School for Design St. Gallen
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '44.7 " N , 9 ° 22' 5.8" E ; CH1903: 745,620 / 253080
| School for Design St. Gallen SfG | |
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| founding | 1783 |
| Sponsorship | Education Department of the Canton of St. Gallen |
| place | St. Gallen , Switzerland |
| Head of department | Kathrin Lettner and Patrik Forrer |
| Students | 1600 |
| Employee | 160 (including 156 teachers) |
| Website | www.gbssg.ch |
The School for Design St. Gallen SfG with the higher technical school for arts, design and design is a department of the Commercial Vocational and Further Education Center St. Gallen (GBS St. Gallen) and is the most traditional and most important educational institution for basic and advanced training in design of Eastern Switzerland.
Around 1,600 students are taught at the St. Gallen School of Design, founded in 1783. The school has 160 lecturers from Germany and abroad.
Youth promotion
The offer is aimed at young people who want to deal more intensively with design topics or who are considering choosing a design training course.
Professional training
The preliminary design course in St. Gallen is not only available for young people as a year of preparation for design professions, but also as a design preparatory course, as a full-time or part-time study.
Design preparatory courses for:
- Young people (preparatory year for creative professions)
- Adults, full-time propaedeutic course (preparation for secondary school in the field of design, art and design)
- Adults, part-time preparatory course (preparation for secondary school in the field of design, design and art)
vocational training
The St. Gallen School of Design offers lessons for eleven different apprenticeships as part of basic education:
- Polydesigner 3D
- Printing technologist
- Graphics specialist class
- Photo specialist specializing in sales, photography, finishing
- Photo lab technician
- Graphic artist
- Polygraph specializing in media design, production
- Goldsmith
- Silversmith
- Stone sculptor
- Stonemason
higher vocational education
The St. Gallen School of Design also offers advanced training for working people.
Courses with federal Qualification
- Typographic designer for visual communication
- Operations specialist in printing and packaging technology
- FFR Color Form Space - Color Designer (until July 2014)
Higher technical school for arts, creation and design
As a higher technical school for arts, design and design, the school offers part-time courses in which a federal HF degree is acquired.
Courses with federal HF degree
- dipl. Designer HF, communication design
- dipl. Designer HF, photography and video
- dipl. Designer HF, product design (from 2014)
- dipl. Designer HF, font and typography (in preparation)
public events
Tÿpo St. Gallen
The Tÿpo St. Gallen is a typography symposium and takes place every two years in autumn under the aegis of the St. Gallen School of Design. During three days, numerous specialist speakers devote themselves to a specialist topic in the field of typography.
- Technical topic 2011: Swiss typography
- Specialized topic 2013: white space
- Technical topic 2015: Speed
- Specialized topic 2017: Feedback
Friday talk
On the first Friday of each month, a specialist from the world of work devotes himself to the students. The aim of this event, at which technical experts, entrepreneurs as well as apprentices and students meet, is the exchange of subject-specific information, the transfer of know-how and practical experience as well as the maintenance and expansion of the personal network.