Create aesthetic and meaningful assets by acquiring in-demand skills in digital graphic design. Learn design principles such as colour, typography, and layout to distinguish yourself in the market.

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Digital Graphic Design
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Digital graphic design is a unique and valuable skillset that allows you to tackle complex design challenges and create aesthetic, meaningful solutions that are both responsive and useful. Strong visual communication is vital to any digital role, whether it be creating a seamless website, receiving sign off from a presentation, or producing a high conversion ad campaign online. Beyond creating perfect pixels, our Digital Graphic Design course will focus on the digital applications of graphic design skills, teaching you colour, layout, style, and typography principles through a digital lens on the Adobe platform.
Our Digital Graphic Design course is suited for:
- A creative or aspiring designer looking to upskill and potentially seek or transition into a role in a digital team.
- A current marketing, design thinking, human-centred design, or product specialist looking to distinguish yourself by gaining skills and experience in graphic design and improve your career opportunities.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Explain how design principles apply to the creation of design assets
- Design and create digital graphic assets that adhere to best practice design principles and practice
- Evaluate design assets against a design brief and best practice design principles
Throughout this course you will gain real-world skills through a tangible project: Attain valuable, current graphic design experience by responding to a design problem in your organisation and articulate a solution to your design brief through a final presentation. Don’t have a project? Not to worry. If you can’t BYO your own project, you’ll be provided with the brand guidelines and examples of a design problem where you can apply your learnings and rationalise design decisions.
This course can be taken as standalone but has been designed to be taken as part of a two-course Graphic Design + Content marketing bundle (with a saving of 10% across both courses). For a more comprehensive understanding of Graphic Design and Content Marketing, we recommend that you also complete Content and Social Media Marketing)
Course Overview
Learn more about our Digital Graphic Design course in the video below.
The future of work is really interesting - you can't just learn one skill now and have a career out of that. You need to move and adapt over time so courses like RMIT online are giving the ability to get into those skills really quickly and and fill those gaps and change as needed.
Many of our customers were undertaking digital transformations and I often found myself sitting in meetings with Chief Marketing Officers, Chief, Information Officers, CEOs not really understanding what they were talking about so I really wanted to get a feel for exactly what was going on so that, not only could I lead my team more effectively, but actually could sit in some of these meetings and have a meaningful conversation with some of these clients
Our vision is to build a community of lifelong learners successfully navigating the world of work. We find in addition to our world-class academics, working with companies like Adobe Salesforce realestate.com,
Accenture, really brings relevance in the skills that were taking to our students, in using new technologies and business approaches.
So in terms of the experience of studying online, it was terrific it was flexible it was convenient, the tools were easy to use, the way that courses are structured, the way the contents are delivered gives you the flexibility of effectively logging in and learning on a schedule that suits suits you.
This is a great opportunity to help build those skills that can actually feed our future employee pipeline so we we can actually solve these problems for our clients going forward
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Course Structure
Learn more about Digital Graphic DesignModule 1: Introduction to Digital Graphic Design
+- Understand digital graphic design including communicating information, hierarchy, and emotion
- Comprehend the role of a graphic designer, applications, and platforms of digital graphic design
- Differentiate the types of graphic design including animation, infographics, logos and more
- Choose the appropriate tool for a digital asset
Module 2: General Design Principles - Part 1
+- Understand typography terminology and the selection of fonts
- Be introduced to colour, and comprehend contrasting colours, colour psychology, and colour proportions
- Explore information hierarchy and flow, layout, space, and imagery
Module 3: General Design Principles - Part 2
+- Apply design principles in a professional context
- Learn how to structure content visually including call-to-actions
- Examine brand guidelines including analysing and interpreting visual style guides
Module 4: Briefing and Design Objectives
+- Understand design briefs and how they apply in industry
- Learn how to appeal to stakeholders, reaching audiences, and how to deal with difficult briefs
- Comprehend reverse briefs against a checklist and create your own brief
Module 5: Problem Solving and the Design Process
+- Differentiate effective and ineffective design
- Consider ethics, access, and inclusivity
- Generate ideas and examine the feedback loop
Module 6: Producing Assets — Part 1
+Understand digital assets and how they differentiate across platforms such as Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook
- Identify file types, dimensions, and specifications of a design
- Produce the first of two digital assets in response to a brief and style guide
Module 7: Producing Assets — Part 2
+Create your second digital asset and apply learnings you receive from your first design
- Participate in a Q&A webinar with your mentor
Module 8: What’s Next?
+- Obtain tips and advice for presenting your final project
- Examine the digital graphic design industry and possible opportunities that exist
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Subject matter expert
Sarah has over 15 years experience as a multidisciplinary senior designer and art director. Previously Design Lead at Bellroy, Sarah now works independently, developing clear design solutions for clients and agencies. Sarah has worked across Germany, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia, and her areas of expertise range from fin-tech,...
Sarah has over 15 years experience as a multidisciplinary senior designer and art director. Previously Design Lead at Bellroy, Sarah now works independently, developing clear design solutions for clients and agencies. Sarah has worked across Germany, New Zealand, Fiji and Australia, and her areas of expertise range from fin-tech, health, beauty, lifestyle/apparel, industrial design, hospitality, and education.

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