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Graphic Design Foundation Certificate The Graphic Design certificate program focuses on creating intelligent and powerful visual communication. Students build a strong foundation for a graphic design career by learning design techniques, visual thinking, concept development, color, composition, and typography, through case studies and hands-on exercises. Graphic Design students learn the professional applications for Adobe  more...

Advanced Graphic Design Course Graphic design is the art of visual communication, the visual representation of ideas or concepts. How do you succeed as a graphic designer? Study the movements that shaped today's visual world, and learn how to conceptualize projects, reinvent clich s, create balanced layouts, distill complex information, and motivate your audience. In this advanced, hands-on course, you'll build skills for  more...

Advanced Layout Design Take your layout skills to the next level by studying advanced concepts in page design. Students explore how to use esoteric composition and typography and color to create layout designs that attract attention and challenge the viewer. Open-ended projects provide maximum opportunity for portfolio development.  more...

Advertising Design Course Ready to put on your Madison Advenue shoes? Buckle up, because there's no better time to become an ad designer. In this 6-lesson course, you'll learn the principles of the advertising design from both a creative and a business perspective. Case studies from print, Web, and TV showcase advertising concepts at work: persuasion, color psychology and composition, copywriting and typography, and  more...

Advanced Graphic Design Prepare yourself for high-level graphic design projects. The focus is on understanding different styles that influenced graphic design, in addition to how to conceptualize projects, reinvent clich?s, create balanced layouts, distill complex information, and motivate your audience. Course projects include postage design, annual report layout, poster and book design, an art poster, and a direct mail  more...

css essentials Tired of coding HTML, one tag at a time? Then consider CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), a technology that allows the Web designer precise control over almost every aspect of page's design and layout. In this practical 3-lesson course, you'll learn how CSS works to give you fast and easy control over such page elements as: fonts, lists, color, backgrounds, borders, relative positioning, even  more...

design for non-designers Need to think like a designer? This course gives you a primer on the basic elements of design: typography, images, color, and layout. Through a series of real-life case studies, you'll go inside the design process and learn how to evaluate designs using such time-honored principles as consistency and alignment. Through interaction with the instructor and other students, you'll with develop  more...

InDesign Basics Explore fundamental techniques for Adobe InDesign and develop your print design skills. The course will impart a working knowledge of the main InDesign tools and features, everything from basic features to using master pages, importing and manipulating objects, controlling text flow and style, to graphic effects such as transparency, drop shadow, and feathering. Projects give you practice in a  more...

interface design Interfaces are crucial to the success of your design in essence, they link your audience to your material. Good web interface design is intuitive, easy to navigate, user-friendly, and built on past user experience (on-line and off). Bad interfaces turn away visitors like the plague. On a VCR, you know the red circle means "record" and the green triangle means "play", right? The internet has  more...

quark basics Book publishing, magazines, newspapers, corporate reports, catalogues, promotional materials . . . there's almost no limit to what can be done using QuarkXPress, Quark's tried-and-true layout, design, and production tool. In this six-lesson course, you'll master all the basics of this "must-know" program. Through a series of hands-on projects, you'll create a flyer, a brochure, a newsletter, a  more...

web design I Web design today is an increasingly challenging creative environment. To compete in this field, you'll need not only a mastery of graphic design, navigation design, and page layout, but also a basic proficiency in Web foundations like HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Sounds like a tall order? This distance learning course equips you for the challenge through industry-foundation online,  more...

InDesign Advanced Learn the professional-level InDesign features that are often overlooked by today s designers. Lectures show you how to customize InDesign for maximum efficiency, collaborate effectively with your printer, use advanced typography and drawing features, manage printing of transparency and trapping, use plug-ins and scripts, create interactive PDFs, and more. Projects challenge you to create  more...

InDesign I Learn page layout design with InDesign, today's leading page layout program. Working knowledge of this comprehensive page layout software is essential when designing publications and preliminary web page layouts. Learn to practice file management while placing Photoshop and Illustrator files into InDesign documents, arrange elements on a page or multiple pages, and make type and color look good.  more...

Warehouse Design To optimize the saturation of space with accessibility To increase inventory turns To reduce the time put away and picking To enhance cash flow  more...

Be Prepared to Train Adequate preparation for training and facilitation sessions is key to their success. If you are called on to deliver one, be sure to consider all the logistics involved. The material presented here will help you successfully plan for a training session. It discusses the choice of venue, publicity and materials required. 40-minute online tutorial  more...

AutoCAD 2011 Fundamentals Cost: $525. 00 Approximate Time To Complete: 3 Days Paid Access Period: 6 Months The objective of AutoCAD 2011 Fundamentals is to enable students to create a basic 2D drawing in AutoCAD. Students start with a few basic tools to create and edit a simple drawing and are introduced to more advanced tools as the course progresses. AutoCAD 2011 Fundamentals Topics: * Using basic drawing,  more...