Tokyo Designer Gakuin

Japanese: 東京デザイナー学院
field: apparel
region: Tokyo
url: Tokyo Designer Gakuin official site

Established in 1963, Tokyo Designer Gakuin College offers an incredible range of design courses from fashion design all the way to animation.

Tokyo Designer Gakuin’s Fashion Design courses teach fashion history, materials, business acumen, technology and skills from drawing to pattern making to sewing. The school aims to promote talent with links to other creative fields like music, the arts, and so on.

Many Tokyo Designer Gakuin students participate in Tokyo’s popupar Design Festa The school also organizes no less than 6 fashion shows every year.

Tokyo Designer Gakuin was the first school in Japan to introduce animation to its curriculum (1965). About 200 students, including some from China, Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand, are enrolled in the school’s two-year anime course.

courses
Fashion Design
Fashion Stylist
Fashion Business
Fashion Coordinator
Buyer
Patterner
Bridal Fashion
Make-Up Artist
Graphic Design
Illustration
Manga
Animation
Game Creator
Product Design
Art
Interior Design
Architectural Design

selected alumni
Hiroshi Fukutomi (left in middle of studies)
Susumu Hirasawa
Marcos Weskamp
Eiji Yamada

address:

2-11 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 101-0062

toll-free: 0120-62-6006
phone: —
fax: (81) 03-3292-1675

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