76 Online Short courses in Graphic Design

This hands-on, online Technical Drawing for Fashion with Adobe Illustrator course at the University of the Arts London (UAL) will give you an overview of how fashion designers use Adobe Illustrator within their practices. You'll learn how to create your own technical fashion drawings to an industry standard using this software.

Transform your graphic design talents into your very own business. Build your brand, find clients and get the practical skills you need to grow your venture from the ground up. International Open Academy offers the Graphic Design Business Basics programme.

As an artist or illustrator when you get an idea in your head, you want to create it. You don’t want to spend hours figuring out how your design program works or where to find the tools you need. International Open Academy offers the Adobe Illustrator with Alice Thorpe programme.

Are you a curious creative, a bold beginner, or an aspiring design pro? Whether you're diving into design for the first time or looking to turn passion into profession, the comprehensive Graphic Design Course offered by Blue Sky Graphics is your launchpad to success.

Develop your design skills with Adobe Creative Suite. Learn to create visuals using Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign with this Adobe Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign course at the University of the Arts London (UAL).

Join the Photoshop course from Warnborough College and learn how to create and manipulate images and artwork compositions using Adobe Photoshop for use on the web, email and print. 

The Brand New Brand course offered by Coursera in partnership with Calarts is the culmination of the Graphic Design Specialization and gives you an opportunity to tie together your knowledge and skills into a single project: a brand development guide for a company you will invent.

By the end of this Java Programming - Principles of Software Design course offered by Coursera in partnership with Duke University, you will have written a programme that analyzes and sorts earthquake data, and developed a predictive text generator.

This Digital Graphic Design short course at the University of the Arts London (UAL) will teach you how to use Adobe software to a basic industry standard. You will then utilise the skills you have learned to create your own visual work.

From posters, packaging and signage, to social media and websites, we will learn how Visual Communication informs the way we see the world, and how you can use it to say what you want to say, in a way that will be heard. This Introduction to Visual Communication course is offered at the University of the Arts London (UAL).

Learn to use Bayes Nets to represent complex probability distributions, and algorithms for sampling from those distributions. The Fundamentals of Probabilistic Graphical Models programme is offered by Udacity.

The online Graphic Design - Beginners short course at the Central Saint Martins gives you an intensive and practical introduction to 20 key graphic design principles.

The Adobe InDesign course from International Open Academy is designed to help any willing user overcome these challenges by breaking down the main functions into five easy to digest parts.

Illustrator MasterClass from Udemy teaches you to use this industry-leading vector graphic application as a creative professional. The whole course content, including examples, techniques, exercises and quizzes have been carefully selected and refined to offer the most efficient and enjoyable way to master Adobe Illustrator.

At Ultimate Guide to Digital Sketching - Beginner to Advanced from Udemy you will learn to digitally draw like a pro!

This Fundamentals of Graphic Design course offered by Coursera in partnership with Calarts, will teach you the fundamental principles of graphic design: imagemaking, typography, composition, working with color and shape.

This condensed survey Ideas from the History of Graphic Design course offered by Coursera in partnership with Calarts focuses on four key periods or themes from the history of design in the West. 

This HTML (Writing a Website) course from Warnborough College is suitable for anyone who wants to learn programming in HTML. It can be a hobby or to create a website for your personal or business use. Keeping in mind that web development companies charge thousands of dollars to develop websites for businesses this course is a good investment.

In this Graphic Design Elements for Non-Designers Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado Boulder, you will analyze basic design concepts to apply in the professional setting, including typography, color theory, image selection, and layout best practices.

This Graphic Design program from Masters Design Lab is an eleven-course program showcasing the most basic skills needed for modern designers.