设计系

设计系成立于1995年，培养目标是面向二十一纪的，具有创造思维与实践能力的设计人才。
设计系下设四个专业方向：建筑与环境艺术专业，视觉传达专业，产品设计专业和摄影专业。开设了模型工作室，材料工作室，建造工作室，摄影工作室，纸桨工作室，电脑工作室和图书资料室。根据教学思想和学科发展的需要，设立了十一个导师工作室。
设计系师资以知识结构新、学术思想活跃、大多留学海外的青年教师为主，同时聘有多名外籍学者为客座教授。
通过几年的努力探索，设计系在教学上基本形成了自己的特色。
设计系基础课和强调设置及训练方法，在很大程度上区别于国内其他院校，通过丰富的训练课题，启发和引导学生创造性地理解艺术与设计的关系，掌握具象与抽象造型语言的表现规律，养成提出问题的习惯和学会思考的方法。主要课程：自然形态基础，抽象形态基础，构成基础，材料实验基础，综合练习。
建筑与环境艺术设计专业，它的教学内容以建筑设计为主，向外延伸至小区规划和公共环境设计，向内延伸至室内及产品设计。教学特色相对于公学院的建筑专业来说，压缩了建筑学科中的工程、力学、物理方面的课时，加强了环境、建筑、室内设计能力训练；对于艺术学院的环艺专业而言，加强了环境与建筑、室内整体综合设计的能力。学制为五年。主要课程：空间训练，建筑设计，外部环境设计，室内设计，中外建筑史。
随着设计系的不断发展以及现代设计人才的需要，中央美术学院决定成立设计学院。设计学院将在原有设计系基础上建立新的教学结构，开设新的课程和专业方向，扩大招生规模，以全新的理念定位和运做方式始终保持中央美术学院的教学特色和可持续发展的态势。

The Design Department

The Design Department was set up in 1995, and it aims at training design students to acquire creative thinking and practice ability facing the 2 lst century` There are four majors in the Design Department Architectural and Environmental Art, Visual Communication, Products Design and Photography. The department has set up the Model Studio, Materials Studio, Construction Studio,Photography Studio, Pulp Studio, Computer Studio and material room. sased on the need of teaching orientation and development of the specialty, eleven tutor Studios have been setup.
The faculty of the Design Department are mostly middle-aged and young teachers with new knowledqe, active academic ideas and experiences of studying abroad. in supplement, the department also engages a number of overseas schoiars as visiting professors. Prof Zhang saowei was the head of the department, and the current head is Prof. Tan Ping.
Through endeavors and exploration in a few years, the Design Department has formed its new characters in teaching.
The basic courses of the Design Department emphasize the curriculum and training method, which are different from other universities and colleges of China to a iarge extent. Through iarge amounts of training subjects, the students are enlightened and guided to creativeiy understand the relation between art and design, to acquire the master laws of the realistic and abstract ianguages, to form a habit of raising questions and study the thinking methods. The core subjects are basics of natural form, basics of abstract form, basics of formation, basics of material experiment, composition practice.
The teaching content of the Architecturai and Environmental Art majors relies on composition design, but extending outward to living quarter pianning and public environmentai design, and extending to interior andproducts design. It differs from the architectural major at an engineering institute,in which the courses of engineering, mechanics and physics are suppressed while the training of environment, architecture and interior desiqn are strengthened, and for the major of environmentai art in an art academy, the ability of process designing that integrates the environment and architec-ture and interior design are strengthened. The length of schooling of the department is 5 years. The core courses are space training, architecturai design, exterior environmental design, interior design and history of design of China and foreign countries.
The visual communication major focuses on guiding the students to pay attention to the study of practice of modern design concepts, master methods for printing output, and stresses the integration of design with cuiture, technology and art. The iength of schooling is 4 years. The core courses are book design, poster design, exhibition space design, package design, VI design and advertisement design .
The Products Design major focuses on the research of the relation between products and spirituai life forms of expression, and studies the originailty, foresightedness of the products and market and marketing as a whoie. The students are trained to possess the ability of creative thinking andpartici-pating in the whole design process. The leng[h of schooling is 4 years. The core courses are furniture design, exhibition space design, products series design, marketing survey and products promotion.
The Photography major focuses on the establishment of several teachinq delivery moods that integrates high-tech and artistic creativities. Based on traditional photography and integrating the comprehensive application of digital media, creative talents with piuralistic abilities will be trained. The length of schooling is 4 years. The core courses are photography theory, digital imaging, com-merciai photography and art photography.
With the deveiopment of the Design Department and an increasing demand for modern design taients, CAFA has decided to set up a school of design. On the basis of the existing Design Department, the school will establish new teaching mechanism, set up new courses and majors, expand enrollment, and to maintain the teaching charac-teristics and the trend of sustainable deveiopment of CAFA with new ideas and new operational mood.