Graphic Design

Code	570.G0
Diploma	DCS
Sector	Communications and Documentation
Number of credits	91 2/3
Approximate duration in months	36 months
Status	Program approuved in 2013.

Note(s)
This program is offered in French: Graphisme

Program Objectives

The Graphic Design Program aims to train people capable of working as professional graphic designers.

Graphic designers may be self-employed or may work in specialized organizations, within the graphic communications and multimedia sector, or in companies that provide graphic communications services.

Graphic designers can develop visual concepts and design display models after meeting with a customer or client. In order to accomplish this, they must make typographic choices, produce and/or choose images and illustrations to be used to carry out a project, according to the needs and expectations of the client. Graphic designers also create page layouts for prints and visual interfaces. In the case of people who are self-employed, over and above their usual tasks, they must also manage their own small business.

Length of training

Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
1980	2640

Total length of training includes general training that is common to all programs for 420 hours, general training for this program for 150 hours as well as complementary general training courses for 90 hours.

Duration of training consists of theory and lab work for courses; personal time that the student invests is excluded.

Program Content

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
052V	Analyze forms of visual communication and their production requirements
052W	Manage a computer environment
052X	Acquire images
052Y	Create raster images
052Z	Create vector images
0534	Manipulate typographic elements
0536	Produce simple layouts for visual interfaces
0539	Coordinate a graphic communications project
053M	Manage a graphic design microbusiness
053N	Use elements of visual language derived from the visual arts and graphic design
053P	Create colour harmonies
053Q	Produce typographic designs
053R	Produce presentation mockups of pictograms and icons
053S	Produce presentation mockups for corporate documents
053T	Produce simple layouts and composite printing documents
053U	Produce presentation mockups for visual identities
053V	Create illustrations for graphic communications
053W	Produce presentation mockups for packaging
053X	Produce presentation mockups for publishing projects
053Y	Produce presentation mockups for kinetic design projects
053Z	Produce presentation mockups for advertising campaigns
0541	Analyze the occupation of graphic designer
0542	Use idea generation techniques
0543	Make concept sketches

Number of contact hours allotted to specific training: 1980

Admission Conditions and Prerequisites

To be admitted to the program, a person must meet the general requirements for admission set out in the College Education Regulations, as well as the following special conditions, where applicable:

• no requirements

Educational Organizations Offering the Program

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College	D/E
Collège Dawson	—

Graphic Artist

Graphic artists, commonly known as graphic designers, design mockups of logos, icons, websites, publicity campaigns or packaging. Using drawing software or graphics tablets, they create sketches, develop visual concepts, and layouts for websites and printouts. This is a creative profession for people with drawing and communication skills. A job as a graphic designer requires curiosity, versatility, focus and application.