Art design belongs to the design discipline. Art design is a special subject of art, which is very comprehensive and can reflect a designer's own comprehensive quality. The basic ability of practitioners is considered from graphic design, visual communication of environmental design, product design and many other professional aspects. In recent years, art design has also been favored by many universities and enterprises, and graduates often get better development, which is a very popular major at present. What courses do you major in art design? Art design courses: history of modern western design, art communication, art management and burial, brief history of art market, aesthetic history of arts and crafts in China, theory and trend of modern art in China, modern and contemporary art in China, history of ancient western art, design criticism, software design foundation, etc. The professional direction of some colleges and universities is: space environment design. Art design mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of art, design, art design history and software design, and carries out courses such as graphic design, environmental art design, decoration design and fashion design. The main courses of art design are: 1. Computer-aided design course: using computers and their graphic devices to help designers complete their design work. CAD for short. In engineering and product design, computers can help designers undertake tasks such as calculation, information storage and drawing. 2. Interior design course: Interior design is to create an indoor environment with reasonable function, comfort and beauty and meet people's material and spiritual needs by using material and technical means and architectural design principles according to the use nature, environment and corresponding standards of buildings. This kind of space environment not only has the use value and meets the corresponding functional requirements, but also embodies the spiritual factors such as historical context, architectural style and environmental atmosphere. What abilities do art design majors need? First of all, art design majors need knowledge courses of art design types, such as basic modeling skills, which is a necessary bridge to professional design skills, including sketch, drawing, material forming and photography. Basic modeling skills can focus on training designers' cognitive ability and expressive ability in formal space, laying a foundation for cultivating designers' design consciousness, design thinking and even design expression and creativity. Secondly, you need to have professional art design skills, and different professional types have different emphases. For example, visual communication design mainly uses design to select the best visual symbols to fully and accurately convey the information that needs to be conveyed; Product design requires a certain understanding of the material, structure, shape, color and surface decoration of the product; Environmental design mainly studies the position, shape, color, material and structure of spatial elements.