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Foundations of Design: Graphic Design ©2026

Grades: 9 - 12

Inspire your high school students to explore visual creativity with Foundations of Design: Graphic Design. This course introduces students to the essential tools and techniques of graphic design, including photo editing, vector illustration, desktop publishing, and multi-page layouts. Through hands-on projects and real-world applications, students gain the practical skills needed to produce professional-quality designs for both digital and print media.

Program Details

Foundations of Design: Graphic Design helps students build design skills and gain familiarity with popular design tools. Through hands-on projects and real-world applications, students will learn to produce professional-quality designs for both digital and print media.


Students using Foundations of Design: Graphic Design will:

  • Build design skills through photo editing, vector-based illustration, and layout development for digital and print formats.
  • Learn to use professional tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, and Adobe InDesign.
  • Create and manipulate images, design scalable graphics, and produce polished single- and multi-page layouts.
  • Apply industry-relevant design techniques to complete hands-on projects that support creative expression and real-world relevance.
  • Prepare for creative careers in graphic design and media production through a structured, skill-building curriculum.
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1. Image Editing

  • Image Essentials
  • Layers
  • Image Adjustments
  • Retouch and Enhance

2. Vector-Based Editing

  • Vector Graphics
  • Coloring and Shaping
  • Adding Text and Reshaping
  • Making Curves
  • More Design Tools

3. Desktop Publishing

  • From Etching to DTP
  • Basic Tools
  • Single-page design
  • Multi-Page Document I
  • Multi-Page Document II