Revolutionary Take on Graphic Design:
Join the art leaders at the California Institute of the Arts to discover the essence of modern graphic design.
Join us on a journey with a course that unveils a new dimension of visual communication.
It broadens horizons, prompting a deeper understanding and experimentation in graphic design. From history to modern methods — you'll gain everything needed for a professional transformation.
Introducing online course
Graphic Design Specialization
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- Gain the fundamental skills needed to be a graphic designer
- Communicate through image-making and typography
- Complete a capstone project to add to your professional portfolio
- Learn everything you need to know to work in interface design, motion graphics, and editorial design
California Pathway to Contemporary Visual Mastery: An Indispensable Resource for Designers, Marketers, and Creative Leaders.
- Digital Interface Designers: Includes web designers, mobile app designers, UI/UX designers.
- Creative Directors and Art Directors: Leaders of creative teams working in advertising, media, and other sectors.
- Visual Artists: Illustrators, motion designers, 3D modelers, and visualizers.
- Graphic Designers: Specialists who design logos, corporate branding, brochures, and other print materials.
- Communication and Branding Designers: Professionals who develop advertising materials, packaging, and exhibition stands.
- Photographers and Image Editors: Capturing and editing photos for various media.
- Fashion and Textile Designers: Creating unique prints, patterns, and clothing designs.
- Design Educators and Lecturers: Academics who impart knowledge in the field of graphic design.
- Typographers and Font Designers: Creating and optimizing fonts for various media.
- Marketers and Content Strategists: Professionals who use design to create visual content for social networks and other platforms.
- Game Designers: Designing interfaces, characters, and graphics for computer games.
- Publishing Designers: Professionals working on the layout and design of magazines, newspapers, and books.
COURSE PROGRAM
This course exposes students to the fundamental skills required to make sophisticated graphic design: process, historical context, and communication through image-making and typography. The sequence is completed by a capstone project that applies the skills of each course and peer feedback in a finished branding project suitable for a professional portfolio.
Fundamentals of Graphic Design
- Implement the fundamentals of color: visual, rhythm, and pattern in design
- Use scale, weight, direction, texture, and space in a composition
- Typeset text and experiment with letter forms
- Create your own series of images using different image making techniques
Skills: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Indesign, Graphics, Color Theory
Introduction to Typography
- Review the terminology and measuring system used to describe type
- Explore how typefaces tell stories and understand the historic evolution
- Conduct a peer-reviewed typesetting exercise
- Design of a full-scale typographic poster
Skills: Creativity, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, History, Graphics
Introduction to Imagemaking
- Make informed design choices using image-based research
- Create ranges of representation using images
- Compose spreads for your own book
- Design a book with your own images
Skills: Art History, History, Graphic Arts, Graphic Design
Ideas from the History of Graphic Design
- Learn about the history of graphic design
- Understand the emergence of design as a recognized practice
- Learn about graphic design radicalism in late 1950s to early 1970s
- Make informed design choices
Skills: Adobe Indesign, Art, Creativity, Graphics
Brand new Brand
- Synthesize typography, imagemaking, composition and systematic thinking skills through ideation, invention, and conceptualization
- Demonstrate visual research and development skills through the creation of a Brand Development Guid
- Expand a brand identity's palette through the inclusion of graphic marks or icons, color, secondary typefaces, and/or images
Skills: Creativity, Graphics, Design Theory, Color Theory
NICE TO MEET YOU
LEARN FROM EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONALS
Anther Kiley - Instructor, California Institute of the Arts
Anther Kiley is a designer and design educator based in Providence, RI. He holds a BA in history from Princeton University and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is currently adjunct faculty in the Graphic Design department at RISD, and previously co-directed the Program in Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Anther’s commissioned design work includes exhibition, print, web, and product design. Since 2016, he has been developing Cardkits, a line of paper toys for children. http://cardkitstoys.com/
Louise Sandhaus - Faculty, Program in Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts
Louise Sandhaus is a current faculty member and former Program Director of Graphic Design at CalArts. Through her design office, LSD (Louise Sandhaus Design), she collaborates across disciplines on diverse projects for clients such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, and Los Angeles World Airports. Author of "Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986," her work has been featured in publications like Metropolis magazine and is housed in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A former AIGA board member and chair of its Design Educators Community, Louise holds an MFA from CalArts and is a Graduate Laureate from the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in The Netherlands.
Michael Worthington - Faculty, Program in Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts
Michael Worthington, a founding partner of Counterspace in Los Angeles, is known for his editorial and identity work for the arts, with book designs including "A New Sculpturalism" and "Made in L.A. 2012." His designs have been showcased globally, from Japan to the US. He's been a judge for notable design events and has contributed writings to publications like "Eye" and "Print." Worthington's expertise in design has been shared at the California Institute of the Arts since 1995.
Lorraine Wild - Faculty, Program in Graphic Design at California Institute of the Arts
Lorraine Wild, based in Los Angeles, is a faculty member at CalArts' Graphic Design Program and founder of Green Dragon Office, a design firm collaborating with artists, architects, and publishers. She's also the Creative Design Consultant for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Honored with the AIGA Gold Medal in 2006, Wild has received accolades from institutions like the American Institute of Architects and has over 25 inclusions in AIGA's "50 Books/50 Covers." She's designed for prominent museums like MoMA and the Stedelijk Museum. Wild is an alumna of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Yale School of Art.
This was a great opportunity for me to learn and improve my design skills as well as my graphic design thinking! We would like to express our gratitude to the incredible instructors at California Institute of the Arts.
- Hương N, June 2023
It is an amazing course to learn Graphic Designing with a systematic methodology and logical approach. It cleared all my concepts and I learned how to integrate everything I learned during my journey toward specialization. I am confident now to take up any kind of assignment in Graphic Designing.
- Saima A, March 2023
Great course. It's a bit difficult as it doesn't teach you how to do it. You have to learn the programs yourself. It is a course that is sometimes enjoyable and sometimes difficult. Thank you to everyone who prepared the course.
- Hakan E, January 2023
Course
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Graphic Design Specialization
(California Institute of the Arts)
Learning format
The courses are offered in a flexible, online environment and conclude with a certificate of completion that speaks to your competencies in a contemporary and evolving marketplace.
The total volume of training: 85 academic hours, which consist of 85 hours of independent work (including work on homework).
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