Specialty: Graphic Designer’s Assistant
Advertisement and Prepress

   What is Graphic Design?
   Subject Matters
  Modes and Cost of studies: correspondence Internet-based education
   Enrollment procedure at the correspondence faculty
   How to transfer funds

What is Graphic Design?

Newspaper that you read every day, promotional brochure of the store in your mailbox, business card and letterhead of your company, bank and credit cards, Metropass and even look of plate number of your car – all these are samples of the graphic designers’ works. No single modern business can exist without the graphic design, so demand for the specialists in this field keeps growing more and more.

Subject Matters

The New Image College Faculty of Graphic and Web Design trains the students for work in this fascinating and thriving industry. Developed by the Computer Graphics professionals intensive curriculums make it possible for the student within the short period of time:

• To become familiarized with history of design advertisements, their different types and major functions
• To acquire professional skills in the field of graphic design and its mediums
• To learn theory of colors, harmonized color combinations, to get a sense of different color models and to learn their proper application
• To learn history and theory of fonts, as well as the ways of fonts application in printed advertisements
• To learn how to create professional advertisement, formatting and prepress process for newspapers and magazines
• To learn and acquire professional skills in such special graphic programs as Adobe Photoshop СS3/CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS3/CS4, Adobe INDesign CS3/CS4, Adobe Acrobat, Quark XPress, Corel Draw and others

Students of the College complete the program with professional portfolio. The College also provides the graduates with assistance on resume preparation and issues references for their further employment endeavors.

The Graphic Designer’s training program in the New Image College consists of two parts - theoretical and practical.

Theoretical part of the curriculum

Provides the students with concept of professional design and includes the following topics:

• Principles of composition in design
• Form as an element of composition
• Statics and dynamics in composition
• Balance in composition
• Contrasts in composition and types of contrasts
• Rhythm in composition
• Color in composition
• Font and font’s composition
• Logotype and principles of the logotypes’ design
• Banner and principles of banner’s design
• Interface-design and design of website navigation
• Major trends in contemporary web design

Practical part of the curriculum

Gives to the students working skills with bitmap and vector graphic editors as well as with special computer animation and web design tools:

• Corel Draw
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe INDesign
• Adobe Acrobat
• QuarkEXpress
• College Portfolio preparation
  

Modes and Cost of Studies

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Enrollment to the Distance Faculty of the New Image College

Enrollment to our Distance (correspondence) Faculty is easy and simple!
Follow these three simple steps:

1. CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE SPECIALTY
and read carefully outline of the curriculum. Make sure that this is exactly the program that you want to learn.

2. REGISTER

If you decided to start studies in the New Image College, You must fill in simple registration form and send it to the college (just click on the "Send" button).

3. PAY TUITION FEES

Immediately upon receipt of Your registration form Admissions department of the College will send to the indicated by you in the registration form e-mail address or fax our contract and invoice for payment. Once you’ve transferred the tuition fees by any of the specified below methods of payment, package with educational materials will be mailed to you via regular mail and you will receive via e-mail your personal password to access the secure educational portal of our website, which is inaccessible for occasional visitors.

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Tuition Cost at the New Image College

New Image College is a well organized educational structure. Elimination of superfluous expenditure gives us an opportunity to maintain our tuition fees at affordable for all the students level.
Cost of tuition at the Distance Internet Faculty is:

• For residents of USA- $349 CAD a month
• For residents of Canada - $349 CAD a month (incl. GST)
• For residents of Western Europe - $349 CAD a month
• For CIS residence - $349 CAD a month

Important!!!
Monthly payment includes weekly consultations with instructor (up to the student’s choice) via Internet-conference system. This system allows to the students to ask questions over the phone or via the "Internet - messenger" and to see explanation of educational materials on the screens of their monitors. This facilitates learning process.

Payment Procedure

First installment must be paid for the first academic month.
If you choose to continue education, further payments are made monthly based on the invoices sent by the College’s Accounting Department to every student.

Substantial discounts are available:

For residents of Russia and CIS countries
10% with one-time full payment for all 12 months.


For residents of Canada, USA and Western Europe
10%  with one-time full payment for all 12 months.

How to transfer funds for tuition

The student, accepted to the program,  receives from the New Image College invoice for tuition fees payment after processing and arrangement  of all necessary documents.

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