Developing Art and Graphic Skills among Future Designers: An Integrative Principle and A Methodical Model

The authors talk about the methodological problems of training designers in transitional educational systems of postcolonial society. They solve new theoretical perspectives of integrative design teaching for future specialists. The authors aim not only to generalize the theoretical foundations, but also to create a single relatively closed model of formation of artistic and graphic skills and abilities of future designers and even offer illustrative tasks with simultaneous use of different types of social consciousness and the main (generic) types of modern design - environmental, universal. , communicative (communicative-digital) and futuristic. Achieving this goal was possible by using only theoretical methods - system analysis of literature, historical and typological observations, epistemological generalizations extrapolations within an integrative understanding of the object of transformation and pedagogical modeling. The main practical achievements of the article are the universal multilevel model, its explication and illustrative examples of the tasks of its implementation. The theoretical results of the article were a new understanding of the functionality of artifacts, the secondary nature of the aesthetic component, the integration of its practical and universal communicative functions. The article may be of interest to teachers of design departments and courses, design students, design practitioners and specialists in the field of advanced design.