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Graphic design courses at American Graphics Institute help you to gain an understanding of design concepts, principles, and guidelines as impact layout, type and color. Discover how to apply design principles through the structure of a visual hierarchy, using both space and type, to create effective designs. Our graphic design courses are useful for those responsible for designs, regardless of the medium. Whether your work appears online, as part of an app interface, in marketing campaigns, as part of print designs or collateral, you'll find these design courses to have immediate, practical benefits.
Our design courses do not require any previous design experience, and serve as a foundation for future courses, such as UX design, or web design.
Graphic Design Courses Offered
Attend introductory to advanced Graphic Design Courses in our training centers, online, or at your office.
We have Graphic Design Courses for every schedule and budget, led by expert instructors who help you to quickly and easily achieve professional results with your work.
Regularly Scheduled Graphic Design Courses
Our regularly scheduled, public Graphic Design Courses include introductory through advanced training. Most courses are offered monthly. See the list of classes below. We offer live classes led by an instructor in the same classroom with you.
On-site Graphic Design Courses
All Graphic Design courses can be delivered on-site at your location. Call or complete the form on the above link to receive information about classes at your location. We deliver on-site classes across the U.S. and globally.
Online Graphic Design Courses
Live online Graphic Design courses provide you with a small group course that you can take from anywhere with a high-speed Internet connection. You can ask questions, hear and talk with the instructor, even share your screen as part of these interactive classes.
Course Details and Outlines for Graphic Design Courses
Choose any of our Graphic Design Courses below to see outlines, pricing and dates:
Fundamentals of Graphic Design Course
Learn design concepts and principles to increase your confidence in designs that you create while making certain they follow best practices and principles. Discover how guidelines and theories impact layout, type and color in this one-day graphic design course that teaches fundamental skills that are practical for users across various roles and functions.
Every creative professional regardless of specialty can learn to communicate more effectively with type. Fill in the gaps in your typographic know-how and learn how to “see” type like you’ve never seen it before. AGI offers in-person Typography classes in our training centers, as well as online typography training, and private typography training for groups or teams.
In this UX class participants learn the core principles of user experience design and gain an understanding of the user experience design process. Learn all stages of UX design, from determining a UX strategy, developing user scenarios, creating UX personas, UX research strategies, prioritizing content, developing an information architecture (IA), testing user interface (UI), and incorporating feedback. This UX training provides a strong foundation for creating user-centered designs.
Learn Rapid Prototyping skills in this UX training course. Participants discover how to efficiently create, share and test concepts, designs and structure for websites and apps. Learn best practices for UX prototyping and testing before investing in final user experience designs. Gain an understanding of the process for rapid iteration of UX designs and creating mockups. Find out ways to improve the efficiency of the design and development process in this Rapid Prototyping UX workshop.
All classes in Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia start at 9:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. and are led by a live instructor in the same classroom with you. All online classes are led by a live instructor and run from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
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American Graphics Institute instructors are the authors of many best-selling books covering design topics.
AGI's team of experienced instructors are led by Jennifer Smith the design and usability expert and best-selling author of more than 20 books including Creative Cloud for Dummies, Creative Suite for Dummies, and Photoshop Digital Classroom. Classes are led by experienced professionals who have extensive professional and training experience, and also work in our consulting practice areas and as practicing professionals. For Federal agencies, American Graphics Institute classes are offered under GSA contract 47QTCA19D003Y.
