Kyiv national University of technologies and design, as one of the leading higher educational institutions of Ukraine, has conducted a high-quality training of fashion designers, production engineers of clothing, footwear, and knitwear manufacture in the field of light industry since 1930. It has become the center of Ukrainian design education for fashion designers training.

The faculty of design was established in 2000 and it helped develop art successfully at the technological higher educational establishment. Students have an opportunity to get profound knowledge of a future occupation, which gives a chance to have excellent skills in modern artistic techniques for the full development of your own abilities in real-life designs.

The faculty management is going to expand research and artistic activities while keeping up the best traditions of the faculty and university as a whole.

The development of artistic and design majors at the fourth level technical educational institution emphasises the peculiarity of training, their focus on the fundamental development of professional skills and ability to solve complex tasks in high-level designing.

SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL: DESIGN, ERGONOMICS AND TECHNICAL AESTHETICS

Scientific advisor: Prof. Dr. Maryna Kolosnichenko

Research areas:

• Theoretical foundations of clothing design based on the tectonic approach
• Design and ergonomic projecting of protective clothing and personal protective equipment;
• Formation of methodological bases and research of design works on the basis of synthesis of arts
• Cultural studies, aesthetics, structural and functional problems of design in the context of ethnic culture, ecology and man`s life support systems
• System-structural planning of wares of the different setting
• Ergonomics and design

Research results: 4 doctorate thesis, 12 PhD theses, more then 500 research papers, 7 monographs, 3 State standards, 10 teaching aids, 23 patents of Ukraine on an industrial prototype, useful model, invention, certificates about registration of copyright on work,  90 methodical pointings

 ARTISTIC SCHOOL: RESEARCH OF THE TEXTONIC STRUCTURE OF A SUIT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSPECTIVE CLOTHING COLLECTIONS

Scientific advisor: Prof. PhD Tetiana Nikolaieva

Research areas:

• Culturology and aesthetics of design in costume design in the context of multicultural integration
• The analysis of tectonic structure of historical, modern and folk costume
• The bionic dress forming
• The style-designing of a new range of clothing, tectonic structure of the dress
• The problems of using form and color in the definition of modern clothing collections

Research results:  8 PhD theses, 250 research papers, 3 teaching aids, 85 methodical pointings

ARTISTIC SCHOOL: MOVEMENT IN SPACE AND TIME

Scientific founder: Prof. Volodymyr Kolesnykov

National Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine

Research areas:

• Development of art and graphic design of Ukraine;
• Research of actual problems of culture, art, design.
• Identification and formation of modern trends in the improvement of painting and graphic design in the context of sustainable development

Research results: 

• works of art are exhibited in more than 25 museums in Ukraine and around the world: Germany, Austria, China, Russia, Switzerland, Belgium, etc .
• the creative association "Art" was created at the university
• a fund of talented children was created in Poltava
• in the creative work of more than 3000 works in the field of fine arts, monumental and decorative, graphics, graphic design, 30 publications, 1 monograph, 8 catalogs

ARTISTIC SCHOOL: UKRAINIAN GRAPHIC ART AND DESIGN

Scientific advisor: Prof. Evgen Gula

Research areas:

• development of art and graphic design of Ukraine
• research of topical aspects of art and design
• identification and formation of modern trends in the improvement of painting and graphic design in the context of sustainable development

Research results: 

• participant of many national, international art exhibitions
• author of personal exhibitions in Ukraine, Poland, Germany
• works of art are stored in public and private collections of Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, USA, China, Russia
• in the creative work in the field of graphics, fine and monumental art (author of monumental paintings of the church in the village of Ulychne, Drohobych district, Lviv region in 1981, St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Simferopol in 1992). Author of the fundamental monograph "Plastic Anatomy - the basis of drawing" (2013), as well as 40 publications, including 2 textbooks, monographs, catalogs of works

SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL: COMPUTER GRAPHIC SPATIAL DESIGN

Scientific founder: Prof. Dr. Kostiantyn Sazonov

Research areas:

• improvement of technologies of computer formation of interior space and landscape;
• identification of current trends in improving the design of the environment in the context of sustainable development;
• methodological bases and prospects of development of modern design of architectural environment;
• techniques and means of forming the subject-spatial environment of residential and public buildings and features of their interior design, taking into account modern socio-economic conditions and innovative technologies;
• formation of the design of the external and internal environment of civil buildings and structures in terms of their reconstruction and adaptation;
• methodological principles of flexible and universal use of premises in design;
• modern approaches and ergonomic conditions for the formation of the internal environment of civil buildings for children, including those with disabilities and low mobility.

Research results: 

1 doctorate thesis, 12 PhD theses, more then 120 research papers, 1 monograph, 1 teaching aids, 70 methodical pointings

Today more than 700 full-time and about 60 correspondence-course students are trained at the faculty. There is the students’ fashion house at the faculty, where they create advanced collections and prepare for fashion competitions.

