International Student's Workshop ～Sozosha College of Design～

the different value from the arts. The aim of us is to pursue this value and to design with feeling sympathy concerning mainly human and life in coming age. The level of design is be decided by total balance of the capacity such as ambition, sense, originality, knowledge, technique of designers'. Sozosha puts the weight 4 elements in the curriculum which are "field work", "solution", "presentation" and "assessment". Those are individually connected with the process of creating and total of those is the design phase. Students obtain the various of abilities such as "knowledge and recognition", "research and analysis", "plan and concept", "ability for using materials", "composition and expression", "proposal and persuasion". Students repeat those 4 processes (field work, solution, presentation and assessment) and are in progress of the total skill for designing.

【Courses】
Graphic Arts
Graphic design refers to the design of advertising and publishing. Students will not only learn the techniques of graphic design in this digital era, but also acquire the skills for professional graphic design with superior business sense. Illustration
The illustrators whom Sozosha seeks for are different from those who pursue the arts like painters. The goal is to develope their originality and put it into the field of advertisement and products, not to keep in the world of the work. This course aims at training for illustrators who has planning ability and imagination which can apply in the business field. Web
This major trains the designers who can active soon in Web and CG in the center of digital contents. Students will master the knowledge and skills generally. They are necessary for students to need for website’s production from basic programming to up-to-date CG skills. Display
Students will learn display as a visual communication media which can be three-dimensional or spatial advertisement. Through this course, as a creator who design the space, students will acquire the ability to appeal and convey the intended messages through the display. Interior
Designing which students can learn at Sozosha plays a role as a so-called interface, the connection between people and buildings. We bring up a talent who can 'produce place', can make proposals such as what kind of life-style would suit in those housing or what kind of business expansion would be in that commercial space. Products
Designing which students can learn at Sozosha plays a role as a so-called interface, the connection between people and buildings. We bring up a talent who can 'produce place', can make proposals such as what kind of life-style would suit in those housing or what kind of business expansion would be in that commercial space.

【Location】
Sozosha College of Design is in Osaka, the second largest city in Japan. It is a traditional city famous for commerce, so there are many chances to study practical design. We can see many advertisements, show windows, new style buildings and so on. The important thing for us living in the city is not only create the new but to think about the environment and tradition; so designers will have to create their works with these things in mind.