Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques

• Higher graduates in Design
• Fine Arts graduates
• Advertising and Public Relations graduates
• Audiovisual Communication graduates
• Professional or academic with accredited experience

• Creative illustration for press and periodical publications like magazines.
• Merchandising creation and branding design in advertisement and institutional communication. 
• Large format illustration projects in public spaces.
• Illustration for literature and narrative publications.
• Children's and adult's books freelance creation.
• Freelance artistic creation and collaboration with art galleries and museums.
• Illustration and drawing teaching.

Projects

• Press illustration projects 
  Analysis of the use of illustration as a visual resource applied to the press. Review of outstanding examples. Creation and development of real or fictitious applied illustration projects for newspapers.

• Illustration projects for advertising and graphic design 
  Analysis of the use of illustration as a visual resource applied to graphic advertising. Review of outstanding examples. Creation and development of real or fictitious applied illustration projects for advertising.

• Experimental projects 
  Exploration of new visual languages through the development of two projects: a personal illustrated album project based on proposed texts, and a short fiction literary text illustration project. Work planning and methodology. Analysis of literary and visual narration. Creating characters. Identification of one's own style and suitability of tone for content and reader.

Traditional and advanced techniques

• Drawing workshop: alternative techniques 
  Exploration of different techniques and styles of drawing.

• Graphic art printing techniques workshop 
  Exploration of different techniques and styles of collage.

• Painting workshop 
  Exploration of different techniques and styles of painting.

• Volumetric illustration workshop
  Exploration of techniques with mixtures of materials and 3D elements.

• Digital illustration workshop 
  Exploration with computer applications and vectors.

• Animation workshop 
  Basic exploration of the elements and techniques of animated images.

Theory and analysis

• History, theory and criticism of illustration 
  Analysis of the evolution of illustration as a graphic resource: formal characteristics and communicative aims. Identification of styles and study of the work of leading illustrators. Practical critical analysis of illustrated work and the role of the illustrator.

5% discount for: 

• UAB Alumni
• EINA students and alumni.

10% discount for:

• Members of the Association of Museologists of Catalonia (AMC)
• Members of the Association of Professionals of Valencian Illustration (APIV)
• Members of the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA)
• Members of the Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia (APIC)

- Consult the fees for all UAB-specific studies (Masters, Postgraduate and UAB courses

One-time payment option: 

• 100% at the time of acceptance (payment must be made within 10 days of acceptance to guarantee the reservation of the place) 

Fractionated payment option: 

• 50% at the time of acceptance (payment must be made within 10 days of acceptance to guarantee the reservation of the place) 
• 50%: before 15 days before the start of the course

For further details check on academic info.

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• Hogar (2019/2020)
• Retrato hablado (2018/2019)
• Don't Erase (2017/2018)
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• Backstage Pass (2015/2016)
• Welcome to the jungle (2014/2015)