This training entitles you to
180 ECTS credits over three years.
You are
- Curious about images in all their forms and states (beautiful images, advertising images, new images, branding images, image books, photo montages, illustration, photography...)
- Interested in Culture and cultural graphics (museums, music, performing arts, new urban practices...)
- Committed to eco-responsibility and sustainable development (for the paper, inks, color, typography...), to ethics and social innovation in current artistic practices and professional graphic design activities (co-creation, collaborative visual identities, public utility graphic design...)
Examples trades
- Freelance graphic designer
- Independent artisan or technician in the field of Graphic Design (message design, editorial design, information design),
- Company employee in a Graphic Design agency or studio, or employed in an integrated Graphic Design department (company, local authority, etc.)
- ...and many more Aprilèfurther studies Artistic director, teacher, researcher, ...
The most high school
- Adjusted hours
Classes start Monday at 10 am and end Friday at 3 pm - Human-sized establishment
in the heart of downtown
- Rental offers
advantageous nearby - Computer work
thanks to a mobile classroom - Cultural workshops
- 100% Communication
DN MADE Graphic Design – Graphic Design and Image Specialization Objectives
Develop your creative sense, particularly through drawing. Acquire the traditional and contemporary tools necessary for designing and executing solutions to graphic design problems. Learn to evaluate, evolve, and produce solutions. Successfully complete graphic design commissions by providing divergent and effective responses. Coordinate, plan, budget, and control the various stages of a graphic design project. Act as a liaison between the client and various stakeholders. Acquire a solid historical culture, particularly in the fields of graphic design and typography.
These operations may take the form of projects in message or information design, identity design, editorial design, and experimental or authorial design.
4 Teaching Poles
I. General training:
- Culture of arts, design, and technology: acquire a fundamental artistic culture, then more specific to the crafts and Graphic Design, through theoretical knowledge, particularly historical, aesthetic, sociological, and technical.
- Letters: Enrich a critical literary and film culture, develop different modes of expression, and adopt effective documented research methods
- Philosophy Mobilize a demanding philosophical culture and master its concepts, define disciplinary issues and identify their stakes. State, argue, and effectively communicate the multiple aspects of a project. Engage with an understanding of the contemporary world in its historical and societal components and critically position oneself within it.
II. Cross-cutting teachings
- Tools for Creative Expression and Exploration Mobilize technical and artistic expertise to communicate one's approaches and projects in the field of Graphic Design in a sensitive and/or conventional manner.
- Technology and Materials To know and interact with all the materials and manufacturing processes involved in the industrial or artisanal realization and production of a Graphic Design project.
- Digital tools and languages Acquire technical skills and know-how by exploring dedicated software or protocols and transform them into creative tools for Graphic Design projects.
- Modern Languages Enable the student to achieve autonomy in the 5 skills (reading comprehension, listening comprehension, spoken production, and spoken interaction).
- Economic and legal contexts : Understand the contextual factors in the economic and legal fields in order to successfully carry out graphic design projects, including their financial aspects (quotes, invoices, compensation, etc.) as well as in the protection of visual creations (copyright, etc.), while complying with the legal framework established by law (such as image rights).
III. Practical and Professional Training:
- Techniques and Know-how To understand the different stages of design, creation, evaluation, and communication that allow for a unique response to a graphic design brief.
- Practice and Project Implementation Implement and test, both punctually and synthetically, the different stages and mechanisms of a creation process to provide conceptual, sensitive, and practical answers adapted to a Graphic Design brief.
- Project Communication and Mediation Understand the stakes and implement the means for a multi-media presentation of a Graphic Design project, as well as formalize, produce, and deliver the accompanying speech.
IV. Professional Development and Further Studies
Company visits, professional guest speakers, entrepreneurship case studies. Assistance with internship search.
What to do after a DN MADe Graphic Design?
After obtaining a DN Made in Graphic Design, students hold a BAC+3 level diploma. They have the option to continue their studies or enter the workforce.
For further studies, students can pursue an apprenticeship at our institution in Master's Degree in Art Direction for Visual Communication Projects. They can also enroll in a higher art school or pursue a Master's degree in fine arts or design, for example, at a university.
For others wishing to enter the workforce directly, two options are available:
- Entrepreneurship: Graduates can start their own businesses. However, before diving in, it's best to have project management skills and some legal knowledge related to running a business.
- Finding a job: The DNMADe Graphic Design offers the advantage of training for several professions such as: graphic designer, art director...
Why choose Saint Géraud Aurillac?
- Individualized follow-up of students, made possible by the human-scale size of the structure.
- A responsive teaching team that focuses its instruction on projects grounded in reality.
- Art and cultural workshops.
- An opening to the international via the Erasmus+ program.
- From high school diploma to Master's degree
Terms registration
The institution is subject to the national higher education admission procedure: PARCOURSUP.
The portfolio
final year projects of
DN Made Graphics
New projects coming soon!
