Graphics Design and Desktop Publishing
This is a fascinating area to study. The course will cover the following units of study:
Units of Study
* Foundation & Theory:
- Colour Theory
- History of computer graphics
- Introduction to Postscript
- Bit Depth and File Size
* Tools and Workplace:
- Graphics Software
- File Formats
- Setting Up a Studio
- Choosing the Right Tools
* Raw Materials:
- Graphics Tablet
- Choosing a Scanner
- Scan Basics
- Descreen & Black/white Point
- Royalty-Free Photography
* Printing and Prepress:
- Printer Troubleshooting
- Remote Printing
- Prepress
- Linking and Embedding
- Digital Print
- Portable Document Format
* Digital Illustration:
- Objects and Grouping
- Vector Basics
- Bitmap Basics
- Selections and Masks
- Filters
- Pixel Painting
- Rasterising and Clipping Paths
* Advanced Digital Illustration:
- Photographic Manipulation
- Montage
- Combining Pixel with Paths
- Perspective and Shadows
- Getting Creative
- Text as a Graphics
- Realism
* Design and Typography:
- What is Design?
- Professional Habits
- Branding Typefaces and Fonts
- Serif and Sans Serif
- Typographic Rules
* Desktop Publishing:
- Page Layout
- The Brief
- Grids and Margins
- Master Pages
- Paragraphs and Text Styles
- Graphics with Text
- Order of Layout Pages
- Copy fitting
* Web Design:
- Web Graphics
- Internet File Formats
- Webpage Layout
- HTML
- Functionality
- Web Design Software
- Navigation
- Hyperlinks
* Marketing and Design:
- Marketing and Advertising
- The Designer's Responsibility
- Internet Marketing
- Brand Advertising
- Search Engines
- Target Marketing
You will benefit by fast tracking your career in various graphics design and desktop publishing related professions, developing skills in months not years, studying a course designed in conjunction with senior professionals in the graphics industry, and more.
The Graphics Design & Desktop Publishing industry can be a rewarding and challenging creative experience which is fulfilling and satisfying. Career opportunities include Graphic Designer, Desktop Publisher, Freelance Graphic Designer, and many others.
Personal Requirements: you should be creative and imaginative, have an understanding of colour and form, able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, enjoy working with computers, and have artistic ability for drawing, design and layout.
Career Path: you can work in an advertising agency or in any business firm that has a need for such service. There is also an option to establish a freelance career. Plenty of jobs exist in digital design companies and in-house print companies but the freelance sector is enjoying enormous growth too. Employment opportunities in this industry are on steady increase specifically for jobs in the digital medium.