Design & Arts
Design & Arts
Learn to create from creatives.
Design user-focused websites that delight. Create impact through brand strategy. Think with your hands and paint. Capture a story through photography.
Then turn your passion into a career.
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Design your dream career with us.
Whether you're just starting out, or have years of experience, UCLA Extension offers courses to sharpen your skills and prepare you for greater levels of success. (And yes, we even have courses you can take just for fun.)
From user experience to photography, studio arts to art history, our courses are taught by experienced professionals who have successful creative careers of their own.
Design & Arts
Courses
DESMA X 479.3AB
Graphic Design Career Launch Pad
Gain a polished strategy for the steps needed to take to enter the design profession, with projects designed to challenge creativity and advance preparedness for the real world.
DESMA X 479.3D
Design History and Context
Gain a broad understanding of design and its dynamic past to create inspired projects in the present.
DESMA X 479.4A
Typography
This hands-on course covers the fundamentals of type, its characteristics, vocabulary, and nomenclature, as well as creative uses of type and how it is integrated in successful design.
DESMA X 479.4B
Advanced Typography
Expand your typographic skills by exploring increasingly complex typographic systems, and solving design problems that demand conceptual and experimental approaches to accommodate multiple layers of information.
DESMA X 479.4D
Publication Design
Investigate the techniques and best practices of magazine design, annual reports, and branded collateral.
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