Foundations of Design: Graphic Design

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.

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Program Details

Foundations is an innovative series of titles designed for high school students, each covering a specific area of the digital world. These key features of every Foundations program bring skills to life:

Clear instruction and active learning: Students thrive in their learning when presented with well-deﬁned goals, clear instruction, relevant examples, hands-on activities, and project-based learning.
Timely and relevant coverage: Content aligns with the latest industry practices, preparing students for future careers.
Complete teacher support: Educators prepare efficiently with a print teacher’s edition, lesson plans, lesson guides, and pre-built assessments.
Flexible delivery: Students benefit from a hardbound textbook or use the digital resources complete with an eBook, an adaptive SmartBook®, assessment, videos, and more.

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.