Diploma in Creative Digital Design

Communication Design

Gain skills to effectively use type, imagery, and principles of visual design to communicate information through static or dynamic visual media. Apply specialised design principles and methodologies to create digital media design solutions.

Narrative and Storytelling

Learn to design publications that speak clearly to a target audience. Work with typography, layout and visual components to create deliverables that are bang on the money.

Brand Strategy

Learn the skills to develop successful brand strategies through research, discovery, ideation, critical thinking. Work on various design projects including design processes and production practices using current industry standard best practices.

Packaging

Work through the process of launching a product, creating a range of deliverables for a target audience, learning about barcoding, QR codes, product photography, die lines, packaging, and printing on different substrates and will investigate how to access crowdfunding.

Experiential Design

Learn the skills to create static or dynamic visual design experiences that effectively communicate with a defined target audience whilst considering intercultural visual communication. Apply visual communication skills, design theories, principles and methodologies, semiotic analysis, and user experience way-finding systems for both physical or digital environments.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive the New Zealand Diploma in Digital Media and Design (Level 6).

Software:

We provide you with software licences for: Adobe CC suite, online collaborative design tools.

Equipment:

You are required to bring your own device. This allows flexibility of study outside of class hours and seamless remote study in the event of another lockdown where classroom facilities are inaccessible. If you do not own your own device, please discuss this with one of our team at enrolment.

Domestic students

• Tuition Fees: $8919

• Student Services Levy: $350

• Course Related Costs*: $361

*Course Related Cost  - Covers software licensing for student use on campus for the period of 1 year. This amount can be covered by StudyLink's courses related cost loan.

Fees Free Study

To find out if you are eligible for Fees Free study, please find out more here or visit the government Fees Free Website

International students

• Tuition Fees: $26,000 (NZD)

• Course Related Costs: $2,000 (NZD)

For more information, click here to download the international course costs PDF.

Please note fees are subject to change.

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 (Academic) 6.0.