High School Residential Camps

Do you love buildings, both inside and out? Are you curious about designing spaces where people live, work, and gather? Then the Architecture & Interior Design DAAPcamp is the perfect fit for you this summer.

This camp mixes hands-on design projects with field trips to local firms and cool buildings around Cincinnati. You'll also get one-on-one attention from UC faculty and a real taste of college life. Join us and discover what it's like to design the spaces we live in.

Do you notice fashion everywhere you go? Do you sketch outfit ideas, get inspired by colors and fabrics, or think "I have an idea for a look nobody's ever made before"? If so, Fashion Design might be the right path for you.

At DAAPcamps, you'll spend a full week learning how fashion designers actually work, from first idea to finished piece. You'll learn the same tools and techniques real designers use today, and create your own designs that show off your unique style and be part of the future of fashion.

This camp is for students who want to grow as artists. You'll work on your own ideas, and you'll also study and copy paintings by famous artists to learn from their techniques. You'll draw and paint at different spots around campus, and you'll get to talk with real working artists.

Along the way, you'll get better at using color, tone, and proportion. You'll also learn about major moments in art history. By the end of the week, you'll feel more confident in your skills and more willing to try new ideas.

Learn the basics of type, photography, color, images, and motion, and use them to share your ideas with people. You'll meet award-winning designers and learn how to use design tools to create your own projects, plus work with others on group projects.

You'll use DAAP's studios and equipment to make your own graphic design work. You'll also get an introduction to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, the same software professional designers use every day.

Every product around you was designed by someone. Your keyboard, your family's car, even the shoes on your feet all started as an idea from an industrial designer solving a real problem for real people. This camp helps you discover what industrial design is and what UC's well-known Industrial Design program has to offer.

You'll get a full sample of the DAAP experience. That includes live Q&A sessions with DAAP faculty, staff, and students, tours of the library, studios, labs, and workshops, and tutorials from UC alumni who now work as industrial designers. You'll also tour professional design offices, hear from design leaders in the industry, and work with other students who share your interests.

You'll use all of these resources to complete a real design challenge, from start to finish. That means identifying a problem, researching it, brainstorming ideas, sketching your concepts, and building 2D and 3D models. You'll test your ideas, build a real, physical product, and present your final solution.

Are you the person who always knows about the newest sneaker releases? Do you know exactly when your favorite shoes are about to drop, and have a plan for buying them before they sell out? Maybe you even know how serious sneaker collectors use bots, or automated buying tools, to grab a pair the second it goes on sale. If any of this sounds like you, you're a SNEAKERHEAD. Maybe you already find yourself sketching your own dream shoe, imagining what you'd design if you worked for a major athletic brand one day.