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Friends Of Design's professional team of industry-experienced lecturers off you a professional digital training experience with courses ranging from print to web to motion graphics. All completely customisable and tailored to suit the immediate needs of your design team.
Description:
Our 2 year, practical, programme comprises 2 one year modules, namely 1 Year Print Design & Publishing and the 1 Year Web Design & Interactive Media, to give you the most thorough foundation available in the instruction of digital design today. This combination will give you the knowledge to understand and work with the design process in your chosen discipline, the tools and techniques to digitally produce the work in a professional manner and the sensitivity to appreciate and utilise the context in which you are designing.
Course 2: Higher Certificate in Print Design & Publishing 2011
Description:
Our accredited one-year, practical print programme is designed to give you a thorough grounding in print media environment. You will master the tools, practices and terminology required to produce professional print media. You will emerge confident enough to apply your skills from pre-press to post-press: receiving a brief, conceptualizing a visual solution; presenting the ideas professionally; executing a concept digitally through the use of a wide range of industry standard application programs such as Adobe InDesign®, Illustrator®, Photoshop® and Flash ® and applying finishing art techniques to take your documents to press, and, finally, presenting the final body of work in a professional manner.
Description:
This one year, full time, practical programme engages you in a fixed curriculum around standards-compliant web design and publishing, video production and post production techniques, 2D animation, compositing and visual effects, game design theory and community supported open source content management systems. The programme emphasizes technical training, interactive screen design in context and conceptual thinking.
Description:
Learn to build compelling, functional and beautiful web sites using standards compliant code and design techniques, using 3 popular technologies: ), HTML & CSS (the basis of every site), Adobe Flash (for rich media web sites requiring animation, sound and video integration and WordPress templates (for social media integration such a blogs etc.)
Description:
Learn to create printed visual communication that is compelling and professional. Create stunning visual effects using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator’s powerful tools. Learn concepts and techniques to create professional posters, brochures, flyers and packaging and more. Build foundational skills that allow you to explore graphic creation for fields such as fashion design and interior design too.
Customer Reviews:
Just wanted to say thank you very much for the excellent training last week - we all really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. It's going to do good things for our business. Richard Gregory, Multimedia Content Producer, Media 24.com, Motion Graphics
One of the best courses I have ever attended! Thank you for the course but also for showing us how to present such a course - a double learning curve. Alistair, Edu-Media
