If you're looking for a career where your creative flair can shine, this industry area can be very rewarding and fulfilling. Offering a wide range of areas that you can specialise in including interior design, drawing, fashion design, printing and graphic arts, jewellery manufacturing, visual arts, music, floristry, and film and photography, the creative industries offer something for everyone.
Many of these qualifications and courses are delivered by practising artists, designers and craftspeople with excellent studios and facilities, offering you hands-on experience in both theory and practical skills. Specialist qualifications include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural arts, and multimedia game development.
Whether you want to launch your creative idea into a new business venture, get into the music business or fine tune your design skills, there's a qualification or course just for you.
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How about a fee free training course — yes... free! You can also choose from a range of low fee qualifications with course fees reduced by half or more, or new free skill sets — fast track training to get you job ready.
Whether you're looking for a job, thinking about a career change, or upskilling for your own development, now's the time to get the skills you need.
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This is an exciting industry area that offers a huge range of training options. Use the course search below to find out more.
Use the filters to find fee free or low fee courses and skill sets. You can also use the keyword search, and the other filters, to refine the search results. Then select a qualification or course title from the list, to find out more about the course and where it is available.
The list presented here is only for this industry category.
Whether you're working in a salon; in a retail setting, or even at a specialised beauty treatment practice you'll enjoy this rewarding work where you get to help people feel great about themselves. This is an interesting career with many job opportunities for skilled professionals.
With this nationally recognised and accredited qualification, you'll gain skills and knowledge in the fundamentals of colour, drawing, digital imagery and the production of 2D and 3D images — ready to work in a photography or design role in a range of industries including fashion.
If you have a flair for creative design, and like the idea of working with buildings and interior and exterior architectural spaces — residential and commercial — this is the course for you!
The world of graphic design offers fantastic career opportunities across a range of areas including for digital media, print media, advertising, film and television, and even game design.
This floristry qualification will set you on the path to becoming a budding leader in floral design work. It includes skills and knowledge related to floristry tools and equipment, hand-tied and wired floristry products, flower and plant materials, design and colour fundamentals, sales and merchandising.
This qualification will provide the practical skills and knowledge to work in a hairdressing salon using clippers or scissors for cutting; to shampoo, condition and rinse hair; and to dry and style hair using brushes, combs, rollers and other equipment.
You'll gain skills and knowledge for a wide range of jewellery manufacture work including designing and making jewellery and small objects using a wide range of materials including different metals and stones, woods, plastics and fibres.
If you'd love to work in the music industry — here, or anywhere in the world, the Certificate II in Music Industry is a great introduction to a musical career in either performance or sound production.
