Design Education. New Approaches in New Conditions

Abstract

Everything embraced by the contemporary educational content, requires a high-class professional design. Specialized graphics, infographics, typographics, and pictograms – all new forms of information transfer and educational technologies depend on the design quality. Russia’s university environment always strived to occupy leading positions in applying newest forms of training highly skilled specialists. The objective of the given article is to activate the efforts of the educational society to work out a fundamentally new content of training to make the exchange of knowledge and scientific cooperation on the leading world university platforms efficient and effective. The necessity of searches for efficient mechanisms of implementing projects of the country’s strategic development demonstrates that specialists in high priority lines of design are not simply wanted, they are vitally needed. Efforts should be focused on training specialists in media design, web design, digital image and augmented reality design, motion design, communication technology design, 3D technology design, modeling and moulage design, document design, etc. Experiments in visual technologies made it possible to formulate main modes and methods of creating a digital educational content. Technologies of motion design made it possible to present the composition fundamentals didactic material in a concise form. This project was worked out by the Chair of Design and History of Art of the Ufa State Petroleum Technological University and appeared unexpendable when the education process became online. Such projects were few at the disposal of the teaching staff but particularly these ones were the most effective in the pandemic period.