If you have good manual skills, an interest in the fine arts, a creative and original style of thinking, and you want to advance your talents, visual representation programs can be a suitable fit for you. You will gain a deep understanding of the creative, scientific, cognitive, and technical basis of the discipline as well as a specific competence from this academic program.

During you studies, you will acquire comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge on the areas of traditional imagery and portrayal as well as study the world of electronic imagery, motion picture and media. Besides the classic genres of imaging, you can get to know multimedia and interactive segments of visual representation. 

In the visual representation program you will explore and examine the means by which people represent ideas, objects and events within our world. Through general research you will gain an awareness of the historical developments of the representational systems currently in use. Through project work and introductory exercises you will explore and examine the representational means and systems available for communication.

Structure of Visual Representation academic programs

As a student of Visual representation academic program, you will enhance artistic and technical skills and will focus on basic computer graphic programs, contemporary imagery techniques and theories, physical and virtual variations of visualization in space, installation design, etc. Moreover, you will develop your manual skills and visualization methods, will be able to make not only illustrations for a novel but design the whole book, will create motion picture, interactive installations, and objects and will gain deep theoretical knowledge, which then you will be able to implement into practice.  

Moreover, you might be interested in individual or duplication graphics, painting, installation art, video art, or you can deal with storyboards – visual scripts – used in filmmaking, comics and others, the joint areas of fine arts and design, and the creative methods of contemporary art. 

Entry requirements for Visual Representation applicants

Apart from general requirements, such as English knowledge level test, high GPA, Letter of Motivation, CV, etc., which are usually required when applying for a program, a student who is interested in Visual representation program has to provide universities with his/her portfolio or previous works. A portfolio should include samples of your autonomous artworks or graphic design works, both manual and digital. Usually, every form of graphic design is welcomed: illustrations, layouts, logos, comics, CD and book covers, posters, typo-posters, packaging designs, brand identities, web designs, manual drawings, sketches, aquarelles, collages, paintings, etc.