Graphic
Design Course
"... This was a great
online class experience for me. It's the first online
class I have completed. I think the personal touch thru
phone sessions combined with the e-mail responses from
Doug when I had questions helped a lot!..."
-Chris |
Do you illustrate or layout documents, web sites, or slide
shows? Do you find it hard to make charts, tables, and diagrams
look good? If you're a manager, writer, programmer or knowledge
worker professional who needs to produce clean, simple graphics
in your everyday work, then this course is for you!
Graphic Design is a 6-week online graphic design course.
The course is designed to give people with no formal graphic
design training a reasonable introduction into the world of
graphics. In this course, you'll learn a simple process for
creating graphics by completing three design projects. In
the first project, you'll learn how to use size, shape, color,
and type. You'll also learn how to apply the concepts of contrast,
repetition, alignment, and proximity to make your graphics
look good. In the next project, you'll create a page layout
using text, charts, graphs, and simple drawings. In the last
project, you'll produce another layout using text, diagrams,
procedures, icons, and screen captures.
— Over 260 pages of
course materials
— Downloadable HTML
and PDF versions of materials
— 6 weeks of instructor mentoring
— Expert feedback on all assignments
— Optional teleconference
chat sessions
— BONUS:
Electronic version of William Horton's Illustrating Computer
Documentation
— No formal training in
graphic design required
— Working knowledge
of English
— Familiar with browsers,
email, and computer file system functions
— Familiar with PowerPoint
or other graphics application
— Pentium-compatible processor (500 MHz or faster)
— 64 MB of available RAM
— Super VGA display, 800 x 600 resolution
— 15 MB of disk space (if you download materials)
— Internet browser and access (IE5 or NS6 recommended)
— Email account and program
— Windows XP/2000/ME/NT/98
— Microsoft PowerPoint or other graphics application
— May 5th
— June 2nd
— July 7th
— August 4th
— September 8th
— $239US/$239CDN
— Check our discounts
page before you register. You
may save 10-20%!
 The
instructor will guide you throughout the course by providing
one-to-one mentoring. During the course, the instructor will
answer your questions by email, provide you with feedback
on your assignments, and lead optional audio teleconference
sessions to discuss the materials and assignments.
Doug Talbott has over 20 years of experience in human factors
design, design management and graphic design and course
design. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and has designed
and taught courses for Honeywell, Nortel Networks, OTI and
Carleton University in the areas of human factors design,
visual design and computer science. Doug is an eLearning Advisor for Online-learning.com.
The course exceeded my expectations in many regards -- especially
in the depth of information supplied and the access to the
instructor for feedback on work in progress. In a very non-threatening
environment, I learned key principles of design that I can
implement immediately. Without reservation, I recommend
this course to technical communicators -- in fact I have
already encouraged several colleagues to sign up... -- Kathie
...the teleconference concept was excellent. I have taken
many on-line courses. None have offered teleconference as
part of the course. It enabled conversational interaction
with other students and the instructor which enriched the
learning environment. It enabled us as students to see and
discuss each others work and share in the feedback interactively.
I can't say enough about how the teleconference brings you
right 'into' the classroom... Keep up the good work. I also
think honestly for the quality offered especially with introduction
of teleconference you can differentiate yourself from competitors
and charge more. -- Cheryl
The tutorial examples for each section were very helpful.
I like the fact that we were able to download the entire
course for future readings as it was impossible for me to
read all the content during the course timeframe. The instructor
critique of each project was very helpful as well. The instructor
was very knowledgable and helpful. Great course. -- Carol
Just wanted to let you know that I'm enjoying myself a lot
with the course and its superb course material! I will recommend
the course to my collegues who work with user interface design.
-- Marjut
Doug did an excellent job presenting the course content.
The most rewarding part of the course was the audio chat sessions
with Doug. It was a good chance to verbally discuss the concepts
for each project and for Doug to give his professional appraisal
and feedback. Doug showed his experience during the audio
chat sessions and demonstrated his professionalism through
the comments received on the marked assignments. -- Brian
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