Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Arts University Bournemouth

We visited Arts University Bournemouth on Saturday 16th to look at the fashion and graphics courses, we attended the subject talks and looked around the campus. It would have been nice to visit the accommodation but on this particular day we decided not too as I was feeling quite unwell. Notes I made throughout the day have been written below.

Campus and accomodation:
  • Nice campus
  • Mostly shared housing for accommodation
  • New accommodation being built
  • By the beach
  • Close to BU
  • Easy bus travel
  • All creative courses on campus
  • Large refrectory with good food
  • Large open well stocked library

Graphics:
  • High level ofnwork
  • Mostly digital based
  • 1 day a week digital training
  • Lots ofmawards won (D&AD)
  • Screen print and manual work not encouraged, but can be done
  • Focused more on the prospect and idea than making
  • 1:4 ratio of people accepted to applied
  • 100% employment over the last 2 years
Fashion:
  • Different routes- web design, fashion film
  • 2 week work placement - year 1 summer term
  • Specialism chosen year 2 spring term
  • 5000 word research project
  • Showmat graduate fashion week
  • 80 first years, of 300/400 applicant, split into 4 groups
  • Childrenswear
  • Collaborations
  • Lookbooks
  • Internship also in 2nd year, 3 months e.g live project
  • Live projects/internships with companies such as Next, Jimmy Choo, McQueen
  • Employed graduates have jobs at: Abercrombie and Fitch, Harrods, Erdem, Hollister
  • 3-4 days a week in college
  • Possibility to do erasmus
  • Everyone who qualifies gets interviewed
  • Quick response after interview
What they look for in interview:
  • Range of work
  • Individual work- different to standard foundation work
  • Something made
  • Sketchbook
  • Want to know about you
  • 280 ucas points or foundation  

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