Conceptualize brand identity suites, execute brand guidelines, build and produce a wide variety of brand collateral.

Work with team to create brand identity packages, and execute environmental design experiences for presentation centers.

Create and execute marketing campaigns, client presentations, work with and manage a team of web and graphic designers, conceptualize and build brand assets.

Assist senior design team with assembling brand assets. Collateral can range from print, digital, campaign materials, branding, creation of brand standards and production.

Type sorting, letterpress maintenance & operation, colour mixing, poster design, block printing, stationary design, shop upkeep.

Student run magazine, designed typographic grid systems, multiple page layouts, pre-press production, team management, and art direction.

Heavily involved with Art Department in deciding overall look of magazine. Worked alongside other magazine departments such as Production, Editorial, and Advertising to achieve a healthy balance throughout the magazine. Was in charge of multiple page layouts, photo shoots, and illustrations. Oversaw and worked with other layout artists to ensure consistency.

IDEA is a career-based 3-year diploma program offering instruction in both communication design and applied illustration. This dual curriculum sets IDEA apart from other post-secondary design programs and gives graduates a lifelong edge in the job market.

In this demanding, full-time cohort program, students are given a strong theoretical foundation and learn how to develop and apply concepts, manage complex projects and meet current industry expectations, both creatively and technologically. All instructors are current industry professionals – graphic designers, illustrators or consultants.

IDEA is recognized for high job-placement success and strong career relevancy. Our students win major provincial and national competitions and scholarships every year. The curriculum integrates many extras such as industry guest speakers, workshops, demonstrations, presentations, field trips, studio tours and attendance at special events. An exchange program to Bisen College in Hokkaido, Japan, is offered in the summer between second and third year. IDEA is intensely practical, and intense; students should be prepared to put in 10 to 12 hour days.

IDEA courses use both traditional and digital media. In first year, students work on design and illustration fundamentals in a traditional studio environment. Each student receives a comprehensive colour kit of artists' materials, a Nikon digital camera and a 3-year membership in the Society of Graphic Designers. In second and third years, students acquire digital skills in state-of-the-art Macintosh labs where each student has their own workstation, a new Macintosh computer and drawing tablet, and the latest versions of Adobe Creative Suite software.

Students graduate with their computer hardware, software and peripherals, fully prepared to begin exciting careers in the world of communication design or illustration.

The Publishing diploma program teaches students to use the latest publishing tools and techniques in a collaborative environment that cultivates the professional attitudes and creativity needed to excel in a publishing career.