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In this course, you'll delve deeper into the conventional design process and learn how to channel that knowledge into creating epic works of art. From digital packaging and posters to magazines, brochures, and ads, you'll explore a wide range of mediums while honing your technical skills and nurturing your creative vision.

Master the skills that will keep you fresh, relevant and out in front, and learn how to combine your creative and digital talents to produce work that’s compelling, persuasive... and seriously cool.

We’ll teach you typography, layout and how to capture and manipulate images. You’ll deepen your understanding of the conventional design process, and you’ll learn how to channel that knowledge into the creation of epic work, from digital packaging and posters to magazines, brochures and ads.

Gain the practical software, creative and pre-press design skills that industry is crying out for.

With this qualification, you’ll be highly sought after for both your technical smarts and creative vision and ideally placed to launch your career in any number of exciting areas, such as design agencies, print and pre-press, packaging and finished art, typesetting, magazines and newspapers, advertising and image retouching.

For digital design junkies like you, every minute of this 40-week course will be pure gold.

Graduates of the course receive the New Zealand Diploma in Digital Media and Design (Level 6).

What you'll learn

Communication Design

Gain skills to effectively use type, imagery, and principles of visual design to communicate information through static or dynamic visual media. Apply specialised design principles and methodologies to create digital media design solutions.

Narrative and Storytelling

Learn to design publications that speak clearly to a target audience. Work with typography, layout and visual components to create deliverables that are bang on the money.

Brand Strategy

Learn the skills to develop successful brand strategies through research, discovery, ideation, critical thinking. Work on various design projects including design processes and production practices using current industry standard best practices.

Packaging

Work through the process of launching a product, creating a range of deliverables for a target audience, learning about barcoding, QR codes, product photography, die lines, packaging, and printing on different substrates and will investigate how to access crowdfunding.

Experiential Design

Learn the skills to create static or dynamic visual design experiences that effectively communicate with a defined target audience whilst considering intercultural visual communication. Apply visual communication skills, design theories, principles and methodologies, semiotic analysis, and user experience way-finding systems for both physical or digital environments.