Studio time will be used to help you develop and refine core foundation techniques which will help you gain more success in your major studio. Spend time in each of the following:

Life Drawing
Working from the nude model, you will learn techniques to better observe, draw and render the human form accurately. Though drawing the human figure is difficult to master, most
colleges expect to see some figure drawing in your portfolio.

Digital Fundamentals Studio
This introduction to the Adobe Creative Suite will teach you best practices for working across the applications. Work with original and found images, create digital layouts you can use for self-promotion (read Portfolio) and learn how to save, print and send your work digitally.

Visual Communication Studio
Learn concept development strategies through sketching and drawing assignments that will challenge you to go beyond your first ideas, impressions and assumptions. Get what’s in your head, onto your paper.

Extras:
Portfolio Reviews
Bring your best 10 images (digital is preferred) to show a CCS Admissions Counselor. You will get specific feedback about your work, the status of your portfolio, if you would qualify for scholarship at CCS and suggestions on how to make your portfolio better. A seminar on creating a digital presentation of your portfolio will help you understand what colleges are requiring.

Meet Visiting Artists and Creative Professionals who are making a living using their creative side

Studio time will focus on your major studio where you will follow design and creative process toward the completion of several assignments, a final project and a final critique and exhibition of your work.

You choose a major.

Tra-digital Illustration
Learn to combine traditional and digital illustration tools and techniques to create unique illustrations using Adobe Illustration and Photoshop. Sketching, drawing and digital illustration assignments will be used to introduce you to working in a digital medium. Leave with color prints of your work.

Automotive Design
Sketching, rendering and perspective drawing techniques are the core of any strong vehicle design, so get in on the ground floor and learn professional techniques for designing and depicting the complex forms of automobiles in two dimensions. Concept development, ideation and research assignments will require you to develop designs that follow an established design-aesthetic or brand. Final designs will be rendered in color and presented alongside your process work.

Digital Photography
Develop your style, refine your Photoshop® skills and learn to work in a studio with available and artificial lighting. Create images digitally — with and without a camera, and learn to shoot striking images and print fine, high-quality images. Work with digital tools to manage, enhance and correct your images and print them for final exhibition.

Animated Character Development and 3-D Modeling
Use illustration drawing and ideation techniques with the latest industry software and tools to bring your own unique character to life. Create maquettes of your character in clay. Explore the world of computer-generated imagery by moving from characters to their story and environment. Your digital models will be printed in color for exhibition alongside your clay model and illustration studies.

Design What You Use Every Day: Introduction to Product Design
If you consider what something looks like before buying it, you know what product design is all about. We all choose to buy things that visually look good to us. Whether they follow a fashion trend or make a unique statement, a well-designed product can inspire a generation. Cell phones, iPods, Gameboys, sneakers, backpacks, even skateboards all have to be designed by someone — why not you? Create models of your designs and exhibit alongside your color final concept drawings.

Advertising Design
How do you convince people to share a common goal, to make change or just to buy stuff? Advertising takes the quirky truth and matches it up with strong visuals and copy. Work with an experienced ad man to find out what it’s all about. Write a design brief, research your product and identify your target market. Then, design an ad campaign that speaks to them. Create your designs digitally for finished exhibition prints.

Drawing and Painting
Learn or polish foundation drawing and painting skills while working from observation of a still life and live models. An introduction to anatomy will help make it all come together for you. Studio time will focus on drawing with several mediums, composing your drawing, rendering light and form, and accurately portraying spatial relationships between objects and forms.

Fashion: Illustration and Construction

Extras:
Final Exhibition
A great resume builder — all students will participate in this final, formal presentation of work will be open to the public, family and friends on the last day of the Summer Experience program. You should plan to document your own work, so bring a digital camera or plan ahead to scan or save files. Students will remove their own work and take it home with them that day.

Meet Visiting Artists and Creative Professionals who are making a living using their creative side

Programs are run on either the Ford Campus or at the Taubman Center. Location is dictated by the curricula and their related facility requirements. CCS provides regular shuttle service with valid CCS ID between sites. All students will live and dine in the Taubman Center.

CCS has one of the safest college campuses in Michigan. You’ll be able to study, learn and create in an environment where you feel safe and secure. CCS security staff patrol both the Taubman Center and Ford Campus regularly, and are posted 24/7 inside the residence hall, parking structures, and in campus buildings. The parking structures are only accessible with a valid ID card. Campus safety statistics are available on our Website.

