Inscape Design College
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Inscape Design College, located in South Africa
, is registered with the Department of Education as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act of 1997. Inscape is the oldest privately-owned, multi-disciplinary design colleges in South Africa, having celebrated its 25th year of existence in 2006. Inscape offers 3-year, Degree courses in both Interior Design
and Graphic Design
, as well as 10-month, part-time certificate courses in Interior Decorating and Architectural Draughting as well as short courses of a week or less, full-time or part-time in AutoCAD
, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator
, Photoshop
, InDesign and 3D Studio Max
.
In compliance with current legislation, the school has applied for registration of their Further Education programme (Design Foundation).
Design students attend two lecture sessions each weekday. Sixteen to twenty hours a week is spent in unsupervised practical and research work. Drafting and Decorating students attend two lecture sessions per week. Six to eight hours a week is spent in unsupervised practical and research work.
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
, is registered with the Department of Education as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act of 1997. Inscape is the oldest privately-owned, multi-disciplinary design colleges in South Africa, having celebrated its 25th year of existence in 2006. Inscape offers 3-year, Degree courses in both Interior Design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
and Graphic Design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
, as well as 10-month, part-time certificate courses in Interior Decorating and Architectural Draughting as well as short courses of a week or less, full-time or part-time in AutoCAD
AutoCAD
AutoCAD is a software application for computer-aided design and drafting in both 2D and 3D. It is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. First released in December 1982, AutoCAD was one of the first CAD programs to run on personal computers, notably the IBM PC...
, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Illustrator is similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to its competitors, CorelDraw, Xara Designer Pro and Macromedia FreeHand....
, Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...
, InDesign and 3D Studio Max
3D Studio Max
Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio MAX, is for making 3D animations. It was developed and produced by Autodesk Media and Entertainment. It has modeling capabilities, a flexible plugin architecture and can be used on the Microsoft Windows platform. It's frequently used by video game developers, TV...
.
In compliance with current legislation, the school has applied for registration of their Further Education programme (Design Foundation).
Design students attend two lecture sessions each weekday. Sixteen to twenty hours a week is spent in unsupervised practical and research work. Drafting and Decorating students attend two lecture sessions per week. Six to eight hours a week is spent in unsupervised practical and research work.