Open Days

Visit our premises, see the student work and meet informally with our lecturers. Scheduled Open days for 2012: Every Day until the end of January 2012 from 9AM to 5PM Email us for details or phone on 021 402 0303.

Open Days

2 year Digital Design course 2012

Enrol on our exciting 2 Year Full Time Digital Design course, commencing in February 2010. You will learn the professional, technical skills and techniques needed for successful careers in digital arts. You’ll be given a strong foundation in the principles of creative and graphic design.

2 year Digital Design course 2012

Duration: 4 weeks, 12 evenings
Times: Mon to Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
NEXT COURSE: 23 January – 15 February 2012

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Duration: 5 weeks
Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Next Flash course: 16 January – 15 February 2012

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Interested in Game Design? Have a passion for wanting to create and foster fun interactive experiences, be it for entertainment, education or advertising? Friends of Design wants YOU to get involved. Join us in building a strong, local game design community through your input. Give us your input, endorse us or even give us your [...]

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How often has a small groan escaped your lips when presented with yet another creative brief with a web component? It’s daunting when faced with the apparent cross media skills required to meet such briefs and, whilst there is always the option of outsourcing the web aspects of a project to the nearest “propellor-head”, the [...]

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City of Cape Town wins World Design Capital 2014 Who of us haven’t been glued to the news and social network, waiting for the outcome of Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014? Every day has brought us one step closer to the prize, and with baited breath we hoped and crossed our thumbs [...]

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In the perfect office environment, there would be no need for cumbersome and extensive paperwork or lengthy to and fro exchanges of information. In the perfect office environment, you would be able to share, comment and collaborate on a project with your colleagues easily and without fuss. Sound impossible? Well, think again. Most people are [...]

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Some of you may have attended the Workshop that Friends of Design held in March this year, in which Adobe’s® new Digital Publishing Suite was presented as the latest in cutting edge technology. Using Adobe® Indesign together with Adobe’s® Digital Publishing Suite to publish electronic media to mobile devices such as the iPad and Blackberry [...]

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I first came across Deborah Rossouw‘s work (AKA One Small Change) quite by accident, when I stumbled upon a picture of myself at a summer festival, taken by Deborah. The picture itself was stunning, but it was the album that convinced me to look at the rest of her work. While looking at the pictures, [...]

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