Diploma of Visual Arts Textile, Print and Surface Design

If you dream of spending your time creating beautiful artworks and designs, then a career as a Surface Designer is for you!

Extend your creativity and learn painting and drawing techniques with a range of mediums to enable you to create exciting and unique artworks and designs which can be turned into a range of products. Through learning digital manipulation of your hand-created paintings, you can make your art suitable for digital printing on a range of products from homewares, fashion products, gift items and more.

The Diploma course will prepare you to create exciting designs created from your paintings and drawings or designed on a computer exclusively. You will learn how to create repeat prints, various colourways, coordinating prints, colour separations for printing and product specifications.

This qualification reflects visual artists' role and combines specialised technical, creative and conceptual skills to develop an emerging art practice. It focuses on developing art forms such as drawing, painting, illustration, textile design and digital surface design.

You will also develop skills and knowledge of art theory and history and analyse and synthesise information from a range of sources critically. Some business skills are also covered so that you will realise your dream of becoming a creative arts practitioner.