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Beginner AI Creative Production Premium

Graphic Design & Creative Production with AI

DRAFT PLACEHOLDER PRICING — not a live purchasable SKU while unpublished.

**Graphic Design & Creative Production with AI** teaches design fundamentals and AI-assisted creative production under **human creative direction**.

You will LEARN visual hierarchy, typography, colour, and briefs; BUILD campaigns with AI as a production accelerator; and GROW the judgement to evaluate quality, accessibility, licensing awareness, and brand consistency.

This is not “100 AI image prompts,” not a single-vendor Midjourney tutorial, and not a software engineering course. Free Africoders discovery may warm you up; this Premium BUILD track is structured practice with assessment and a portfolio-grade **AI-Assisted Brand Campaign System** capstone — graded on design outcomes and creative direction, not how many images you generated.

## Positioning

LEARN → BUILD → GROW. Design fundamentals first; AI accelerates production; humans own creative direction.

## Tool freshness

Stable competencies (hierarchy, type, colour, critique, consistency, a11y, licensing awareness) are vendor-agnostic. Model names and product UIs belong in dated tool notes — not graded MUST criteria.

## Further reading

- Material Design 3 — Typography overview — https://m3.material.io/styles/typography/overview - Google Fonts Knowledge — https://fonts.google.com/knowledge - WCAG 2.2 Understanding Contrast (Minimum) — https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative — Images Tutorial — https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/ - MDN — Responsive images (export/delivery context) — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images - Creative Commons — About the licenses — https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ - U.S. Copyright Office — Copyright basics (jurisdiction-specific; verify locally) — https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf - Nielsen Norman Group — Visual hierarchy — https://www.nngroup.com/articles/visual-hierarchy-ux-definition/ - WebAIM — Contrast Checker — https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ - W3C — Understanding WCAG (overview) — https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

12 Modules
36 Lessons
19h Study time
Beginner Level

Course journey

How this Premium programme is structured — from foundations to practical work.

  1. Design Thinking and Visual Communication
  2. Composition and Visual Hierarchy
  3. Typography
  4. Colour and Brand Systems
  5. Designing From a Brief
  6. AI for Creative Ideation
  7. AI-Assisted Image Production
  8. Image Editing and Compositing
  9. Brand Consistency and Multi-Asset Design
  10. Design for Digital Products
  11. Quality, Ethics and Professional Delivery
  12. Creative Production Capstone Studio

Curriculum

Week 1: Design Thinking and Visual Communication

  • What graphic design solves (and what it does not) Preview 28min
  • Audience, message, and communication objectives 30min
  • Briefs, constraints, and human judgement vs AI assistance 32min

Week 2: Composition and Visual Hierarchy

  • Hierarchy, focal points, and guiding attention 28min
  • Balance, alignment, proximity, contrast, and whitespace 30min
  • Grid thinking and before/after composition critique 32min

Week 3: Typography

  • Type hierarchy, display vs body, and scale 28min
  • Font pairing, readability, and spacing 30min
  • Typography mistakes and accessibility 32min

Week 4: Colour and Brand Systems

  • Colour relationships, contrast, and meaning 28min
  • Palettes: primary, secondary, accent, and consistency 30min
  • Accessible colour systems (WCAG contrast concepts; meaning beyond colour alone) 34min

Week 5: Designing From a Brief

  • Interpreting briefs: audience, objectives, constraints 28min
  • Moodboards, references, and visual direction 30min
  • Concept development and selecting a direction 32min

Week 6: AI for Creative Ideation

  • AI-assisted brainstorming and concept exploration (prompt is not the design) 30min
  • Moodboard assistance, alternatives, and rejecting weak concepts 32min
  • Prompt iteration and reference analysis without vendor lock-in 34min

Week 7: AI-Assisted Image Production

  • Generating visual assets with composition and style direction 30min
  • Subject consistency, aspect ratios, iteration, and refinement 32min
  • Inspecting artefacts: hands, faces, text, logos, geometry, lighting, anatomy — AI is not automatically production-ready 34min

Week 8: Image Editing and Compositing

  • Raster editing fundamentals: crop, resize, colour correction, selections 30min
  • Masking, background removal, retouching, and compositing 32min
  • AI-assisted editing plus mandatory manual correction 30min

Week 9: Brand Consistency and Multi-Asset Design

  • Visual systems, templates, and layout systems 30min
  • Consistent type, colour, and imagery across assets 32min
  • Transforming one concept into multiple related campaign assets 34min

Week 10: Design for Digital Products

  • Social graphics, banners, thumbnails, and marketing formats 28min
  • Responsive dimensions, export formats, and compression 30min
  • Accessibility for digital visuals (alt text intent, contrast, readable type sizes) 30min

Week 11: Quality, Ethics and Professional Delivery

  • Quality control, factual accuracy, and misleading imagery 30min
  • Copyright, licensing, trademarks, likeness — awareness without false legal certainty; jurisdictions vary 32min
  • Client review, revisions, file organisation, and export specifications (+ AI disclosure where appropriate) 30min

Week 12: Creative Production Capstone Studio

  • Campaign brief to concept: moodboard and visual direction 32min
  • Asset production, consistency, and multi-format adaptation 36min
  • QA, presentation, AI contribution log, and retrospective 34min
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