graphic design course
Professional Graphic Design Course
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Graphic designers are an interesting mix of artist and engineer. We're the creative problem solvers and craftsmen (and women) who make great ideas a tangible reality.
If you have a creative spirit, a passion for working with people and a penchant for solving puzzles, then you have the ingredients to be a great graphic designer. The graphic design course is designed to inspire the designer inside you. Whether you are looking to kick start a career in graphic design, or you simply want to create better ads, flyers and brochures for your business, we'll give you the tools you need to create dynamic, meaningful, professional quality logos, layouts, flyers, ads and posters.
Graphic Design is a business and an art. It's 10% inspiration and 90% dedication to creating a final, refined solution for your client.
To remain creative five days a week, eight hours (or more) a day, you need to have a process that ignites your passion, evaluates the quality of your ideas and keeps you fresh. By taking this course, you'll be learning the history, theory and practices that will help you make this dream a working reality.
The Course is provided Online. You study at home, in your own time and at your own pace. E–learning pricing is competitive and students can study from the comfort of their own homes. Studies show that e–learning will be offered by 80% of schools within the next ten years. It was a natural progression for us to want to be a part of this worldwide education movement and we strive to make our online course as interactive and inspiring as a real life classroom the only difference is The graphic design course online lets you organize your study around your lifestyle. Not the other way around!
About The Graphic Design Course International
The Graphic Design Course has been designed and written by award winning graphic designers and graphic design tutors Kellie Schroeder and Donovan Mafnas. The Course is comprised of 12 comprehensive modules that will equip you with the skill set to become a professional graphic designer. The course takes an average of 30 weeks to complete, however being self paced you have the flexibility to study in your own time and pace around your busy lifestyle! By the end of this course you will be proficient in Logos/brand identity, Business cards, letterheads, flyers, page layouts and posters.
Each module is structured to teach you something new about the foundations and tools used in Graphic Design. We believe that practice and feedback are the most valuable learning tools. This is why we have designed our graphic design course online with a creative assignment at the end of each module. These assignments will be based upon all that you have learnt in the module studied. Assignments have been designed to enable you to use your completed task as a contribution to your first graphic design portfolio.
Our aim is to nurture and channel your creativity and imagination. Enabling you with easy to follow step by step design techniques from the introduction level through to more complex industry standard uses of photographic images, typography, graphics and presentation skills.
The Graphic Design School International offers the most up to date, comprehensive and exciting short graphic design course online available worldwide.
How Does Online Learning Work?
When you enroll with The Graphic Design School International you will be issued a Username and Password. You can then login as a student and enter our secure student site. This secure site is like your own personal classroom. You will find:
- Your first two Modules waiting for you
- An e–library packed with digital versions of graphic design books, magazines, sample portfolios and educational videos.
- A student community forum
- Your own gallery page (you can submit works to the school gallery through this page)
- Links and useful information, for your study, students discounts, etc
- Over 100 graphic design tutorial videos.
Your online tutor will be there to offer you support throughout your learning experience, along with marking each assignment and offering you valuable and constructive feedback.
You will find the tutorials easy to follow and well written with no formal examinations. The Assignments are fun and learning how to apply your ideas to computer techniques surprisingly easy. You will be mentored throughout the graphic design software learning sections of the modules with both written and video tutorials.
The twelve module course has been designed to enable students to complete the course in 30 weeks. However, we understand that despite best laid plans, life happens! So we like to offer students the flexibility of up to one year to complete all twelve modules.
Upon graduation from “The Graphic Design School” course you will have the skills and know how necessary to pursue a successful full or part time career in Graphic Design. Use your portfolio to gain work, further education or an exciting new way to express your creativity!
Graphic Design Software
Graphic Design Course: Software Learning Sample
For reasons of software affordability, students have the choice of doing the course in the Adobe suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) or the free to download Open Source Adobe equivalents (Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus). Or a combination of both.
The software training component of the graphic design course has been designed to correspond perfectly with the studies and assignments set in the Theory section of the course. The course consists of over 500 pages of training with over 100 custom made software training videos.
The first page of each software training section can be seen below.
Adobe Software Learning
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Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is an extensive vector-editing software package developed and edited par Adobe Systems. Adobe Illustrator is considered the industry-standard editor. It has a long history, and its feature set allows creation of complex vector artwork. Constant redevelopment in line with other Adobe products has kept it an almost compulsory choice of vector-based editing software for the professional designer, especially since its integration with Adobe's Creative Suite packages in recent years.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a powerful graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals”.
Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing software application produced by Adobe Systems which can be used to create anything from posters, flyers, and brochures to full magazines or books. Designers are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media.
Open Source Software Learning
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InkScape
Inkscape is a Free and open source vector editor whose primary native format is SVG. Its stated goal is to become a powerful graphics tool while being fully compliant with the XML, SVG, and CSS standards. Inkscape is especially popular on Linux, though it is available for Windows, Mac OS X. Inkscape has multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts, something currently lacking in most commercial vector graphics applications.
The Gimp
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free software raster graphics editor. The GIMP product vision sees GIMP as a high-end program for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements. The product vision also sees GIMP as a platform for the development of cutting-edge scientific image-processing algorithms. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
Scribus
Scribus is a desktop publishing application; released under the GNU General Public License as free software. Scribus is designed for flexible layout and typesetting, and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Example uses include writing small newspapers, brochures, newsletters, posters and books. It provides a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
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