Discover our courses
Beginners, improvers and professionals are all welcome to attend a short course where you'll meet other adult learners who share your interests to achieve personal and professional goals.
Courses run during evenings and weekends as well as intensive, week long courses during the summer.
If you'd like to discuss which course is right for you or have additional questions we'd love to help! You can email us or give us a call on +44 (0)115 848 2813.
Adobe After Effects for Motion Graphics
Are you a designer who’d like to learn how to add animation to their designs? Are you a content creator interested in producing your own animated logos, maybe for your YouTube channel or website? If so, this is the course for you.
Adobe Illustrator
Create professional quality graphics for either artistic pursuits or professional projects. Consolidate your skills and learn the most efficient ways of working in the software directly from an expert with years of knowledge and experience.
Adobe InDesign
This two day course will introduce you to the key functions of Adobe InDesign as well as teach you industry level tips, tricks and shortcuts from our expert tutors, so that you can really level up your design skills.
Adobe Photoshop
This course is suitable for anyone looking to apply Adobe Photoshop to either artistic pursuits or professional projects. It’s also ideal if you’ve attempted to learn the basics online and would like to consolidate your skills and learn the most efficient ways of working in the software, as you’ll be learning directly from an expert with years of knowledge and experience.
Animation and Character Creation
Embark on a journey into the world of animation! Through practical projects, you’ll develop your skills in hand-drawn and digital software using a range of tools and techniques to create animations and express your artistic vision.
Blender 3D
On this course you will learn the basics of using Blender 3D Creation Suite, which introduces modern digital asset creation techniques and can be utilised across creative industries such as animation, architecture, product design and fashion.
Children's Book Illustration
This is a very practical course involving drawing, writing and design. It's suitable for everyone from beginners to the more experienced who wish to build their portfolio, and writers who want to learn how to illustrate. It's also ideal for anyone wanting to explore the writing and illustration process so that they can create unique work for family and friends.
Creative Entrepreneurship
This intensive course introduces entrepreneurship to designers and makers. It is aimed at innovative creatives who are seeking to launch their own business and wish to gain important industry insights and build upon their current skill set.
Graphic Design for Beginners
Aimed at the beginner with limited or no knowledge of graphic design, this popular introductory course combines theoretical and practical content within a professional, commercial perspective.
Intermediate Graphic Design
Refine your graphic design skills with hands-on projects in branding, typography, and layout. Learn industry techniques and build a standout portfolio.
Productive creativity
This course is for anyone working in a design, creative or research agency, as well as sole-trading creative entrepreneurs, who are keen to expand their existing skills in creativity and improve their creative resilience.
Psychology for designers
This two day course is for anyone working in a design, creative or research environment, as well as creative entrepreneurs, who are keen to explore the psychological processes that underpin behaviour in the context of design.
Twinmotion
This course is suitable for designers who are beginners to digital visualisation or those who have little knowledge of Twinmotion and would like to learn professional outputs for their designs.
UX Design Principles
This practical short course will teach you how UX works and how to integrate it into your work today.
Graphic Design and Print
Explore screen printing, bookbinding, and zine-making on this creative short course. Learn hands-on techniques to design, print, and bind your own unique creations!