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design akademie berlin:
The design akademie berlin is an officially recognised private academy for the Marketing & Communication professions offering 4 year 8 semester long academy course ending with the qualification Diploma Communication Designer and starts each year on 1st April or 1st October. This is a full-time course.

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In the 5th semester the students must complete an organised six-month period of practical training. Entrance requirement is a dossier of approx. 15- 20 works of art. Your creative abilities and conceptual thinking is demanded in various projects (e.g. drawings, photos, objects, typographical drafts, calligraphy).

Courses:

Basic Studies (1st -3rd Semester)
- Methodology of Design
- Presentation Techniques
- Drawing
- Illustration
- The study of colour
- Presentational Geometry
- Font/Calligraphy
- Typography/Layout
- Photography
- Computer Graphics/DTP
- Printing Techniques
- Marketing
- Text and Concept
- Theory of Communication
- History of Art
- Social Sciences
- English

Advanced Studies (4th- 8th Semester):

- Project based design
- Design
- Multi-media
- Web-Design
- Audio-visual media
- Film, broadcasting, and TV
- Brochure and Magazine Layout
- Typography, Design schemes
- Digital typographical adaption
- Presentation Techniques 2d/3d
- Illustrations and Layout Techniques
- Photography/Digital Picture Design
- DTP/Production Techniques
- Marketing/Project Management
- Text and Concept
- Medium Theory
- Sociology of Communication
- Advertising History
- Psychology of Advertising
- Starting-up / Law
- Rhetoric
- English

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Address: Paul-Lincke-Ufer 8e, Berlin, Germany
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