What you'll learn:
- Graphic design theories
- Color theory
- Composition and layout rules
- Grid systems
- How to use Photoshop in a creative way to create stunning Ads
- Advertising rules in action while designing
- The science behind achieving great visuals
- Typography anatomy and how to use type and fonts properly
- How to use Illustrator in a creative way to create brand identity
- How to use illustrator to design logos, business cards, letterheads, envelopes etc
- How to present your graphic design work in a great way to easily get your designs approved by clients
- Saving and exporting different formats
- Illustrator tools panels and essentials
- How to use InDesign in a creative way to create amazing editorial design
- How to create brochures, catalogs, and flyers
- How to create multipage editorial design, up to 16 pages and more
- Build your own portfolio through the entire course
- Get a portfolio template to customize it according to your own style
- Printing and screen designs technicals
- And much more!
Software version used in the course:
- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign 2019, with 2020, 2021, and 2022 updates
Do you want to learn graphic design and advertising from scratch? Well, I’ve tried to squeeze my academic studying of advertising in the faculty of applied arts and experience in the design field for more than 15 years in one single graphic design course that would help an absolute beginner or even an advanced graphic designer to become a professional graphic designer.
What will you learn in this Graphic Design MasterClass?
1-Graphic Design Theories
So, starting with graphic design theories including typography, color theory, graphic design compositions and layout theories to know the science behind achieving great designs. Plus bonus videos where I will be giving you tours in New York design museums like the museum of illusions in New York for example.
(Adobe Graphic Design Applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Creative Cloud, PDF)
2-Photoshop Creative Thinking and Advertising
We will learn Photoshop while we are covering different design niches and categories in the course to make sure you can engage in any graphic design task as a professional graphic designer. So in Photoshop, we are covering real-world projects and advertising campaigns for big brands and how to do creative thinking and professional graphic visuals. So, for example, we will design for Mercedes Benz, Vodafone, Boeing, and more. We are even covering social media graphic design campaigns which are crucial nowadays,
3-Illustrator Creative Thinking and Branding
We will learn in Illustrator how to design a corporate identity or a full branding from scratch including how to build professional logos and various brand publications and graphic visuals.
4-How to present your designs and your branding work in the best way
Also, we will learn how to present our design work in a stunning way as well using both Photoshop and Illustrator, and amazing resources for best graphic design mock-ups, and even how to save time designing in them.
5-InDesign Creative Thinking: Editorial designs and graphic designer portfolio design
Then we will learn adobe InDesign from scratch including of course different InDesign tools, panels, printing technicals, character and paragraph styles, InDesign’s master pages to achieve your graphic designs in a fast and professional way through practical projects including a bifold brochure then moving to another Indesign project: full 16 pages of different creative layouts of editorial designs (also we learn more in this project about different design theories especially graphic design grids and how to apply different graphic design grids in different layouts) which will be your own stunning design portfolio by the way. You will get a portfolio template to customize according to your own taste and style.
6-Photoshop and Illustrator basics and essentials training, exercises, graphic design files, and Assets
If you know nothing about graphic design applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) don’t worry because this course will teach you the essentials of using them along with tons of great design files, assets and exercises to sharpen your graphic design skills.
7-Graphic design applications updates and new graphic design tutorials:
New graphic design applications updates are constantly being added to the course along with more graphic design and advertising content.
8-Graphic design Facebook group
Also, you can join our facebook group to get inspired and share your graphic designs, and artwork to get feedback from like-minded designers from all over the world through this creative journey.
The Instructor is What Makes the course so special, right?
Khalil Ibrahim is a Chief design officer who studied Advertising and graphic design in the faculty of Applied Arts and worked in many international advertising agencies with experience of over 15 years in the design field and using Adobe applications. He really cared to make sure you understand the graphic design tools, technicals, concepts, and to really learn it in a creative way to apply it like a Creative professional.
Enroll now and let's master graphic design together!
