Design, Graphic & Visual Arts
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HKDI Creative Academy
✍️Description: A major hub for youth design learning with short courses and workshops in graphic design, illustration, photography, video, visual communication, product design, and other creative fields
🤷Eligibility: Secondary students and youth, depending on the course
💵Cost: Varies by course; some are subsidised
🚦Status: Ongoing with frequent intakes.
Soverign Art Foundation - Hong Kong Students Prize
✍️Description: A major youth art award with public exhibition opportunities and cash prizes for both students and schools
🤷Eligibility: School students in Hong Kong
💵Cost: Free to enter
🚦Status: Annual
HKSDAB Hong Kong Schools Digital Art Battle
✍️Description: A live digital art competition where students create artwork under time pressure, ideal for digital illustrators and graphic artists
🤷Eligibility: Secondary students
💵Cost: Usually free or low-cost.
🚦Status: Annual
Design Portfolios — Gowld Art Centre
✍️Description: Custom teen portfolio-preparation classes ranging from short sessions to full-day programmes for university art and design applications.
🤷Eligibility: Teen students preparing design portfolios.
💵Cost: Paid (HKD$450-980)
🚦Status: Ongoing
🤔 Did You Know? Hong Kong’s neon signs were designed to honor vertical Chinese couplets, as Chinese characters read perfectly up and down.
Procreate Courses — Fundamentals & Creative Studio
✍️Description: Small-class digital drawing lessons in Procreate for ages 8–17, useful for building illustration and concept-art skills
🤷Eligibility: Secondary students and youth aged 8-17
💵Cost: Paid
🚦Status: Ongoing
HKAPA EXCEL — Design-Adjacent Short Courses
✍️Description: HKAPA EXCEL occasionally offers creative production and visual arts courses that connect with design, stage visuals, and presentation skills
🤷Eligibility: Secondary students and youth, depending on the course
💵Cost: Paid
🚦Status: Ongoing
Creative Design Internships / Jobs on Hong Kong job platforms
✍️Description: Regular listings in graphic design, visual arts, art direction, branding, and illustration, including internships and part-time roles
🤷Eligibility: Usually older secondary students or recent graduates, depending on employer requirements
💵Cost: Paid
🚦Status: Rolling
PolyU Design Hatch Awards
✍️Description: A secondary-school design competition focused on functional, creative solutions, often linked to STEAM and problem-solving
🤷Eligibility: Secondary students
💵Cost: Free to enter
🚦Status:
2026 Cycle ended
HKAC Collaglacier Eco-Art Workshops
✍️Description: Sustainability-focused workshops & competition teaching collage, reuse, and eco-art techniques.
🤷Eligibility: Youth and students
💵Cost: Varies
🚦Status: Periodic
HKCT Diploma in Creative Design
✍️Description: A highly practical, exam-free programme with over 90% design practice, including software like Photoshop and Illustrator
🤷Eligibility: Form 6 graduates
💵Cost: Paid
🚦Status: Regular intake
EDB Exhibition of Student Visual Arts Work
✍️Description: A public exhibition featuring selected secondary-school visual arts pieces from strong HKDSE students
🤷Eligibility: All/ The public
💵Cost: Free
🚦Status: Annual
M+ Museum Intern / Student Opportunities
✍️Description: Student and intern pathways in curatorial work, exhibition support, and visual arts learning at West Kowloon
🤷Eligibility: Usually older students or post-secondary, depending on the role
💵Cost: Paid or volunteer-based, depending on the role
🚦Status: Periodic
Passion Project Ideas
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“Visual Identity for a Local Cause”
“Visual Identity for a Local Cause”
Choose a small local cause, club, or community initiative (e.g.a neighbourhood clean‑up group, a small NGO, a youth mental health project)
Design a full visual identity with logo, colour palette, typography, basic brand guidelines, plus 3–5 applied items (e.g. poster, social media template, tote bag, sticker)
Write a 5–8 page case study including brief, research, iterations, final designs, and how the client used them; include before/after examples if possible
🏫 Why it’s good for uni: Shows you can solve real design problems, work with a “client”, and think systematically about branding
Personal Illustration & Typography Series "Hong Kong in 100 Icons"
Personal Illustration & Typography Series "Hong Kong in 100 Icons"
Create a self‑directed series of 20–30 illustrated “icons” that represent Hong Kong life (e.g., tram, estate blocks, dai pai dong, MTR map)
For each icon, combine illustration with simple typography or micro‑copy (a short caption, fact, or personal memory)
Publish as an Instagram series, a mini zine, or a simple website
Write a short artist statement about your concept, style choices, and what you learned about visual communication
🏫 Why it’s good for uni: Demonstrates consistent personal style, idea generation, and ability to build a coherent visual project over time
Infographic Project on a Local Issue
Infographic Project on a Local Issue
Pick a local issue you care about (e.g.teen mental health, housing affordability, public transport usage)
Gather data from official sources ( Government reports/news investigations) and turn into 3–5 high‑quality infographics
Focus on clear hierarchy, data visualisation, and storytelling
Share online and with relevant student groups or NGOs, and include a 3–5 page reflection on your design decisions and what you learned.
🏫 Why it’s good for uni: Shows you can handle information design, think critically about data, and communicate complex ideas visually
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