Essential Skills for Designers Type

Course details

About the course:

Working with type in Graphic Design is essential. Visual communication relies mainly on the combination of images and text. In a good design typography is integral part of the whole composition, in many cases the whole design is some kind of creative use of type. In this course we are going to learn to work as a professional with type in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. We are going to learn a bit about typography theory but we will mainly focus on practical things like how to deal with fonts, how to organize them on your computer, how to use the type tool as a professional, how to format your type efficiently using keyboard shortcuts and so much more. Join me on this course and learn how to work with type quickly and easily.

The course includes:

1. 18 instructional video tutorials
2. Quizzes about the techniques learnt in each section
3. Essential Skills for Designers & Career Guide PDF
4. Design Terminology PDF
5. Useful Keyboard Shortcuts PDF
6. Collection of Useful websites for Designers PDF
7. Certificate of completion
   

How long will the course take to complete?

This course will take only 2 hours to complete, but it will take some time to put all the techniques into practice.

How the course is structured?

The course is structured into 18 videos, each explaining a technique for working with type. It is recommended to watch the videos in order of the outline but you can also choose to watch them individually. After each section you can take Quizzes to revise the crucial techniques and definitions learnt on the way.

Why take this course?

Easy. If you want to get a job as a designer either being employed or freelancing, you have to know how to work with text. This course will make you very confident about this essential skill for designers. This course is for you if you are planning to take your design skills to the next level and want to become a Pro in no time.