PG Diploma in Fashion Communication – 2 Years
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About Course
JD Institute of Fashion Technology centres in Bangalore and Cochin offer a two-year Postgraduate Diploma or PG Diploma in Fashion Communication. Following a pedagogy that introduces the cohort to various fundamental methodologies of fashion communication, students gain an understanding in history, design thinking, graphic design, forecasting, styling, packaging design, journalism, typography and photography. Students develop areas of specialisation, gain advanced expertise in it, and realise their individual creative identity. The program structure emphasises on cognitive analysis with relation to consumer behaviour; this realisation equips the students with the ability to practice their work with efficiency and efficacy and to meet the various demands of clients. The program also enquires practices in visual merchandising and explores established and new ways of publication design, along with the development of expertise in various digital mediums.
Course Overview
- Develops the student’s creative, technical, theoretical and reflective skills that prepare them to meet the demands and challenges of the real-world industry.
- Equips them with the knowledge of the fundamentals of fashion communication.
- Identify issues and concerns of the current industry and formulate solutions that are effective and adaptive.
- Offers an extensive practice-centric, progressive system that encapsulates the wide variety of specialties in the field of fashion communication.
- Follows a curriculum that is research-based and which enquires various research methodologies.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply and enquire the various methodologies and practices that inform the versatile field of fashion communication; and formulate new ways of working.
- Develop an individual creative identity, and identify areas of interest and specialisation.
- Interpret trends and have the ability to determine forecasts.
- Develop both verbal and visual communication skills.
- Understand consumer behaviour patterns and the various cognitive processes that inform experience.
Career Opportunities
- Fashion Journalist
- Fashion Analyst
- Fashion Content Writer
- Brand Manager
- Fashion Marketing Manager
- Fashion Blogger
- Fashion Stylist
- Fashion Merchandiser
- Visual Merchandiser
Reasons To Apply
Over the past decade, the field of fashion communication has emerged as a significant aspect of the bigger fashion and creative industry. Concerning itself with the creation of images, visual and verbal language, promotion, display and presentation of fashion and lifestyle, the field is versatile and holds immense potential and promise in terms of its growth and evolution as a career prospect. The PG Diploma in Fashion Communication offered at JD Institute of Fashion Technology aimed to inculcate an advanced approach to the field and equip its students with the capabilities and aptitude to meet the demands of the current industry. Through a holistic learning that integrates the theory with the studio, the students develop the capacity to enquire how they inform and develop each other in their creative application. In addition to its experimental approach, this is achieved through regular collaborative and external projects that are supported as part of the curriculum.
- A chance to study in a state-of-the-art facility, equipped with ultra-modern technology and industry driven accreditations.
- Develop one’s creative practice and expand the scope and potential of the industry.
- Develop an extensive understanding of the various technical and digital mediums used currently in the fashion design practice.
- Develop understanding of how to develop a fashion collection that is driven by research and extensive process.
- Develop an understanding of various materials and fabrics that determine the making of garments.
- Learn how to style and present a fashion collection.
- Internship and placement opportunities with recognised luxury brands.
Course Structure
Semester I
- Design Thinking
- Fashion History
- Communication Theory
- Graphic Tools 1
- Research Methodology
- Consumer Behavior
- Project Work
Semester II
- Journalism 1
- Graphic Tools 2
- Styling 1
- Fashion Forecasting
- Typography
- Fashion Law
- Project Work
Semester III
- Journalism 2
- Graphic Tools 3
- Visual Merchandising
- Styling 2
- Packaging Design
- Project Work
Semester IV
- Media Buying & Planning
- Editorial Content Management
- Digital Media Marketing
- Graphic Tools 4
- Management Practices
- Final Dissertation