Graphic Design for Beginners Online Short Course
University of the Arts London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
4 weeks
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Tuition fees
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Introduction
Graphic Design for Beginners Online Short Course
This short online graphic design course gives you an intensive and practical introduction to 20 key graphic design principles.
Each week you will gain experience applying these principles, by completing practical and realistic projects. Through this project work you will become familiar with techniques for working with images and fonts, designing layouts, and crafting logos and visual identities. The four projects can be tailored to your needs and can be related to current professional projects if required.
The course is also suitable for those wishing to discover and practice the fundamental principles of communication via the combination of text and image, perhaps as a first step into a new area of study, or simply to exercise an enquiring mind in a two-dimensional arena. The course does not cover the use of graphic design software, but you are welcome to complete projects using any software you wish, or none, as all projects can be completed working with hand tools (pens, pencils, paper, scissors, glue etc.).
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
- Layout design
- Typography
- Kerning, tracking, and leading
- Working with images
- Scale, spacing, and positioning
- Using grids to enhance your work
- Logo design
- Exploring the notion of the ‘graphic idea’
- Communicating words and feelings through images
- Fusing physical and digital processes
- Found objects: creating an overlay
- Scale, spacing, and positioning
- Visual hierarchies, integrating each element and the role of white space
- Pastiche, appropriation and creating visual puns
- Decoding / constituting typefaces and designing typography
- Executing the double-page spread
- The visual relationship between words and images
- Experimenting with kerning, tracking, leading and bleed
- Exploring symmetry, consistency, and colour
Program Outcome
By the end of the course you will have;
- Attained an understanding of what graphic design is and what graphic designers do
- Become familiar with technical graphics terminology
- Studied techniques that can be applied to each graphic specialism
- Completed a diverse range of exercises designed to strengthen your visual skills
- Have a clear understanding of how graphic design is used to communicate ideas
- Gained knowledge of typefaces and fonts prior to designing your own typography
- Learned how magazine layouts are formed and devised your own with creative freedom
- Discovered what makes an effective logo and created several of your own
- Had your worked reviewed weekly by the tutor and received personalised feedback
Program Tuition Fee
Program delivery
- Live online lessons with the same tutors
- The same course content and learning outcomes
- Lesson recordings, for review
- Access to VLE with course content
- Forums for support
- 2 weeks online access