Certificate in Publication
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The Editorial Design professional course and module focuses on the layout design fundamentals crucial to all magazine and newspaper designers. This short course takes you beyond ready-made magazine and newspaper templates, covering all aspects of publication design and layout, including spreads, singles, ad spots and digital applications. Training will be conducted in the appropriate use of typography, font, grid structure, color and imagery, while exploring various printing, binding and finishing methods to enhance the overall look and feel.
Participants will also explore designing layouts for various editorial categories ranging from sports to food and popular culture.
Orita Sinclair is not your average local art/design school. We believe in doing things differently—all to your advantage.
Each Orita Sinclair Diploma Programme privileges students with small class sizes and a high teacher-to-student ratio (1:20 on average). This leads to an open, discussion-driven learning environment with much room for personal development and learning opportunities, drastically shortening the learning process.
Industry professionals drive a hands-on studio practice: all Orita Sinclair’s educators are practicing designers or artists. This means that you learn practical skills and glean worthwhile advice from real designers and artists of varying disciplines.
We keep abreast of new trends, and we believe that there is a need for our curriculum to be current, flexible and constantly updated—this is where our industry advisory council steps in to advise us, and we translate this into what and how we teach you.
Orita Sinclair believes that art/design/new media education should be portfolio driven—project briefs in class are designed to simulate client briefs in the real world. We set much store by helping you build up a substantive portfolio that will place you in good stead when the time comes for you to meet prospective clients and employers. ...