Scheduled Weekly Sessions
Classes are scheduled for one day per week, taught online in live sessions. Participation is flexible, with no certificate requirements.
LAAD Hobby Programmes
Make Art Part of Your Life
Scheduled Weekly Sessions · Expert Online Guidance · Open to All Levels
Creativity should be accessible to everyone. LAAD Hobby Programmes are designed for learners who want serious creative instruction without committing to a full certificate track.
Participants learn in a supportive online environment with flexible scheduling and a lighter workload, joining the same live online sessions as certificate-track students.
Hobby Programme Format
Flexible creative training without certificate pressure
Expert Online Guidance
Benefit from the exact same high-quality online guidance as our intensive certificate-track classes.
Accessible to Everyone
Open to all skill levels. Focus explicitly on creative and applied practice with zero final exams.
Hobby participants receive the same live online teaching as certificate-track students while following a lighter, flexible learning path. Participation options and pricing are shared during consultation.
Programme Options
Explore Your Creative Path
Interior Design
Explore the world of interior design at your own pace. Focus on one or more design topics across semesters — from residential spaces to commercial hospitality environments.
- Residential (home) design — kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and living areas, with materials, colour, furniture and ergonomics
- Café and restaurant design — cafés, bars and bistros, including kitchen planning, seating, terraces and lighting
- Villa design — two- and three-storey detached buildings of 500–1000 m², with staircases, gardens and pools
- Office and workspace design — professional practices, finance and accounting bureaus, and corporate offices
- Retail store design — textile, accessory and footwear spaces, window dressing, lighting and ventilation
- Boutique hotel design — 16 to 24 room properties, including parking, gardens, pools, restaurants and room types
Fashion Design
Discover the foundations of fashion design without the full vocational commitment. Engage with styling, illustration, and trend analysis in a supportive creative setting.
- Fashion and colour / colour blocking
- Stylisation, modernisation and inspiration in fashion design
- Fabric pattern design and techniques
- Styles
- Classical art movements that shaped fashion design
- 20th-century art movements that shaped fashion design
- History of costume 1 (BC)
- History of costume 2 (AD)
- Fashion figure proportions (8, 10 and 11 head-lengths)
- Collection
- Trend analysis
- Multifunctional clothing
- Children's clothing
- Men's clothing
Painting
Nurture your artistic side in a supportive online learning environment. Develop your technique through structured practice covering classical and contemporary approaches.
- Charcoal drawing and still life studies
- Colour theory and painting practice
- Composition and perspective
- Observational/imaginative studies and selected art history themes
Creative Practice
A Glimpse at Creative Practice
Start Your Creative Journey
Get in touch to discuss programme options, scheduling, and pricing.