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Workshops for Tertiary Design Classes

Creative education – delivered holistically ⎋

Escape the screen and share in the joy of hands-on creative learning, with a workshop at The Distillery.

Plugging into your curriculum, open your students’ minds to the full exciting possibilities of the creative industry.

Bring your class for a fun excursion of creative joy in Darlinghurst. Get your hands-dirty, and experience the heritage and values of design tactility and tangibility.

This workshop is ideal for tertiary design classes seeking a fun and educational industry experience.

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When + Where
  • By appointment: Monday–Friday
  • Choice of 2 or 3 hour workshop
  • The Distillery, 115 Crown Street, Darlinghurst Sydney
Course Inclusions
  • All materials: paper stock, plates, ink
  • Option: Print your own artworks
  • Safety and equipment training
  • Creative goodies
Get your hands dirty!
  • Mix Pantone inks, make plates, select fine paper stocks
  • Pull letterpress and foil-stamp prints on vintage presses
Industry learnings in design, print and packaging
  • Fundamentals of colour, paper stocks and printing
  • The world of fine paper stocks: uncoated, coated, coloured, textured, boards
  • Benefits of print technologies: digital, offset, screen, wide-format, UV, letterpress, digital cutting
  • The beauty of specialised finishing: embossing, foil-stamping, engraving, modern simulations
  • Bookbinding, case-making and packaging
  • Practical project success: Basic pre-press and colour management
  • Gear-up for your class full of AGDA and D&AD New Blood award winners!

Since 2011, The Distillery have hosted classes from some of Sydney’s leading design faculties. In fact, we’re all alumni. (Shout-out to Andrew Barnum, Nicky Hardcastle and Louise Lammers)

Gift your students with perspective and opportunity. We’d love to help you deliver the fun of holistic, hands-on creative education.

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