You might be the one friends ask to fix their logo. This course covers typography, branding, layout and freelance practice. You leave with a body of your own creative work.
Briefs, budgets and deadlines are taught with the craft.
Fill the gaps: pre-press, typography, motion and interaction.
Whole units on providing freelance services and finding work.
Design work sits in agencies, in-house teams and at kitchen tables. The day is briefs, drafts, feedback and files that have to be right.
Brand, print and screen work to a brief.
Layouts and assets for sites and apps.
Moving parts, image and interaction work.
Social, ads and everything on a screen.
Your own clients, your own rates.
Visuals made to feed a content plan.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Three things this course does well.
You learn to establish, negotiate and refine a design brief.
Pre-press, mass media ads and interaction design in one course.
The final unit is presenting a body of your own work.
Certificates of Achievement · Open Colleges
Agency work, in-house or freelance.
An advisor covers software and pace.
Upfront, weekly plan, or pay in four.
Enrol and begin the typography units.
None needed. The first units cover type, colour and drawing.
From $83.62 a week on a zero interest plan. A credit check applies.
Twelve, eighteen or twenty four months, depending on your pace.
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Adobe has student pricing through its education store.
One with adequate specifications, on Windows or macOS. A graphics tablet can help.
Freelance practice is taught. Units cover briefs, client work and services.
You come out with a body of work and a method for briefs. Recognition status is worth confirming with a course advisor before you enrol. In design, the portfolio does most of the talking.
The course may include placement, done on top of weekly study blocks.
Open Colleges is an Australian training provider that teaches online. Trainers work in the fields they teach.
Units stay reachable day and night, so study fits around work.
Picture your logo on a shopfront, and knowing which choices got it there.