Ready to boost your portfolio with in-demand skills? ACX offers Digital Badges for creative professionals in four exciting, specialized fields.
Whether you're interested in advancing your current career, a career pivot or expanding your art or design skills, ACX offers Digital Badges to meet the needs of artists and designers — wherever your creative path or pursuits.
Gain an understanding of surface design concepts and collections, terminology, basic knowledge of software, technical requirements for reproduction, licensing and print on-demand, and build a professional quality portfolio for job search, freelance and licensing presentations. To earn a badge, complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Develop a foundation of layout, design and typography through projects that provide an understanding of hierarchy, grid systems, logo forms, design thinking, design research, visual communication, color, and printing. Students will learn how to document process and professionally present their work. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Learn basic sketch, rendering and presentation techniques rooted in dimensional form, observation and materials. Students will work on projects that create an understanding of designing products, including project framing, research, concept, development, refinement and presentation. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
Engage in the culture of a creative agency as you learn to work and thrive in a stimulating environment rooted in advertising. Learn how to utilize forms of traditional and emerging media to reach consumers, exercise design practices that tap into an audience and culture, construct brand identities, and produce multiple and varied creative campaigns with powerful copy ready to be presented in a final book or portfolio. Complete the following courses with a grade of B or better:
ACX reserves the right to cancel any class, limit class size, change times or substitute instructors for those listed in the class schedule as deemed necessary. Class cancellations will not be announced until the end of the registration period. If ACX cancels a class you have registered for, you will receive a full refund.
Share the badges you've earned on social media, your website, a digital resume, LinkedIn, and your email signature.