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Desktop Publishing with InDesign Course
Adobe InDesign is the world’s leading desktop publishing software. Whether you are a burgeoning layout artist, an author, a book publisher, or a graphic designer, adding InDesign to your box of magic tricks will give you that extra creative edge.
This course will equip you with the design skills necessary to make your magazine, book, and ePub stand out from the crowd. Learn to apply the principles and elements of design to magazine and book covers to facilitate multiple page use. Design invitations that no-one can decline. Be a changemaker in the design and publishing space today.
In this course, your Adobe InDesign license is included.
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If you’re an aspiring layout artist, desktop publisher or someone wanting to get their start in design, this online short course is for you. Over 12 weeks you’ll learn how to utilise InDesign to create beautiful layouts and creative projects using the latest knowledge. You’ll gain ready-to-apply practical skills that the industry is looking for and be able to start creating as you study.
What you will learn:
- Navigate and use the InDesign workspace for maximum creative impact, and make the most of master pages, multiple page design, character and paragraph styles, image arrangement, interactivity, and text wrapping and framing.
- Use colour, layout, imagery, and typography to design compelling magazine and eMagazine covers and double page spreads, and prepare these for publication.
- Design a beautiful corporate report or recipe book, applying the principles and elements of design.
- Create stunning interactive ePub corporate reports or book layouts using text, typography, and imagery.
- Prepare your report or book for print.
- Design an eye-catching digital invitation for a book launch OR a corporate brochure.
This course is perfect for:
- Aspiring layout artists.
- Desktop publishers.
- Individuals with a flair for design, who want to take their skills to the next level.
Prerequisites:
Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Indesign system requirements:
Refer to this page for a detailed list of system requirements for Windows and Mac.
Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career
Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.
Course curriculum:
Interfacing with InDesign
- This module demonstrates how to navigate InDesign, and will introduce you to features such as master pages, multiple pages, character and paragraph styles, image arrangement, interactivity, and text wrapping and framing
- This is a practical module
Magazine Design: The Cover
- You will learn how to design a beautiful magazine cover for a print magazine, as well as an eMagazine
- Apply the principles of design and use the software features explored in Module 1
- This is a practical module
Magazine Design: The Double Page Spread
- This module will guide you through the process of designing a visually impactful double page spread for your print and eMagazine
- Continue using the unique features of InDesign explored in Modules 1 and 2, and learn to scamp and plan for multiple pages
- This is a practical module
Magazine Design: Prep for Publication
- You will learn how to prepare your magazine for print or digital publication
- Get your files print ready like a pro: work with special plates (such as embossing, and foiling), and learn how to use special colours
- This is a practical module
Book Design: The Cover
- You will learn how to design a beautiful cover for a corporate report or a recipe book
- Hone the skills required in this course thus far, using the relevant software features
- This is a practical module
- You will learn to design multiple pages for a corporate report or recipe book
- Work with text-flow across pages, and use imagery, typography, numbering and styles for maximum visual effect
- Work with tables, paragraph styles, and links
- This is a practical module
Book Design – Prep for Publication, Featuring Interactive ePub
- You will learn to prepare your corporate report or recipe book for print, and you will hone your skills acquired so far in using special plates and colours
- You will also learn how to create interactive ePubs, and apply this knowledge to adding interactivity to your report or book design
- This is a practical module
Book Launch Invitation Design
- You will learn how to design an eye-catching, interactive event invitation for your book launch OR an interactive corporate brochure
- Discover more exciting InDesign features, and prepare your invitation or brochure for print or digital distribution
- This is a practical module
Meet your team:
This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award-wins over the years.
About Red & Yellow
Creative thinking is the most important skill. Artificial Intelligence and robots are going to replace some of the jobs we know today.
Red & Yellow is the business school where talented people go to develop the career skills they need to thrive in this digital world.
R&Y unlocks creative thinking to build brilliant careers and organisations using Commercial Logic and Creative Magic.
We are vision-led and values-driven and we are developing the next generation of changemakers, creators and innovators.
We believe creative thinking is the most important skill of the future and it must be supported by uniquely human abilities such as leadership, adaptability and social intelligence.
We are a Creative School of Business that provides you with the commercial logic to grow successful organisations and more importantly the creative magic to set them apart.
We are teaching the great creators, inventors, leaders and entrepreneurs for the 21st Century.
We will be the most creative business school in the world.
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