Leeds College Of Art

I visited LCOA and I wasn't too sure on how I would like. As much as I love the over-all city, I had never seen or known first hand what LCOA is like, so I figured my best bet would be to visit the university. 

I caught the train, which was simple enough and I have done quite a few times so that wasn't necceserily a problem. However, the actual trek from the centre of Leeds was quite a while away. Strangely enough, even university in Leeds come's before LCOA. 

The facilities were great; you had complete access to the university facilities on both this campus and their other LCOA with the other access to the other universities also. Plus, they're merging soon with Uni Of which sounded like it was to become an even more interesting university to attend. The rooms were large and of all art variety; each block had their own shop containing all the materials they could wish for at a discounted price for students due to the students having a discount card. The rooms that particularly stood out to me, were the screen printing rooms (where you had a somewhat dark room inside where you had to wear a gas mask and protective gear to develop your piece of art.), the textile room was pretty exciting with how much space and interesting textures they had and I loved their computers where they had specific settings to be set where you're able to see the image you have made, in the exact colours it would be printed out in. 

However, I didn't like how far away it was; how the lady who took me around said that there were only 2 student housing near the building/in the area and then the rest were anywhere up to half an hour to an hour, bus journey away and that just doesn't appeal to me. 

I wasn't told the over-all Illustration spec, however you're able to read that up on the course spec online. The course seems to be based primarily around illustration and developing your skills within the illustrative business, which is a good plan. However, I would like also, to have a lot of experimental time too! Luckily, the lady did state that we have the ability to go into any room (sometimes you may have to book) at any time and try out all their facilities which is nice. Also, she stated that you always had help on hand by each blocks technicians, which is always a good addition since a lot of the machinery and the other facilities she showed me, I had not used before.