Graphic design

Overview

In the age of desktop publishing (DTP), graphic design became the most innovative branch of design, with a strong presence of its intellectual products in everyday life, both in the online and offline media. In these fields, we will introduce you to the secrets of the various surfaces and media of graphic design, from illustration to book, identity and poster design, branding, logos, pictograms, and packaging design.

Practical Opportunities During Education

In our Graphic Design workshop, you can create illustrations using lithography, screen printing, linocut, and woodcut techniques. Our computer studios have the latest DTP software at your disposal. You can try out our digital printing machines and Rizography, and use our laser cutter, 3D printer, and bookbinding workshop to make your computer designs a reality. 

The training will give priority to: 

• individual consultations, mentoring by teachers; 
• focus on practical work and creativity; 
• creative solutions to realistic, real-life, often challenging problems, actual tasks; 
• teamwork alongside individual achievement; 
• an integrated, cross-disciplinary project-based teaching methodology. 

Educational Opportunities

We build on your competencies so that they can be fulfilled. 

You will find your individual voice, style, and brand. 

You will become committed to innovative, aesthetic, smart graphics and typography. 

We will channel your creativity into a conscious flow so that you can work both independently and in a team. 

Specialization

Specializations are launched only if a sufficient number of students wish to join the specialization. 

• Graphic Design: 

Choose this specialization to acquire hands-on knowledge on the greatest scale both on the traditional platforms of graphic design and in the area of the new media. You will be able to find your own voice on every graphic design platform through life-like tasks, which you will be able to exploit in your design and creative work. We will prepare you to be able to communicate visually in the language of graphic design in your career. 

In this specialization, you can learn typography, logo, pictogram design, branding, packaging design, illustration design, book design, poster design, bookbinding, web design, infographics, info design, reproduction graphics, linocut, woodcut, engraving, lithography, screen printing, and risograph.  

• Packaging Design: 

Choose this specialization if you feel it is important to dress the brands lined up on store shelves with practical and functional design objects, creative product images, and unique and special packaging. Our specialization emphasizes the knowledge of innovative technologies, biomaterials, and the possibility of recycling and reuse in the field of packaging culture, which is one of the most complex and demanding areas of visual communication. 

This specialization includes packaging culture, paper, and packaging industry skills, printing technology, visual concept development, campaign, logo, emblem, pictogram, brand image identity, branding, infographics, illustration techniques, typography, mock-ups, model making, 3D visual design, 3D graphics with spatial illustration, pop-up book design, board game design and creation, bookbinding techniques. 

Career Opportunities

• Freelance artist as a graphic designer, packaging designer, illustrator  
• Art director, a graphic designer in graphic studios, creative agencies  
• Illustrator, image editor, or DTP editor in online and print media  
• Web designer, UI, UX designer