Creative Advertising & Design Courses

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Why study Creative Advertising?

We’re not about lectures or essays, we’re about insights, ideas and getting you into a career as an award-winning creative as fast as we possibly can.

This fast and furious 36-week programme is about exploring all kinds of different media, experimenting with video and social media, activations, gaming, as well as all sorts of new and emerging technology.

Take an active and progressive stance on social issues and create branded products and services that solve problems in a world that needs fresh, creative thinking.

We were the first tertiary provider in Aotearoa to have a Creative Advertising programme. The first programme to design its whole programme around its students entering their ideas into international and national competitions. And it’s still the only programme in the country to train its creative students in a simulated creative advertising setting.

The result of all this? We’re the most awarded creative programme in Australasia.

Creative Advertising courses

Creative Advertising at Media Design School

Diploma

Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising

One Academic Year

D&AD pencils won since 2021 making it the most awarded NZ programme

$200,000+

awarded from the Ministry of Arts, Culture and Heritage’s Innovation Fund to Media Design School student project, NFTaonga

Finalist ideas and 18 Trophies awarded at the international MadStars in 2023 including the only Gold awarded in the student category worldwide

The beautiful thing about the creative advertising course is that it never feels like a course. It feels like your first gig. You’re part of a little agency, learning under a creative director, working alongside other creatives. Your first job is exactly the same, except they give you money - not the other way around.

Callum McDonald

Creative - Adam&Eve DDB London

Why study Creative Advertising at MDS

Student Success Stories

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Léon Bristow

Junior Art Director

Colenso BBDO

Media Design School was perfect preparation for the industry. The class is treated like an agency, and we are given real industry briefs as part of the curriculum.

Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising

Phoebe Chetwynd-Talbot

Copywriter

DDB

MDS is the only place that gives you real world experience while you’re studying. It’s an intense environment that properly sets you to thrive in the industry.

Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising

Jacob Newton and Josep Jover

Senior Creative/Senior Art Director Creative

Saachi and Saachi/DDB Group Aotearoa

I can’t imagine going into an agency without having come to a place like this first.

Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising

Ellie Jones and Avani Maan

Copywriter/Freelance Senior Creative

Widen + Kennedy/M&C Saatchi Group AUNZ

This is a job you choose if you want to work hard because you love it, and you want to make something awesome. It’s fun, and rewarding, but if you want to go home at 5pm and switch off – well, it’s just not that kind of job!

Graduate Diploma of Creative Advertising