You do not need experience, a portfolio or a design background to join. You need curiosity and commitment. In three or nine months you will graduate with work that holds up, a way of thinking that travels with you and the confidence to call yourself a designer.

Self-taught skills take you a long way. Shillington gives you the rigour, the language and the process to go further. You will leave understanding why the work you make works, not just how to make it.

You already think like a designer. The gap is making. This course closes it. You will leave with the craft to match the thinking you already have.

Every session is live. You learn directly from working designers through lectures, demos and real briefs. All in a studio environment mirroring what's going on in the industry.

Between live sessions, recorded guided resources keep you on track and connected to your design community.

You get feedback from people doing the job right now. Personal critiques and group reviews. Honest, specific and useful.

Briefs across branding, UI, packaging, editorial and more. Real problems, real deadlines, real feedback.

InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Figma. The tools the industry actually uses. You will also explore AI as a creative assistant, learning how to use it to support your thinking without replacing it.

You graduate with a portfolio website and an interactive folio built for interviews. Every project shows your process, your thinking and your decisions. Not just what you made but why.

590 study hours over the duration of the course. It’s the same whether you study:

• Full-time 3 months: 4 hours live classes & 3.5 hours async learning per day, Monday - Friday.
• Part-time 9 months: Tuesday & Wednesdays. 6 hours of live classes across 2 days & 5 hours of async learning per week.

No. Design is about ideas and decisions, not drawing ability.

Yes. You will learn to use AI as a creative assistant, not a replacement. The focus is on thinking like a designer first and using new tools intelligently.

You get a certificate. More importantly you graduate with a portfolio that shows what you can do and how you think.

We do not record live sessions because they are interactive and collaborative. If you miss one, detailed resources, step-by-step guides and example projects help you catch up. Teachers are available at set times to answer questions.