This course is designed with the beginner in mind. However, it is not a traditional fine art course. This is a results driven program designed to help you turn your creative talent into money by walking you through the process of building a professional design business. In this course, you are not required to think like an artist, but rather as a problem solver... a skill sought after and applicable to any industry. Unlike most schools and universities that train your technical and expressive Visual Art skills only, this course, brings you the benefit of a seasoned teacher who also has a 15 year long professional design career. You'll be introduced to several foundational art and design forms which build towards the process of problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration through design. After working on real world projects to build a portfolio, you'll then be shown how to build a professional design business, pitch and win freelance projects as well as successfully get hired in an agency. Creative Design 1 is split into 3 units that include:

• ✅ Unit 1: Art and Design fundamentals
• ✅ Unit 2: Problem solving using the Design Cycle and Product Research
• ✅ Unit 3: Projects and the Business of Design

Based on our research and partnership with companies across industries, we believe this course helps prepare the student for life in a real workforce. The best way to experience this program is by creating the work shown in each video and then sharing it on the forums and social groups for feedback. It is important to also save all your work in the form of a portfolio as described in unit 1, which can be showed to potential employers or universities upon application.