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Advance Your Skills in Graphic Design

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Graphic designers create visual concepts that inspire, inform, and transform. Explore the foundations in this path, then learn the latest Adobe tools in the "Learn Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator" learning path.
  • Build a solid foundation in typography, color, and layout.
  • Explore how design influences and emphasizes the message.
  • Discover the how and why behind creating inclusive designs.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
-Learn the core concepts that every designer and anyone working with designers needs to know.

Course 2: Graphic Design Foundations: Ideas, Concepts, and Form
-Find inspiration in a course on the genesis of design ideas. Explore topics such as metaphors, humor, typography, iconography, imagery, and more.

Course 3: Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition
-Learn how to create stronger, clearer, more attention-grabbing designs by understanding the how, why, and when of layout and composition.

Course 4: Graphic Design Foundations: Typography
-Explore good typographic practices. Learn how to select and use type to add impact, how type is measured, and how factors like spacing and alignment affect your design.

Course 5: How Design Makes Us Think
-Learn how design influences thinking by generating emotional and intellectual responses from viewers, users, and consumers.

Course 6: Color for Design and Art
-Learn about the practical application of color theory: how to create color palettes, manipulate colors in Adobe tools like Photoshop and Illustrator, fix color problems, and more.

Course 7: Creating Inclusive Content
-Learn what inclusive content is, why it’s important in today’s culture, how to use inclusive design in all your design work, and more.

Course 8: Working with Inclusive Imagery
-Discover brand communication and image design strategies that promote diversity and inclusion with your audience.

Course 9: Layout and Composition: Advanced Principles
-Take an advanced look at universal composition and layout principles. Explore techniques and concepts that can help you craft unexpected, visually intriguing design solutions.

Courses

Taught by

Sean Adams, Cara St.Hilaire, Tony Harmer, Ina Saltz, Jim Krause, David Blatner, Julieanne Kost, Denise Jacobs and Nicte Cuevas

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