Graphic Design school training courses in Atlanta, GA (public, in-house or online)

Students explore the ways in which exhibition and environmental graphics enhance the experience of the user community through interactivity with form and space. Working individually, and in teams, students will design and build scale models of their concepts for assigned projects.

This course focuses on educating students to develop complex graphical user interfaces and animation. Students explore that software and its Action Script programming language while working with navigational elements, animated graphics and rich multimedia content, including sound and video. Current and future directions of Web interactivity and Web animations are addressed, with a focus on cross-platform development, dynamic content integration, browser compatibility, bandwidth limitations and t...

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This course concentrates on the design, development, implementation, testing and updating of effective interfaces based on principles of graphic design, interactivity and usability. Through lectures, in-class workshops and coursework, students will be educated in a variety of visual, navigational and structural approaches. CSS, navigation systems, visual hierarchy, basic animations, image preparation, and file transferring protocols are among topics covered. Emphasis will be placed on conceptual...

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This course concentrates on educating students in the development of effective interfaces for electronic media employing theories and techniques of multimedia, interaction design and graphic design. Students will explore the use of sound, motion, video and kinetic typography in their solutions.

Through examination of corporate identity creation, this course focuses on the criteria for an effective logotype and how design firms attach meaning to a single word through typography and color. These issues will be explored through a series of assignments totally devoted to the design of effective trademarks and logotypes. Students will also be introduced to the major identity firms through research and written analysis.