Professionals in all industries benefit when they can communicate their message, brand, or ideas visually.

Digital Design Basics

SPRING 2022/School of Visual Arts

Learn to communicate through image-making and typography. In this Digital Design class, one will learn to use Adobe design software to create logos, digital illustrations, ads, magazines, posters, and more. Students complete the class by creating a digital portfolio to showcase their work. Students and professionals benefit from learning how to execute ideas visually—this could be in the form of type, tables, graphs, photos, illustration, presentations, and layout. These essential skills seem to be necessary for many jobs that require marketing in any way.

Digital Design Studio

This course will teach you how to get started executing your design concepts using the adobe creative suite. We’ll focus most on Illustrator, AdobeXD, and photoshop. We’ll learn what app is best for what project and learn to create logo marks, color palettes, iconography, UI elements, vector illustrations, and type and photo layouts. This course is perfect for beginners who desire a disciplined path to become proficient with industry-standard processes and tools.

InDesign Workshop

InDesign is a page layout and typesetting application that has become an industry standard for print or interactive PDFs. This 2 day InDesign workshop is for anyone interested in learning how to use InDesign to execute graphic design projects. This workshop will give you a basic working knowledge of the application and teach you how to apply what you learn to real-world jobs.

One on One Consulting

Online by appointment

Partnering with clients to help them with graphic design. More and more people are designing with no previous training. Whether a client wants a career change or is taking on in-house marketing tasks, I help individuals and teams learn skills and applications to accomplish their design projects. In addition, I have been very helpful in guiding teams to create websites and design systems for their brands and products.

Partnering with clients to help them execute their ideas visually.