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Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art is a leading international art college and a place of experimentation and collaboration. We host undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes spanning art, design, music, history of art, architecture and landscape architecture.

At ECA we encourage bold, lateral thinking coupled with a clear understanding of process, technique and business. Our aim is to produce innovative, emotive, enduring and of course aesthetic design from graduates who learn through intense sustained involvement with the design process.

In recent years, Graphic Design staff at ECA have noticed that the level of design-ready applicants recruited to the programme has been limited in quality (not quantity). In being part of Daydream Believers we hope to broaden the landscape of successful applications to the programme, strengthen the portfolio component and help to convince young learners, their parents/carers and teachers the value of creativity and design as a fulfilling and viable career option.

Our Lessons

A graphic designer’s job is to creatively communicate to others, to inform and ‘sell’ a product or service. They often use words and images but in this 4-week lesson, we will also look at some other ways of communicating. Ultimately, we will encourage interpretation and storytelling through words, creative mark-making, without words and creatively using all of the senses.

4 lesson unit

Tell a Story

Invest in the dreamers of tomorrow

Our mission is to equip young people globally with skills that will make them resilient, adaptive problem solvers and creative thinkers prepared to face any future challenges in their lives and thrive.

If you believe in the importance of fostering creativity and encouraging the exploration of bold ideas, we invite you to join our cause by becoming a Believer. Either by contributing to our learning resources or supporting our work with a donation, your knowledge and generosity can enable us to continue crafting transformative learning resources and inspire young people to dream bigger.

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