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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 graphic design principles through the structure of a visual hierarchy, using both space and type, to create effective designs. Our graphic design classes 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.
Individual graphic design courses do not require any previous design experience.
Attend any of the graphic design courses and workshops listed below to learn specific skills.
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 UX 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 design class 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.
In this introductory InDesign training class you learn to create designs for print, tablets, and PDF presentations. In this InDesign course you'll discover how you can efficiently create documents by taking advantage of a superior design environment that includes advanced typographic controls and intuitive graphic features. You will also find techniques that will help to make your InDesign publications look polished and professional.
This intermediate InDesign class helps you to work more efficiently and create better designs. Learn advanced typography, color controls, styles, libraries, and prepress controls in this intermediate InDesign course.
Move from proficiency to mastery with this advanced InDesign course, created for designers ready to explore the depths of InDesign's capabilities. Learn templates, advanced color features, interactive documents, and digital publishing options in this InDesign class.
This four-day comprehensive InDesign bootcamp training provides introductory through advanced digital publishing skills using Adobe InDesign. This InDesign bootcamp combines our introductory through intermediate InDesign classes into four consecutive days, providing you with a comprehensive workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and intermediate InDesign courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential InDesign skills and end the week with a full set of experience using styles, adding interactivity, creating digital documents and much more.
This Photoshop course helps you to be more productive and to create higher quality images more efficiently. You receive an introduction to editing, retouching, and enhancing images. Learn essential skills including how to make selective changes, color correct, and retouch your images.
This intermediate Photoshop training class covers the intermediate use of tools, filters, and layers, that allow you to take advantage of creative effects. You also discover how to use automation features, such as actions and buttons, as well as smart objects.
This advanced Photoshop class is for users who have already accomplished basic masking and retouching tasks in Photoshop. In this course attendees learn how to create complex composites, work at an advanced level with color correction, and build incredible masks.
This four-day comprehensive Photoshop bootcamp provides introductory through intermediate photo editing skills. This bootcamp combines our introductory through intermediate Photoshop classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and intermediate Photoshop courses, but is delivered in a single week. You start by learning essential Photoshop skills and end the week with a full set of experience creating images for use across a variety of platforms and uses.
In this introduction to Adobe Illustrator class, you discover the tools that help you create professional quality artwork. This Illustrator course introduces you to the workspace, tools for creating shapes, and additional options for adding color and text. You also discover how to use layers so that you can maximize your productivity right away.This Illustrator course is for beginners who are new to the application or for those who have experience but have received no formal Illustrator training.
In this advanced Adobe Illustrator class discover how to take advantage of symbols, effects, styles, and transparencies along with advanced drawing and blending techniques. This Illustrator course covers advanced techniques for creating artwork with more impact, while using the tools to work more efficiently. This class is for those who have completed the introductory Illustrator training or have a complete understanding of all topics covered in the introduction to Adobe Illustrator course.
This four-day comprehensive Illustrator bootcamp training provides you with comprehensive illustrator skills. This Illustrator bootcamp combines our introductory through advanced Illustrator classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced Illustrator courses but is delivered in a single week. Start by learning essential Illustrator skills and end the week with a full set of experience creating designs, logos, layouts, using graphic styles, the blend tool, understanding gradients, and much more.
This Graphic Design Class is part of the graphic design classes for high school students offered at American Graphics Institute. In this course students learn the principles of great design and typography from a design industry professional while using professional-grade Adobe design software to create digital drawings, logos, advertisements, magazine layouts, and more. Students complete the two-week program by creating a digital portfolio or project to showcase their work. No prior art or design experience is necessary for participating in this program.
In this portfolio course, graphic design certificate program participants work with their instructor to select projects to showcase, create a portfolio showcasing their talents, and discuss which works to show and how to present them. This class involved developing an online portfolio to show and share work that has been developed both as part of the program and independently. This workshop is designed to help you both create your online portfolio and to showcase skills and capabilities.
This course consists of a practical graphic design project in which students apply the design skills they have learned into a project that is selected by the student and reviewed by their instructor. The graphic design project starts with planning, meeting with the client, creating a creative brief, developing the product, client review and feedback, final delivery, and project review by their peers and instructor. This graphic design course is available as part of the Graphic Design Certificate program.
"Jennifer was patient with the class as most of our group did not have formal design education before this class. All material was applicable and she kept it engaging. We loved this class! " - Ashley B
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Graphic Design Classes GSA
American Graphics Institute offers Graphic Design Classes under GSA contract 47QTCA19D003Y. As a GSA contract holder, Graphic Design training GSA pricing for federal agencies is available for both private and public Graphic Design workshops. Contact an American Graphics Institute representative for additional information or to register with GSA pricing for Graphic Design courses.
To become a graphic designer it is important to understand their role, the training required, tools they use, along with the skills and training required. Graphic designers practice the art of visual communication to share information, meaning, and emotion. Graphic designers define the aesthetics...
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.
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