"MAD School (Professional Diploma) is the first in new education in Singapore"
- Channel NewsAsia
How does designing, travelling, winning international design awards, while studying for your design diploma sound to you?
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If it sounds fun, we want you.
There is no coincidence that almost half of our students are already degree holders who still choose to study for a diploma in our school.
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Our signature formula (mentioned by Channel NewsAsia as the pioneer in new education) that integrates marketing & advertising into design, makes sure every student get to hone their creative skills during their time in our school.
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Our students also benefit from site visits to tech companies/creative agencies, current case studies by trainers who are practitioners, hands-on assignments and regular overseas learning trips to cities like New York, Bali, Seoul, Thailand, etc., to learn the best practises from various creative directors in these inspiring locations.
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Need more information? Apply for enrolment into our school via our early admission exercise now!
DIPLOMA in
COMMUNICATION DESIGN
You have a keen eye for aesthetics. Designs inspire you. You’re inspired to design.
You will be taught to conceptualize for design applications such as editorial and packaging while having interactions, consultations, hands-on assignments as well as presentations that will fully prepare you for the design world.
Professional Diploma in Advertising & Design
Yearning for a trailblazing career as a creative director or owner of your design or advertising agency?
This comprehensive course will arm you the strategic thinking and analytical skills to thrive in the advertising and design industry.
Diploma in PHOTOGRAPHY & DIGITAL IMAGING
Be it that you are aspiring to work for a big publishing firm or as a freelance photographer, creating an impressive portfolio and acquiring amazing photography & editing skills will help you move a big step towards the right direction.
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With entirely project based work that allows you to acquire hands-on experience, MAD School makes sure all our students have the ability to execute by helping them create a strong portfolio.
AWARDS WON BY OUR
STUDENTS
Real Practitioners, Real Case Studies
We only engaged highly experienced practitioners to coach our students so that they will only learn real practical skills in the shortest time possible.
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Learning trips to creative agencies and top tech companies like Google, AirBnb, LinkedIn, etc. further help our students relate to what is happening in the industry better.
Annual Overseas Trips
From overseas learning trips to New York & Bali to global competitions in South Korea & Thailand, we have the students’ expansion of their creative minds at heart.
Top Indie Ad Design School by Awards Won
Each year, we have a boiler room where students are subject to the rigours of agency environment and the demands of producing award-winning work in preparation for major award competition in Singapore.
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Year after year, our students never disappoint, us and themselves.
"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
LEARN . EXECUTE . TRAIN . AWARDS
In MAD School, we do not believe in our students memorising and throwing everything back at us. Hence, not only is there no examination in our school, students learn real skills and practise them via projects, overseas learning trips, taking part in major awards competition and also by having fun.
Featured Trainers
Kenji graduated with a distinction in Master of Design from Curtin University of Technology, Australia, in 2003 and received a year of professional packaging design training from Japan in 1991. Kenji has accumulated more than 10 years of professional teaching experience as a design educator and 20 years of relevant job experiences as a creative practitioner in the graphic design, branding, advertising, packaging, publishing and printing industries.
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With Kenji’s passion in teaching, mentorship and engagement with his students over the last few years, he has personally nurtured and groomed many successful design practitioners and designpreneurs. many of his past students have won more than 80 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’.
