Overview
Our Graphic & Web Design (GWD) program offers students the opportunity to develop skills in website interface design and integration, graphic design and publication production – skills needed by today’s businesses. In their final semester, students apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired by entering the workplace for a three-week fieldwork placement.
Although there are no prerequisites, the ideal candidate for the program is interested in creating digital art and designing with the latest Adobe software while bringing ideas to life online using CSS and HTML.
Candidates are also interested in understanding more about graphic design, photography, branding, social media marketing, video editing, and animation.
Follow the link below to view some of the students work.
GWD Vernissage 2019
GWD Trade Fair 2019
As a Graphic student you will learn to:
- design and integrate complex website interfaces in a variety of styles from artistic and expressive, to grid-based, to the clean and sleek “corporate” aesthetic preferred by businesses,
- design and create branding identity packages including brochures, business cards, logos and stationary as well as posters, ads, flyers, calendars, newsletters, books and manuals, CD jackets and commercial packaging,
- create, scan, trace and modify drawings on the computer for logos and illustrations,
- create web animations using drawings, images and sound,
- shoot and edit digital photographs and videos,
- set up and start up your own design business.
We are design oriented!
Graphic and Web Design students focus on learning the following specialized design skills:
- Principles of 2D composition and layout for screen or printed page
- Typography
- Illustration, photography and video design
- Responsive layouts for web design
- Branding
- Search Engine and Social Media Optimization
We are software oriented!
The focus is on learning the following specialized design software:
- Adobe ® Photoshop
- Adobe ® Illustrator
- Adobe ® InDesign
- Adobe ® Acrobat
- Adobe ® Dreamweaver
- Adobe ® Premiere
- Adobe ® Lightroom
- HTML and CSS
This program is for you if…
- You are creative.
- You possess good people skills.
- You enjoy working with computers and different software.
- You have strong verbal and written communication skills.
- You are highly motivated.
Where Graphic and Web Design 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.
Employers
Stage/Internship
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
Please Note
Applicants who have not studied in Québec must have education deemed equivalent by the College.
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
To apply:
- Complete the online SRAM application
- Select John Abbott and the program of your choice along with the corresponding SRAM program number: 570.G0
(Program name which appears on SRAM website – Office System Technology: Micropublishing and Hypermedia) - Upload any necessary documents directly to your online SRAM application
Students whose prerequisites are more than five years old should contact the Admissions Office.
Admissions Office
514-457-6610 x5358, 5355 & 5361
admissions@johnabbott.qc.ca
Graphic and Web Design Department
gwd@johnabbott.qc.ca
Student for a Day Program
You are interested in John Abbott College and would like spend a few hours on campus?
Please follow this link to fill out the form Student for a day, and someone will contact you to set up a time for you to come to JAC and discover our campus.
During the tour, you will visit our newly renovated library, our sports facilities, the campus store, the cafeteria, etc. You will also be shown all the services offered on “Main Street”. If you have questions about application and programs, you can speak to someone in Admissions.
