Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design

Durham College - Oshawa Campus

Canada,Ontario

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36 Months

Duration

CAD 15,350/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 100 FREE

Application Fee

Sep 2025

Apply Date

Canada, Ontario

Type: College

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1967

Total Students: 13,600 +

Int. Students: 2,000 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

2000 Simcoe St N, Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5, Canada

Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design

Program Overview

From magazine ads and interactive graphics to book covers and digital signage, graphic designers have the power to express emotions, influence decisions and bring ideas to life. Students learn to design and produce logos, brochures, magazine layouts and annual reports. Graduates of this program create advertising and branding campaigns, corporate identity systems, and packaging prototypes. They develop two and three-dimensional illustrations and produce integrated media content for the web.

NOTE: Students enrolling in this program are required to purchase their own laptop.

This program prepares graduates for work as entry-level designers. Students learn skills required to solve specific visual problems through practical work that covers a broad spectrum of visual communication in corporate, editorial, advertising and package design. The program of studies in first year includes:

  • Design concepts
  • Digital technology
  • Drawing
  • Fundamentals of design
  • Typography

Your second and third year will give you an opportunity to apply these principles to a variety of design problems.

Other areas of study include:

  • Advertising
  • Branding
  • Editorial and corporate design
  • History of art
  • History of graphic design
  • Packaging
  • Photography

You will spend your sixth semester off campus as an intern at a design or in-house studio. As a graduating student, you will have the opportunity to display design projects from your Portfolio Studies course at an annual student spring exhibit in Toronto.

Career options:

  • Art director
  • Creative director
  • Digital art director
  • Digital production designer
  • Freelance graphic designer
  • Graphic designer
  • Marketing co-ordinator
  • Production artist
  • Prepress technician
  • Web designer