Graphic Design | © Proyecto:  Lively Estudiante:  Elena Auba

Language

Spanish

Start date

July 2026

Frequency

Part-time

Fruition

On campus

Duration

3 Weeks

A learning experience that emulates the work done in a professional studio in the form of a variety of projects based on company briefs.

In this full immersion Graphic Design Summer Course you’ll learn to use the best tools to create your own projects and get a grounding in the basic concepts of the graphic design world.
Use essential software to develop graphic proposals, adopt presentation techniques and use scale models;l draw up estimates, and learn the ins and outs of the pre-press, production and post-production processes. 

Information to decide

A first-hand Graphic Design learning experience that faithfully recreates a professional design studio environment. 

The course is based chiefly on emulating the work done in a professional design studio in the form of a variety of projects for companies based on real and near-real briefs. These exercises cover every stage of the work process as you develop your creative skills, with all the resources you need to make your mark in the sector. 

As well as theoretical and practical subjects, the syllabus includes content that actively encourages your creative drive and helps you to think like a designer.

If you want to know which tools to use to create graphic design projects and get a solid grounding in the basic concepts of graphic design, this is the course for you. 

Designers working in other fields, Fine Arts and Audiovisual Communication graduates and students, photographers, editors, publicists, proof-readers, journalists, printers, typographers and calligraphers who want more in-depth knowledge of graphic design will find the course both interesting and useful. 

It’s a practice-based course that’ll put you in touch with the reality of the market as you develop projects for companies based on real and near-real briefs. You’ll be studying with a teaching team of professionals working in the sector, eager to pass on everything they know in a creative learning experience. 

And you’ll be doing so at one of the best design schools in a city that sets the standard in terms of design.  

Syllabus

MODULE 1: TYPOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION

Image theory and concept
The history of graphic design and the use of best practices in typography
Creativity and conceptualisation in graphic design



MODULE 2: SOFTWARE

Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator



MODULE 3: GRAPHIC PRODUCTION

Final production checks and finishing in graphic arts
PDF and post-production



MODULE 4: SPECIAL WORKSHOPS

Corporate Identity
Editorial Graphics 
Creative Illustration

Faculty

Course Coordinator

Sergi Freixes

Historian, Food Designer and Graphic Designer

Teacher

Eli Pla

Art Director and Graphic Designer

Projects

Graphic Design and Visual Communication

Barcelona

Pont al Palau. Clásicamente contemporáneo

Transportation Design and Mobility

Barcelona

Toyota WE

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