Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design

24 Lessons – 12 Weeks – 3 Semesters

Live Webinar Recorded Lessons

The Advance Diploma in Graphic Design is designed to provide students with the in-depth skills and understanding of the main areas of Graphic Design. Students of this Diploma will develop the confidence and expertise in all the types of visual communication. They will be able to build professional designs in both digital and print formats and will also gain in-depth knowledge and understanding in branding, image creation, logo creation, designing a website and typography. The diploma will also go more in-depth with the features of the 3 essential softwares of graphic Design – Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.

Advanced Theory Semester

Week 1: Colour Theory Advanced

In week 1, students will be guided through the different science and concepts of colors like Chroma, Value and Saturation and the difference between each of them. Students will also be taught on how to create colour schemes on their own. The concepts taught in this week will be essential for most of the design projects.

Week 2: Adobe Photoshop Essentials

This lesson will guide students through all the features of Adobe Photoshop. It will also introduce all the tools Adobe Photoshop contains and the subcategories within each tool.

Week 3: Blend Models And Filters

Filters in Adobe Photoshop are provided to fit every genre of create work. This lesson will dig deep into all kinds of filters to fully grasp the creative power of Adobe Photoshop.

Week 4: Logo Design Rules

This lesson will instill the best practices of logo Design and how to avoid the common mistakes in creating logos. It will also introduce the principles of Gestalt Theory and what makes a logo work.

Professional Creation Semester

Week 1: Creating Info-graphics

Infographics are designed to convey a message faster to its audience. Infogrpahics are usually filled with numbers and if in written form, they are easily overlooked. That’s why in image form; it is designed to stick into it’s intended audience’s mind. This lesson will discuss the best strategies of designing infogrpahics and how to create them in Adobe Illustrator.

Week 2: Understanding Grid Theory

All designers need to get a firm grasp of grid theory in order to create great designs. This lesson will introduce students to grid theory and how they help in holding designs together. It will also discuss the purpose and common practice in grid theory.

Week 3: Creating Portfolio

This lesson will help students understand the need of creating portfolios and the common practices of creating one along with the steps on how to create a portfolio from scratch. It will also introduce to all the layout types that can be tweaked to create an attractive portfolio.

Week 4: Creative CV

Graphic Design can be used to create a unique and creative CV which stands out from all the other applications for the same job. In this lesson, we will delve into some of those techniques used in Design and some of the most creative ways to create a CV.

Career Semester

Week 1: Branding And Packaging

Branding and Packing is a vital element of all manufacturing businesses. This lesson will show you the ropes of using graphic design as means to do branding and packaging for businesses. With help of Adobe packages, the lessons in this week will guide students to create beautiful artwork to help business with their branding and packaging.

Week 2: Typography Advanced

This lesson will guide you on how to use typography as asset in your graphic design work. It will show you how to create your own custom font and how to edit existing fonts to help the designs stand out in everything you create.

Week 3: Idea Generation And Development

Going from an idea to a masterpiece seems a challenge for most of the designers. In this lesson, we will tackle this problem and show you step-by step on how to generate your ideas until you put the finishing touch to your design.

Week 4: Career Advice

The last week will be dedicated to help you with the transition from being a student to getting a job for a graphic designing post or starting a freelance career from the comfort of your home. We will go through details of what you need to know and become in order to be quilified for any post in graphic design career.

To evaluate a student’s capability to grasp and potential to understand the topics provided in our course, we have a couple of interactive quizzes at the end of each module.

CERTIFICATE

After successful completion of the course, our students can buy a CPD QS & IAO Certificate of Achievement from Adams Academy.

The certificate is given in PDF format. If any of our students want a hard copy of the certificate, it is available for an additional fee

COURSE HIGHLIGHT

1. Discover how your functional capabilities and knowledge can be applied directly to Graphic Design.
2. Students can attend twenty-four live interactive online lessons over twelve weeks. Students can also use our 24/7 on-demand access to study at their pace and convince.
3. Students can interact with our lecturers on fully interactive bonus Question and Answer session.
4. Our content is produced, provided and supported by industry-leading instructors.
5. We offer our students complete support during and after the completion of the course.
6. Certificate and accredited diploma are available for any students who want to buy it after successful completion of the course. It is attention grabbing for CV.
7. No previous knowledge necessary for this course, it is suitable for all levels. It is a centre where all like-minded students come here to gain knowledge.

TUTOR SUPPORT

To excel at your academics, it is always advised to have an instructor guide and help you throughout the course. As part of our Diploma course, we give our students full access to our dedicated tutor support service here the instructor will guide you or erase any doubt via email or phone throughout our course.

COURSE COMPATABILITY

Nowadays a lot of people are using their web while travelling around during the day, so have designed our course based on their compatibility. Our course is fully compatible with PC’s, Mac’s, Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone devices. Our web can be accessed over 3G or 4G network while you are on the move.

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