Graphic & Web Design
About the Program
Our Graphic & Web Design program offers students the opportunity to develop creative & technical skills needed by today’s businesses. Our focus is design thinking for digital and print media, with emphasis on ui/ux, usability, interface design, layout design, & print publication.
Students build an online portfolio of work including web design & coding, print materials, branding & marketing, illustration, photography, video editing, & animation.
In their final semester, students apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired by entering the workplace for a three-week stage placement.
Although there are no prerequisites, candidates for the program must be highly motivated to create professional graphic design for both print and web.
570.0
As a Graphic Design Student, you will learn to:
- Design & create increasingly complex web interfaces with a focus on usability and accessibility, emphasizing responsive, mobile-first, grid-based design
- Design and create brand identity packages for digital and print including logos, business cards, stationery, and web materials
- Design and create print materials such as posters, flyers & brochures, stickers, newsletters & ads, books & manuals, & a variety of commercial packaging
- Create, scan & modify drawings & sketches using traditional and digital media
- Create web animation using drawings, images and sound
- Take and edit digital photos and video
- Start & set up your own design business in Quebec
We are Design Oriented
Graphic & Web Design students learn the following specialized design skills.
- Illustration and sketching
- Composition & layout
- Literative design
- Typography & type systems
- Logo & pictogram design
- Frontend web design & UI/UX
We are Technically Oriented
The focus is on learning the following specialized design software:
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Premiere
- Adobe AfterEffects
- Adobe Lightroom
- Figma (protoyping)
- VSCode (HTML and CSS)
- WordPress (CMS)
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF…
- You are highly motivated
- You are both creative & technical
- You possess good people skills
- You enjoy working with computers and different software
- You enjoy working with computers and different software
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills