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Graphic Design Studio at Ruth Prowse School of Art

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Graphic Design Studio

Learn to work under pressure, because that’s what the industry demands. A three-year, NQF Level 6 diploma that trains you to design under pressure, communication design, illustration, DTP and print media, built for the way the industry actually works.

Design Starts Here

Graphic Design at RPSA

Graphic Design at RPSA is built around one idea: learning to work under pressure, because that is what the industry requires. From year one, you work to deadlines, develop concepts and produce finished outputs across communication design, illustration, DTP and print media. Mentors who are practising designers hold you to the same standard the industry will. By the time you graduate, you have not just studied design. You have made it, under pressure, on deadline, again and again.

Overview

This studio is built around the brief. From your first project, you are meeting deadlines, developing concepts, and producing finished work in industry-standard tools — Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign — rather than studying design in theory and hoping it translates later.

The work here spans communication design, illustration, desktop publishing and print media. What ties it together is a discipline: creative judgement and technical precision, developed at the same time, not one after the other.

Best suited to those interested in visual communication, layout, typography, branding, digital design, illustration, and problem-solving through design.

Work from the Graphic Design Studio

Programmes & Study

Courses in this Studio

Diploma in Graphics Design Accredited diploma Diploma in Graphics Design A three-year studio diploma in visual communication, branding and design — NQF Level 6, SAQA accredited. 3-year diploma, NQF 6 360 credits SAQA ID 49863 View programme

Short & part-time courses

Spring 2026 LOGO DESIGN Graphic Design

Spring 2026 LOGO DESIGN

By the end of the session, students will digitise their chosen concept, transforming a sketch into a functional, versatile logo.

New dates coming soon

R660

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Graphic Design graduates

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2027 Registrations Now Open

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Portfolio-based admission, three accredited diploma programmes, one studio culture built on over fifty years of practice.