Corporate ID

Soft Furnishings Interior Design

A sample of a cross-media campaign created by students that provides practical application of software tools, drawing and design theory. Students are required to produce a logo design, business cards, letterhead, comp slip and web site concept for an existing, local client.

Related courses: 2 Year Digital Design Full time | Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills | Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills | Adobe InDesign Essential Skills | Adobe Flash Essential Skills

CD Cover Design

CD Cover Design 2011

CD Cover Design 2009

Practical projects involving a combination of photo manipulation techniques, illustration (both by hand and in digital form) and layout techniques. Final hand-in requires a professionally printed and “mocked up” product.

Related courses: 2 Year Digital Design Full time | 1 year Web Design & Interactive Media | Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills | Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills | Adobe InDesign Essential Skills

CD Cover Design 2008

Practical projects involving a combination of photo manipulation techniques, illustration (both by hand and in digital form) and layout techniques. Final hand-in requires a professionally printed and “mocked up” product.

Related courses: 2 Year Digital Design Full time | 1 year Web Design & Interactive Media | Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills | Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills | Adobe InDesign Essential Skills

Book Cover Design

A selection of practical projects, created by full and part time students, and involving a combination of layouts, design theory, photo manipulation techniques and illustration (both by hand and in digital form).

Book Cover Design 2008

Book Cover Design 2009

Related courses: 2 Year Digital Design Full time | Adobe Photoshop Essential Skills | Adobe Illustrator Essential Skills | Adobe InDesign Essential Skills

Games in Advertising

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: Games In Advertising
• Course Code: GAME-100E
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment. Photoshop is an advantage.
• Course Classification: Standalone course
• Duration: 2 weeks
• Times: This is a customised course which runs upon request only, if there is a group of 5 or more people interested.

Intro

Take advantage of this unique course at Friends of Design in October!

How could games be used effectively in Advertising?
Computer and online games have become the entertainment for the masses in the recent years. With more and more people having computers and internet access at home, games are accessible to almost everyone. From high-end computer or console games, to Flash or browser-based casual games, there is something that appeals to everyone, so take advantage of this exciting ne medium to reach potential clients.

Although advertising has been used in games in the past, many visual designers and art directors are unaware of barriers to, and the benefits of, creating an effective game for the advertising environment.

Course Description

As a creative professional, you may have already considered using computer games as part of your advertising campaigns, but you are not sure what makes a game fun, what the production costs might be or how long it takes to create a game of a certain calibre.

This two week course will demystify the topic of the use of games in advertising, and equip you with the theory and practical tools you will need to kickstart a small game production as part of an advertising campaign, including:

• The basic elements and rules of an entertaining game.
• An overview of what is needed in terms of software, workforce and planning to create a game.
• Distribution of games.
• The pro’s of using games as a medium for clients.
• Tips of distinguishing between good advertising game concept and ineffective ones.
• Developing and professionally pitching an advertising game concept.

You will get answers to all commonly asked questions surrounding this exciting medium and walk away with a new understanding of the numerous opportunities that online, mobile and educational games can offer you and your clients.

This seminar will benefit you, in particular, if

• you are a digital or graphic designer, who wants to offer design services to your clients or advertising agencies.
• you are an art director, project manager or freelancer in the advertising business who wants to be able to offer new products and means of advertising to customers.

The workshop also includes foundational info such as:

• Insights into the local and international gaming industry
• Exploration of who the players are, various careers and job descriptions
• Theory on different types of games including casual, educational and online gaming the workflow process of game design, from concept to presenting the pitch to preparing game graphics to clients
• Storytelling techniques

About the trainer

The course will be lead by experienced and acclaimed Game Designer: Lars Espeter from Schwerin, Germany. As a Game Designer and Producer, he has been involved in the European gaming industry for twelve years. In 2007, his mobile game Starship troopers: Roughnecks was awarded the title “Best Mobile Action Game” by a German developer.

Lars Espeter is currenty the Head of Dept. of the Game Design Faculty of the Design School, Schwerin, Germany, where he presents seminars in game theory and game design on a regular basis.

Contact us for more details.

Apple Final Cut Pro 200

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: Final Cut Pro 200 – A Comprehensive Study of Final Cut Pro 6
• Course Code: FCP-200D
• Level 1: Basic to Intermediate
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Windows or Macintosh operating environment (recommended).
• Course Classification: Apple Certified, Stand alone course
• Course Code: FCP200 (Apple Certified course)
• Duration: 5 Full Days
• Times: Mon – Fri 8:30am to 5:30pm

Course Name

Apple Final Cut Pro Essentials (FCP200)
Cost includes Training, Notes, Exam Code and Online Exam / Certification, use of FOD’s FCP books.

