At Penninghen, we give our students the academic foundations in the disciplines that are indispensable to any creation: drawing, graphic design, design creation, digital illustration, technology and artistic culture. All the creative and production constraints that will be encountered in the professional context are integrated into the training.
Penninghen open to beginners
If it is essential to be passionate, it is not necessary to have basic drawing skills or to have followed an artistic training to integrate Penninghen, and succeed in this first year. Drawing, like any discipline, is learned and perfected by regular practice. Our learning method allows all our students who have never practiced this discipline to progress quickly and discover their true talent of expression. The training at Penninghen is over five years, the time to perfect the acquired skills, and develop a passion to build a successful profession.
A unique spirit,with a touch of freedom, invention and innovation
These three courses are delivered by more than a hundred working professionals all recognized in their sectors. These courses combine theoretical and practical courses via personal and group projects, they offer 9 months of internships spread over 4 years in more than 200 national and international partner companies and offer you the opportunity to go abroad through the Erasmus and Cumulus programs.
Founded in 1968, the Penninghen school is still 1st in the ranking of the best French schools in graphic art, visual communication and interior architecture (ranking 2021 of the Eduniversal & Diplomeo ranking).
Nearly 3,700 graduates from over the past 55 years are spread across more than 30 countries, 22 different nationalities have passed through Penninghen, and 10% of our students come from abroad.
97% of our graduates work within 6 months of graduation.
FIRST YEAR: DISCOVER A PRACTICE
The first year is that of discovery. This common foundation year is essential in the progressive method of Penninghen’s teaching. All together, students discover applied art in all its dimensions, grasp the importance of observation through drawing, the mastery of graphic and spatial composition, and initiate themselves to the formulation of an idea. It is the year that lays the foundations of values.
SECOND YEAR: UNDERSTAND THE JOB
The second year is the year of choice. It’s the entry into a specialization and the understanding of a trade. Having a grasp of its components, perceiving the development of vocabulary and grammar related to creation and production, image, space or content. Understanding how to master codes and rules. Producing works in order to experience and grasp the indispensable balance between image and word, between volume and space, between form and background.
THIRD YEAR: MASTERING INTERDISCIPLINARITY
The third year is the Mastery of Learning. Learning to test knowledge and techniques through interdisciplinarity. Mastering the process of design and project management, giving an art direction applied to visual communication, interior architecture or brand communication and their respective applications. Developing and proposing a first large free project that convokes all the teachings of the year.
FOURTH YEAR: DEVELOP AUTONOMY
The fourth year is the development of the methodology and its applications. To initiate the promotion of one’s own artistic, human and negotiation skills through long-term internships with professionals in agencies or abroad, or in partner schools. Developing your own professional network. Opening up to strengthen your skills. Turning knowledge into experience.
FIFTH YEAR: SHARE ITS CREATION
The fifth year is the culmination of training, the validation of skills and the final step of the method. Opening up, working in transversality between curricula to test their method and their collaborative capacity in the framework of partnerships and workshops. This fifth year is the final stage, that of the professional certification and the school diploma, the sharing of their creation. The opportunity to show their production, to defend an assumed point of view, to find emancipation and convince their future colleagues. Strengthening your network through meetings and exchanges, sharing with professionals in all legitimacy, confirming your expertise, affirming your choices and ambitions. Heading out on your own path, autonomous and free.
Getting Started in Interior Architecture
The student in Master’s in Interior Architecture integrates the design process, project management and its constraints. Able to think in three dimensions, to build in volume, adapting to varying technical constraints. The future interior architect masters the use of classic creative tools as well as digital tools. They share their creation as a team as they can invest in ambitious personal projects. Within an agency or design office, the future interior architect directs their professional practice towards the sectors of renovation, space design, scenography, retail, design or events.
Master’s degree in Interior Architecture
Getting Started in Communication
The Master’s in Communication student is creative, autonomous, aware of issues. With a large amount of knowledge and communication protocols, they learn to interface with all the expertise needed to implement the creative direction they bring. A creator of high value-added content, the future brand director accompanies the company in its media dimension. With a hybrid profile, they have all the skills and methodologies to put their talent to the service of the creative, marketing, design and strategy departments. Within large groups, agencies or in an entrepreneurial perspective, they can integrate executive committees, branches, strategic, innovation, design or commercial of companies and their communication consulting agencies in a dynamic of value creation.
Master of Communication
Getting Started in Art Direction
The Master in Art Direction student becomes familiar with the creative process and its codes. Mastery of both traditional and digital creative tools is essential. Curious and open-minded, the future artistic director is able to assume and defend a creative approach through personal projects. Fully aware of the essential need to lead a team and share their creative vision, artistic directors carry their vision forward. Whether working for an agency or in their own studio, future art directors focus their professional practice towards one of the following sectors: communications, design, branding, publishing, packaging, animation, photography, video, video games, new technologies, art, fashion or luxury.
Master in Art Direction
