Digital Graphics Course
Prague, Czech Republic
Course
DURATION
10 days
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
In this course, you will learn all you need to become an aspiring graphic designer. You will learn how to sketch and prepare your project, how to turn it into reality using modern software and hardware tools, and how to edit it to a final version. You will also gain knowledge about current trends and popular methods in graphic design and its presentation.
Description
Graphic Design course should deal with the most common topics in the most commercial sphere of advertising and graphic design branch. Hopefully, students will learn how to respond to different requests in graphic design and how to make successful visual communication.
Skills
To be updated
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00 - 14:00
Accommodation: For accommodation options, please visit the dedicated page.
Credits: You will receive an official Certificate of Attendance upon completion of your course. Please inform the organizing staff if you require any extra supplements, such as the Transcript of Records. The student is eligible to receive up to 5 ECTS credits, however, please follow the instructions here and consult the acknowledgment process with your university in advance.
Course Outline
- Sketching and drawing - The most significant part of designing anything in the graphics industry. Students do not need to be skilled in drawing, this part should teach them how to work with the beginning ideas. They will learn about design elements such as color, line, shape, space, and texture.
- Logo design - The part where ideas get their form and become the actual design for companies, services, or products, considering the importance of logo design in the visual image of a company.
- Typography - Students need to know how to work with texts, fonts, and basic principles of typography - it affects and even psychology used via typos to clients, and the selection of proper fonts with Corporate Identities or product designs. They are also exposed to technical and aesthetic issues, and communicative abilities of typography as individual forms and as text.
- Product design - A lot of companies and services offer their own new products, students will learn how to approach a product design, and how to find a connection between company identity and product attributes. The topic is intended to provide awareness of the role of multiple functions in creating a new product
- Corporate identity - A brand is expressed in a system of tangible items that fuel the recognition of that brand. These items will typically have a strong identity that separates them or makes them stand out from the crowd of brands on the market. This part should connect all the exercises together to make the functional identity of a company (there will be a selection of various kinds of businesses). The final state will contain a brand manual.
*Program/Course Outline is subject to change.