Your Bright, Creative Future with Oxylin

OXYLIN – ACADEMIC ART offers bachelor’s degree programs with unique focus areas and learning opportunities rooted in the traditions and innovations of Paris and Europe. You investigate a range of creative tools and methods, building a solid foundation for study and practice in your chosen discipline, in the First artistic city in the world

Most important OXYLIN – ACADEMIC ART provides a new vision of artistic education. Following the social, economic and cultural evolutions of the last twenty years, it is no longer possible to conceive of the creator as an isolated individual who acts solely according to his own imagination.

Today, the artistic endeavor must occur in an international environment. At OXYLIN, we believe that artistic activity should be organized in a sphere of exchange, as well as intellectual and cultural confrontation. It is essential to modify current artistic education in order to focus on more highly developed learning in terms of various cultures and forms of communication.

It is for these reasons that our program is based on the following three principles:

Placing creativity into an international context

Artistic activity cannot be regarded as a field disconnected from economic and social fact. Contrary to other institutions, we think that it is important to include artistic daring, creativity and capacity to communicate in the framework of the internationalization of exchanges, goods and people.

In today’s world, it is essential to maintain a dialogue with one’s surroundings. A creator is no longer confined to a specific territory. Rather, the creator must, like in other professions, be mobile and attentive to change.

Creativity and Management

Oxylin is also characterized by the excellence of its education and its highly renowned professors: mangakas and graphic designers (Japanese in master class setting), communications managers… Our aim is to not only train new designers, but also cultural intermediaries and innovative leaders capable of managing intercultural teams and competing in an international market.

To achieve this goal, the program in Japanese Art and Communication is provided in a partnership with Japanese Management. This allows students to enrich their artistic studies with team and project management skills.

Training in Artistic and Cultural Exchanges

Technological innovations and labor market evolutions have profoundly modified the creative profession. Distinctions between operations, designers and artistic directors have been transformed. Today, it is of essence to be polyvalent: one must be able to manage a team as well as create alone, have skills to effectively lead a commercial project as well as a vast knowledge of design, be innovative as well as be able to structure an intercultural enterprise. This is why Oxylin’s program is multifaceted and allows for wide professional mobility.

Because professional activity takes place over a half century in a constantly changing world, our graduates must be polyvalent and operational managers in the cultural markets of Europe and abroad.

To study at Oxylin is to make the choice to place one’s talent in an international framework and to become a central player for the next twenty years.

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

Creativity is not only the result of imagination and talent. It is also an active and systematic process of exchanges and experimentations. Training to create manga and Japanese art presupposes a comprehension of innovative artistic techniques, communications tools and personal experiences.

To help our students reach this objective, Oxylin follows three main educational principles:

Creating Contexts

Creative activity and cultural project management must be understood in their socio-cultural contexts. Moreover, they must be based on a solid understanding of communications and sources of exchange.

More than just teaching artistic techniques, we want to train our students to understand cultural variations and to question their world in order for these things to become innovative artistic resources.

Intercultural Creativity

It is essential to control cultural, technological and, above all, human parameters in order the guarantee one’s credibility in the Asian and European markets. This control allows for joint valorization of intercultural teams.

Through cultural immersion and exchange politics, future artistic directors will be able to put personal and organizational potentials in perspective according to economic, financial, juridical, and human contexts.

Creativity and Mobility

Geographic, intellectual and functional mobility allows our students to stand as promoters of innovation and change. We want them to have access to new cultural resources and knowledge to build cultural synergies.

PEDAGOGY

OXYLIN – ACADEMIC ART is an innovative art education program. The initiative, exchange, and synergy can be realized only from a humanistic and prospective educational project. Our program is focused on five points :

Experience sharing

For personal development and active professional mobility in a multicultural environment, our program insures a synthesis between practical and conceptual approaches.

In addition to theoretical and methodological teaching by professors specializing in Japan, professors of French and Japanese arts, manga specialists and a wide range of experts bring their practical experience and know-how to our student.

This combination between strategic and operational experiences also materialized through activities lead by our students themselves. Thanks to internships, strategic audits and project management, students are faced with a compromise between creativity and commercial requirements.

INDIVIDUAL Support

Rather than a multiplication of classes and lectures, it is essential for us to provide individual support and to allow for courses to take place in small groups. Nearly two thirds of the program’s courses take place in a seminar format involving no more than twenty students. Although, the average class size at Oxylin is twelve students. Our low teacher to student ratio results in an interactive and individualized program offering.

We favor qualitative to extensive education. Thus, students can more easily comprehend ideas and concepts in order to develop their synthetic minds and intellectual breadth.

Communication

Oxylin is dedicated to exchanges, contacts and expressions. Communications training comprises acquisition of artistic techniques and expression.

In order to train international artists, Oxylin is the sole institution of higher education to invest greatly in language learning. Still with a restricted number of students, 1000 hours of Japanese and English classes are provided during the five years of study. Thus, students can master lexical nuances suitable for intercultural relations.

