Foundations of Design: Graphic Design

Grades: 9 - 12

Inspire your high school ʯ��Ƶ��ɫ�� to explore visual creativity with Foundations of Design: Graphic Design. This course introduces ʯ��Ƶ��ɫ�� 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, ʯ��Ƶ��ɫ�� gain the practical skills needed to produce professional-quality designs for both digital and print media.

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Foundations is an innovative series of titles designed for high school ʯ��Ƶ��ɫ��, 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 ʯ��Ƶ��ɫ�� for future careers.
Complete teacher support: Educators prepare efficiently with a print teacherʯ��Ƶ��ɫ��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.

Sample Chapter

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

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