Saturday School Short Design Courses

Looking for an introductory course in design to:

• Enhance your work skills?
• Learn more about a profession before committing to full-time study?
• Improve your chance of getting into competitive courses?
• Develop a passion or try something completely new?

Design Centre Enmore offers popular Saturday School short courses regularly throughout the year.

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Telephone: (02) 9217 5114 (Thesa Cuenca)
Email: Design Centre Enmore.

This course will introduce you to the fundamental principles and skills of graphic design. It is designed to provide students with an entry-level understanding of how the graphic design industry works, and how to ensure they are competitive in the industry. Some of the key software applications used in the industry are explored and by working on simulated projects such as designing magazine covers, page layouts and logos you will begin to develop a great looking portfolio to assist in job and course applications.
• Learn to produce basic graphic layouts through projects using the Adobe Creative Suite, in particular InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Gain an understanding of the fundamental rules of design including typography, colour and layout.
• Create and present a portfolio and explore what constitutes a good portfolio

This program will teach you the professional skills required to make jewellery and objects. You will learn to use a piercing saw, a small bench drill and a micro motor to file, solder and hand-finish sterling silver.

This is a program for anyone who wants to make jewellery as a recreational activity, with professional level skills. This program will also suit anyone who is considering jewellery making as a potential career.

The program will introduce you to basic hand skills. You will learn to use the piercing saw, bench drill, micro motor and doming tools and filing, soldering and polishing techniques. The primary objective of the program is to acquire these skills through the manufacture of finely crafted items.

By the end of the program you will have designed and made at least one major sterling silver jewellery item, which can be worn or become a unique hand-held object (this is not a program in beading and wirework).

This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of web design and Dreamweaver. You will learn about:

. the web design process
. applying design principles to the WWW and their constraints in the web environment
. image optimisation using Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator
. building web pages using the Dreamweaver interface.

This course has an emphasis on design and front-end development. It is delivered using the Adobe Creative Suite.

This course is designed to introduce students to the manipulation of digital images using the popular software programs Adobe ‘Photoshop’ and ‘Illustrator’. Students will learn how to use the many features of ‘Photoshop’ and ‘Illustrator’ to clip, resize, and adjust digital images, as well as how to create different visual special effects to enhance digital images and create
• Introduction to all of the tools available within each application
• Working with layers, channels, selections and masks
• Exploring key concepts such as resolution, colour modes and file size
• Working with text
• Using filters and effects

This is an intermediate level course designed to develop skills in web design and writing Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will elaborate on the web design process whilst learning how to translate their designs to hand coded pages in XHTML and CSS using Dreamweaver.

This course maintains an emphasis on design and front-end development. It is delivered using the Adobe Creative Suite.

This course will take you through the fundamentals of WordPress from installation, establishing a local testing environment through to designing and implementing a custom WordPress theme.