GRAPHIC AND WEB DESIGN
Our Graphic and Web Design program offers students the opportunity to develop creative and technical skills needed by today’s businesses. Our focus is design thinking for digital and print media, with emphasis on UI/UX, useability, interface design, layout design, and print publication.
Students build an online portfolio of work including web design
and coding, print materials, branding and marketing, illustration, photography, video editing, and animation.
Although there are no prerequisites, candidates for the program must be highly motivated to create professional graphic design for both print and web.
As a Graphic student you will learn to:
Design and create increasingly complex web interfaces with a focus on usability and accessibility, emphasizing responsive, mobile-first, grid-based design
- Design and create brand identity packages for digital and print including logos, business cards, stationery, and web materials
- Design and create print materials such as posters, flyers and brochures, stickers, newsletters and ads, books and manuals, and a variety of commercial packaging
- Create, scan and modify drawings and sketches using traditional and digital media
- create web animation using drawings, images and sound
- Take and edit digital photos and video
- Start and set up your own design business in Quebec
We are software oriented!
Adobe ® Photoshop
Adobe ® Illustrator
Adobe ® InDesign
Adobe ® Acrobat
Adobe ® Premiere
Adobe ® Lightroom
Where It Can Take You
Some of our graduates become designers for large and small businesses that need to produce a wide variety of print and electronic documents with sophisticated graphic design and appeal. Others go into business for themselves as designers and marketers.
A third of our students go on to further education in a variety of fields, such as graphic design, marketing, computer systems, and 3D animation.
This program is for you if
• You are both creative and technical
• You enjoy working with computers and different software
• You possess good people skills
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills
• You are highly motivated
Employers
Stage/Internship
Graphic and Web Design graduating students participate in a 3 week work placement in the sixth semester
(mid-April to May).
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
CEGEP Requirements
A Secondary School Diploma which includes:
Secondary 5 Language of Instruction
Secondary 5 Second Language
Secondary 4 Mathematics
Secondary 4 Science and Technology
OR Secondary 4 Applied Science and Technology
Secondary 4 History and Citizenship Education
Program Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required for this program.
OR a Secondary School Vocational Diploma which includes:
Secondary 5 Language of Instruction
Secondary 5 Second Language
Secondary 4 Mathematics
Program Prerequisites
No specific prerequisites are required for this program.
How To Apply
John Abbott College is affiliated with the Service régional d’admission du Montréal métropolitain (SRAM) and uses its online application service.
The application deadline is March 1.
Warning: The documents and payment must be submitted by the deadline.
Program start: Fall
Students whose prerequisites are more than five years old should contact the Admissions office.
The application deadline is March 1. All documents and payments must be submitted by the deadline.
Program start: fall
ADMISSIONS
514-457-6610 x5358 | admissions@johnabbott.qc.ca
21 275 Lakeshore, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (Québec) H9X 3L9
Graphic and Web Design Department + QR code
gwd@johnabbott.qc.ca
Graduating students’ portfolios: graphicandwebdesign.ca/current-graduates/