Graphic Design for Beginners Online Short Course

In this online short course on graphic design, you will gain hands-on experience by working on various projects, from logos to magazine spreads. You will gain practical knowledge that can be applied to any visual communication project.

Topics:

• 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