Graphic design course
This course focuses on acquiring visual communication skills by learning a design package, Corel Draw/Corel Paint, and combining it with design principles, composition, colour modules, printing processes and applied design.
UNIT 1: Vector Image.
Course Background - including short synopsis of the syllabus.
Objectives:
Launching your Corel Draw application; Understand layout of Corel Draw work space; Identify most common tools and toolbars.
Saving and closing of a document; Creating a vector image in Corel Draw.
Assignment 1: Word Play.
UNIT 2: Fonts.
Objectives:
Customise your Desktop: Install Fonts; Understand font types and uses.
Assignment 2: Create personal (favorite) font list in families with the example from font DVD, supplied by Visual Skill School.
UNIT 3: Tracing.
Objectives:
Understand the difference between a bitmap/raster image and a vector; understand layout of Photo Paint application; identify most common tools and toolbars; Scanning a bitmap directly into Photo Paint; Creating vector images in Corel Draw; Importing a bitmap into Corel Draw.
Assignment 3: Tracing a logo.
UNIT 4: Photo Paint.
Objectives:
Editing and improving quality of scans; creating objects by using masks, editing new objects; creating a new document in
Photo Paint; transfer images from one document into another.
Assignment 4: Multi-imaging (combine a landscape, an object and a living organism)
UNIT 5: Composition.
Award wining Power Point instruction on composition for graphic art and photography students with more that 100
propositions.
Objectives: Sound Knowledge of: Composition, Colour values and Layout.
Assignment 5: Create a food recipe (A4 magazine page) using fonts and pictures with a sound composition.
UNIT 6: Colour.
Objectives:
Difference between main colour models: - CMYK - RGB - Spot; Creating duo tone designs.
Assignment 6a: HOT - Design a book cover.
Assignment 6b: COLD - Design a CD cover (One of these designs must be a duo tone design)
UNIT 7: Corporate Identity.
Objectives:
Designing a logo; Standard CI sizes; View Menu; Editing guidelines; Embedding fonts; CorelDRAW versions.
Assignment 7: Logo design (Letterhead, follow-up, business card, comp slip, etc.)
UNIT 8: File Types.
Objectives:
Definition of file types and/or extensions; understand importance and relevance of using different file types; define bleed;
designing a brochure; designing an advertisement.
Copy-writing: Writing text for advertisements, brochures. etc.
Plagiarism and The Copyright Act of South Africa: Legal implications
Assignment 8a: Advertisement/label (remember legal implications)
Assignment 8b: Brochure A4 folded to IDL - different folding methods.
UNIT 9: Printing and Printing Processes.
Printing Processes: Digital versus litho printing; bleed; sizes; folding; ect. Die cutting, embossing, foiling, etc. packaging.
Objectives:
Printing Processes; How to set up a print file; Corel Draw menu items.
Assignment 9: Design package, die cut and insert bar code.
UNIT 10:
Objectives:
Revision of Photo Paint; Using the clone tool; Familiarise yourself with the Object Docker window.
Assignment 10: Use old damaged photo, scan and retouch.
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: VSS Creative College, Pretoria
More info:
186 Jack Hindon Str
Pretoria North
0182