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Arts and Design

Let your imagination run wild at EIT’s School of Arts and Design. Our industry-experienced lecturers and purpose-built facilities will set you up for a career in Graphic Communication, Painting and Print Making, Sculpture, 3D Design, Video and Electronic Media or the Fashion Industry.

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Certificate in Introduction to Fashion

You will learn to make clothes for yourself and your family.  It will introduce you to the world of fashion and the range of skills that are needed to be successful in the fashion industry.  It will give you new sewing and machine skills, assist you in day to day living and help you enter further training and education.

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Dylan Findlay

Dylan Findlay, Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design Student

My EIT qualification means a higher pay bracket and the ability to pass on my knowledge. The tutors have industry experience and the high ratio of tutors to students is a real bonus.

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Peter Baker

Peter Baker completed the BA (Fine Art) with 1st class honours from the Central School of Art, London in 1981 and the 3 year Masters program in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 1984. This study was assisted with individual grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand and the Henry Moore Fellowship

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Film your Dreams

EIT's purpose-built Video Production Centre is centred around two large studios and includes three editing suites, TV editing stations and a small sound stuido.  A surround sound theatre doubles as a screen/classroom.

Dedicated solely to students, the John Harré Video and Electronic Media centre is deemed to be one of the best-equipped video production teaching facilities in a NZ tertiary institution.

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Passion for Fashion 

Sew up your career and study in style at EIT

EIT offers various fashion programmes that will give you the skills and knowledge to enter the fashion industry.

Learn everything from designing clothes and pattern-making to creating your own fashion label. 

Students design and create their own garments, learn about production for fashion shows and gain the skills to establish their own business within the fashion industries.

Certificate in Fashion Apparel students are involved in organising/planning and modelling in EIT’s annual Fashion Show.

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