About the faculty
Design

Model making is indispensable for the design process in order to be able to verify concepts, functions and forms. The Model Making Workshop Wood offers the best opportunities to create experiments, working models, functional models and prototypes for consumer goods and appliance design, furniture design

The plaster model workshop is used for model and mold making in the sense of serially manufactured (fine) ceramic products but also free/sculptural objects. The most common operations include the pouring of plaster (for portioning and drawing in the manner of the stucco artist...), the further processing of plaster

In the painting workshop, students have the opportunity to prime and paint models and objects. The work objective is the creation of flawless surfaces and the simulation of material connotations. Students are taught the practical skills needed to produce surfaces.

At our faculty, students can access a wide range of equipment for loan for photo and video shoots. It includes everything that is important for professional work - from Sony video cameras, Canon DSLR cameras, analog and digital medium format cameras to sophisticated accessories.

In the Metal Model Making Workshop, students are taught the practical and technical knowledge and skills of metal technology and metal materials science. The Model Making Workshop Metal offers the best opportunities

Within the framework of ceramic build-up techniques, the traditional ceramic material is used both for basic studies and for creative end products. The conditions in the ceramics workshop concentrate on free construction, supported by the possibilities of the plaster workshop. In addition, turning on the potter's wheel is possible.

Making good designs means not only recognizing and shaping the spirit of a thing, but also anticipating its material presence. Often, new products find their way into reality when inspired by material properties. For this reason, the Faculty of Design has set up a materials library in which

The heart of the printmaking workshop is the intaglio press: Etchings but also woodcuts and linocuts are printed here. It is possible to produce intaglio prints by hand as well as etchings. An extraction system for working with acids and various tools for

The plastics workshop consists of a large room directly adjacent to the wood workshop in the shed hall. In this workshop, students are taught basic knowledge of Plastics Engineering, Plastics Processing

The porcelain workshop offers students the opportunity to produce prototypes in the original material. Here, the universal molding process of slip casting offers the optimal "freedom of movement" in the material-oriented design. In addition, turning in by means of a template is possible. The necessary prerequisite in each case is the molding tool - the

The CAD Lab in the faculty offers its students in the fields of Product, Spatial and Environmental Design a large-scale studio for teaching education and exercise of virtual representation and presentation methods. Individual support is offered on a project and problem-oriented basis. Through a flexible power and network connection is

Creativity is limitless, conventional printing presses, on the other hand, set limits. Whether it's the format size, the print substrate or the printing ink, normal presses are geared towards standard solutions. For special cases, there are other processes and these include the

3D printing enables students to print models as objects using data sets. The fused deposition modeling (FDM) manufacturing process is assigned to 3D printing processes, even though it ranks independently in the classification of rapid prototyping technologies.

The glass workshop is characterized primarily by work with flat glass. The work in the glass workshop extends to the formal shaping of the flat glass by cutting, lowering and/or fusing. Also the finishing of the material by drilling, grinding and especially sandblasting characterizes the possibilities of the glass workshop.

The animation studio of designkrefeld is assigned to the project area illustration, animation and motion design. Individual students or teams can occupy various workstations here by the hour or day and also set up for longer work phases. The professionally equipped greenbox studio with Kino Flo lighting enables...

Despite the rich selection of communication channels available today, paper is still an important means of communication that can be processed in a variety of ways. This ranges from printing and simple finishing to elaborate bookbinding work,