Tool Loans
Tool Loans is a great resource for students looking to do some extra work on their own time. In addition to standard power and hand tools like cordless drills, hammers, pliers, and wrenches, etc.
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OCAD University offers a variety of unique shops and studios for students enrolled in studio classes to explore their art and design practices.
The shops and studios offer access to students who have been properly trained and demonstrate competence, technical skill and an understanding of relevant health and safety issues.
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Studio Resources
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Studios
2D Design Studio
2D maker space designed to support studio production related to illustration, graphic design, advertising, printmaking and publications. Production space outfitted with digital printers, a risograph, and tools and equipment to support book making and poster making.
Drawing and Painting Studios
Our studios have everything you need for drawing, and painting in watercolour, oil and acrylic:
- easels, tables and drawing horses
- optimal lighting, either natural light from skylights or daylight-quality LED lighting
- all studios are equipped with sinks and oily-waste canisters for disposal
- our build shop supports strainer/stretcher and braced panel construction and other build projects
- our workshop has large racks for temporary storage and a spray booth
- lots of hand tools you can use, plus you can buy both flat and beveled wood for building
- our digital suite has interactive tablets and high quality PCs for digital painting and 3D modelling
Intaglio Studio
Brand press, Wepplo press, American French Tool press, acidroom for copper etching rosin aquatint box, and hot plates
Lithography Studio
We’re equipped for traditional printmaking techniques and we experiment with new technologies and materials. Equipment and materials include:
- four litho presses, a selection of stones up to 30” x 44,” and supports for photo plate and stone lithography.
- clean room containing flat file for student storage, clean workspace, guillotine paper cutter, scanners, and an Epson 4880 B&W dye-based printer (for film negatives/ positives).
- risograph: RZ 990U.
Screenprinting Studio
- silkscreen studio: seven vacuum tables, a one-arm manual printing vacuum table, selection of silkscreens up to 48” x 58”, washout room and pressure washer, light table
Relief Printing Studios
Our relief printing studio is equipped with equipment and materials including:
- three letterpresses, several intaglio presses, an intaglio/relief press, 8” x 10” polymer plate maker, Nipping presses, foil stamper, acid room for copper etching, rosin aquatint box, hot plates for grounds and wiping, guillotine paper cutter, large board shear, autocreaser, and a selection of lead and wood type.