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Creating the future of media communication design that connects people, sensibility to expression, sensation to space, and virtual to reality

The Media Design Course consists of four fields: Media Sciences, Media Engineering, Media Expression, and Media Sociocultural Studies.
Through education in visual science, psychology, technology, systems, content design, artistic expression, society, culture, and communication, students will acquire progressive and deep thinking, creative, expressive, and analytical skills, and explore and practice media design that harmonizes cutting-edge scientific and technical knowledge with aesthetic sensitivity.

Curriculum

Fields of Study

Media Sciences

Students will acquire scientific knowledge and thinking skills in human visual science and psychology.
Media Engineering

Students will acquire knowledge and apply skills in advanced technologies that form the basis for advanced media expression and utilization.
Media Expression

Students will learn of creative expertise and methodologies, and acquire advanced aesthetic sensitivity, expressiveness, and creativity
Media Sociocultural Studies

Students will acquire knowledge and thinking skills related to cultural diversity and communication studies.

Comprehensive study of science, technology, expression, and sociocultural aspects of media design.

In the Core Subjects, students study "Media Sciences" to understand the science of how people perceive and understand media, "Media Engineering" to learn the technologies to use and utilize media, "Media Expression" to know how to express and create media, and to put it into practice, and "Media Sociocultural Studies" to have an understanding of the society and culture constructed with media. The "Studio Projects" are cross-disciplinary design projects in which students collaborate with students in other courses to solve practical problems. In "Special Research on Design," students conduct master's research and production in their respective laboratories and write a master's thesis.

Student Works

Yukihide Kohama, MD, won the Runner-up Grand Prix Award at “U30 3DCG VISION CONTEST 2022”

2022.06.01

Awards

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10/1SUN

[Student Award] “Iwataya Mitsukoshi Prize” at The 78th Fukuoka Prefectural Art Exhibition

2023.09.13

Awards

11/18SAT
11/19SUN

【Student Award】 “teamLab Award” and “Sakura Internet Award” at IVRC2023 SEED STAGE

2023.09.21

Awards

9/1THU
3/31FRI

TOKUMARU Kota’s (1st year Master’s student, MD) work “Embrace” won a prize at “Fukuoka Wall Art Award 2022”.

2022.09.02

Awards

Award for Encouragement of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Kyushu-Okinawa Exhibition, Japan “song without words”

2023.12.22

Awards

The Grand Prize in the “Hibaru Cherry Blossom Park Monument Design Contest”.

2023.06.12

Awards

LOOP (Finalist Award, 2022 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka)

KOYAMA Riki, ISHII Tatsuro, NAKAMURA Ryohei, SENO Takeharu

2023

Award Winning Works

GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD 2023

2023.12.22

Awards

The VR work “Immersive Heat Experience” won the Kawakami Memorial Prize and the Hachiya Kazuhiko Prize.

2023.12.22

Awards

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Faculty Members

Faculty members in

Media Design

Name	Position	Field of Specialization
HARA Kenji	Professor	Visual Information Processing
ITO Hiroyuki	Professor	Perceptual Psychology
KIM Daewoong	Professor	Contents Design
SUNAGA Shoji	Professor	Color and Visual Sciences
TAKENOUCHI Kazuki	Professor	Mechanics Design, Graphic Science
TOMOTARI Mikako	Professor	Sculpture, Art Studies
TSURUNO Reiji	Professor	Computer Graphics
USHIAMA Taketosi	Professor	Digital Content Environment Design
FUYUNO Miharu	Associate Professor	Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, English Education, Media and Education, Media and Language Culture
Ho Hsin-Ni	Associate Professor	Haptics
INOUE Kohei	Associate Professor	Pattern Recognition, Image Processing
ISHII Tatsuro	Associate Professor	Visual Image Expression, Enhanced Visual Image Expression
MAKINO Yutaka	Associate Professor	Installation, Performance, Computer Music
MORIMOTO Yuki	Associate Professor	Computer Graphics
NOMURA Katsuhisa	Associate Professor	Graphic Design
ONO Naoki	Associate Professor	Digital Image Processing and Recognition
SENO Takeharu	Associate Professor	Psychology
BLANCO Laura	Assistant Professor	Instructional Design in Foreign Language Education
KAMEOKA Takayuki	Assistant Professor	Haptics, Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction
KUDO Mao	Assistant Professor	Sign System Design, Visual Symbol
TOH Kiriko	Assistant Professor	Web Design
ZARINS Martins	Assistant Professor	Acting, Directing, Theatre Studies, Linguistics

Messages from Current Students

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Media Design Course（Graduate)

Visual Communication Design Center

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.

Immersive Image Lab

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.

Printing Workshop

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).

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Creating the future of media communication design that connects people, sensibility to expression, sensation to space, and virtual to reality

Curriculum

Fields of Study

Media Sciences

Media Engineering

Media Expression

Media Sociocultural Studies

Comprehensive study of science, technology, expression, and sociocultural aspects of media design.

Student Works

Yukihide Kohama, MD, won the Runner-up Grand Prix Award at “U30 3DCG VISION CONTEST 2022”

[Student Award] “Iwataya Mitsukoshi Prize” at The 78th Fukuoka Prefectural Art Exhibition

【Student Award】 “teamLab Award” and “Sakura Internet Award” at IVRC2023 SEED STAGE

TOKUMARU Kota’s (1st year Master’s student, MD) work “Embrace” won a prize at “Fukuoka Wall Art Award 2022”.

Award for Encouragement of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Kyushu-Okinawa Exhibition, Japan “song without words”

The Grand Prize in the “Hibaru Cherry Blossom Park Monument Design Contest”.

LOOP (Finalist Award, 2022 Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka)

GOOD DESIGN NEW HOPE AWARD 2023

The VR work “Immersive Heat Experience” won the Kawakami Memorial Prize and the Hachiya Kazuhiko Prize.

Faculty Members

Messages from Current Students

Facilities

Facilities

Visual Communication Design Center

Facilities

Immersive Image Lab

Facilities

Printing Workshop

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Alumni Messages

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