Graphic Design Area

With more than sixty years of experience training professionals in artistic education, Barreira Arte + Diseño is a benchmark center for studying graphic design, whether at the intermediate level, advanced level, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, or courses.

It is well known: graphic design has ceased to be an option and has become an essential element in the daily life of any brand, company, or institution. In a world overflowing with stimuli, it is fundamental to stand out, offer memorable images, and have a clear, recognizable identity that aligns with what we want to communicate.

Advertising campaigns, editorial products, corporate identities, web design, typography, illustration, packaging, design thinking, user experience, concept, art direction: studying graphic design opens the doors to a universe of creative possibilities that grow every day.

At Barreira A+D, you can become a professional designer by taking one of the following courses:

• Training cycles: higher-level training cycle and advanced cycle in graphic design.Each of the programs is characterized by its high practical component and by achieving the qualification of technician in Plastic Arts.Digital design, web design, advertising graphics, are some of the knowledge the designer will acquire in these cycles.
  • Intermediate Vocational Training in Printed Graphic Product (Technician in Plastic Arts and Design):This official training course is designed for those who want to learn everything related to printed design, covering everything from a magazine or newspaper to creating clothing labels, posters, catalogs, or books.
  • Intermediate Vocational Training in Interactive Graphic Product (Technician in Plastic Arts and Design):During the training of this course, you will learn the essential keys to become a professional in the digital sector, in web, multimedia, and audiovisual editing programs.
  • Higher-level vocational training in Advertising Graphics (Higher Technician in Plastic Arts and Design):Access to this course prepares you to develop your creativity in your professional career by learning and applying any manual and digital technique, which will allow you to create printed and multimedia graphic products.

• Degree (university program): for 4 years, you will train to become a versatile, all-terrain professional designer, capable of performing your work in different sectors of graphic design.Training based on real projects with companies, professional internships, and a program always aligned with the needs of the sector make this degree an ideal study for the graphic design profession.
  • Higher Studies in Graphic Design: Studying this degree means officially obtaining, and it is recognized as such, the same level as a University Degree (MECES 2).It will prepare you to work in different branches of the sector and develop your professional career in one of the creative fields with the most job opportunities.Each course will prepare you to stay up-to-date with creative trends, languages, concepts, marketing, tools, and design programs.
• Master’s: All the master’s programs at Barreira A+D are defined by training based on professionalization in contact with the best professionals in each sector, as well as by international projection, which materializes in the form of international training experiences in the world capitals of design and art, such as New York, Miami, San Francisco, Rome, Paris, or Milan.
  • Master’s in Graphic Design, Creativity, and Communication: The master’s program is designed with a high-performance curriculum focused on the ever-changing professional world in which graphic design operates today.
  • Master’s in Design Thinking & UX UI Design: This master’s program will provide designers with the training needed by a professional, whether self-employed or within a company, to understand the user and potential client, and thus create any digital product by designing interfaces that enhance the user experience in digital environments.
  • Online Master’s in Visual Design UX/UI aims to understand the user in order to influence their purchasing decisions, as well as to learn how to design user interfaces that enhance usability and interaction in web environments or where the user needs to make decisions.
  • Master’s in Professional Illustration: During this course, you will learn all aspects of the illustrator’s profession: practice, technical resources, production, application, and subsequent dissemination and utilization in the market.
  • Master’s in Visual Identity and Brand Design: Designed to emulate the dynamics of a real design agency, where brand strategy and brand identity development are equally fundamental.
  • Master in AI for Design: A meticulously crafted program to position you at the forefront of design and technology, transforming you into a highly qualified professional capable of integrating artificial intelligence into your creative practice.
• Courses: Whether you are a designer or want to start, all our professional design training courses will allow you to specialize with an intensive methodology.

To be able to access the different degrees, you must have:

Intermediate level courses in graphic design (Plastic Arts Technician in Print or Plastic Arts and Design Technician in Assistance to Interactive Graphic Product)

• Graduated from ESO + specific test
• Without a diploma of ESO or equivalent, being 17 years old or turning 17 during the year of the test and passing a general test plus another specific one.

Higher level in graphic design (Technical in Plastic Arts in Advertising Graphics)

• Artistic Baccalaureate: direct access without exams.
• With a degree in any other high school specialty, you must pass a specific test.
• With COU or FP II, you must pass a specific test.
• Without holding the title of Baccalaureate or its equivalent, it is required to be 19 years old (or turn 19 in the year the test is taken) and pass a general test plus another specific one.

University degree (Higher education)

• High School Diploma or University Entrance Exam for those over 25 years old passed + specific test.
• Over 18 years old who, without meeting the requirements mentioned in the previous section, pass a maturity test and another specific one.
• Those holding a Higher Technician degree in Plastic Arts and Design in Advertising Graphics (Higher Level Training Cycle in Advertising Graphics) will also be able to access directly.

Master’s in Graphic Design, Creativity, and Communication

We are living in an optimal moment to embark on a career as a creative professional.The demand for talent in this field is experiencing an unprecedented boom, with creatives occupying privileged positions, even above technology experts.Graphic design, in particular, stands out as one of the most sought-after profiles across all industries.According to sources like ADCV and Eratema, more than 80% of companies are actively looking for graphic designers, and most have an average of 4 of them on their team.

Moreover, institutions like Barreira A+D are observing a notable increase in the employment rate of their graduates.This is due to their professional approach, their outstanding faculty, their field experience, and the opportunity they provide their students to work on real projects, thanks to their extensive network of collaborating companies.

Below we present information about the possible specific job positions in the graphic arts sector:

• Illustration for the press
• Editorial illustration
• Signage
• Comic
• Animation
• Self-publishing
• Senior Product & Service Designer
• Innovation Designer.
• Digital Strategy
• Senior Researcher and Innovation Strategist
• Head of Research & Development
• User Experience Manager.
• Head of Design.
• UX Lead.
• UX Coordinator.
• Art director
• Creative director or graphic collaborator in multidisciplinary advertising teams
• Coordinator of work teams in design studios
• Freelance or part of the Marketing and Advertising Departments of all kinds of companies
• Professional or freelancer in agencies, public organizations, private organizations, or design studios
• Graphic designer expert in the selection and use of typographic, calligraphic, and manual lettering resources for different applications
• Publishing companies
• Web and multimedia editing program technician
• Audiovisual design
• Graphics on television
• Branding.
• Packaging design
• Environmental design: graphics and communications applied to space