This course is a short period of time and it's highly recommended for the Graphic designer. It gives excellent introduction to analyzing design elements. Basically It will helps to understand and how to implement the Critique framework in the real life . it was a little bit hard to understand first time , but if you didn't study something about Art before as liked me however if you focus the instructors explain than you will get the all point clear.

I am a self-learned designer with years of professional experience, but I realized I need more knowledge and practice of articulating various elements of design to be able to work with people better. This course has been of immense help. I think if you are a designer, you will finish it faster but it will take a month of practice with different designs to get fluent with it. Thank you Coursera, Calarts, and professors for making this available.

Overall the course was very informative. I was able to use the new vocab and skills I was learning in practise in the assignments. I had previous experience with design language from taking design and art history classes and still felt like I was able to learn something. The only problem I had was with the peer reviewing, it seemed to be about 50/50 as to whether or not you'd get someone that actually put any effort into the review.

An enriching experience! 'The Language of Design: Form and Meaning' not only delved into the intricacies of design principles but also taught me how to critically analyze design work. The course structure was informative and engaging, offering valuable insights into how form shapes meaning in design. Highly recommended for those looking to deepen their understanding of design language and improve their critique skills

This course taught me the basics of design languages and their lexicons with many examples. I find this course is actually intriguing because the learners can see how designers can make such creative and dynamic poster examples throughout the course. To me, the last assignment is what I find 'applicable' for creating content (especially social media content) and branding if you are an in-house graphic designer.

Whole course is really amazing ! I never had opportunity to learn art on that way and there is not similar course anywhere. It is unique, maybe a little short because it makes us more hungry to learn from mentors. This course is pure gold and I hope that will be more. By the way I will enroll to more CalArts content because CalArts is amazing. Thank you guys. I feel more advanced now as graphic designer.

A wonderful and very approachable course both for beginners and for people who are well versed in the worlds of design and art. I am myself a visual communication graduate, but the course helped me wrap my head around topics I was either to shy to ask or topics I vaguely understood but very much needed to be explained about in a simplistic and well-structured manner.

Very well organized lesson. It helps us understand the fundamentals of not only of graphic design, but any kind of visual art, also. It helps us recognize the characteristics of a visual composition and to entone the characteristics of our visual compositions to correspond in a good way to our audience. Well done to the teachers!

Thank you, Yasmin and Randy, for your time and expertise in giving us the knowledge for LExicon and how to use the Critique Framework. It has been very knowledgeable and interesting to see how a simple design has secrets hidden. We got the learning of how to use the right framework to understand the image. Thank you once again.

Interesting how art, which is abstract, and technology, which is mostly mathematics, are combined nowadays. In fact always was. Every UX/UI professionals, formerly known as 'designers', must navigate between art and mathematics to best in this profession. This course is one of the first steps we need to take in this direction.

This is an exceptional course on many levels : The critical thinking/language focus for criteria based critique is clear, direct, powerful, and effective. Much respect to these instructors, whom I would be very interested in taking more courses. The resources are very helpful to expand the investigation into this study.

Absolutely loved this course. It was a great experience. The speakers were good designers who shared their vision from beginning to end. I do it just for a few weeks, and I am happy to receive my certificate. I will recommend who wants to learn Graphic Designer to once get into this course. Thank you, Calarts!

Excellent content. I was challenged more than I expected and felt like the instructors put a lot of thought into the course. My only criticism would be the final assignment being graded by other students in the course was not ideal; still I understand it's usefulness in a course with so many students.

The provided material is really good. The videos are very useful: specific, short and well explained. Many references and examples of pieces of work are given, which makes it much easier to follow the course. The bibliography is diverse and interesting. I have enjoyed it and learn a lot from it.

An impressive first look into Cal-Arts design ideas and philosophy. Might help you understand their mentality and students better. Works well as an introduction to design works for beginners as it approach the field from a neutral view but then steer it into their understanding and explanation.

This course helped me to learn the nitty-gritty of visual communication and graphic design. Every week I have learned something new which would surely help me to improve my work. I would definitely recommend this course to everyone who is interested in learning visual communication in-depth.

This course really helped me to try and review things not just by simple words like "good" or "okay" but instead pushed me to look at every aspect and to the smallest element. If you are searching for a course that can help you to think more critically, I highly recommend this course.

Excellent course! It helps to structure knowledge on composition, especially on its analysis, which is very important for understanding the composition as a whole. The acquired knowledge can be used in different types of composition, not only in graphics. Thanks for the course!

I found the course very useful to understand how to read through a piece of graphic design and the basics of language design. Materials and lessons are really valuable content that explains meanings in a strong and clear manner. I'm very happy with the concepts I have learned.

I've learned something new and valuable. This course definitely worth it. It taught me how critique for a work of design is a huge deal and how a person confronted with a design should be aware of what to look at before address the critique. Superb effort! Thank you very much!

First, a huge thank you to Ms. Yasmin Khan Gibson and Mr. Randy Nakamura for the very enjoyable course. Undertaking this Calarts design course has exceeded my expectations. I now have the inspiration to continue my path as a creative in visual arts and filmmaking. Thank you!

This class was great in introducing vocabulary and concepts of visual arts and design that allows for a formal structure of how to make a critique about them. It helps to also identify meaning, function, purpose, composition, and visual language in an efficient way!

I like this course because as a graphic designer, I learned a few important subjects and it's will very use full, well designed and explained by our tutors, I will suggest this other also for learning sole of graphic design,

note: thank you for CALARTS & Coursera

An excellent course that describes about the importance of design critique and how it helps us as a designer to apply in our work. Learning about the language of design helps me to use more meaningful words and understand better my clients. Recommended!

I develop my skills a lot through this course by learning about how to read any poster, a design related article, and a lot about graphic design. so i want to say a huge thanks to both tutor's prof. Yasmin Khan and prof. Randy Nakamura.