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Design Curriculum

Week 1: Theology of Design

Week 2: Design Principles

Week 3: Drawing

Week 4: Typography

Week 5: Iconography

Week 6: Photography

Week 7: Layout with InDesign

Week 8: Web design with Dreamweaver

Week 9: Web project

Week 10: Design in video with FinalCut

Week 11 and 12: Final Project

Seminar weeks are also available, please apply for more information.

We invite you to have a look at some of the former students’ work. Just click on this link to view it online:

Online Portfolio

Design is for an audience and entails a lot of marketing thought as well as the message you are trying to convey. This school is all about teaching you to think in this way. Art is a more personal expression of creativity, like a personal journal. Others can look at it, but its meaning is maybe more hidden, leaving the audience to decipher a meaning for themselves. With Design, we want the audience to see what the designer had in his mind’s eye and take away what he is communicating to them. Design is specific, has a clear message and entails a lot of thought, on the designers part, into what will have the greatest impact on the target audience, creating in them the intended action, emotion or response.

Discovery is about Observation. Every new technical advancement is built upon natural laws within creation. Everything around us has been designed… It has a purpose, a destiny, and a function. These facets are built into the fabric of the universe by the designer of it all. We can be inspired by nature and it can lead us to imagine new discoveries by harnessing its power and channeling it into the creative process. Nature also reveals the beauty of God and the diversity of his creative gifts. It also will bring those same things out of you as we study Him.

The foundations for the School of Design and for every aspect of our lives comes from beyond the created order and our solar system, to the ultimate source of life. We know, Biblically that there is one, and only one, God (Deut. 6:4). The School of Design is about discovering design principles built into creation, but to understand anything in creation we have to go back to the Creator and understand who He is! So, that is where the school starts, in a Biblical understanding of the nature and character of God. This is not a religious aspect tacked onto the beginning and end of the school, but an exploration into God’s processes, as He creates and leads us into a Theology of Design! An understanding of God that infuses all aspects of design and creation!

These principles are used across the board in all types of media from print to screen to motion design. These aspects would be present in all good design and a knowledge of them enables the designer to organize his thoughts and information on the page, take good photography or shoot captivating scenes. Everything form colour theory to layout principles to contrast, repetition of the eye, grids and thumb-nailing. You will get the tools you need to create great design, the ability to explain why it is good and the ability to critique work. Your photography will be better, your design skills improved and you will know what to emphasize in the process!

This school is for the total beginner as well as for the advanced designers who know something about design already. It will challenge and surprise you at whatever level you are at and you will be shocked by how much you learn and produce. Anyone can do this school and get practical training so that you can be creating websites, photographs, CD covers, video or film packages even if you have very little or no experience beforehand. All that we ask is that you know that you enjoy being creative, are up for a challenge and have done a Discipleship Training School. We will provide top class speakers, the software and computers you need, as well as provide you with an experience you will never forget. Each week you will produce real projects and have a portfolio of work you can be proud of.

All of our 3 month schools cost CHF3750, this amount covers your tuition, food and housing during the lecture phase. If there is an outreach you will be charged a separate fee, which will be communicated to you in advance and will depend on your outreach location. Some of our schools also charge a book fee of up to CHF150, to cover books and resources that you will be able to take away with you after the school. Once you are accepted for a school, you will be sent more specific information on your school costs. For the dates of the school you are interested in, please click here .