Design Exhibition of Excellent Graduates from Art Institute Opens in Beijing

The 2017 design exhibition of excellent graduates from the Art Institute was officially opened in Beijing on May 9th. Liu Jude and Zhang Geming, professors of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, and Mu Hongyi, executive director of Building Light Environment Research Center of the Institute of Architecture at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, were invited to the exhibition. Wang Jingxia, vice president of China Women's University, Wang Lian, head of the students' affairs department and other professional teachers and students attended the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was presided over by Wang Lu, dean of the Art Institute.

The graduation project of the Art Institute continued with the theme of last year "Integrating Things with Nature and Realizing Harmony". Compared with the past, the exhibition of outstanding works paid more attention to specialized characteristics and gender characteristics. The "Sports N Square" unit from students of the Clothing and Dress Designing Specialty, the "Ideal Home” unit from students of Environment Designing Specialty and the "She - Saying" unit from students of Visual Communication Design Specialty presented the thinking outcome of graduates and their teachers on what role design should play in our lives through sports clothing, space narrative and women's issues.

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This exhibition features 87 sets of excellent works of graduate design, including two static and dynamic parts, which were carried out respectively on campus on May 9, 2017 and at 751D • PARK on May 16, 2017. The Art Institute held a seminar on Practice Teaching in the Framework of Cultivating Design Talents Training and Graduation Design Innovation after the opening ceremony. Guests, art teachers and student representatives gave constructive comments and suggestions for the future development of application design talents training, discipline construction and professional development.

Teachers and students of the Art Institute presented a refreshing exhibition to the audience from a professional point of view. Teachers think that design's first role is to solve problems, and the beauty of design depends on reasonable things being carried out in the form of beauty, which is the best way to solve problems. Through the four years of professional learning, students thought about design problems by developing a gradual understanding of things, and then completing the expression of their personal design ideas.

(Source: CWU/Translated by Women of China)