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Brand Basics

Learn essential tools and create professional logos to kick-start branding skills.

Print Perfection

Design business essentials like cards, letterhead, and typography-driven layouts.

Menu Makeover

Redesign menus with creative layouts, typography, and stylish text formatting.

Calendar Creations

Build a complete calendar combining illustrations, layouts, and personal branding.

Brochure Boss

Create polished brochures showcasing text, images, and well-organized layouts

Brand Basics

You’ll learn the basics of InDesign by starting with essential tools, exploring the workspace, and discovering how to place images and assets. Then, you’ll design your very own logo in Illustrator and learn how professional designers present their ideas.

Career Skills:

Understanding branding and logo design fundamentals
Setting up a workflow to manage client assets
Industry insight: Graphic designers and brand specialists

Logo Logic: Designing Your Signature

Tool Time

Asset Drop

Print Perfection

Dive into creating stunning print designs by exploring typography, text wraps, and resizing tools. Develop a cohesive brand look as you create business cards, letterhead, and professional layouts that are polished and print-ready.

Career Skills:

Mastering typography for professional branding
Preparing projects for printing and production
Industry insight: Marketing specialists, freelance print designers

Menu Makeover

Redesign a restaurant or food truck menu with a creative flair that’s functional and visually appealing. Learn how to organize long-form text using paragraph and character styles in InDesign, skills you’ll rely on in any editorial or design career.

Career Skills:

Streamlining projects with text and layout styling
Understanding usability and information hierarchy
Industry insight: Publication designers, advertising specialists

Menu Makeover

Style Savvy

Text Tweaks

Calendar Creations

Build a professional calendar from scratch! From monthly photo layouts and custom holiday symbols to polished templates and your own "About the Artist" page, you’ll practice managing large projects and combining Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Career Skills:

Designing cohesive multi-page documents
Using programs collaboratively for high-quality results
Industry insight: Publishing, editorial design, project management

How to download Adobe Software

You will have to install the Adobe Creative Cloud (a downloader app) , to download Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop or any other Adobe program

Click this link
enter your school email address
Enter your Wake ID username & password
Follow instructions to download the "Creative Cloud Installer App"
Open "Creative Cloud"
Find Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and/or Photoshop
Click download
Repeat steps 6-7 for remaining programs

See minimum system requirements for each application: