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Modern Visual Design: Advanced Certificate

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Provider Open Colleges
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Course overview

Gain the strategic skills and a cutting-edge portfolio needed to lead high-impact projects, mastering disciplines from branding and typography to motion graphics and web design. The programme includes invaluable experience completing two real-client projects and features unlimited one-to-one mentoring, ensuring you are fully prepared for success in a competitive design landscape.

Job outcomes

  • Graphic Designer

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What you'll learn

Phase 1

15/20 hours per module

Work through 12 online modules at your own pace and submit your personal Visual Design project.

  • Visual Design theory

  • Visual Design technical considerations

  • Composition & typography

  • Logos & branding

  • Digital illustration

  • Photo manipulation

  • Web design basics

  • 2D moving image

  • Footage motion graphics

  • Working with clients & peers

  • Small business needs

  • Professional portfolio

Outcomes

  • Static and motion Visual Design skills

  • Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud

  • 2 real, live client projects

  • Professional portfolio of work

  • 24 weeks of personalised career support

  • Industry recognised digital credential

Phase 2

8 weeks of client projects

  • Work in groups on two real, live client design challenges, and start building your portfolio.

  • Consult with clients to understand their goals and requirements

  • Apply Visual Design principles and practices to real-life situations

  • Present your Visual Design solutions and processes back to clients

  • Produce professional work for real businesses to add to your portfolio

Outcomes

  • Static and motion Visual Design skills

  • Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud

  • 2 real, live client projects

  • Professional portfolio of work

  • 24 weeks of personalised career support

  • Industry recognised digital credential

Phase 3

Access up to 24 weeks of career support (optional, free with all Advanced Certificate courses). Our careers team and award-winning Career Coach will help you with:

  • Your elevator pitch

  • Improving your soft skills

  • Practising interview techniques

  • Developing your CV

  • Leveraging your LinkedIn profile

  • Building and finding opportunities through your network

Study method

  • Online Online info icon
    Online delivery - online course content with the exception of assessments and work placement
  • Blended Blended info icon
    Blended delivery - both online course content and partial face to face requirements
  • In-class In-class info icon
    In class delivery - predominately face to face course content conducted at a specific location
  • Virtual Virtual info icon
    Virtual Delivery - Live and interactive classroom-style learning conducted completely online

Duration study load

Fast-track in 3 months (12 months access)

Delivery

Online

Course features

Real, live client projects:

Work in groups to solve Visual Design challenges for two real, live clients, applying your new-found skills and building your portfolio.

Dual focus: static + motion:

Manipulate static images using Adobe’s big three – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign – and explore motion graphics with After Effects, Animate & Premiere Pro.

Unique portfolio:

80% of your time is spent on activities and projects, so you can walk away with an impressive portfolio demonstrating your Graphic Design skills to future employers and clients.

Additional information

Industry-recognised certificate

Earn an industry-relevant certificate and badge as official recognition of your new skills. Share this with potential future employers to show off your real-world experience and growing network.

Career Growth Guarantee

Put your career in safe hands with Academy Xi’s Career Growth Guarantee! You’ll get a role within 180 days of our Career Support Program, or if not, Academy Xi will provide additional courses of your choice – free of charge – until you land a role.

Graduate job-ready

Fast-track your way into the industry with the Digital UX/UI Design: Advanced Certificate course powered by Academy Xi. This intensive online program will equip you with the full spectrum of theoretical and practical skills required to be a well-rounded UX/UI Designer.

Payment options

  • Pay upfront – receive big savings on your enrolment

  • Pay as you go – get started today and pay off while you study

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About Open Colleges

Open Colleges puts you at the centre of everything we do. As an institution, we measure our success in the success of our students.

We have more than 125 years of experience in distance education, and this has given us the time to perfect the ways we deliver education and training to people across Australia. In the last decade alone, we’ve helped more than 450,000 students reach their potential.

We understand the needs of adult learners. That’s why we created OpenSpace, our world-class online learning platform that gives you complete flexibility and control to study whenever and wherever you are. OpenSpace provides you with access to learning resources, expert trainers and assessors, a superior support network and the opportunity to connect with other learners just like you.

Our nationally recognised courses could help you launch, change or accelerate your career. Now is the time to make your next move. With Open Colleges, everything could happen.

Open Colleges Pty Ltd is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 90796)

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