Short Courses
Creating Graphics with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Basic digital design skills can help you create simple yet impactful marketing collaterals that work. These skills are valuable to many organisations in today's multi-skilled workforce.
Pick up skills in digital design software so that you can confidently use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create engaging visuals. Our experienced design lecturers will guide you to be a versatile professional who creates fresh and impactful designs that will help strengthen your business brand, products and services.
Design Thinking in Action: The SEE Cycle
If you are an entrepreneur, educator or PMET seeking revolutionary breakthroughs in creative thinking and innovation, you will benefit from this course.
Our unique 3-step framework goes beyond conventional design thinking courses. The SEE Cycle will help you gain insights into the cyclical and highly iterative creative thinking process. You will be encouraged to adopt an open and expansive mindset that will embrace risk-taking and deep inquiry. You will be trained to think outside the box to generate new ideas and develop human-centric solutions to address your business or organisation's issues and pain points.
Digital Design with CLO3D NEW
The course explores the digital transformation of the fashion design lifecycle through the use of three-dimensional (3D) design software, with an emphasis on streamlining sustainable and technology-enabled design development processes. Learners will explore the use of 3D simulations, computational modelling, and intelligent digital tools to support designers in the conceptualisation, development, and presentation of design outcomes within a contemporary digital workflow.
In addition, the course highlights how data-driven design iterations and virtual sampling can enhance efficiency, minimise reliance on physical prototypes, and support more sustainable and environmentally responsible practices in the fashion and apparel industry.
Elevate Your Teaching and Learning with AI: Design Engaging Lessons with Generative AI Tools
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionising the way educators approach lesson planning and design. Generative AI (Gen AI) tools, which are constantly evolving, can be utilised to streamline the arduous process, help generate ideas and suggestions that may enhance students’ learning experience and engagement, as well as assist you to elevate your teaching and learning to new heights. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to emerging Gen AI tools that are available to create engaging class activities, creative lesson planning and propel students’ learning.
GenAI for Spatial Design NEW
This course empowers spatial design professionals to harness AI as a human-centered creative partner, transforming concepts into compelling visualisations and persuasive pitch decks. Through guided, hands-on exercises, learners will learn how AI (Artificial Intelligence) can accelerate ideation, enhance storytelling, and improve communication with clients, all while preserving the designer’s creative authorship.
The course also highlights practical strategies for integrating AI into professional workflows, helping participants translate innovative ideas into actionable design solutions. The session concludes with a case study of a completed AI-assisted project, demonstrating how digital tools can turn creative exploration into meaningful professional outcomes.
Graphic Design Basics - Create Impactful Marketing Collateral in 1 Day
Have you always wanted to create engaging marketing collaterals using digital technology? This then is the course for you! You will acquire an appreciation of typography and its usage in layout to create content. Having knowledge of design software is just the beginning. Take a step further with this course by learning how to design effectively.
You will grasp composition and layout techniques to create impactful communications that will help your business or product stand out. At the end of the course, you will be able to create simple, digital-based communication collaterals of professional standards without the need to have prior imaging software knowledge. This course will utilize easy-to-use freeware image editors.
How To Make Phone Videos Like A Professional?
This is a 2-day course where participants will have an understanding of recording videos using mobile phones and editing them on video editing software. Participants will be introduced to the ingredients of making a video, planning, scripting, filming and audio techniques as well as video editing.
At the end of the course, the participant will be able to apply the skills acquired to produce a 30-second video.
Lighting Design Essentials NEW
This course introduces interior design practitioners to the fundamentals of effective and sustainable lighting design for interior design projects, with a focus on energy efficiency, responsible material interaction, and human well-being. Participants will examine how light interacts with materials, finishes, and reflections to shape atmosphere and function, while learning to interpret and apply lighting specifications that support environmental performance and sustainable outcomes. Through guided exercises, case examples and project-based activities, they will address common misconceptions, strengthen communication with lighting professionals, and develop the skills to visualise and specify lighting layouts that support both design intent and practical outcomes in small residential projects.
Master Your Visualisation and Storytelling Techniques with Generative AI
Harness Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) to simplify laborious tasks and enhance creativity, exploring ways of prompts and inputs beyond mainstream text-to-image methods. By the end of the course, participants will develop proficiency in Gen AI for intuitive creativity and visualisations to create engaging narratives.
