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Duration
2 years
Location
Hazel McCallion Campus
(Mississauga)
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Overview
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Courses
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Careers
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Learning Outcomes
This program was previously named Visual Merchandising Arts.
Elevate your creativity and business savvy.
Program Overview
Apply your creativity and passion for design to help brands succeed
If you’re a creative hands-on learner that loves to collaborate with like-minded individuals, our Visual Merchandising Design program could be a great fit. In this dynamic two-year diploma program, you’ll learn how to develop exciting and memorable installations for big and small brands both online and in-store. You’ll also develop a greater understanding of how brands attract consumers, maximize their engagement, and motivate them to buy.
Get ready for a career in visual merchandising with hands-on experience
- Collaborate on installations from concept to creation including retail windows, pop-up shops, and interior retail environments
- Use visual storytelling for social, digital, and physical branding and marketing
- Style for fashion, products, and interiors for use in both media and physical retail environments
- Engage in hands-on fabrication of sustainable prop and fixture design
Learn in dedicated visual merchandising studios with all the resources you can imagine
At our LEED-certified Hazel McCallion Campus in the heart of Mississauga, you’ll have access to a dedicated visual merchandising studio and prop room; window display environments; a material resource room; our cutting-edge sustainable Material Connexions Library (one of only two in Canada!); a wood shop; fabrication facilities; and a large-format printing centre.
Working in state-of-the-art facilities under the guidance of practicing professors who are well-connected to industry, you’ll be on your way to a successful professional career in visual merchandising.
Dive into the industry through an exciting field placement
You’ll have the opportunity to select from a curated list of leading industry partners to complete your 160 hours of field placement. During this placement you'll be able to apply the skills you’ve learned and build your professional network. Field placement hosts offer experiences in retail merchandising, styling, fabrications, marketing, branding, events and digital marketing.
Affiliations and associations
- Partnership in Visual Education PAVE
- Windowswear
- Canadian Gift Association
- Creative Hub 1352
- Square One, City of Mississauga
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Courses
Creative, innovative learning is at the core of all Sheridan’s courses. Here are the courses you’ll take in this program.
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Semester 1
CODE TITLE CREDITS VDES 16693 Visual Literacy 3 VDES 18448 Visual Merchandising 3 VDES 14444 Fashion Styling 3 VDES 14998 Freehand Illustration 3 COMM 19999 Essential Communication Skills 3 APPL 11662 Graphic Application Fundamentals 3 Total credits: 18
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Semester 2
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Semester 3
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Semester 4
Courses subject to change.
Current students should refer to their Academic Requirements in myStudentCentre to track their academic progress and outstanding course requirements.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of Sheridan’s Visual Merchandising Design program consistently find work soon after graduation.
Here are some examples of jobs you might find:
- Visual Merchandiser
- Digital Merchandiser
- In-store Merchandiser
- Retail Marketer
- Fashion Stylist
- Visual/Prop/Interior Stylist
- Brand Ambassador
- Cultural Curator/Category Manager
Learning Outcomes
The successful completion of this program will enable the graduate to:
- Develop impactful merchandising and experiential retail solutions that integrate virtual and physical strategies that meet the needs of the brand and consumer.
- Communicate proposals and design concepts to a variety of stakeholders using oral, written, illustrative, digital and visual presentation skills to meet the needs of the client.
- Design and construct visual displays for a range of commercial and residential environments using industry standard tools and technologies in alignment with regional codes and regulations.
- Plan, manage and implement a visual merchandising solution from concept to completion using project management principles and tools to meet project objectives.
- Collaborate within interdisciplinary teams in ways that best leverage the strengths and abilities of the team to solve and implement visual merchandising opportunities.
- Employ environmentally responsible and sustainable practices in the selection of materials and products used in the visual merchandising solution to reduce the negative impacts on the planet.
- Design inclusive visual merchandising solutions that connect with the widest audience respective of varying historic and emerging demographic and cultural consumer needs and behaviours.
- Create impactful brand imagery and advertising that reflect relevant design principles, brand theory and market research to reach the intended audience.
Program availability
Domestic
International
Ontario College Diploma
Field PlacementFull-time 2 years Program code: PVMAS
| Start date | Campus | Delivery | Status |
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| Sep 2025 | Hazel McCallion Campus (Mississauga) |
In Person
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Domestic Closed
International Closed
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| Jan 2026 | Hazel McCallion Campus (Mississauga) |
In Person
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Domestic Closed
International Closed
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