Graphic Design Courses

Learn design concepts and principles to increase your confidence in designs that you create while making certain they follow best practices and principles in this intensive graphic design course. 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.

In this graphic design class focused on typography, learn to communicate more effectively with type. Fill in the gaps in your typographic knowledge and learn how to “see” type like you’ve never seen it before. Every creative professional regardless of specialty can benefit from understanding typography. This typography course is available as a live online class, at our training centers, or on-site. Typography classes are also available for groups or teams.

In this UX class, participants learn the core principles of digital product design. Through a project-focused workshop, they learn all stages of user experience design. They start by determining UX strategy, then move into user research, discovering user scenarios, building user personas, and developing an information architecture (IA).
Once the content's structure has been prioritized, participants sketch and prototype their design. Iteration and testing are implemented throughout the process to learn how to incorporate feedback from others.
This UX design class provides a strong foundation for creating user-centered designs, whether in web design, app design, interface, or product design.

Learn UX prototyping skills in this live UX class led by an expert in the user experience design field. Participants discover how to create, share efficiently, and test concepts, designs, and structures for websites and apps through the rapid prototyping UX design process. Learn the best UX prototyping and testing practices 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 course, learn to create professional designs such as flyers, brochures, and marketing sheets that can be shared in print or PDF. In this InDesign course, you'll discover how to create documents efficiently using advanced typographic controls and intuitive graphic features. You will also discover techniques that will help to make your InDesign publications look polished and professional. This course is suitable for those working in marketing, communication, graphic design, publishing, and other roles where there is a need to create professional publications.

This intermediate InDesign course helps you to work more efficiently and build more complex documents. Learn to work with longer documents, create books, and discover advanced typography, color controls, snippets and libraries in this intermediate InDesign class. Become an expert at using styles to efficiently apply consistent formatting to text and images across documents, automating repetitive work while keeping documents looking professional and consistent. This class also teaches advanced methods for working with tables along with efficient ways to import, format and manage graphics with skills that help graphic designers, publishers, and digital marketers to efficiently create documents and publications.

Move from proficiency to mastery with this advanced InDesign course. Created for graphic designers and digital marketers ready to explore the exceptional capabilities of InDesign, participants learn how to leverage templates, use advanced color features, create interactive documents, and share using digital publishing options. This two-day InDesign course teaches advanced skills and techniques to those who have an understanding of all topics covered in the introductory and intermediate InDesign training courses.

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 a comprehensive workshop that starts with introductory skills and the foundations for creating documents and progresses into working with more complex layouts and longer format publications. Whether you are looking to create documents for print or digital distribution, the InDesign bootcamp provides the skills needed to work efficiently. 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 for creating pages, importing text and graphics, and building layouts, and end the week with a full set of experience using productivity enhancing capabilities such as text and object styles, as well as adding interactivity, and creating digital documents. This InDesign course provides a solid foundation for anyone who needs to work regularly with InDesign, or is creating longer documents such as books, magazines, and catalogs, as well as anyone working with more complex layouts that require consistency. This course is also useful for graphic designers and marketing professionals who wants to make sure they are working the most efficiently with InDesign, as it emphasizes functionality that makes you more productive and automates repetitive work.

This introductory Photoshop class teaches foundation skills for working effectively and creatively. Learn to be more productive and to create higher quality images efficiently. Gain skills for editing, retouching, and enhancing images. Learn how to make selective changes, color correct, and retouch your images using Photoshop. Whether learning Photoshop as a beginner for graphic design, marketing, or digital imaging, or an experienced user with no formal training, this class is a great starting point for learning Photoshop. This Photoshop course is led by a live instructor, as are all classes at American Graphics Institute.

This intermediate Photoshop class covers more advanced use of Photoshop's tools, filters, and layers to create complex graphic designs and digital images. Discover how to take advantage of a comprehensive range of creative effects. Learn to improve efficiency through the use of automation features and new AI tools that include generative fill and selection tools, actions, buttons, smart objects, and Photoshop's artificial intelligence capabilities.

This advanced Photoshop class is for users who already have an understanding of foundational masking and retouching tasks in Photoshop and are looking to create more complex selections and more advanced designs. This class is also for those looking to use some of the advanced AI tools that have recently been added to Photoshop. In this advanced Photoshop course, attendees learn how to create complex composites, work at an advanced level with color correction, and build incredible masks. This course is useful for graphic designers, visual artists, and marketing professionals who regularly use Photoshop.

This four-day comprehensive Photoshop bootcamp provides introductory through intermediate photo editing skills. This bootcamp combines our introductory and intermediate Photoshop classes into four consecutive days, providing you with an intensive Photoshop workshop. The material covered is identical to the introductory and intermediate Photoshop courses, but is delivered in a single week across four consecutive days. You start by learning essential Photoshop skills and end the week with a full set of experience creating images for use on a variety of platforms, including web, email and print. This course is for the graphic design or digital marketing professional that needs to learn Photoshop quickly and efficiently.

In this introduction to Adobe Illustrator course, you will discover the tools that will help you create professional-quality artwork and illustrations. This Illustrator class introduces you to the workspace, methods for drawings using the pen and shape tools, and additional options for working with 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. Whether using Illustrator for graphic design, creating logos, icons, or user interfaces, this Adobe Illustrator training is a good starting point.

In this advanced Adobe Illustrator course, discover how to take advantage of symbols, effects, styles, and transparencies, along with advanced drawing and blending techniques. This Illustrator course covers advanced design techniques for creating artwork while using the tools to work more efficiently, including new AI (artificial intelligence) features. 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 Adobe Illustrator course 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 to learn Illustrator. The material covered is identical to the introductory and advanced Illustrator courses but is delivered in a single week. Start by learning essential Illustrator graphic design skills with Illustrator and end the week with a full set of experience creating designs, logos, and layouts, using graphic styles, the blend tool, understanding gradients, and much more.

In this graphic design course, students learn the principles of great design and typography from a professional in the design industry. This class teaches students how to use professional-grade Adobe design software to create digital drawings, logos, advertisements, magazine layouts, and more.
In the online course, students use their computer and software to complete the two-week program and end by creating a digital project to showcase their work.
In the in-person class, students spend a week completing the program using computers in our classroom in Woburn, MA, and also end with a final project. No prior art or design experience is necessary to participate 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.

Learn Design Thinking principles that are part of the human-centered design process. Discover ways to think and processes to identify valuable insights and information that help to improve any project. This course is applicable to UX design, product design, as well as non-design roles such as product managers, business analysts, and client services. It is useful for anyone that needs to take ideas and convert them into effective designs and products.