
Master the processes and principles that drive graphic and visual design with this free online certificate course. This course guides you through the fundamentals of visual and graphic design and lays out their processes. We explore basic design principles - covering composition, balance, contrast and hierarchy - and examine important design elements like lines, shapes, forms and textures. This course gives you a taste of what graphic designers do in the real world and offers the training you need to join them with your newly acquired skills.
| Course Category | Business |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe the key visual design principles • Discuss design elements such as lines, shapes, forms and textures • Assess the importance of elements like letters, tones and colours • Compare the paraline, orthogonal, isometric, oblique, planometric and perspective drawing systems • Outline elements of the production system such as printing, photography and photocopying • Recall three-dimensional print processes |
| Course Code | 1787 |



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