Week 1: A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
10am – 11.30am Wednesday 23 July 2025
10am – 11.30am Wednesday 23 July 2025
This workshop is for creatives seeking to enhance their visual communication skills and will help to sharpen craft techniques to create impactful visuals to form the basis for campaigns.
You’ll be given a brand and an event to create a visual…but learning how to let the pictures do the talking.
Book your placeThomas Hardwick is currently a Junior Creative at Graphic Design Studio VCCP. Thomas studied BA (Hons) Graphic Design at Norwich University of the Arts and graduated in 2020.
We aim for the required workshop materials to be accessible to all, with consideration given to those who wish to join digitally or with practical materials.
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