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DESMA 710.30
Explore the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence on our digital world, with a particular emphasis on conversational AI and AI-generated imagery.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 25, 2025
DESMA X 479.4B
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.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: April 1, 2025
DESMA X 479.6D
Work in an agency-inspired environment to develop concepts and strategies to deliver information, products, and brands that engage the consumer.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 865.10
Gain presentation skills that will serve you the rest of your career and beyond.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 485.67
In this practical, hands on course, learn the fundamentals of Blender and build your own working multi-user Web3D environment.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA X 479.8D
Master the art of building a brand identity system from the ground up. This course builds upon design principles, guiding students to deeply understand and authentically convey a company’s…
Format: Hybrid
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA 713.1
This free workshop is for anyone interested in bringing stories to life with animation.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 482.10
Learn to use color theory to communicate ideas and enhance concepts more effectively.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA X 479.6A
A hands-on introduction to the creative process and core elements of successful graphic design.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 479.3D
Gain a broad understanding of design and its dynamic past to create inspired projects in the present.
Format: Hybrid | Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA X 479.6E
In this hands-on course, research, design, and present collateral communication projects, achieving visual solutions that are functional, elegant, appropriate.
Format: In Person | Hybrid
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.2D
Learn to develop memorable identity systems using symbols, icons, logos, and comprehensive environments.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
DESMA X 479.6P
In this thesis-oriented capstone course, Design Communication Arts students put all they've learned into action to tackle real-world design projects in the civic realm.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
DESMA X 481.60
Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are covered in this intensive and immersive course to learn the essential Adobe CC programs utilized in graphic design.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA X 481.55
This course will introduce the concepts of design thinking and help you strengthen your insights, thinking skills, and ability to innovate as a designer.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 850.19
Design education leader Scott Hutchinson teaches you how to take your design career goals from lackluster to brilliant.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 784.10
Explore visual tools to help create a shared language when discussing business models and strategy.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 481.65
Learn how to design digital products with accessibility in mind, improving usability and inclusiveness.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 485.23
This course will provide an overview of several facets of emotional intelligence (also known as "EQ"), providing scenarios to illustrate the importance of EQ to one's level of success in user experience (UX) and how it can optimize one's operation.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.6BB
Create campaigns for theatrical key art movie posters, entertainment packaging, and other collateral materials built around the industry’s needs and opportunities.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: April 2, 2025
DESMA 767.13
Join a series of fun, interactive creative exercises designed to get those wheels turning and remind your brain what it means to think like a designer.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.3AB
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.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA 713.14
Discover how illustration is less about technique and more about communication and connection.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 481.47
Discover how this vector-based drawing program integrates into the suite of design tools.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
DESMA X 479.47AA
Develop advanced techniques and practical workflows in Adobe Illustrator.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 3, 2025
DESMA X 481.99Z
Design and prepare projects for printing via a thorough introduction and practical applications for Adobe InDesign.
Format: Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 475.44
This course will provide a sound foundation and insights associated with the building and optimizing of information architecture.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 479.7F
Begin the transition from student to professional designer with an internship in a real world setting.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
DESMA X 490.98AB
As a creative professional, familiarize yourself with the transformative potential of AI.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: April 1, 2025
DESMA 856.21
This workshop offers a concise introduction to game development using Godot 4
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 776
Join Visual Arts department director, Scott Hutchinson, and this quarter’s master cover designer to explore the inspiration for the current cover.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 713.13
Broaden your knowledge of the multitude of new media avenues and learn how to harness them to land creative work.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 482.14
Work one-on-one with an instructor who guides your development of a meaningful project geared toward a portfolio piece, design competition, freelance assignment, or other advanced goal.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 6, 2025
DESMA X 481.99QT
Learn how to integrate digital artwork into After Effects and put it in motion. Create stunning visual effects and exciting animated 3D typography.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 481.99QU
Become a Motion Graphics artist in this advanced course.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
DESMA 855.10
Join David Mayes at Typecraft to explore approx. 25 different printing techniques and possibilities.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.6C
Develop and execute materials, concepts, and graphics appropriate for effecting packaging, including logo design, type, and pictoral elements.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 481.11
Learn and practice the creation, manipulation, and combination of digital images in this ubiquitous design tool.
Format: Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
DESMA X 481.43
Master sophisticated adjustment techniques necessary for constructing professional images with this ubiquitous design tool.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 850.99
Gain the historical framework and vocabulary to become a mover & shaker in today’s motion graphics industry.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.7P
Create your design portfolio—one that communicates your value and your values to prospective collaborators or employers.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 479.4D
Investigate the techniques and best practices of magazine design, annual reports, and branded collateral.
Format: In Person
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.8B
Learn the business side of design. Position yourself, target your interests & strengths, and prepare your portfolio & communications toward select design markets.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.9D
Explore style guides and the role they play in consumer products, then create an original style guide for a complete product line of your choice.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 851.15
TEDxUCLA Salons look at opportunity and innovation at the intersections of professions and disciplines. Topics planned include: design and music, word and image, AI and traditional art. Leaders in…
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.3A
Each of us has the ability to ignite curiosity. Design and present a polished 12-minute TED-style talk that crystallizes and articulates your "big idea."
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 713.6
Spark passion and enhance creative thinking in this workshop.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 713.5
Bring design to life with animation.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA 768
This seminar will explore the career paths open to user experience designers
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 479.4A
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.
Format: In Person | Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA 770
Join us for a free information session about the Design Communication Arts, User Experience and Visual Arts Programs.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: February 24, 2025
DESMA X 481.99AF
This course introduces the latest tools, techniques and technologies used by leading agencies to develop world-class user experiences.
Format: Online | In Person
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA X 479.8K
Students with knowledge of the fundamentals of UX move on to iteration: rounds of work and experimentation to hone problem solving skills.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 489.5F
Students who have completed User Experience I and II will apply what they have learned to real-world case studies in this course.
Format: Live Online | Online
Next Start Date: January 9, 2025
DESMA X 499C
Working from evidence-based case studies, students apply the appropriate methods and tools of discovery, design, prototyping, testing, iterating, and presenting for real world application.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA X 480.54
This course supports development of an online portfolio to get noticed by potential employers and land job interviews.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 489.5G
Learn key concepts in user experience evaluation to better meet the needs of clients, colleagues and end-users. This course teaches research methodology and how to design, field and report on findings.
Format: Online
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 481.99FG
Learn the tools of the user experience trade, and how to create delightful, meaningful and easy-to-use digital experiences using essential UX softwares.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 480.9K
An introduction to visual fundamentals, presentation best practices, and how to make user experience-driven design choices.
Format: Hybrid
Next Start Date: January 7, 2025
DESMA 772
Join us for a free series of live talks and presentations in the core academic areas of the Visual Arts. Each week we feature a distinguished instructor and dive into their area of expertise.
Next Start Date: TBA
DESMA X 481.24B
This introduction to the world of modern web design exposes students to industry standards and best practices for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the essential tools of a front-end web developer.
Format: Live Online
Next Start Date: January 8, 2025
DESMA 713
Learn how to articulate the value and tone of your brand through a message that moves your audience.
Next Start Date: TBA
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