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1.4 Years
Face-to-Face 15 hrs / week | Distance 5 hrs / week
Face-to-Face / Distance · 20 hours per week (15 hrs face-to-face + 5 hrs distance)
Monthly (you may commence any Monday)
Course Overview
Where You Can Study
Gold Coast
Eligibility
Career & Study Pathways
Quality & Recognition
Academic Regulator
ASQA
Accreditation Status
AccreditedCourse Content
Extend typographic design expertise
Advanced typography unit covering typography, styles and execution in a variety of environments. Students will work on a major project based around environmental, three dimensional typography.
Undertake project work
Learn how to undertake a straightforward project or a section of a larger project, covering developing a project plan, administering and monitoring the project, finalising and reviewing the project.
Extend expertise in a specialised art form to professional level
Gain the skills to extend your own expertise in a specialised art form in order to develop a cohesive body of professional work for the public domain.
Engage in the business of graphic design
Describes the skills and knowledge required to adopt a professional, commercial approach to graphic design practice. Students research, evaluate and complete a professional business plan for their own creative business.
Collaborate in professional creative projects
Learn the skills and knowledge required to collaborate with other creative practitioners to establish, realise and evaluate a creative project.
Originate a body of independent creative work
Plan, manage and implement their own creative project from beginning to finished product.
Manage design realisation
Plan, manage and implement their own creative project from beginning to finished product.
Apply critical thinking for complex problem solving
Understand how to use logical thinking to come up with solutions to problems that occur in the workplace, thinking objectively to come up with organised and creative solutions to complex organisational problems.
Develop professional illustrations
Learn about commercial illustration and topics surrounding the business of Illustration. Students produce illustrations for a national travel company promoting international locations.
Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief
Learn about commercial illustration and topics surrounding the business of Illustration.
Implement design solutions
Work on a design project focused on digital design practices, using industry Adobe programs to complete the complex task.
Originate graphic designs for complex briefs
Work on a design project focused on digital design practices, enhancing digital proficiency and preparing graduates for industry.
Develop graphic designs for branding and identity
Learn the fundamentals of branding and develop the skills needed to create a visual identity that stands out from competitors and communicates with its intended audience.
Develop graphic designs for packaging
Learn how to create graphic designs for packaging by combining creative and technical design expertise with a comprehensive understanding of the particular factors that apply to packaging.
Publicly present a body of own creative work
Learn to present and debate ideas in a work or broader life context using creative techniques in order to provoke response, reaction and critical discussion.
Common Questions
Students must meet academic requirements (minimum Year 12 or Certificate III or higher, or pass the Entrepreneur LLN Test), English requirements (e.g. IELTS 5.5 or Upper Intermediate Certificate), and course-specific requirements — either completing six specified units from the CUA50720 Diploma of Graphic Design, or submitting at least five examples of computer-edited graphic work in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign covering typographic, 2D, 3D and complex design pieces.
The course runs for 74 weeks in total, which is broken down into 50 weeks of study, 6 weeks of supervised study, and 18 weeks of holidays. Classes are delivered face-to-face for 15 hours per week plus 5 hours of distance education per week.
Students will require continual access to their own laptop computer during class and outside of class to meet distance education requirements, and must have a subscription to the current version of Adobe Creative Cloud Suite. Students are required to purchase these items at their own expense. Computer system requirements can be found at https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html.
Graduates of the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design may pursue careers as a Graphic Designer, User Interface Designer, or Freelance Graphic Designer.
You may be eligible for Credit Transfers if you hold the same unit(s) from another provider. To be eligible, you must present your certified qualification at enrolment stage, together with the completed 'Course Credit Form'. Once assessed, you will be notified of the outcome. Should your achieved units be equivalent, your CoE/course duration will be reduced according to the amount of time needed to complete the outstanding units.
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