2 Weeks - Non-Credit
Resident $1,595
includes: required art materials, full-meal plan, on and off-site activities, studio time

Commuter $1,225
includes: required art materials, lunch-only meal plan, on and off-site activities, studio time

3 weeks - 3.0 College Credits
Resident $2,995
includes: required art materials, full-meal plan, on and off-site activities, studio time, college credits

Commuter $2,225
includes: required art materials, lunch-only meal plan, on and off-site activities, studio time, college credits

Life as a Resident
Live on campus in the CCS-supervised historic, and newly renovated, A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. The building combines living, learning and administrative services under one roof, and is accessible only with an authorized CCS ID card. Precollege students must adhere to the residence hall curfew of 10 PM during the week and 11 PM on Fridays and Saturdays. Students live in shared loft-like spaces with access to common areas, full-service cafeteria and an exercise facility. CCS’s Assistant Residence Life Coordinator, Resident Assistants and current CCS undergraduate Mentors also reside in the Taubman Center and are responsible for chaperoning and managing student activities and the living environment. No Precollege student may be away from campus overnight unless prior written request, and permission, from a parent or guardian is pre-approved by the Continuing Education office. Parents are requested to keep overnight sign-outs to a minimum. Permission forms and detailed information about curfew are included in the confirmation packet sent to students upon acceptance.

Life as a Commuter
All the benefits of attending, but you sleep at home. You are required to attend all mandatory classes, open studios and activities five days a week. Some evening hours will be required. You are encouraged to attend all optional activities on evenings and weekends. You will be given access to the parking decks, and computer labs during building hours only. Commuter students will not have access to the housing facility, but are encouraged to meet up with other Precollege students in lounges, computer labs, the Café or cafeteria, libraries, and the “Oval” grassy area in the center of Ford Campus.

Meal Plans and Food Services
All students are required to purchase one type of meal plan. All meals will include options for vegetarians. Students with special dietary needs should contact the Continuing Education Office. All dietary restrictions or preferences cannot be accommodated. Students with severe allergies are encouraged to bring supplemental food items with them. All students will have access to additional cash purchases at the cafeteria or food service areas on-site. All students will have access to microwaves and vending machines in common areas.

Full Meals for Residents
• Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner
Mon – Fri, brunch and dinner Sat – Sun

Lunch-Only Plan
• Required for commuter students
• Not available for resident students
• Includes lunch on weekdays only

Merit and need-based scholarships are available for the Summer Experience program only. Full and partial scholarships are available and awarded based on overall merit of student’s application and demonstrated financial need. College representatives will consider your submission if received by April 30, 2012. Applications received after the April 30, 2012 deadline will not be eligible for scholarship awards. Awards will be announced via e-mail between May15 - June 15, 2012.

Scholarship awards will be applied directly to student accounts and will be subtracted from the total balance due. Competition for full and partial scholarships is very strong, and funds are limited. In order to have awards applied to your student account, you must call to confirm acceptance of your award, commit to participation in the program, and if you were awarded a partial scholarship, submit the $500 Commitment Fee no later than May 15, 2012. Unclaimed awards will be considered forfeit and will be granted to other deserving student(s).

Complete the Scholarship Application Form Online
• Attach a digital copy of your parent’s/legal guardian’s 2010 U.S. Federal Tax Return
• Attach 6 – 10 digital samples of your best work in any media

CCS’s Precollege Summer programs are designed for independent young people who will take initiative both in and outside of the classroom. If parents and their children are seeking a somewhat sheltered environment, they should consider the nature of this program before applying.

All students participating in CCS’s Precollege Summer programs must sign, and abide by, the CCS Code of Student Conduct and Additional program rules which are sent to all students once enrolled in the program. Students are expected to understand and accept all Precollege Summer program rules and regulations and to observe them fully during their time at CCS. Precollege students are expected to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct, and be respectful of personal and College property and of the rights of other students and staff. Both parents and applicants are required to affirm their knowledge and acceptance of these policies and rules; a statement to this effect must be signed by both parties prior to arriving on campus. All social and educational activities are planned by the College for Creative Studies Continuing Education Department.

CCS’s Precollege Summer programs are designed for independent young people who will take initiative both in and outside of the classroom. If parents and their children are seeking a somewhat sheltered environment, they should consider the nature of this program before applying.

Students who violate College policies, procedures and regulations will be subject to disciplinary action. Violations of college policies and regulations may result in such sanctions as a warning, probation and even dismissal. Certain violations, such as possession or use of alcohol or drugs, will result in immediate dismissal. Such actions are not a substitute for civil or criminal proceedings. All students, whether on or off campus, are also subject to local, state and federal laws. In addition, CCS reserves the right to dismiss students at any time for conduct determined to be detrimental to the CCS community or that violates federal, state or local law.