HAW Hamburg

[Koen]

There seem to be an Illustration and design education at this school, is anyone familiar with it. Or any other illustration and design educations in Germany?

[John]

HAW bietet Illustration als Studienschwerpunkt an. Eine andere Möglichkeit ist Münster, soll auch nicht schlecht sein. Illustration wird in vielen Kommunikationsdesign- / Visuelle Kommunikationsstudiengängen angeboten, allerdings meistens eher im Bereich Editorial, Comic Illustration. Schau deshalb genau hin bevor du dich bewirbst. Mehr kann ich dazu auch nicht sagen, bin selber Bewerber - allerdings im zweiten Anlauf :)

[Dr. Raffmann]

one major problem with artschools in germany is, that they won´t teach you in fine arts the way you´d like it. Mostly everything related to comics, sculpturing or concept art is declared as "low" art. i finisihed studying grafic design at the "lette-verein", an artschool in berlin with over 200 years of tradition...they could not teach me any drawing techniques at all-it´s all about designing intelectual advertising campains and stuff like that. Try to apply at a private institution like games-academy(in berlin), for instance.

Dr. Raff

[Koen]

I was afraid of that :) that most illustration educations would be related to communication and designs. Berlin is a bit too far away for me, i would like to stay in the north western part of germany. I've been there quite often and i like it there. The Kunst acedemie in groningen (Minerva) would also be an option.

Thanks for the replies!

[blacky]

have written somewhat of a lenghthy comment on HAW (Ahrngardstrasse) here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36415&page=2&highlight=hamburg