Course Description

This five day hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and basic interface of Final Cut Pro. In this course you learn to perform basic editing functions while familiarizing yourself with the user interface. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customizing preferences and settings, capturing video and audio, various editing and trimming techniques, ripple, roll, slip and slide tools, audio editing and audio creation, finishing and final output.

Who Should Attend?

This class is designed for anyone looking to edit professional quality video using Final Cut Pro. Understanding of the Macintosh operating system and basic computer navigation is desired. The course is designed for those who prefer hands-on and interactive instruction to best explore the full functionality of Final Cut Pro.

Certification

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Apple Certified Pro, Level One in Final Cut Pro. Level One certification attests to basic operational knowledge of the application.

Final Cut Pro Level One certification also counts towards the new Final Cut Studio (FCS) Master Pro certification. FCS Master certification recognizes a Certified Pro’s skills with the entire Final Cut Studio product suite. Since workflow is such a significant component of Final Cut Studio, users need certification in at least four of the applications to earn Master Certification. For details, please visit training.apple.com/certification/proapps.

Course Description

View the full course description here.

Pricing also available for customised, or on-site training group training.

InDesign Workshop 102

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: Adobe InDesign Workshop 102
• Course Code: INDDW-102D
• Prerequisite/s: Adobe InDesign Workshop 101 (or equivalent work epxperience). General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment.
• Level 1: Basic
• Course Classification: 2 Day Workshop
• Duration: 2 days
• Times: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Course Description:

This course is an introduction to the more advanced print and electronic publishing features and tools of InDesign CS4, including advanced text formatting, link management, export options and preparing for print, basic repro tips and tools, customising preferences, composition tools and transparency and colour management.

Who should attend:

This course is intended for beginners who have some basic knowledge in InDesign, who have completed Beginner Workshop I (or have equivalent work epxerience) and want to learn about the more advanced layout and print features of the program, create long documents, understand easier workflow between InDesign and Photoshop, and export to other mediums other than print such as interactive PDF, HTML and Flash.

What you will be able to do after the course:

You will be proficient in Adobe InDesign CS4′s essential tools to create more complex layouts, long documents, manage colour more efficiently for print, troubleshoot problems with complex transparency effects, and export to mediums other than print such as Web and interactive PDF.

Course Outline:

• Advanced text formatting
• Clipping paths
• Advanced transparency and Alpha Channels for Photoshop
• Tabs, Indents
• Lists, Bullets
• Libraries
• Books
• Hyphenation & Justification tool
• Composition
• Master Pages
• Character & Paragraph Styles
• Tables
• Interactive PDFs
• Buttons
• Hyperlinking & Bookmarks
• Transparency Flattening, Presets
• Preflight & Package
• Export for Print, print publishing techniques
• Other Export for HTML, Flash
• Integrating InDesign files
• Advanced import (placing ai, indd files)

Course Description

View the full course description here.

Pricing also available for customised, or on-site training group training.

InDesign Workshop 101

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: Adobe InDesign CS4 Essentials for Beginners I
• Course Code: INDDW-101D
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment.
• Course Classification: 2 Day Workshop
• Duration: 2 days
• Times: 9:00am – 4:00pm

Description

This course is an introduction to the interface, tools and workflow of Adobe InDesign CS4. It is intended to equip beginners with the basic tools and techniques for creating a simple, beautiful layouts. The course includes examples of workflows with Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, creating simple shapes, pathfinder, creating text boxes, threading text, placing images and managing links, creating colour, applying fills and strokes and patterns, introduction to transparency, aligning objects, transformations, basic text character and paragraph formatting, text frame options, basic Pen tool techniques, some simple design tips. No long document features are included in this course.

Who should attend:

This course is intended for beginners.
To get maximum benefit from this course, the course participant should be familiar with either Windows or MAC OS X.

What you will be able to do after the course:

You will be proficient in Adobe InDesign CS4′s essential tools to create simple layouts for print publishing.

Course Outline:

• InDesign Interface
• Tools
• Object basics and hierarchy of objects
• Text basics
• Page set up and layout elements
• Text formatting, character and paragraph
• Creating colour
• Adding colour to text
• Adding Fills and Strokes
• Gradients, Patterns
• Colour Modes basics
• CMYK vs Spot colours
• Creating basic shapes
• Pathfinder
• Importing/Placing images and text
• Managing links
• Clipping paths basics
• Placing psd files
• Placing ai files
• Object Alignment
• Object transformations
• Threading texboxes
• Basic Pen tool techniques
• Converting text to paths
• Text on a Path
• Preflight and Package intro
• Save as PDF for print

Extra Info

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Course Description

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Pricing also available for customised, or on-site training group training.

