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Friends of Design will be hosting Winter School Digital Publishing Workshops for all Matric Students and Teachers! What’s more, all Matric Students are invited to attend for FREE!

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Scheduled Open Days:
1st, 8th and 15th June – 10am to 1pm
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Duration: 4 weeks
Next Course: 11 Feb – 06 March 2012
Then: 13 May – 05 June 2013
Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30

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Duration: 4 weeks, 3 evenings per week
Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Next course: 11 March 2013 – 03 April 2013
Then: 10 June 2013 – 03 July 2013

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Duration: 4 weeks, 12 evenings
Times: Mon to Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Next Course: 15 April 2013 – 08 May 2013
Then: 15 July 2013 – 07 Aug 2013

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Duration: 5 weeks
Times: Mon – Wed, 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Next course: 23 July – 22 August 2012
Then: 22 October – 21 November 2012

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Friends of Design will be hosting Winter School Digital Publishing Workshops for all Matric Students and Teachers! What’s more, all Matric Students are invited to attend for FREE!

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Workshop Description | Friends of Design is hosting yet another exciting, FREE workshop around Augmented Reality, Gaming Technology and the Media Industry. On the evening before our Open Day on October 13th, you will have the chance to participate in a short workshop around Augmented Reality, introducing you to its possibilities and how it all works. [...]

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An interview with Danny Day – aka – ‘Dislekcia’. Co-founder of QCF Design, and ‘Indie’ Game Developer, Day is known for his multitude of games, inlcuding the ever-popular ‘Desktop Dungeons’. In a recent visit to our Cape Town campus, Day offered our young and aspiring Game Design students a rare insight into the pros and [...]

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Nominated 2014 Word Design Capital, it’s no wonder Austrian Creative Guru, Mario Pricken, would find himself in the Mother City last weekend to present his widely acclaimed ‘Creative Techniques‘ workshop. Proudly hosted by Friends of Design, the intensive two-day workshop saw the synergy of an eclectic group of 20 creatives from all four corners of [...]

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According to experts, mobile browsing will become the choice of most consumers over desktop based browsing within three to five years. We’ve seen this happen, slowly but surely and who of us these days does not have a smart phone? Google, Facebook, Maps are at our fingertips no matter where we are and just getting [...]

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  Digital landscapes are changing rapidly around us with the convergence of design field and the emergence of mobile technologies and increased participation on social networks. Online and mobile games, and games in general, are by far the fastest growing of all modern media, with revenues estimated at being $10 billion in 1990, $50 billion [...]

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