5 free advanced graphic design courses
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If you’re reading this, it’s because you are interested in some free courses that could help you learn some new advanced graphic design skills or sharpen the ones you already have.
But before we continue, we would like to briefly mention our article with five free introductory online courses for graphic designers. These basic short-term courses cover the fundamentals that can get you started as a freelancer on AnyTask.
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But back to the five advanced courses, we have selected because we know that we don’t all have the time and money to spend three long years doing a university design degree, perhaps not even to take an evening class at a local college.
Thanks to today’s internet, it’s possible to access some pretty advanced studies of design-led by academics and experts in the field. Here are the five free courses for you:
1. Udemy: Professional Logo Design in Adobe Illustrator
Created by Rawson Uddin, who has taught over 220,000 students so far, this seven-hour course will teach you how to design a logo that stands out from the crowd. Logos today are a critical part of the modern visual landscape. Rawson believes that it’s essential to identify the components and design techniques behind the most successful logos before learning how to create your own.
Some of the topics of the course are learning how to choose the rightthe right components for your professional logo design. Also, designing with simple shapes and adding shine, texture, beveled edges, and transparency to your unique logos. You’ll also learn how to design with negative space, choose colors, and prepare final files.
2. Calarts: Ideas from the History of Graphic Design
World-renowned scientist, author, and poet Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand the present.” Michael Chrichton, better known for his meticulously researched popular thrillers, said something similar: “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything.”
Well then, it would appear that this course is an excellent way to learn from the history of graphic design because that will spark your creativity, your inspiration.
California Institution of Arts teacher Louisa Sandause leads this condensed survey course, which focuses on four critical periods or themes from the history of design. The course is for students, even beginners, interested in learning more about visual culture and analysis. It will help you understand the emergence of design as a recognized practice. You’ll learn about graphic design radicalism in the late 1950s to early 1970s. All that will help you make informed design choices, and that’s not all: upon completion, you’ll receive a shareable certificate.
3. Udemy: Professional Advertising and Graphic Design (Mascot/Loto)
From the Banaras Hindu University, Dr. Abhishek Kumar has created this course with mascots in mind. Pets are fun, and they are very valuable brands, services, and event ambassadors. Who doesn’t like a cute puppy or a quirky-looking cat? And let’s not forget how easy it is for an image of a pet to go viral.
Dr. Kumar will teach you how to take a product brief from illustration to final mascot design.
His course will provide you with the tools to create a mascot. You’ll also learn vector tools in Photoshop and how to research, develop concepts, and sketch.
4. Coursera: Graphic Design Specialisation
Led by Michael Worthington and four other instructors, the course that will show you how to make compelling design has attracted 200,000 students.
Graphic design is all around us in a myriad of forms, both on-screen and in print. However, it’s always made up of images and words to create a communication goal.
The four-course sequence takes you on an exciting journey through the fundamental skills required to make a sophisticated graphic design.
The sequence is completed by a capstone project that applies each course’s skills and feedback in a finished branding project that is just right for your professional portfolio.
This specialization aims to provide you with a set of transferable formal and conceptual tools for “making and communicating” in the field of graphic design.
5. Kadenze: The Practical History of Typography
Understanding of typography is fundamental to a professional freelance career in graphic design. This course from the New York School of Visual Arts provides you historical appreciation of both the art and science of typography.
The four-session course covers different aspects of the history of typography, from its very beginnings to the most recent developments. You’ll also pick up an understanding of the principles and basics of typography along the way.
The course examines typefaces associated with key design and technological developments of the 20th century with an eye aimed at critical analysis of form, moving right up to 2017, including advances in generative type and variable fonts for the web.
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Originally published at https://news.anytask.com on January 11, 2021.
