Design Foundation
Program Overview
Humber’s Design Foundation certificate program provides you with the skills to focus your creativity as you begin your education in design.
If you have a clear interest in visual art and design, but want to upgrade or build your portfolio of work, or explore various design disciplines while considering your future career, then this is the program for you. With a deep scope of experience in a variety of design facets, our faculty provides you with an industry-current perspective of your work while offering you a broad-based preparatory design education. You will develop design skills, techniques and processes, and learn about various professional career choices while developing and refining a comprehensive portfolio.
Your training is led by professional designers from a variety of disciplines in a curriculum that features courses in:
- 1, 2 and 3-Point perspective drawing
- 2D and 3D principles
- colour theory
- design software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and AutoCAD
- graphic design
- industrial design
- interior design
- web design
Semester 1 |
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| DGAS 100: 2D Design |
| DGAS 101: 3D Design |
| DGAS 103: Structural Drawing |
| DGAS 104: Colour |
| DGAS 107: Design Drafting |
| WRIT 120: Technical Reading and Writing Skills |
Upon successful completion of the program, a graduate will:
Create projects that employ the use of proper visual, spoken and written research to meet the needs of the audience.
Create two and three-dimensional designs using a variety of material, processes and techniques that demonstrate knowledge of design elements and principles.
Apply idea generation theories to develop concepts that form the basis of a design work.
Use the creative thinking process and design theory to solve design problems.
Compose a statement of intent for further design related studies that examines and differentiates between various design professions.
Develop a portfolio of work that represents a variety of media and techniques suitable for presentation to an audience.
The Humber Experience
"My Design Foundation certificate was great preparation for Humber's Interior Design degree."
– Alec, Interior Design degree student
Humber Also Offers
Advertising & Graphic Design, Architectural Technology, Bachelor of Industrial Design, Bachelor of Interior Design, Graphic Design and Interior Decorating. Design Foundation graduates still need to apply for the programs listed above.
Student Work
Your Career
Design is everywhere. From the spaces we inhabit to the products and technologies we interact with, designers play an important role in the development of the places and things we experience and use in our everyday lives. Good design can make the ordinary extraordinary.
Your generalized training in the many aspects of design may be an effective launching pad to more specialized areas of design study. Potential areas in various fields include industrial design, interior design, interior decorating, graphic design, web design and architecture.
Program Availability
Design Foundation Program
Watch the video to hear first-hand from graduates of the Design Foundation program about their experience at Humber.
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