This comprehensive bootcamp will take you from an InDesign beginner to an advanced expert user. You will complete a carefully curated series of real-world publishing projects, including advertisements, magazine layouts, corporate brochures, formatted novels, movie posters, recipe books, restaurant menus, travel guides, and pitch decks, among many others.
Our experienced instructors will lead you step-by-step through each project, teaching the correct workflow, how to master each tool, and useful shortcuts to dramatically speed up your production. You will leave the course fully competent and able to use InDesign in a professional design environment with confidence.
What's Included:
- Certificate of course completion
- Comprehensive training manual
- Free class repeat option valid for 6 months
Detailed Course Outline:
- Unit 1: Getting Started with InDesign Basics
- Unit 2: Bulletin Design Principles
- Unit 3: Simple Retro Poster Creation
- Unit 4: Got Fleas? Pets Article Layout
- Unit 5: 2-Page Magazine Ad Design
- Unit 6: Creating Basic Graphics
- Unit 7: The Ultimate Lemon Cake Recipe Layout
- Unit 8: Haunted Tours Map Design
- Unit 9: Postcard Promotional Layout
- Unit 10: Art and Music Brochure
- Unit 11: Newspaper Design Techniques
- Unit 12: Newspaper Graphics Elements
- Unit 13: Multi-Panel Brochure creation
- Unit 14: Brochure Graphics and Imagery
- Unit 15: Fundamental Publishing Practices
- Unit 16: Introduction to Tables
- Unit 17: Introduction to GREP Searching
- Unit 18: Scripts and Other Advanced Tweaks
- Unit 19: Formatting a Complete Novel
- Unit 20: Creating Indexes and Tables of Contents
- Unit 21: Novel Cover Design
- Unit 22: Book Project Workflow
- Unit 23: Presentation Design Techniques
- Unit 24: Presentation Graphics
- Unit 25: Interactive Documents for Digital Distribution
