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Digital Design
18 week Digital Design Certificate
Certificate course Starts:
8 Oct 07
7 Jan 08
10 Mar 08
2 Jun 08
Course Fees:
18 week Digital Design Certificate £2,625
Digital technologies have transformed many existing areas of creativity, such as print, film and television, and created new ones like games design and the Internet. This has opened up exciting new possibilities for those with the right mix of creative and technical design skills.
This specialist course is for students who want to be part of this growing field of graphic design and will prepare you for a range of career options including design for print, the internet and multimedia.
It provides a challenging and stimulating learning experience that gives you the flexibility to explore a bewildering array of specialist software applications essential for those interested in working in modern media.
From day one you'll get to grips with the industry standard applications used to develop high quality printed documents. In addition, the web design module takes you through constructing sites for publication on the web. To consolidate all this, you'll work on 'real-life' digital projects designed to give you the opportunity to experiment and build on your skills.
18 WEEK Digital design Certificate syllabus:
Graphics Technology
- i-Mac Technology
- Adobe InDesign - from basic page set up, inputting text and pictures, formatting, master pages, guides, palettes, objects, clipping paths, document preferences, colour modes, style sheets, advanced formatting, importing files, handling multi-page documents, preparing documents for print.
- QuarkXPress – a brief overview of this popular package.
- Adobe Illustrator - creating illustrations, drawings, maps, logos and advertisement graphics
- Adobe Photoshop - from creating images from scratch to adapting photos/graphics, applying effects, preparing for print/export, touching up, creating paths, deploying textures, working with layers, colour model/modes, cropping/composing, layer effects and blends
- Projects - beginning with the basic business card, this course quickly moves on to larger projects that rely on the skills & knowledge gained in formal training. Expect to produce book jackets, posters, flyers & multi-page documents.
Web Design
- Macromedia Dreamweaver: the environment and site management
- Constructing a basic page in Dreamweaver
- Working with images, image maps and creating rollovers
- Adding images, scanning and navigation bars
- Advanced web page linking
- Working with tables
- Building frame based sites
- Preparing images with HTML documents in mind
- Browser palettes
- Edit and optimise images
- Navigation design
- Copyright issues with web images
- Page design using image program and integration with Dreamweaver
- Using cascading style sheets for design
Digital Design Workshops
- Labelling and packaging for products
- Product simulation
- Design of marketing materials
- Producing a short digital video
- Commercial web site design
Careers - Including CV preparation, interview skills training & job search.
On successful completion, students will be awarded certificates from the relevant examination bodies together with the HCB Digital Design Certificate.
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Digital Design -
A Student's View
"The course has put my foot in the door of the career I've been wanting for so long. The future doesn't look boring any more and it's all thanks to the great help and support from Paul and Cameron."