Graphic designer - course 66,360 rub. from Moscow Digital Academy, training 6 months, date November 28, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / November 28, 2023
Possibilities
Many of our students, who came from scratch, work in well-known digital agencies, IT companies or as freelancers around the world.
It's interesting to study with us
We develop your skills intensively and interestingly
We speak in simple words about complex things - without water and long boring lectures. Lectures of 15-20 minutes are easy to understand and digest. We have created unique simulators for Figma, references and UX that help you quickly master complex topics and hone practical skills. Our unique Figma simulator will help you quickly and easily master Figma.
Good feedback is the key to success
Our mentors, who are practicing designers, will help improve your projects and answer any, even the most “stupid” questions. Feedback will be available throughout the course.
Live workshops
We love meeting our students, so we organize live workshops for you, practice together and make new digital acquaintances. At workshops, we create an atmosphere similar to working in a studio in order to immerse children in the process of creating a design and defending a project as a team.
Community chat and support 19/7
Join the design community from the first days of your studies. In chats, students share their work and useful resources, and the academy curators promptly answer any questions.
Free portfolio consultation
If you are already a designer, have your own portfolio and want to receive comments about it, send a link to your portfolio - we will analyze your work, outline a career path and tell you how you can improve.
What will happen on the program
Learn to create a corporate identity
From brief to full development
Development of brand book and guidelines
Visual brand code and design patterns
Managing attention through composition
Balance, dynamics, visual rhythm
Creating a meaningful brand
Positioning and main brand attributes
Working in design programs
Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Figma
Layout of complex layouts
Modular grid, hierarchy, text styles
Presentation of your project
Defense to the client, justification of the concept
Registration of works, search for customers
Cases, portfolio packing, freelancing and customer search
How do we help you find a job?
Portfolio analysis and tips for improving it
The lead designer and the MDA team will analyze your portfolio and tell you what skills you should improve and where to move next. We’ll also help you write a great cover letter for your dream company. You can choose a convenient feedback format – video call or correspondence via social networks.
Chat with vacancies
We post vacancies from partner companies, our graduates, and simply cool vacancies for juniors and mids in design. Don’t forget about freelance projects: in our chat you can find both your main job and part-time work.
Partner companies
We recommend talented graduates for work in partner companies, as well as for internships at YClients.
Video in your personal account
The course contains a whole section about employment: advice on which resources to look for a job and what it is better not to do when applying for a vacancy.
Introduction
1. What is graphic design;
2. Where and how to get inspired;
3. Moodboard.
Graphic Design Tools
1. Basic concepts and tools of a graphic designer;
2. Where and how to download programs;
3. Adobe Illustrator:
- overview of the main tools for work
- poster creation
- creation of a font logo
- business card creation
- effects
4. Adobe Photoshop:
- overview of the main tools for work
- creating a collage
- photo retouching
- working with Mockup
- Photoshop neural networks
5. Adobe InDesign:
- overview of the main tools for work
- creation of a booklet
- scripts in InDesign
Composition in graphic design
1. What is composition and what is it for?
2. Principles and rhythm of composition;
3. An example of a composition of graphic forms;
4. The concept of color in composition;
DZ. Assemble your composition from graphic forms.
Modular grids
1. Why are modular grids needed?
2. Types of modular grids;
3. We design a modular grid for a booklet in Adobe InDesign;
DZ. Measuring the grid of a periodical.
Typography
1. Where to get fonts;
2. Installing fonts;
3. What is a font;
4. Anatomy of a font;
5. Classification of fonts;
6. Selection and combination of fonts;
7. Typography;
8. Expressive means of font and typography;
9. Typography lesson;
DZ. Layout of a booklet on a free topic from 10 pages.
Brand
1. Brand attributes;
2. Positioning;
3. Brand legend;
4. Brand benefits;
5. Brand book;
DZ. Come up with a brand legend and positioning, make a Moodboard.
Form style
1. Corporate style and identity;
2. Logo creation;
3. Brand graphics
4. Project presentation;
5. Project visualization (working with Mockup);
DZ. Creation of identity and design of project submission
Designer's tool - Figma program
1. Getting to know Figma;
2. Basic tools;
3. We draw the main page of the photographer’s portfolio website;
4. We draw the internal page of the photographer’s portfolio website;
DZ. Drawing a portfolio website in Figma
Graphic design in the digital environment
1. What is SMM design;
2. We create SMM design for the brand;
DZ: We design the Instagram of the developed brand.
Registration of works
1. Portfolio design. How to create a project case. What does the case consist of?
2. Analysis of examples of student cases;
3. How to post your case on Behance.
Personal brand and freelancing
1. Freelancing and full time;
2. Main types of employers;
3. Cover letters;
4. Successful cases
Additional practice
DZ: We create a corporate identity for the restaurant;
DZ: We are creating an identity for a construction company (developer).
Project protection
1. Preparation for defense;
2. Protecting the project in front of the customer.