Online Art and Design Courses

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This studio course introduces students to key concepts in contemporary interior design and space planning. Topics include floor plans, elevations, design themes, colour, lighting, furniture planning, materials, finishes, and sustainability. 

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - In this 6-week course, students should gain the software skills needed to create, preflight, and publish everything from printed and digital materials to interactive online documents. InDesign is the industry-leading page design and layout toolset.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This is a hands-on, fast-paced course that builds on skills, creative techniques, and concepts taught in the introductory Digital Photography and Photoshop courses. Students explore the art of digital imaging through colour correction, digital effects, and batch processing.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This is a hands-on, fast-paced course where students learn the fundamentals of editing video and audio using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This is a hands-on, fast-paced course where students should gain the conceptual and technical skills to create online art and design content.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This course builds on the skills, creative techniques, and concepts taught in Introduction to Adobe Illustrator. In this course, students should learn more advanced techniques for working with paths, how to manipulate Bezier curves, how to use transparency and opacity masks, graphic styles, brush effects, symbols, pattern creation, and gradient mesh.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - In this interdisciplinary workshop series for writers, artists, and designers, students will experiment with the comic medium as they explore the interplay between image and text, form and content. Drawing cues from historical and contemporary examples of textual/graphic work, students will conceptualize comic projects in various forms, constructing compelling narratives through dialogue and visual representations.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This shorter course is designed specifically to introduce students to the key concepts and basic tools used in Adobe Photoshop.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - Design thinking is a problem-solving process that focuses on empathy, listening, collaboration, observation, critical analysis, and experimentation to drive innovation.

This course explores the potential of social media marketing for creative professionals.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - This is a hands-on, fast-paced course where students gain the technical skills to create sophisticated vector graphics for a range of art and design projects using Adobe Illustrator.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - In this online course, students will learn to create 3D illustrations and models with SketchUp Pro. Topics include drawing tools, modify commands, component libraries, layering systems, modelling solids, surface treatments, and working with prefab objects.

In partnership with Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD) - Illustration is an evocative form of visual communication. In this studio course, students will examine a wide range of creative approaches that give visual form to abstract concepts and ideas. Emphasis will be placed on rigorous brainstorming, matching form to content, non-literal thinking and risk-taking. Students will be introduced to the fundamental theories and practices in the field of contemporary illustration.