Autonomy and Project Management

Emphasis is placed on self-teaching. Students are put in real-life situations through surveys, case studies and team project management. In order to obtain a degree, one must learn how to conceptualize, to plan, to lead, and to manage a project (creation of manga, event planning and organization.)

These educational techniques permit students who will be faced with the complexities of project management, to be able to work in a team and to be operational within Japanese or European cultural organizations.

Creativity and Conviviality

Because of our specific class organization, Oxylin is a space of creativity, exchange and conviviality which allows for active teaching, creative reflection and intellectual autonomy of each student. Whether through team tasks or seminars with professors, Oxylin is a zone of exchange. Through exchanges with professors and other students of all nationalities, you would be in a dynamic of exchanges, curiosity, experimentation and enthusiasm in the pursuit of learning.

CURRICULUM

BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAM

OXYLIN is recognized by the French Ministry of Education as a Private Establishment of Higher Education (Etablissement d’Enseignement Supérieur Privé) and as is listed with the Rector of Paris under establishment code 075 45 87 D as such.

Oxylin offers European degree programs in art and design where in students who successfully complete three years of study receive a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts.

By completion of the program, students will be able to:

conduct research (defining a question, researching primary and secondary sources, sketching or prototyping)
communicate work effectively to a variety of audiences, both in writing and verbally situate work in a cultural and historical context
see connections between disciplines and demonstrate interdisciplinary awareness

The Bachelor degree program is based on a dual perspective: on one hand, students seek and develop their own graphic styles, on the other hand, they learn to be mobile and to adapt to international environments.

Three main skills are particularly enhanced:

1st Axis: Being an transmitter of imagination

In the same vein as the Impressionists, we continue to draw inspiration from Asian art its revival. Through examination of Japan from different cultural angles, the designer becomes a cultural mediator capable of both creative synergy and singularity. From this point follows innovation and renewed creativity.

2nd Axis: Cultural Exchange as a Source of Creativity

In the same vein as the Impressionists, we continue to draw inspiration from Asian art its revival. Through examination of different cultural angles, the designer becomes a cultural mediator capable of both creative synergy and singularity. From this point follows innovation and renewed creativity.

3rd Axis: Fulfillment in One’s Career Abroad

More than an economic phenomenon, internationalization is a process of innovation that is capable of generative new forms of creativity, organization, strategy and professional culture. Being a designer is to have one’s actions take place in new cultural networks and to be able to create exchanges between cultures and people.

ABOUT TE PROGRAM IN BRIEF

Artistic techniques : First approach concern the multiple approaches to drawing. The aim is to give students both a vital course in traditional skills and an introduction to contemporary and emerging approaches to drawing. Students require the fluency and confidence in the act of drawing to engage in ambitious work. Students are encouraged to take a self-motivated and questioning approach to drawing; equipped with the basic skills they become increasingly open to experimentation and the potential to communicate in many forms. Through a series of workshops stereotypical ways of thinking and seeing are challenged so that students understand drawing as an activity that continues to be relevant and re-invented.

Understanding Art dynamics : As an introduction to design in general, this seminar provides students with a contextual understanding of specific movements in art and history. The training incorporative topics ranging from avant-garde movements, technology and media, information theory, business and marketing practices, set within a broad historical narrative. The courses taught help students understand how to place themselves within the world and within the history of their chosen practice, providing the context they need to navigate the complexities of contemporary culture.

Digital research and art: The digital revolution has opened up communication design to new disciplines that require students to excel not only in traditional design skills, but in design research methodology, human-centered concept development and system design processes. This course aims to equip all students with the necessary skills and confidence to be able to use digital tools. The curriculum is project-led and structured so that students can apply their growing skill-set to realize their ideas.

Graphic design: This course provides the skills of graphic design. Students will become familiar with the visual vocabulary that builds graphic design practice through practical projects. Exploring the basic elements (form, color, type, image and their interconnections) and experimenting on different media and at different scales, the students will become familiar to the graphic design process and visual problem solving. Communication designers give form to information in advertising, publishing and editorial design, corporate and exhibition design, websites, multimedia, environmental graphics, signs and maps, service design, interaction design, film and video. Students develop projects with a growing complexity, employing the computer less as a tool and more as a medium to be manipulated with greater confidence and control. The aim of the course is to create an awareness of the potential for digital techniques to solve visual and communication problems. Advanced skills encourage an ambitious approach to the digital field.

Language program : Students can follow a double language program: English and French; allowing students to be mobile professionals and open to the world with multiplied professional opportunities. At first the course will cover specific themes relating to everyday life in Paris. Emphasis will be placed on phonetics as well as everyday vocabulary and exchanges. Students will be able to engage in usually conversations and will practice describing themselves and their environment along with their studies and artistic practice. The content and material covered in class will focus on language related to their studies, as well as their areas of interest

REGISTRATION

Application and Admission Procedures

OXYLIN welcomes those who wish to obtain a Bachelor. Unless you already have a resident visa, you must apply for a visa.