InDesign Workshop 200

Convenient, instructor lead, foundational.

• Course Name: InDesign Workshop 200
• Course Code: INDDW-200D
• Level 2: Intermediate to Advanced
• Prerequisite/s: General knowledge of the Win / Mac operating environment. Min. 1 year Experience in Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Macromedia Freehand
• Course Classification: 2 Day Workshop
• Duration: 2 days 9:00am – 4:00pm
• Course code: INDD200-D

Course Description:

This course is a fast-paced software overview to familiarise experienced layout artists or digital illustrators with Adobe InDesign’s interface and major tools. The course includes advanced features such as Preflight & Packaging; Managing Links; importing Illustrator and other InDesign files, Tables; Export to HTML and Flash; Interactivity; Buttons; Behaviours; Master Pages; long document features such as automatic pagination, working with book files and libraries; colour management & transparency tools, attributes and saving for professional print.

Who should attend:

This course is not intended for beginners.
To get maximum benefit from this course, the course participant should be an experienced layout artist / designers, or software user who needs refreshing and updating in the latest version of InDesign CS4.

It covers a vast range of topics and goes in depth into features and does not include explanations on concepts or tools that are assumed to be known, such as the Pen tool, image formats, linking and importing and general workflow.

What you will be able to do after the course:

You will be proficient in InDesign CS4′s new major features and updated on technological software advances and tools now available for layout artists creating simple layouts and long complex documents for print or electronic publishing.

Course Outline:

• InDesign Interface, Tools Preferences
• Transparency, Isolated Blending & Knockout Group
• Books
• Libraries
• Advanced Styles, nested styles
• Object styles
• Tables
• Export for HTML
• Export for SWF, XLF (Flash)
• Preflight and Packaging
• Interactive Buttons
• Transitions
• Hyperlinking text
• Bookmarks
• Options for Export to PDF
• Colour Management
• Overprint and Attributes
• Composition Preferences
• Hyphenation & Justification tools
• Master Pages & Sections

Extra Info

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Enrolment form

Download enrolment form here or  contact us to enrol.

Course Description

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Pricing also available for customised, or on-site training group training.

General Info – Short Courses

Looking for something special?

Enjoy the comfort and convenience of customised course ware and even on-site training, anywhere in the country.

Whether you’re learning from scratch or want to get up to speed on new features, and you have a group of 3 or more people, then Friends of Design’s course ware specialists will tailor just the course for you.

What’s on offer?

We offer customised training in a wide range of topics in the fields of print, web and motion graphics. Be it software migration you need, or essentials skills training for newbies, refresher training for your pro’s or work flows assessments to pinpoint bottlenecks in your production process, we can do it.

On site assessments & consulting*

We visit you at the front-line, assess your team, their abilities and your aspirations. We then provide you with a feedback document, with a detailed assessment of the current work flows and where we can help you improve your team’s performance and productivity. This feedback document also includes a full training proposal that fits into you budget and time schedule. We also offer post-training on-site assistance to teams requiring extra support during project deadlines or problematic tasks.

* Consulting rates apply, so please contact us for details.

What about larger groups?

Group discounts are available for groups of 5 or more and, additionally, we provide you with options on training schedules that suit your deadlines

And the advantages of customised training?

• More flexibility with your time schedule. We set up a training timetable according to your availability, not by our public schedule.

What else is included?

Notes, customised exercises, assessments (on request) and follow ups to review the effectiveness of the training.

And snacks and creative, calm environment for learning – away from the stresses of the office.

What our clients have to say:

“Best training I have ever had! I am going to send all our guys here!” – Caroline Pryce, NHU Africa (Final Cut Pro, June 2010)

“I’ve enjoyed the course so much, I would love to learn the rest of the package!” – Cameron Freegard, Graphic Designer for Woolworths (Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Designers, July 2010)

“The lecturer has great energy and great knowledge!” – Candice Overmeyer, Woolworths Design Studio (Adobe Illustrator, Indesign & Photoshop CS4 to CS5 Updates, Jan 2011)

“Very well presented and clearly explained – excellent training!” – Louise Pierce, Art Director – New Clicks (Adobe Photoshop CS4 – CS5 Updates, April 2011)

“It was a really amazing course  - I enjoyed it and learnt a lot , particularly in my case. I knew nothing at the beginning and now I am able to web develop” – Sibusiso Gamede  - Online Editor  - MNET (WordPress Essential Skills, April 2011)

“Great Refresher Course!”  - Dave Adams, Graphic Designer, Foschini / Sterns Group (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign CS3 – CS5 Updates, July 2011)

