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About the Course

Graphic Design is all around us! Words and pictures—the building blocks of graphic design—are the elements that carry the majority of the content in both the digital world and the printed world. As graphic design becomes more visible and prevalent in our lives, graphic design as a practice becomes more important in our culture. Through visual examples, this course will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape... foundational skills that are common in all areas of graphic design practice. I don't just want you to watch a video of someone talking about design, I want you to MAKE design! If you want to be a designer you have to be a maker and a communicator, so this course will offer you lots of opportunities to get your hands dirty with exercises and with more practical projects. At the end of this course you will have learned how to explore and investigate visual representation through a range of image-making techniques; understand basic principles of working with shape, color and pattern; been exposed to the language and skills of typography; and understand and have applied the principles of composition and visual contrast. If you complete the course, along with its optional (but highly recommended) briefs, you will have a core set of graphic design skills that you can apply to your own projects, or to more deeply investigate a specialized area of graphic design. To succeed in this course you will need access to a computer. You can complete this course without one but it will be tougher. Access to, and a beginner's level knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite programs, such as Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign will help you, especially if you want to complete the optional briefs....

Top reviews

MN

May 18, 2022

very good introductory course. i enjoyed the assignments, they are not overwhelming, easy to start, and the optional ones offer great opportunity to dig little deeper into graphic design fundamentals.

GA

Aug 20, 2018

Very interesting, I liked the format. Easy to follow, nice excercises. It's actually good to cover the basics of design, even if you are not an absolute beginner, and especially if you are self taught

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By Zirui H

Aug 27, 2017

It's very handy and I've never learned such a good courses that help my self-study a lot! Totally thanks!

By Danil

Dec 30, 2016

Nice Cource! Understanding principles of design on the practice. Easy but very good, effective exercises.

By Mariana R

May 15, 2016

The course gives fundamental knowledge, as promised. I like videos and the way how material is presented.

By Divya B

Jan 2, 2016

Awesome course! I thought the lectures were really thorough and assignments were a great way to practice.

By Mỹ H N T

Dec 26, 2021

The knowledge and skills I have learned in this course are very good, interesting and highly applicable.

By Jesica O

Nov 23, 2020

As a fundamental is really great and helpful, but for obtaining more tools you should make other courses

By ROMAN E M

Nov 18, 2020

Excelente curso, explicaciones muy buenas y concretas que ayudan a entender el contenido eficientemente.

By Mustapha N

Jul 21, 2020

I learnt a lot in this course like shape and color and much more and i enjoyed this very much and thanks

By Siddhika s

Jun 15, 2020

Good experience . I've learned how we can make creative and expressive images with different techniques.

By LU F

Mar 7, 2019

Fundamental but very useful information. The instructor encourages you to think creatively all the time.

By Marishka-Kaye M

Sep 20, 2016

Excellent course! Learned so much and the modules were easy to follow. I would recommend this to anyone.

By Henintsoa T A

Sep 13, 2016

it was very useful, helpful and all i need to know as fundamentals or basics was in there. Thanks a lot.

By Porfirio L C

Apr 12, 2016

It comes with a lot of exercises which made me learn concepts that I've trying to learn only by reading.

By Natalia

Jan 17, 2016

Thanks California Institute of the Arts for this course! It gives me opportunity to study graphic design

By Bianca Z

Nov 23, 2015

Really interesting and really passionating! This really pushes me to do a University of Design later :)!

By M A Y

Aug 30, 2023

It was amazing to understand the Fundamentals about Graphic Design and it will help you in your future.

By Eva-Mari S

Jan 22, 2023

Thank you for a joyful course, easy to understand and to do assignments. another course done and dusted

By Adrianne E

Nov 13, 2021

I really enjoyed getting back to basics in this course. I loved the videos and working on the projects.

By Tetiana M

Apr 18, 2021

Thank you very very very much for your course. I am so glad, because I started to achieve my goal !!!!

By 20UFAA051

Oct 25, 2020

This course was really helpful to me.

Especially composition had helped me for photography and drawing.

By Catalina E

Sep 19, 2020

I love the course, it really helped me to see my images from another perspective. Thank you very much!

By Niranjana A

Jul 23, 2020

It was very helpful. It helped me improve my art overall. Thank you so much for this wonderful course.

By NaveenRaj R

Jun 7, 2020

Real an good experience and learning time.. had nice learning hand on basic things from the experts....

By Полина К

Apr 6, 2020

The most basic, interesting, and deep course about design, with great teacher and really good homework.

By yunlin

Jan 13, 2017

An inspiring course.I've learned a lot by experimenting. It would be better if there's a mentor for us.