This training entitles you to
180 ECTS credits over three years.
You are
- Curious about visual environments, costumes, and set designs accompanying theatrical or circus performances, street arts, shows, exhibitions, and concerts...
- Passionate about publishing in all its forms and in all its forms (traditional publishing, artist's books, exhibition catalogs, digital publishing, hybrid, mixed, experimental editorial objects...)
- With a primary interest in cultural graphics as well as its interactions with public spaces, society, institutions...
- Aware of eco-design and sustainable development in the manufacturing and use of inks, colors, materials, typefaces, and various tangible or digital media implemented in a design approach...
- Attentive to ethics and social innovation in current practices and professional activities of graphic designers (co-construction, collaboration, pedagogy, or public utility graphics...)
Examples trades
- Freelance graphic designer
- Technician or artisan collaborator in a graphic workshop or agency
- Serving cultural organizations or performance companies
- Integrated into a multidisciplinary team working in the field of culture or living together
- Free electron, provider of meaning…
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
Objectives of the Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design (DN MADE) - Plurimodal Editorial Objects in the Fields of Performing Arts and Culture
Today, Graphic designers and designers accompany not only the Cultural actors in the development of their material and digital communication tools and supports (posters, brochures, websites...), but they are also increasingly involved in the visual implementation of their activities, whether they are exhibitions, performances, spectacles, heritage, or institutional (museum scenography, festivals, acoustic or amplified music concerts, dance, traditional theater and street theater, circus arts...).
Within the Graphic design, the specialty Multimédia Editorial Objects address and question these complicities between graphic design and the different fields of culture and performing arts by considering the design of the necessary tools for their visual ecosystems.
The fields of activity covered range from supporting various structures dedicated to these areas (museums, theaters, third places, companies, musicians, artists...) in the creation of their visual or scenographic environment to the perpetuation of their image through supports plurimedia or more traditional communication principles (press kits, branding, catalogs, programs, flyers, maps, posters...).
Our establishment is a partner of Éclat (the association managing the Aurillac street theatre festival), of the Umbrella (place of residence for show creation), of comics festival from Aurillac, from the festival Hibernarock, of museums municipal, of the theater from Aurillac, of the library, and so on.
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 – Multimedial Editorial Objects Specialization?
After obtaining a DN MADe Graphic Design, students have 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 integrate the following training programs:
- DSAA, Higher Diploma in Applied Arts (Ministry of National Education)
- DNSEP (Ministry of Culture)
- Master's Degree (Ministry of Higher Education)
- Higher Education Art or Design Schools Abroad
- Master's degree in private higher education
Career opportunities
- Graphic design sector: cultural mediation and performing arts
- Event Graphics Sector
- Social and Cultural Organizations Sector
- Set design and staging sector
Target professions
- Graphic Designer / Assistant Art Director
- Collaborator, technician, or artisan working for cultural or live performance organizations
- Creative integrated into a multidisciplinary team acting in the field of living together
- Other careers after further studies: artistic director, teacher, researcher, etc.
What to do after a DN Made Graphic Design?
- Entreprendre : les diplômés peuvent créer leur propre entreprise. Cependant, avant de se lancer, il est préférable d’avoir des compétences en gestion de projet et quelques connaissances juridiques liées à la gestion d’une entreprise
- Trouver un emploi : Le DN Made Graphisme offre l’avantage de former à plusieurs métiers comme : designer graphique, directeur artistique…
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.
- De Bac-3 à Bac+5
Terms registration
The institution is subject to the national higher education admission procedure: PARCOURSUP.
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