Graphic Design

Unleash Your Visual Voice: What makes a message persuasive and compelling? How do audiences interpret and make sense of information? This course dives into the powerful relationship between information and influence from a graphic design perspective. You’ll gain the skills to create impactful visual content, exploring design principles, infographics, social media, digital search strategies, social activism, and multimedia storytelling. Through a case study and design-based approach, you’ll work on individual and collaborative projects, content curation, writing, peer critiques, and online presentations.

Why Take This Course? If you’re interested in art, design, marketing, or visual storytelling, this course will empower you to design and prototype passion-driven communication projects driven by your interests. By the end, you’ll have a portfolio of creative work and a solid understanding of how design shapes the way we share and interpret information.

Students in GOA courses will need reliable access to a computer with webcam/microphone connections, an email address (preferably school-based), a Web-conferencing app (GOA courses use Zoom), and a Word processing app (GOA courses use Google’s G Suite). When necessary, alternative arrangements may be made. Some courses require additional materials which can be found here.

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