As promised a week or so ago, I've released Design Beginners Bootcamp on Skillshare.

I created it because I am often asked by my students (where I teach in London) how to develop their fledgling design skills. They might have just finished, say, an introductory InDesign course, know they want to study more, but have little budget for any further training. They know enough now to know what they need to learn, but where do they go?

This is my answer. It's what I'd have wanted to study when I was first getting started, so this is the course I've developed. Here are the mini-courses inside Design Beginners Bootcamp, in order:

1 – Create Icons and Logos with Illustrator
2 – Ten steps to better Graphic Design
3 – Working with InDesign packages & templates
4 – Improving Images with Photoshop
5 – Create Website & Social Media Images with Illustrator
6 – Ten steps to better Typography
7 – Create Posters, Flyers, Adverts & Postcards with InDesign
8 – Create Social Media images with Photoshop
9 – Creating Basic Infographics with Illustrator
10 – Create a logo for your brand
11 – Getting Your Work Commercially Printed from InDesign
12 – How to cut people out with Photoshop

This is a long course, but it's as brief as I could make it to cover all the essentials. I tried extremely hard not to repeat anything, to avoid wasting your time. I also wanted to make it very practical, so you'll put your skills to work straight away.

I very much hope that this will give you a solid skillset, and supercharge your design confidence. Do have fun with it, and let me know how you get on in the Comments section.

All the best,

Peter

Peter Bone

Designer who mentors marketers

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