“Really enjoyed the Workshop. I learned so much, thank you.”  - Janap Khan, Old Mutual Learning Facilitator (Adobe Captivate 5, October 2011)

“Was a ‘CAPTIVATING’ learning experience, I thoroughly enjoyed the sessions! ”  - Bernard Julius, Old Mutual Group  (Adobe Captivate 5, October 2011)

“Really enjoyed the workshop. I definitely learnt things I can apply back in my workspace. I found the content interesting and informative ”  - Grant Lesch, Senior Learning Facilitator, Old Mutual Group  (Adobe Captivate 5, October 2011)

“Very good examples used to simulate exercises. I found Captivate quite user friendly and open for different learning styles and design styles”  - Feroza Isaacs, Learning Facilitator, Old Mutual Group  (Adobe Captivate 5, October 2011)

“Each process was explained and commented on in a step-by step process for an action / application” – Kristine Leigh – Woolworths Lingerie Designer (Adobe Photoshop for Fashion Designers : Textures October 2011)

“Excellent way of explaining the detail around how to use different tools – excellent knowledge on the product!” – Frank Johnson, Learning Facilitator, Old Mutual Group (Adobe Captivate 5, January 2012)

“Thoroughly enjoyed the workshop – most inspiring!” – Linda Laing, Senior Learning Facilitator, Old Mutual Group (Adobe Captivate 5, January 2012)

It’s easy.

Updating your skills won’t be a lengthy process with us. Call us today on 021 402 0303 or email us for further infomation and get your team updated, confident and on the road to success.

Download list of Specialist/Short Course options here.

General information

Below you will find general information about the evening part time courses available in the evenings.
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Web Publishing Evening Courses 2012

Download the Enrolment Form here.

Download the Course Description here.

Download the general Part time courses online brochure here.

Print Publishing Evening Courses 2012

Download the Course Enrolment form here.

Download the Course Description here.

Download the general Part time courses online brochure here.

Motion Graphics Evening Courses 2012

Download the Enrollment Form here.

Download the Course Description here.

Part-time Evening Courses

Starting Times

The evening courses start at 5:30 and end at 8:30 PM

Days of the Week

The evening courses run 3 nights a week, namely Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Parking

There is parking at the back of our building (H.A.K. House), and along the side roads which is not charged for.

Security Tags

Once you have enrolled, you will receive an access tag (Deposit of R200 to be paid) which will allow you access to the building.  Once you have completed your course with us, this access tag MUST be returned on your last evening here. If this tag is not returned, we reserve the right to retain your Deposit Fee.

Deposit

Once you have completed the enrollment form and faxed it back to us, we will send you an invoice.
A deposit of R1000.00 needs to be paid to secure your place on the course.

Payments

The course or module that you have enrolled for needs to be paid in full before the course commences.
We don’t, unfortunately, accept any cash payments at our premises. Please be advised to make payments via EFT with the following bank details:

Account Holder: Friends of Design – Academy of Digital Arts
Account Type: Cheque
Bank: Standard Bank, Adderley Street, Cape Town
Branch Code: 020 009
Account No: 070 282 692

Discounts

If you enroll for and pay for all consecutive modules in a series of course, for example all 3 available Web Publishing courses or all 4 available Print Design courses, you will receive a discounted rate. Please contact us for details before enrolling as conditions apply.

What you get at the End of the Course

You will receive a Attendance Certificate (Adobe and Apple Certified), which will state what modules you have completed and the date of completion.

Certificates Policy

No certificates will be issued if you have not returned your access tag and paid for the course in full.

Your Data

Any files you produce whilst on the course will remain on our server for only one month after you have completed your course. It is your own responsibility to backup your data during the course, and also to remove any important files on completion of the course. We accept no responsibility for lost files during or after the course has been completed.

Our Staff

Our trainers have deep, wide-ranging practical expertise in their respective fields. Our trainers are highly qualified technical trainers with CTT+, Adobe or Apple accreditations.

Our Training Environment

We offer a relaxed, friendly yet professional environment in which you can meet and mingle with other like minded creative people. Lessons are instructor-led with many hands-on practical exercises. You are provided with your own Apple Mac machine, with all the relevant applications already installed, which is yours to use for the duration of the course, so there is no need to bring any personal equipment to class. We do recommend a memory stick on which to save your work files should you wish to take them home for revision or homework purposes.

Our Online Community

If you would like to keep up to date with our events, future courses and loads of daily featured sites, tutorial tips and links, then feel free to follow us on Twitter and Facebook to plug into our buzzing network of creatives.

Contact us for further information.