Shillington College - Opinions?

[Paul Murray]

£7000! Anyone want to come to my house for 3 day intensive course...only £700!

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One of my tutors actually considered doing something similar when he saw that Shillington had a stall up in Manchester advertising their courses. He was gonna put one up right next to theirs advertising half the price :P

What options do you have for paying for the course? I know it's cheaper than a degree but degrees are expensive for a reason, plus you can apply for financial support and a loan.

I've heard they're intense courses in basic design and focussing more on software skills, effectively giving you the 'qualification' you need to sit at a Mac working up other's work for the rest of your life. Anyone know if this is the case?

[dedwardp]

One of my tutors actually considered doing something similar when he saw that Shillington had a stall up in Manchester advertising their courses. He was gonna put one up right next to theirs advertising half the price :P

What options do you have for paying for the course? I know it's cheaper than a degree but degrees are expensive for a reason, plus you can apply for financial support and a loan.

I've heard they're intense courses in basic design and focussing more on software skills, effectively giving you the 'qualification' you need to sit at a Mac working up other's work for the rest of your life. Anyone know if this is the case?

Graphic Design Curriculum | Shillington College London & Manchester UK

They seem to cover more than just the software; also looking at some theory, lateral thinking, areas of design and then preparing for print and so on, too.

[c8d]

I believe, you must have at least a bit of experience in graphic design to join this course! i personally would love to go and i see myself to catch up things quiet quicker compare to someone who has no experience in industry!

If I had the money i would do it today! But unfortunately I have financial problems!

i suggest to think more about it and if you see your self being as a designer then go for it!


Good Luck

[theFontz]

Ive also enquired about this course. Its very,very expensive for just 3 months of learning. And for me, its hardly realistic to be taught any profession in just 3 months. Ive done manual labour jobs that can take a good while to get used to. I wish there was a fastrack to becoming a designer(although i still wouldnt be able to afford it). But it just looks like an almost scam to me.

But good luck all the same if you do go for ir.:icon_thumbup:

[Xenonsoft]

Interesting to see this thread on here.

I've just been looking at courses to take to get some proper grounding and teaching in Graphic Design. The course at Shillington does look great but 3 month's isn't an amazingly long time.

Anyone else's views on this are more than welcome.

Thanks, Fred.

[Paul Murray]

I recently spoke to a girl who's just about to finish her Shillington course and she said over those 3 months you get about 36 projects. Typically it's a project a day (start at 8:00 and finish at 5:00) with branding projects normally lasting 2 days.

Personally I wouldn't feel happy doing a course like that since there doesn't seem to be any time spent developing an idea or trying something new. She showed me some logo ideas in her sketchbook for a project she'd just finished and they all revolved around the same basic idea.

It sounds like a good course if you just want to 'get into' design from another industry or pathway but if you lack any prior experience I think you may be shooting yourself in the foot a little, since there's a lot more to being a designer than just creating nice designs.

[scatola75]

I've been looking at this course recently as well, it looks really good and seems like a fast track route to starting in graphic design which is ideal...obviously previous student experiences help a lot in making an informed decision, getting both sides of the story if you like, so I'm quite interested to hear what people think of this course as well :icon_thumbup:

Buddy I went there because I was looking for a carrier change. basically the are very good advertising themselves . Do u really think that u can learn indesign,photoshop,illustrator in 3 months . no way !!!
we mainly worked in indesign , we did the pen tool in illustrator and graphic chart . photoshop almost nothing i had to take another course to learn it properly after spending 7000. finally Acrobat was hilarious , basically we didnt do anything , we learned how to press the OK button to save it as pdf ...save your maney or give it to me i can teach you more things :)