Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Bachelor´s Degree Programme

Studio heads: doc. akad. mal. František Steker, prof. akad. mal. Karel Míšek, Ph.D.
Assistant: MgA. Jakub Konupka

The students of the Graphic Design and Visual Communication Studio develop and experimentally verify methods in the process of creation of communication instruments. The courses include typography, photography, digital graphic instruments, animation, drawing, painting, modelling, printing, audio-visual technologies and information networks. During their studies, the students create drafts of various visual objects (logos, books, student books, catalogues, packaging, posters). The curriculum puts great emphasis on comprehensive communication projects focused for example on visual corporate identity, orientation systems in buildings and public spaces, visual style of cultural and social events, media campaigns, spatial organisation of art exhibitions and museums etc.

The students can spend a semester at another art school abroad and take part in a range of international creative workshops. The studio has recently organized a creative design workshop with the Danish designer Rikke Hansen and a weeklong working session focused on posters and infographics with the Mexican graphic designer Eduardo Barrera.

The students’ designs and products have been presented at various competitions and specialized exhibitions across the Czech Republic as well as in other European countries, in the USA and Mexico. Kateřina Puncmannová won the first prize in the international Model Young Package 2017 competition for her design of a paintbrush and was also nominated for the Student Design National Award 2018. That was the same competition at which another student of our studio, Soňa Juríková, received the Excellent Student Design Award for her original reading book, winning also the Albatros Media Publishing House Award.

Master´s Degree Programme

Studio heads: prof. MgA. Kristina Fišerová, prof. akad. mal. Rostislav Vaněk

The Master‘s degree programme prepares students to become independent creative designers capable of responding to any graphical assignment, communicating in the designated space, and processing the task in detail. It emphasizes the ability to discuss, articulate and defend their work. In addition to non-specific, semester-long tasks, always based on conveying information and on communication, students work on a number of shorter assignments, often in cooperation with real promoters, or participate in workshops led by external guests. The study is based on the mutual discussion of the whole studio about common tasks, its subject is the whole range of graphic design, creative freedom, responsibility and reflection.