Tuition
Your supportive tutors will nurture your individual talents to help you achieve success. You will receive constructive feedback on your assignments as you progress through the course which is essential to developing your graphic design skills.
Our tutor community includes hundreds of talented professionals with both local and international credentials. Here is a sample to illustrate the depth of creative experience that Academy students benefit from:
Bernie Morrow
Bernie has extensive teaching experience and has been with the Academy network since 2004, teaching a range of photography courses, from hobby up to HND level. Bernie works on commissions for artists and commercial projects as well as portraits, still-life & food photography, along with giving group workshops in Photo techniques and Photoshop editing. She combines her passion for hillwalking with photographing the wild and mountainous areas of Ireland and the UK.
Jonathan Clifford
Jonathan is a documentary, portrait and travel photographer, who works on a variety of commercial assignments and specialises in food and interiors. With a background in communication design, he is also the creative director for an independent arts journal that explores emerging creative talent and new approaches to visual storytelling.
Gabriela Ferreira
Gabriela is an experienced event, portrait and fashion photographer. Having studied drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts in Lisbon, she is passionate about combining illustration and photography. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Photography in 2009 before going on to achieve a master’s degree in visual arts education.
Lauren Keegan
Lauren Keegan is a graphic designer with over 9 years experience working in design studios, in-house teams, and on freelance projects. Along with industry experience, Lauren enjoys sharing her passion for design with aspiring designers through tutoring and mentoring. Lauren engages with a wide variety of clients on both national and international levels and her portfolio includes branding, digital design, print design, and environmental graphics projects.
Magdalena Jurkowska
Magdalena is a graphic designer and interior architect with 10 years of professional design practice along with academic experience in teaching and research. She has previously held a tutoring role with the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Magdalena holds a doctoral degree in Fine Arts specialising in Interior Architecture. While working in design studios and as a freelancer, she was involved in various design disciplines. Magdalena is a member of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).
Sam Baker
Sam is a visual communicator with over 15 years of experience as an in-house designer in the education, financial, retail and public sectors, producing everything from packaging and brochures to animation, video-editing and photography. Sam worked for three years at the University of Manchester as a design manager and head of brand, working within the Centre for Further Education. He has worked at numerous levels for national and international clients and is passionate about helping businesses to grow their brands through the power of visually arresting work.
Hugo Felix
Hugo Felix is a studio, portrait and landscape photographer. His work has been featured in many exhibitions and photographic magazines. He has a large catalogue in Micro Stock Photography and has over 30,000 images available on 10 different sites. Hugo has been teaching photography for a number of years and enjoys sharing his passion and knowledge with students.