Level- Short course
Graphic Design for Beginners Online Short Course
UAL
Course Details
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
