Design Programs in Sydney Australia

Billy Blue College:
Billy Blue School of Graphic Arts provides an educational environment which mirrors how design and advertising agencies operate. The school equips students with both formal qualifications and practical skills in the fields of Communication Design and Multimedia Design. Potential careers are in the fields of Advertising, Packaging, Illustration, Publishing, Typography, Internet Design, 3D Modelling, Animations and Film Post-Production. We are located in North Sydney, a lively and sophisticated business district with many food courts and shops around, and close to North Sydney train station. It's just a few minutes across the Harbour Bridge to downtown Sydney and a bus ride to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

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Certificate III Design Fundamentals
The Design Fundamentals program is an important step towards a creative and rewarding career in design. It provides students with the knowledge, skills, experience, cultural context and portfolio they need to go on to a successful tertiary education in the visual arts.

Advanced Diploma of Communication Design; Associate Degree in Communication Design
Communication Design is the name of the program that we used to call Graphic Design. The reason for the name change is that graphic design is now seen as just one element in a broad and evolving range of visual communication disciplines. Graphic design, advertising, publishing, packaging and typography are all areas of communication design and there are many more. The nature of the Communication Design industry is such that designers are often required to work across a range of disciplines and media including of course the digital environment.

The Communication Design program aims to produce imaginative designers who work creatively in areas where information is primarily conveyed by visual means such as advertising, publishing, publicity, printing, merchandising, digital design, education and research.

Advanced Diploma of Communication Design [Multimedia Design stream]; Associate Degree in Multimedia Design
Multimedia Design is a dynamic range of time-based visual communication. It includes everything on the web, anything interactive (e.g. touch screens), CD ROMs, DVD’s, digital interfaces, digital animation, video games, Flash technology, mobile phones and a whole lot more. Basically, if it’s graphic and it moves, it qualifies as multimedia. Billy Blue’s Multimedia Design program develops skills in communication design for digital media including, audio and video specialisation, 3D modelling, typography, programming/scripting for the web, animation, film and television postproduction and computer interactive mediums.

Both design programs build upon feedback and evaluation from the industry and provide clear pathways to a variety of vocational outcomes. Students graduate with highly developed skills across a range of disciplines and media, supporting the shape and direction of employment opportunities in exciting and dynamic industries such as Graphic Design, Publishing Design, Packaging Design, Advertising, Digital Film and Video Production, Video Game Design, Digital Video Animation and Web Design. The phenomenal growth of these areas and how they affect day-to-day life is unprecedented. Business, the media, education, entertainment and governments have begun to refocus on the production and delivery of their visual and information communication strategies to reflect these changes which results in a strong global demand for our graduates.

Bachelor of Design (Communication Design); Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design)
Design studios seek graduates with that ‘something extra’. By completing a Bachelor of Design program, not only will you receive a Bachelor Degree from one of Australia’s best universities in the field of design (we work in conjunction with Swinburne University), you will also develop a highly sophisticated portfolio. The third year of study focuses strongly on design strategy and your work will reflect the thorough research you have carried out for your projects.