Primarily the objective of the OJT Program is to enhance the skills of the students through hands-on seminars and workshops and to expose them to actual design practice by immersing themselves with the Design Center’s regular operations for career discovery.

The collaboration of DTI – Competitiveness and Innovation Group, Design Center of the Philippines, and Export Marketing Bureau, in celebration of the National Exporters Week 2023, centered on aiding in the development, promotion and enhancement of product exports produced by Philippine based brands and manufacturers. Aligning our commitment to sustaining export promotion and development, and our goal to promote design as a tool to increase the competitiveness of our local exporters through human-centered solutions, joint efforts to offer relevant programs will support MSMEs in optimizing the full potential of their value offerings and further their growth in the export market.

The Philippine Skills Framework for Design Sector aims to widen the understanding of the importance of design skills in business and the value it creates for the company and the economy to empower the Philippine design workforce through a comprehensive framework that promotes lifelong learning, skills mastery, and career progression. The Design Center of the Philippines aims to benchmark its efforts on Singapore’s Skills Future and Design Singapore Council who have successfully launched the Skills Framework for Design which promotes skills mastery and lifelong learning in collaboration with employers, industry associations, education and training providers, and unions.

The Design Center of the Philippines, in partnership with Denmark’s The Index Project, spearheads this virtual training, The Design to Improve Life Education 2020: The Compass Methodology Workshop Series.

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The Design to Improve Life Education 2020: The Compass Workshop Series, is the Design Center of the Philippines’ contribution to supporting the recovery of the Philippine design ecosystem in line with the objectives of the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, and NEDA’s We Recover as One objectives. This design methodology also becomes even more relevant as the Philippines and the design community prepare for the new skillsets required to thrive in the New Normal and what the World Economic Forum calls The Great Reset, while harnessing the power of design to address real world problems, malasakit.

Focused on the needs of practicing regional and provincial designers and MSMEs, the program is developed to provide customized trainings and professional education programs to elevate the quality and delivery of design services of regional and provincial designers to meet the standards of global practices.

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Region VII

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CAR

The participants gained invaluable insights and hands-on experience as they work as part of the team while under the supervision and tutelage of an industry recognized mentor.

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Incubation: Focused specifically on strengthening of the participants’ philosophy and orientation towards design fundamentals to nurture a unique creative voice.

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‍Apprenticeship: Geared towards a deeper appreciation of business, craftmanship, cultural sensitivity, and application of learnings from the incubation phase. The participants will experience an actual design practice in a Design Studio set-up headed by the mentors as Creative Directors.

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Atelier: Participants’ immersion in an actual design practice in a design firm, applying all their learnings without any guidance from the Design Mentor nor from the Program Advisors, they will work as one of the company’s (probationary) employees, performing duties and responsibilities of an in-house designer.