Students can master major skills in design practice and do research in design in the following ways:

• at the faculty (training and art workshops, special laboratories and computer-aided design classrooms) under the guidance of academic staff and top specialists, which are invited from different fields of design and applied arts;
• in production environments of design organisations or specialised departments during the annual curricular practical training;
• defending projects and theses in designing.

Students study fundamental disciplines (academic drawing, painting, history of art and material culture) and modern technologies of integrated design objects engineering. The study of design engineering of the virtual space enables the realization and presentation of creative ideas with the help of computer technologies that extends the solutions to the problems of modern design.

The faculty pays much attention to the creative work of teachers and students, which is embodied in the participation in art exhibitions, festivals, competitions and creative fashion clothes shows, both national and international level.

Students and faculty members regularly host festivals, evenings, round-table conferences, TV programs: “About the future of Ukrainian cinema”, “On-demand cartoon”, “Dancing with the stars” and so on. Students’ artistic works are part of the international-level exhibitions. In recent years, students of the faculty have taken part in the Republican exhibition of young artists “Autumn colours”, the exhibition “Education, science, vocational guidance”, the exhibition dedicated to the Ukrainian costume and crafts “Ukrainian podium”, the 20th anniversary exhibition of the Designers’ Union of Ukraine, the exhibition “History of morals in the mirror of fashion” Alta center and others.

Moreover, during the training students constantly participate in scientific-practical conferences on the design and its different areas, both national and international:

• All-Ukrainian research and practice conference “Theory and practice of material and artistic culture”, KSADA;
• International research and practice conference “The problems of biology, ecology, geography, education: history and modern times”, St. Petersburg;
• All-Ukrainian conference of young scientists and students “Research and development of young people at the present stage”, KNUTD;
• International seminar on “Integration into the European educational environment” ISMA: Information Systems Management Institute, 2008, 2010;
• All-Ukrainian scientific-methodical conference “Design education 2008-2014”, KSADA.

The students take prizes and are given awards in competitions of different levels.

All this can be explained by the fact that the training quality of “bachelor of arts” majoring in “Design” gives sufficient practical vocational skills to students for creative work. To confirm this, there is constantly a large number of honours degrees (35-45 degrees annually over the last 5 years).

The experience of the faculty of design shows that people with good higher education are highly appreciated among young designers. A designer should certainly master such programs as ArchiCAD and 3D Studio Max.

Students gain knowledge both in the framework of the university standard courses and original curricula of vocational guidance disciplines, which are developed by leading teachers and designers, and are constantly being improved to meet international standards of designers training in various fields. 

After receiving a Bachelor of Design degree, graduates have an opportunity to continue their education doing master’s degree according to appropriate faculty programs, and become qualified as Master of Design.

You can also pursue postgraduate studies in 17.00.07 “Design” at the faculty, defend a thesis and take a degree of candidate of science (art history), major 17.00.07 “Design” (from 2016 – major 022 “Design”).

The authorities of Kyiv College of KNUTD along with teachers of the faculty have worked out integrated curricula for admission to the third year of full-time training and training by correspondence on the basis of the of junior specialist diploma.

The department of design and artistic designing of costume together with the Institute of postgraduate education of KNUTD have developed general-purpose curricula of specialists’ professional development with higher education (specializations: “artistic designing of costume” and “photo&video design”).

Studying at the faculty of design (third and fourth year of training) students have an opportunity to get military education and receive an appropriate state-recognized degree.

Graduates can choose their future scope of activity by means of the Student employment centre of KNUTD. These fields primarily include advertising agencies, publishing houses, designing and manufacturing of clothing and footwear companies, modelling business, interior and furniture design, photo design, video production, animation and so on.

A graduate diploma of the faculty of design gives an opportunity to work for public, commercial and joint enterprises, to start your own business in this field, to teach at higher and secondary educational establishments.

Graduates work successfully for advertising agencies, periodicals and publishers create their own designs, do research. Graduates of the faculty of design in the fashion industry work as pattern and fashion designers for fashion houses and in fashion business; as consultants and pattern designers for business concerns, film studios, and theatres; as art historians in the field of fashion development and teachers at colleges and higher educational establishments of Ukraine and abroad.

The departments of the faculty communicate with universities and experts from many countries (Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Tadzhikistan, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Great Britain, China, Iran, India and other countries). More than 50 foreign students from Russia, China, Belarus, Lithuania, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Serbia, Moldova, and Iran are studying at the faculty now.

In 2012 along with the department of design a photographic studio “PROF. HERSH СHADHA STUDIO” was opened, which was sponsored by well-known Indian specialist in the field photo modelling art – prof. Hersh Chadha.

The departments of the faculty as well as some teachers have international certificates, statuses and other honours of international recognition. In particular, the department of artistic designing of costume has the title of international and has received the certificate of International Academy “Platon”. The system of computer-aided design of interior and furniture Woody, developed with the help of teachers of the department of interior design and furniture, has received wide international recognition in the field of industrial design.

In 2013 creative association treaty was signed with the Institute of marketing and fashion (Paris, France). As part of this treaty there is an exchange of training and methodological literature, participation in competitions and exhibitions. There is also going to be a student swap for practical and academic training for bachelor’s degree.