Diploma in Creative Digital Design
Course details
About the course
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)
Entry requirements
Students must have graduated from the Level 5 Diploma in Digital Design – Web and Graphic Design, or have a portfolio assessed by the Head of Faculty. Download our portfolio guidelines for this course.
International students need to be at least 18 years old.
If your first language is not English, you must demonstrate English language proficiency at the level of IELTS 6.0.
About the provider
Yoobee Colleges officially formed in May 2019.
The creative minds and legacies of South Seas Film & Television School, Animation College, Yoobee School of Design, AMES – The Institute of IT and Design & Arts (Canterbury) joined forces to become Yoobee Colleges, an interdisciplinary college with seven campuses located across New Zealand.
The colleges all have rich histories, dating back 30 years in some cases, and they have been working collaboratively for several years to offer complementary pathway programmes.
The official joining of these forces under one umbrella strengthens these relationships, enabling greater pathway options for students and stronger educational outcomes, as some of the best creative educators in New Zealand come together for the joint purpose of training the country’s top creatives and IT professionals and getting them into rewarding careers.