L3 Graphic design
The purpose of the L3 in DSAA / Graphic Design is to prepare students to the job of project manager in the various fields of graphic design (print, signage, multimedia, motion graphics), as well as to develop the students’ professional field towards related disciplines, such as digital engineering or information architecture.
The course is based on a cross-disciplinary approach to space design – in accordance with the professional situations students will encounter – and the projects are envisaged from a financial, technological and practical perspective.
Students collaborate in a range of working configurations, on a great variety of projects. They work with designers from the other specialities taught at la Martinière, as well as with engineers, marketers and academics, in a perspective of practical and intellectual mobility, which corresponds to the needs of today’s professional world.
The courses are organised into 3 fields, and each field is essential to the development of creative and educated designers-to-be: research and creation in design, research and creation in visual arts and culture and general knowledge.
The L3 course in DSAA Graphic Design at la Martinière Diderot is organised according to the 2-semester system.
In the first semester, students gain a background technological and methodological knowledge, supported by various disciplinary or cross-disciplinary projects, e.g., setting up a virtual cross-disciplinary design agency, a disciplinary sequence based on interface design in partnership with ENS Lyon, or a disciplinary sequence based on typographic creation and publishing.
Along with these projects, students are given the opportunity to update their technical and technological skills, and they work on CAM softwares, Arduino and Processing, photographic process, studio and video editing.
In the second semester, students apply these skills and tools to specific, practical projects with identified partners.
The whole year in L3 is concerned with vocational guidance, and students are encouraged to find their place in a contemporary context, to be forward-looking, to show initiative and find innovative solutions using new technologies, so as to shape tomorrow’s spaces.
M1 Graphic design
The purpose of the L3 in DSAA / Graphic Design is to prepare students to the job of project manager in the various fields of graphic design (print, signage, multimedia, motion graphics), as well as to develop the students’ professional field towards related disciplines, such as digital engineering or information architecture.
The M1 course in DSAA Space Design at la Martinière Diderot revolves mainly around each student’s individual design research project, articulated with a professional research paper on the same topic. Project and research are presented to various juries, notably the project jury, composed of teachers, academics and professionals, who assesses the final proposition.
In the first semester, in M1, the students are concerned with the theoretical approach to the subject they have chosen, as they write their research paper, as well as with the practical exploration of their area of research, using innovative methodology. In that semester, students have to form their project team, by building the appropriate collaborative network.
In the second semester, in M1, students develop and create their projects, while they work on the corresponding technical skills.