PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMA IN ADVERTISING & DESIGN
Be trained by working on a real client's brief for your project to make sure you can execute what you learn before entering the creative industry.
You will be trained by experienced current practitioners who are active in the ad industry in this project-based program, designed to impart actual design and creative skills.
Being able to memorise textbooks will bring you nowhere here.
Complete the entire learning experience with our yearly overseas learning trips to cities like New York, Bali, Seoul, Thailand, etc., where learning from various creative directors in these inspiring locations can bring your design journey to a whole new level altogether.
Professional Diploma in Advertising & Design
"Pioneer in New Education"
- Channel NewsAsia
Yearning for a trailblazing career as a creative director or the owner of your design agency?
This comprehensive course will arm you both design and strategic thinking skills to thrive in the design and advertising industry with close guidance from practitioners-trainers through 16 projects-based modules.
From learning advanced Photoshop & Illustrator skills to coming up with a big idea through creative thinking, you will be ready for the industry or a real client even before you finished the entire Professional Diploma in Advertising & Design.
AWARDS WON BY OUR
STUDENTS
LECTURERS
Being industry players, active in their respective fields, our lecturers stay abreast with their fast-evolving industries and impart their most up-to-date knowledge to students. Featuring an array of award winners, from recipients of internationally acclaimed creative awards to honorable media accolades, our lecturers are well- versed in the do’s and don’ts in winning awards, and use only such lofty standards as benchmarks for their teaching.
GLOBAL
MadGlobal subscribes to that, connecting us to the matrix of the globalized world. It’s an independent entity armed with an altruistic vision of exposing students around the world to all things creative, sans geographical boundaries.
From competitions and advertising awards such as Adfest in Thailand and Adstars Korea to study trips in New York & Bali; we have the students’ expansion of their creative minds at heart.
AWARDS-LAB
At Awards Lab, everyone’s a winner! Even without bagging an award. It’s a boiler room where students are subject to the rigours of an agency environment. And the demands of producing award-winning work.
Awards or not, walk away with a winning portfolio.
NO EXAMS
Do you believe in an education that focuses on how good you are at memorising? We don't.
That is why all our modules are projects based, allowing you to train on your newly acquired skills while building a strong portfolio for yourself.
Doing what you enjoy to pass your modules; if that sounds good to you, you are the right fit for our school.
Featured Trainers
With professional design training from Japan in the early nineties, Kenji has accumulated more than 20 years of relevant job experiences as a creative practitioner in the graphic design, branding, advertising, packaging, publishing and printing industries.
Kenji’s passion has grown in teaching, mentorship and engagement with his students over the past few years, and has personally nurtured and groomed many successful design practitioners and designpreneurs, helping them win more than 120 local and international awards and recognition from Singapore, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom and America.
Robert Gaxiola is an advertising creative director and founder of Singapore agency ManghamGaxiola.
After just three years in business, the agency entered into a purchase agreement with the Dentsu Aegis Network and added McGarryBowen to their names on the door.
Prior to that, he worked under much bigger names such as Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Bates 141, FCB and Disney. His last job prior to setting his own shop was the Executive Creative Director of Ogilvy & Mather Singapore.
Spending more than 20 years in the AdMarcom industry, Angela has held leadership positions for over a decade, in the APAC region, with MNC agencies, South China Morning Post Group and Global Luxury Group, LVMH.
Before becoming the founder of her own start-up Antrepod, she experienced entrepreneurship first hand by starting agencies and had delivered over 600% business growth in business over 3 years. Because of this, she was one of the finalists for 2011 Australia China Alumni Awards for ‘Women In Leadership’.
A NEW IPAD FOR THE NEWLY MINTED DESIGNER TO BE.
Enrol yourself to our Professional Diploma in Advertising & Design this month and get a free iPad* as part of our new year promotion.
Make an appointment to find out more if this is the right program for you.
*iPad model is to be decided by MAD School management but the student can choose to upgrade to a different model if he/she wants to top up the difference in price
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."
- Steve Jobs
Alumnus
Tommy Lai,
Creative/ Copywriter @ R/GA
"When I was in England, I found out that I was way ahead of all my peers."
Ning Goh,
Designer @ Chope
"What I really like about M.A.D. School is that the lecturers are all working in the industry...basically, lecturers get to focus on the students and I find that very useful."
Andy Xu,
Creative Director @ Three Collective
"My time in MAD was a great experience; I especially recommend it for those who are keen to enter into the Design and Advertising industries."
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