Department of Design, Graduate School of Design Content and Creative
Design Course

The Visual Communication Design Center is an experimental laboratory for everything related to video and photography. A photo studio and a video studio with lighting equipment are located on the second floor. Through assignments and their own creative pursuits, students acquire a wide range of knowledge and techniques in the field of video media and photography and learn the aesthetics and creativity required of media design professionals.

This photo studio also performs a variety of other functions, which include the screening of independent student video works, a space for projection mapping installations, and an experimental space for interactive works. On the first floor, there is a film development laboratory for students to learn modern-day mainstream digital technology and study the mechanisms of film photography. The lab is intended to enhance students’ sense of visual image design by allowing them to shoot and process the video on their own.

The Immersive Image Lab, located in the Multi-Purpose Building, is a practical research facility for research on 8K2K ultra-high-definition video contents, and immersive spaces that provide a high sense of presence and immersion created by images projected on a 360-degree panoramic all-round screen.

The Printing Laboratory allows researchers to experiment with the principles of industrial printing techniques—intaglio, relief, planographic, and permeographic—and apply them to art and design.

Though plateless printing has become much easier with advances in digital technology, projects at this laboratory consider this long-standing mode of expression through the process of drawing, plate-making, and printing, looking into the materiality of plates and inks. The lab offers silkscreen (permeographic) equipment, copperplate (intaglio) equipment, woodblock presses (relief plate), and litho presses (flat plate).