Otis College of Art and Design
July 4th, 2009. Filed under: Sewing on Saturday.Otis College of Art and Design is located in Los Angeles. The programs at Otis include four-year BFA degrees in illustration, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, landscape design, interior design, fashion design, digital media, toy design, and product design. It also offers MFA degrees in fine arts, graphic design, public practice, and writing. Undergraduate students choose a major in their second year, after completing a battery of traditional drawing, painting, composition, and construction classes in their first or “Foundation” year. In addition to studio work, standard liberal arts courses are required, although traditional history courses are replaced by art history.
The Foundation Program at Otis College of Art and Design offers comprehensive interdisciplinary training in the fundamentals of art and design for first-year students. At the end of that year the students are shown short videos created by the different departments as a way for those Foundation students to decide what major to declare in their second year. Here is the 2009 Foundation Forward video for Toy Design.