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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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 Skills Ready 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.
This course will give you a practical introduction to the music industry and the work of a sound producer. You'll learn about recording processes — including mixing, editing and post-production; participate in recording sessions; and follow the production processes through to the completion of a demo recording.
Through this course you'll gain the skills and knowledge use different equipment, systems, software and processes, and to analyse and evaluate information from different sources. It's the perfect place to start your career in digital design and output.
This course is ideal for anyone who has a passion for creating printed products by hand or machine, or who is seeking a good foundation of skills and knowledge for a career in design.
Did you know the printing industry is one of the largest manufacturing industries in Australia and, according to the AISC, it's responsible for employing almost 27,000 people!
This training is the perfect introduction to extend your critical and creative thinking skills to work effectively in the contemporary screen and media industries. It could set you up to work in digital video, radio and online content creation, as a production assistant in film and television, a camera or lighting assistant, production or editing assistant — even as an interactive media or content author.
Animation is about so much more than just cartoons — it's used in a range of media including film, television and advertising! ... your future career awaits!
This training will set you up with the basic creative and technical skills of visual arts and crafts practice — the perfect way to fine tune your skills and creativity ready for a career in a range of areas where some art skill is required; including architecture, product design, industrial design, interior design, interior decoration, graphic design, fashion design, web design, advertising, engineering, animatronics, robotics and special effects.
If you love creating things that you can see and feel, and would love to work in the fashion industry, strike a pose — let's start your fashion career right here!
