The industry needs you.
One-year Digital Communication Design.
Design · branding · web · video · content · print
Design your own snack pack. About two minutes, nothing to sign up for.
Step 1 of 6
Pick your pack.
Client note
“The name needs to read clearly on the shelf and survive cutting and assembly.”
Keyline · One-year Digital Communication Design
Companies train their teams with Keyline. And hire our graduates.
Every learner who has passed our one-year programme has been placed into permanent employment.
Keyline · Durban and Ballito · since 2003
Companies train their teams with Keyline. And hire our graduates.
Teams we’ve trained
- Mr Price
- Shave & Gibson
- TBWA
- Jonsson Workwear
Every learner who has passed our one-year Digital Communication Design programme has been placed into permanent employment.
Employers ask us for more trained people than we have learners to send. That gap is the opportunity.
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Four directions, one set of skills
Where could this take you?
Naming, colour, type, pictures and print-ready artwork are real jobs people do every day. Open each direction to see the work inside it.
Most people find their direction by doing the work. Digital Communication Design gives you a year across all four, so you can find the work that fits you and go deeper.
Print, packaging and production
Your career doesn’t have to stop at the screen.
Look around the shop you are standing in. Every pack on the shelf, every sign, label and magazine was designed by someone, prepared for print by someone and produced by someone.
Work with ideas.Understand materials.Use technology.
AI tools now help produce layouts, images and copy faster. The work still needs people who can judge what is right for the brief, check the quality and know how a design becomes a real product: board, ink, cutting, folding, people and deadlines. Digital skills plus production know-how give you more ways to contribute as the work changes.
From idea to shelfHow a pack gets made · six stages
- The briefSomeone sits with the client and works out what the pack, sign or publication has to do.
- DesignName, colour, type and picture. Steps 2 to 5 of the game.
- Artwork and prepressDielines, bleed, safe areas, colour checks and proofs. Step 6 of the game.
- PrintPresses, inks and materials: board, paper, film, vinyl. Matching the colour that was promised.
- FinishingCutting, creasing, folding and gluing. Foil, varnish and embossing where the job calls for it.
- Out in the worldPackaging on shelves, signage on buildings, publications in hands.
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Meet the industry.
Keyline and Printing SA on the work behind print, publishing, layout and production. Nothing plays, and no sound starts, until you press play.
The route in
One year. Digital Communication Design.
Design, branding, web, video, content and print production in one practical programme. You learn by making real work, with lecturers beside you while you do it.
We don’t do theory-heavy.
We do work-ready.
- Accreditation
- Keyline is a QCTO-accredited training centre.
- Adobe certification
- The course includes the internationally recognised Adobe Certified Professional exam, and we help you prepare for it. You earn the certification when you pass the exam.
- Bursaries and funding
- Full and partial bursaries exist through our industry relationships. Who qualifies and what is covered varies, so ask us what is open right now.
- Where
- Durban and Ballito.
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