Online Course – Google Certified Professional Internship in Graphic Design

Learn and apply the principles of graphic design in a comprehensive branding project that will make your design stand out.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בעיצוב גרפי של Google

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Basic skills for creating sophisticated graphic design
  • Understanding process, historical context, and communication through image creation and typography
  • Ability to apply skills in a final project
  • Getting feedback on a completed branding project
  • Formal and conceptual tools in graphic design
  • Knowledge required for formal studies in graphic design
  • A basis for working in interface design, scaled graphics, and journalistic design

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Graphic designer
  • Interface designer
  • Graphic designer, low-key
  • Journalist designer
  • Graphic Design Project Manager
  • Visual Communication Specialist
  • Visual Content Developer
  • Brand designer
  • Typography designer

Internship – Series of 5 courses

Graphic design is all around us, in a variety of formats, both on screen and in print. It consists of images and words that serve a communicative purpose.

Series content

  • Four courses that introduce students to the basic skills for creating sophisticated graphic design.
  • Process, historical context and communication through image creation and typography.
  • A final project that applies the skills learned in each course.
  • Feedback from authors on a ready-made branding project that is suitable for a professional portfolio.

Purpose of the internship

To provide learners with a set of formal and conceptual tools for transfer into the field of graphic design. The core set of skills provides the knowledge necessary for formal studies in graphic design, and will serve as a starting point for further work in interface design, reduced graphics, and journalistic design.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Graphic Design Basics

Course 1

15 hours
4.8 (17,645 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Realize the basics of color: vision, rhythm, and pattern in design
  • Use scale, weight, direction, texture, and space in composition
  • Type text and experiment with letter shapes
  • Create your own series of photos using various creative techniques

Skills you will acquire

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe InDesign
  • graphics
  • Color theory

Introduction to typography

Course 2

8 hours
4.8 (5,677 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Examine the terms and measurement system used to describe typography
  • Scroll through how typographic fonts tell stories and understand their historical evolution.
  • Perform a peer-reviewed typography exercise
  • Design a full-size typographic poster

Skills you will acquire

  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • history
  • creativity
  • graphics

Introduction to image creation

Course 3

11 hours
4.5 (2,874 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Make informed design decisions through image-based research
  • Create representation ranges using images
  • Edit pages for your book
  • Design a book with your photos

Skills you will acquire

  • History of art
  • history
  • Graphic art
  • Graphic design

Thoughts from the history of graphic design

Course 4

10 hours
4.7 (2,471 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Learn about the history of graphic design
  • Understand the entry of design as a recognized practice
  • Learn about radicalism in graphic design from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s
  • Make informed design decisions

Skills you will acquire

  • Adobe InDesign
  • art
  • creativity
  • graphics

New brand

Course 5

24 hours
4.9 (1,238 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Santz has typography, image creation, composition, and systematic thinking skills through ideation, invention, and conceptualization.
  • Demonstrate visual research and development skills while creating a brand development guide
  • Expand the brand palette by including graphic symbols, colors, secondary fonts, and imagery.

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