Courses Description :

Learn and apply graphic design principles, colour, and typography for better designs! Are you frustrated with the quality of your graphic designs, or wonder how graphic designers create effective content? Or do you simply want to learn more about graphic design or get started as a graphic designer?

In this course, you will learn and then apply design principles to create various graphic designs, including an online advertisement, an effective infographic, a gig poster with type as a design element, and an illustrative postcard design. You will learn how colour schemes can be created and applied in graphic designs. You will also learn how effective typography can improve your designs as well.

You will use the industry-standard software for photo and raster editing (Photoshop), illustration and vector art (Illustrator), and publication design (InDesign) in this course to apply what you learn.

Course Structure

In the first few sections, you will learn about the overarching benefits of this course and then learn about various design principles such as proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, balance, negative space, and rhythm. You will apply these design principles right away so you more effectively learn them. This will also allow you to learn design techniques.

In the colour section, you will learn about effective colour and then how to create colour schemes in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Corel Draw. You will create a colour wheel using Illustrator.

In the typography section, you will learn type terminology in order to know how to apply effective type. You will also learn best practices in editing and applying type.

All support files are included for the follow-along exercises and projects on design principles, colour, typography, and projects. Bonus files are also included, such as photo and Photoshop brushes.

Let's get started learning and creating!

This course will enable you to become a better graphic designer, whether you're new to graphic design or simply want to improve. I'll see you in the course!

Who this course is for:

• This course is for beginners who want to be introduced to graphic design principles and their applications or intermediate graphic designers who want to improve and learn even more.
• This course is not for people with MFAs in Graphic Design or graphic designers already very familiar with design principles, colour, and typography and who are experts in Adobe design products.
• This course is for anyone who wants to create awesome graphic designs in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Corel Draw.

Teaching Methodology 

Classroom Teaching Teacher and learning videos (Blended teaching and Learning)

Blended learning videos benefit students and teachers in several ways:

1. They give students more time to process information and can have them come to class prepared to discuss and put their learning into practice
2. Teachers can better maximize class time for higher-order, student-centred, collaborative learning activities
3. Videos help teachers standardize content for core and required classes
4. Students can view and review videos at their own pace and during times convenient to them
5. Blended approaches provide teachers with an appropriate way to incorporate audio and visuals into the learning process
6. These approaches speak the language of a digital generation