The Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design deepens your visual communication skills and enables you to leave your creative mark on the world. Tailor your career to specialise in print media, advertising, corporate branding, digital design or illustration for commercial purposes.
Learn to collaborate with your creative team to realise design projects, mastering each step in the design process from the initial brief to the final art.
Graduates can use their new creative knowledge to build a career as a graphic designer, social media designer or content creator, or take the helm at a design business as a studio manager. If drawing and illustrating is your passion, you can focus on that speciality.
Through theory and practical course work, you will learn to:
Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief
Develop your typographic design expertise
Execute graphic designs for complex briefs
Collaborate with clients
Undertake project work
Establish and maintain an environmentally sustainable work practice
Strengthen your real-world skills in design:
Hand drawing and illustration
3D design and construction
Digital design and illustration techniques
Publishing techniques
Creative problem solving solutions
Team work and collaborative preparation
Produce typography that supports the overall design solution
Use industry software
People who are successful in this industry have:
A passion for exploring innovation in visual communication, advertising, publishing, digital and 3D design
Excellent communication skills
The ability to follow briefs
Strong collaborative skills to work in a team and with clients
A willingness to take professional feedback
A desire to learn the business side of the graphic design industry
Graphic design is the second most popular design skill sought by employers, after User Experience (UX). Labour shortages are occurring in tech design for smart phones, tablets and IoT (Internet of Things), as well as social media, marketing, print and brand identity work.