Graphic design club

City Lit

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In London

£ 299 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This new course offers a more flexible drop in way to learn about Graphic Design in a series of themed sessions.

Focusing on the design principles in Graphic Design this course provides an opportunity to work through a diverse range of creative exercises to develop your creative thinking. There will be an emphasis on an experimental approach and will be encouraged to take risks to push ideas forward. The course will be part hands on (cut + paste) and include an introduction into digital software and packaging design
This course provides the opportunity to explore your ‘Looking’ and ‘Seeing’ skills.

The class size is capped to enable more space for individual one to one teaching than you would expect in a busy class.

The set projects will run in the order below.
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Location

Start date

London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

Start date

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About this course

Demonstrate an awareness of the basic design principles in Graphic Design.
- Demonstrate an awareness of composition / balance in layout design.
- Demonstrate basic skills in Adobe Illustrator.
- Critically evaluate personal design work in order to develop ideas further.

You are encouraged to bring an A4 or A5 sized sketchbook, a set of fine liner black pens and an A4 size folder for
design work. It would be useful to bring a memory stick to save digital files (or portable hard drive – please note PC
formatted hard drives can be read by Apple mac computers, but not written to).

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Subjects

  • Packaging Design
  • Packaging
  • Design

Course programme

- Wk1-2: Type
- Wk 3-4: Hierarchy
- Wk 5-6: Layout
- Wk 7-8: Digital Illustrator
- Wk 9-11: Packaging Design
- Wk 12: Final brief.

Through practical demonstrations both to the group and to individuals. Group discussions and feedback are encouraged. There are small set projects each week. Individual support and tutor guidance is available for all. There will be no set homework.

Additional information

You can further develop your skills and interest in Graphic design through a range of courses at the City Lit. The following courses are ideal for you if you’d like to develop your Graphic Design skills for work or to gain a place on a higher level course.VK414 City Lit graphic design course. This course runs for 30 Wednesdays, daytime 10- 5pm and runs over 3 terms. We also run short Graphic Design courses throughout the year including VK348 Experimenting with Graphic Design, VK367 Graphic Design Intensive, VK330 Graphic Design for social media, VK376 Graphic Design and illustration and many more. To find out more about our graphics courses enter the subject into the search box at Ask your tutor for advice. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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