Design Degree Programs in Shanghai, China

Raffles Design Institute Shanghai:
Raffles Design Institute Shanghai has been established in 1994. With over 23 years of experience, Raffles Academy Shanghai is renowned for its outstanding education and its creative environment, making it one of the top design and business schools in the Asia Pacific. Our professional courses are relevant to the latest developments in design and business and emphasize on cultivating students' originality and creativity. Our international environment, innovative and practical curriculum, experienced foreign teachers and vibrant campus make students' study exciting and challenging. We are commited to nurturing creative talents and design management expertise for the arts and design industry.

Fashion Design
Our course will help you to discover and explore the individual style and talent you can offer this high profile industry. You will develop your skills and interests with projects which build technical know-how in everything from concept to catwalk.

This major will introduce you to both high fashion (haute couture) as well as ready to-wear fashion, using both the computer as well as traditional manual skills. You will work on developing a design idea for a collection from concept through to production and marketing.

You will also work with classmates on professional presentations which simulate real world scenarios. At the end of the third year, you have the opportunity to present your final range to your family and friends, the public and industry at Shanghai Fashion Week.

The fashion show is the prime example of our aims and objectives in the course which are to identify and develop the talents and interests of each student, polish their technical skills, and introduce them to real-life fashion design environments.

Fashion is a global as well as local multimillion dollar business, which increasingly demands students to be multi-skilled in both manual and digital technologies.

When you complete your degree, you will have a magnificent final range and a professional portfolio to take you straight into your first job.

Fashion Marketing
This course teaches you how to market fashion, bringing the world’s fashion from the designer’s studio to the wholesale showroom and to the retail outlets.

You will learn a wide range of business activities in fashion, branding, retail, merchandising and international marketing that fosters creativity, innovation and good business acumen.

Fashion Marketing is an exciting field that opens up many opportunities in the fashion industry. It’s one of the major components that drive the fashion industry. You will learn how to develop, analyse and implement brand strategies, study buying and merchandising practices, plan and execute effective advertising and promotional strategies.

As the fashion and retail industries continue to grow, more trained fashion marketers and managers are needed by fashion houses to remain competitive.

The broad-based skills acquired in this course can be applied to many areas such as marketing, merchandising, publishing, advertising and fashion show productions as well as luxury goods and mainstream consumer products.

Our Fashion Marketing graduates will be ready to assume professional work in the fast-paced fashion industry in public relations and marketing consultancies.

You will work with classmates on professional presentations with real-world scenarios and you will complete your degree with fashion marketing proposals and that will take you straight into your first job.

Interior Design
The designer not only works on the aesthetic, but also the functional, social, safety and cultural aspects of the inner space environment.

Raffles’ interior design course will give really make a difference in this booming discipline. A successful interior designer needs to understand the technical requirements of a project, as well as have good interpersonal communication skills and management strategies.

This major will teach you an appreciation of design, lighting and colour, and provide you with technical skills to create unique spaces. You will learn to convert your ideas from conceptual drawings to detailed building specifications and technical drawings of practical projects which will challenge you to find creative, functional solutions to a variety of briefs.

There is a very good balance between the theories that underpin the understanding and articulation of design ideas and concepts, and the hands-on practical application of those theories.

To fully support you, we provide the appropriate building, construction and communication technologies to give you the confidence needed to have an impact on your professional world.

From awkward domestic spaces to vast shopping malls, interior design is a diverse and global discipline which can take you and your talent wherever you want to go.

Visual Communication
Studying graphic design will encourage you to identify and develop your own individual creative personality. The course provides a structure which opens the door to your creativity and personal growth.

It will provide all the necessary ingredients including freedom, structure and encouragement, empowering your personal and professional life. First you will master the basics.

You will begin by learning all the practical and theoretical skills needed. With confidence and expertise in these core skills, you will start to explore all the different areas of graphic design, including advertising, editorial design, package design and website design.

You will be given individual tuition by industry-based lecturers and encouraged to focus your energies on developing your own personal creativity. Taught by inspirational lecturers, you will gather great skills, techniques and useful knowledge in a diverse range of areas including illustration, multimedia, and history of graphic design.

Gathering skills and technical knowledge in a diverse range of areas, you will graduate with the ability to find creative solutions to problems using your own individual style.

By the end of the course, you will be confident, capable and ready to work. You will graduate with a strong sense of creative wisdom that will be greatly valued and highly desirable to future employers.

You will also have created for yourself an outstanding portfolio of high quality work that will showcase your individual style, talent and specialist skills to a world that is full of exciting opportunities.

Digital Media Design
The purpose of this programme is to equip students with the fundamental broad-based skills in graphic design, afterwhich, students learn to transform 2D graphics into the 3D world by creating interfaces and integrate programming abilities to illustrate the wonders of using multiple forms of Interactive Media. 

Students are also presented with the opportunity to research multimedia design trends and issues within society to produce an integrated suite of design solutions, taking into
account aspects of culture, economics and social interaction.