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About the Course

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture. Through visual examples, this course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape... foundational skills that are common in all areas of graphic design practice. I don't just want you to watch a video of someone talking about design, I want you to MAKE design! If you want to be a designer you have to be a maker and a communicator, so this course will offer you lots of opportunities to get your hands dirty with exercises and with more practical projects. At the end of this course you will have learned how to explore and investigate visual representation through a range of image-making techniques; understand basic principles of working with shape, color and pattern; been exposed to the language and skills of typography; and understand and have applied the principles of composition and visual contrast. If you complete the course, along with its optional (but highly recommended) briefs, you will have a core set of graphic design skills that you can apply to your own projects, or to more deeply investigate a specialized area of graphic design. To succeed in this course you will need access to a computer. You can complete this course without one but it will be tougher. Access to, and a beginner's level knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite programs, such as Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign will help you, especially if you want to complete the optional briefs....

Top reviews

EJ

Sep 5, 2021

I had a lot of fun in this course. I learnt some extra bits of information related to graphic design and I think it's a great start for beginners as well as good practice for intermediate and experts!

FS

Jul 13, 2020

Excellent course to learn and refresh about fundamentals of design....It applies to all spheres of MULTIMEDIA..Highly recommended... As a suggestion course and notes should be available in PDF format.

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By Kham S K

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Apr 7, 2023

This course helps me a lot in learning graphic design and I really like it.

By Marta J

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Jun 15, 2020

It would me more useful if you could learn of to use the computer programs.

By Svenja B

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Mar 26, 2024

Covered the basics. Could be slightly more in depth for my personal taste.

By Sonia A

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Sep 28, 2020

Excellent course for beginners and i learned so many aspects of creativity

By Eslam K H

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Feb 17, 2020

This course served as my starting point in graphic design, which is better

By Clare D

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Sep 15, 2016

A decent course, but flawed by student reviewers with subjective opinions.

By Ashley H

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Feb 3, 2017

I learned some stuff and this was one of the easier courses I have taken.

By Regina M G

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Nov 26, 2016

I was hoping they would taught me softwares in order to do my assignments

By Virginia L

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Dec 31, 2015

Very helpful, I love it!

It would have been 5 stars if it had been longer.

By Hanan N

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Oct 25, 2022

A useful course and thank you to everyone who contributed to this course

By Vitória O R D C

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Apr 23, 2022

É um ótimo curso para revisar os fundamentos de forma, cor e composição.

By Iago

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Feb 11, 2018

I love the way classes were teached and the content was smooth an clear.

By Ramiz a

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May 15, 2020

it was ok. but very basic. It will be a great course for the biggeners

By Aubrie V Z

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Jul 25, 2022

i enjoyed what I learned. I think I will get more in future courses.

By idil

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Feb 7, 2016

Assignments could be more fun and hard but the course was very good.

By Jordan G

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Sep 11, 2020

This course did a good job at teaching the basics of graphic design

By Вероника L

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Aug 16, 2022

Не плохо, весьма старомодно, но изучить основы тоже очень полезно.

By Ersin E

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Apr 12, 2022

good begining with all basics included that will keep you on track

By Virginia E M

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Mar 30, 2016

Good explanations and great tasks to accomplish. Really didactic.

By Kelly W

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Aug 27, 2018

Good information, short videos and lots of exercises. Well done.

By Kayla H

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Oct 30, 2022

This was a good course. Wish there were more assignments to do.

By Dhananjay B

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Aug 6, 2021

This program is thorough and perfect starting point for novices.

By Vimal K

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Jan 29, 2018

Good course to get knowledge about the basics of Graphic Design.

By Gaston B

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Mar 2, 2017

Very well conceived and useful! A great intro to Graphic Design.

By Deleted A

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Mar 26, 2020

Very interesting and useful, especially for a beginner like me.