Applying your creativity to shape a career communicating ideas and concepts.
The three-year Graphic Design Ontario College Advanced Diploma program helps you apply your creativity to communicating ideas and concepts in both print and interactive media.
Using a combination of theoretical and hands-on learning, you gain skills in design, typography, image, colour, coding, motion graphics, interaction and production from industry-connected faculty. You learn to be a problem-solver who can manage and execute visual design projects.
Whether learning design for the page or for the screen, you study industry-endorsed concepts and techniques. You also become an expert at communicating ideas to a client through:
sketches
prototypes
storyboards
interactive mock-ups
There is a strong focus on hands-on training, using industry-standard software tools, which will ensure you are career-ready upon graduation. Field trips and actual client projects are offered to bring the workplace into the classroom.
From your second year on, you become a student-member of the Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario. In your final semester, you embark on a six-week fieldwork placement that transitions you to industry. You work side-by-side with experienced professionals and gain networking contacts.
Upon graduation, you will have developed a design portfolio that showcases your creativity and problem-solving skills. You will display your work at the annual Grad Show exhibition.
Graduates may find employment in a(n):
graphic design studio
advertising agency
motion graphics studio
interactive/web design studio.
Graduates may also find work as an in-house designer for an organization or government, in the television, entertainment or game-development industry, or in freelance opportunities.
SUCCESS FACTORS
This program is well-suited for students who:
Think visually and creatively and are conceptual thinkers.
Enjoy solving visual communication problems.
Enjoy sketching and drawing and using software tools.
Enjoy working with type and imagery to communicate ideas.
Are detail-oriented, organized and committed to coming up with the perfect design solution in their final products.
Have critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.