Graphic Design

FOUR-YEAR PROGRAMME 240 credits ECTS

CENP School of Design is proud to offer 50 years extended experience in the training of design professionals.

CENP is currently an official private teaching institution in

Design, fully adapted to the

European Frame of Higher Education.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The graduates of CENP’s Graphic Design programme are those persons who possess the necessary professional ability to both effectively conceive an advertising idea and to express it graphically and visually. These abilities may therefore be used professionally in the now standard advertising-fields.

●  In advertising and communication agencies – exercising their professional skills in the Creative or Art Departments of these agencies, applying their knowledge to the graphic aspect of product promotion and dissemination.

●  In graphic design studios – producing work in various fields of graphic design, such as: corporate identity programmes, direct marketing, publishing design, packaging, advertising design, electronic typesetting, and web-page design.

●  In the media – Internet, TV, the print media, etc., whose indispensable graphics departments all require trained professionals.

Those students who have chosen to study Graphic Design will find that the techniques of artistic creation are complemented by a thorough training in advertising, in that art is the most important tool used in that industry.

The function of the graphic designer is to transmit through images the advertiser’s message.

The programme of Graphic Design is created to train illustrators and creative designers capable of moving into high-level positions in the design and illustration fields.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Applicants must hold a “Bachillerato LOGSE” diploma or an equivalent certificate and be able to pass a specific test that will give them direct access to Design Studies. CENP prepares students to take the test with a short course given in June and September, prior to the exam and free of charge.

Examples of requirements for foreign students + specific test:

• UK: A Levels

• Ireland: Leaving Certificate

• France: Le Baccalaureate

• USA: High School Diploma.

 Throughout the course the students will participate in group exhibitions of their work, allowing for the presentation of their best advertising creations. They will also be

encouraged to take part in the various competitions offered by independent companies for the promotion of their products.

Given the nature of the programme, students will, from their first year on, be assembling their own professional portfolios with samples of the work they have done throughout the course. This will be of vital importance when pursuing other complementary studies, or when eventually applying for their first jobs.

“I wanted to learn a new language. CENP was the only School offering both

Spanish Language Courses and a University Programme in Design.

The experience has been extremely positive”

Karl. Norway.