappen.nl and
www.postgraduate.leidenuniv.nl
