Pocketbook
What is
Graphic design?
Graphic Design — online course for 13-19-year-olds, that will teach to think outside the box and visualize ideas. The course covers the widest range of themes and professional knowledge in a variety of design areas, such as Branding, Identity, Icons, Photography, Infographics, Illustration, Typography, and Basic Design Thinking. Demo lesson you can find here
Benefits
For teenagers only
We are experts in teaching 13-19 year-olds. For many years we accumulated experience of teenage features to take it into account for educational programs and approaches. In dealing with parents, we take the teenager’s side
Visual thinking = profession
Drawing skills are welcome, but not necessarily. The graphic designer develops logos, fonts, company identity, and brand books; layouts of books, magazine pages, websites, and advertising modules. They make illustrations, infographics, collages, etc. Examples of our students’ work
Career Service
Level Beginner is for understanding the basics of the illustrator profession, and level Advanced is for obtaining professional knowledge and skills at the Junior specialist level. Information about the actual salaries of specialists is here
Creative thinking
Creativity — the ability to make non-standard decisions in different life and work situations – is one of the main skills of the decade (The World Economic Forum (WEF))
Profession relevancy
Graphic designers are in demand as business goes online and the visual side of the internet grows daily
How to find the first job
Pre-acceleration (entrepreneur) module is a part of level Advanced: how to work freelance, in a company, or start own business; diving into a profession with the support of industry experts; project built-up and pitch for industry experts. Career service for level Advance graduates: internship and/or the first job
Structure of learning:
The Course consists of two parts: Hard skills (Graphic Design lessons – professional skills) and Soft skills (personal skills training – over-profession skills). We teach from scratch. Preliminary test on level Beginner — to check logic and basic computer skills.
Educational results
In case of successful completion of the course, the teenager develops such skills:
Level Beginner
- Professional skills (Hard skills):
- the first portfolio of 3+ projects on behance.com
- basic skills in vector and raster graphic design software (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop)
- fundamentals of drawing, colouristics, composition
- brand book: logos, fonts, and corporate identity carriers
- social media branding
- creation of posters
- photography: photo edition and matte painting in Adobe Photoshop and
Level Advanced
- Professional skills (Hard skills):
- knowledge and skills of Junior specialist level
- advanced skills in vector and raster graphic design software (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign)
- experience in working with real customers and task requirements
- professional portfolio of 12-15 projects on behance.com
- development of logos, corporate style, brand book, mascot, stationery kits, work with fonts and layout, etc
- work experience individually, in pairs, and in big teams in different roles that are relevant to the design industry; project management, Trello
- participation in the unique 4-month pre-acceleration program with the following results: individual and team projects, pitches for design industry experts; knowing how to find the first job in a company, work freelance or start own business; how to get first orders, employment, or internship after graduation from level Advanced
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Personal skills (Soft skills):
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Emotional intellect
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Self-identification
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Leadership
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Goal-setting
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Motivation and Discipline
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Time-management
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Self-presentation
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Communications — Conflict studies — Negotiations
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Art of public speaking
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Work with team and customer
Program created / verified
Krystyna Maxymchuk
Katya Lozanova
Impact Guide Odessa
Olena Smirnova
Graphic Designer, Photographer в Fedoriv Agency, lena.show
Polina Pobedova
Lidiya Trokhym
freelance
Yana Bohdanova
Twid
Myroslava Shevchenko
Creative/Art Director в R Agency
Andrew Timchenko
GG Brands
Viktoriya Ignatsevich
Brandme
Darya Brichevcka
Graphic Designer/Production в MullenLowe Adventa
Olena Marchishyna
CRE8EGY
Alina Borisova
ekonomika+
Format
Training in groups
- Duration, level Beginner — 6 months (24 weeks/lessons)
- Studying in a group with a design expert as a mentor — design specialist, level Middle+; a group of teenagers and study manager support
- Tasks for midweek work: video tutorial (1-5 videos per week), tests to it, practical tasks, additional materials (industry articles, etc.). Checking tasks by the mentor. Communication in the chat
- Group online lessons with a hard skills mentor on weekends (Saturday or Sunday, 2 hours, online in zoom/google meet)
- Feedback for parents: 1. once a month the status of training in the program from the study manager 2. once every three months — feedback from the mentor
Works by our teenagers
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Results
Profession
The design industry values knowledge and experience. Graphic Design Course graduate gets:
- Career service, preparation for entering a design faculty at a university (after level Beginner)
- Ability to work on Junior design specialist level (after level Advanced)
- Professional portfolio of individual and team projects
- Upgrade Certificate of each level (Beginner, Advanced)
The first job
- The level Beginner provides a base and understanding of further development. The level Advanced is professional, so it allows our teenagers to work freelance
- The training program consists of team projects and their pitches for industry experts and HR managers. Ampli has a career service for finding internships and first jobs for our graduates
Community
We create a community of teenagers and industry experts.
- Project-based education = working in teams on own/team commercial and social projects. Management experience already in adolescence
- Ampli Talks webinars and social events for teenagers. Speeches by experts from IT, design, and business