The Graphic Designer course prepares students for entry-level employment as designers or production artists in print shops, service bureaus, in-house art departments and design studios. The course is 800 hours and instruction is evenly divided between learning design and technical/computer skills. Students who have successfully mastered the course competencies will have a portfolio of 8 to 10 original designs which demonstrate proficiency in page layout (Adobe InDesign), Illustration (Adobe Illustrator) and image editing (Adobe Photoshop). Projects include logos, newsletters, brochures, packaging, web page design and advertisments. Software (Adobe CS3) is taught on Macintosh Intel computers.
Instructor Robin Hill has over 20 years experience as a freelance designer and as owner of her own graphic design business whose clients included Dermalogica, Air New Zealand, Xerox Corp, and Suzuki Motor Corp. to name a few. She has been teaching since 1996 at VSC and as adjunct faculty at Santa Monica College.
Monday through Thursday, 10:00 am - 12:15 pm
Monday through Thursday, 12:45 pm - 3:45 pm