Established in 2002, visual communication design was developed from creative media, computer art and image design. In 2004, we set a four-year undergraduate program under the approval of the Ministry of Education and enrolled students of art national wide. Now there are 13 professional teachers, 4 basic curriculum teachers and 3 external teachers, including teachers of school-level talents project and school-level teaching achievement award winners; in the professional field, there are winners of national beauty exhibition silver award, the top ten designers in Guangzhou, and the well-known designer at national-level, provincial-level and municipal-level. There are 6 practice teaching bases, 2 student innovation studios and 2 student innovation and entrepreneurship incubation bases. About 400 students have made great achievements in the fields of advertisement and design including the silver award of Xu Qingsong Creation and many awards of such professional competitions as ONE SHOW and the Times Young Creation awards.
Based on the Guangdong Creative Industry Base, the visual communication design actively explored the teaching model that adapts to the development of creative industries in Guangdong and even in South China in the past more than ten years with endeavor, and has developed its own characteristics and advantages gradually in the construction of teachers, talent cultivation, scientific research development and laboratory, and studio construction. The Department of Visual Communication Design has always adhered to the close combination of professional construction and industrial development. We cooperated with many enterprises and research & development institutions with good social benefits.
