Category Archives: Education and Training

Can You Teach Yourself Graphic Design?

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: January 22, 2008

Also see my newer 2010 post Learning Graphic Design Online without Spending a fortune I often receive emails with people asking me how they can teach themselves graphic design. Having taken the traditional college route I find it a difficult one to answer. I know from personal experience that what I learned at college was [...]

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Open University Web Design Course

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: November 7, 2007

A few months ago I was desperately trying to find a part-time/evening course web design course in CSS and HTML. I hunted through course listings from local colleges, but there was very little out there locally for me apart from a few 2 day Dreamweaver courses, which were still teaching tables rather than CSS. I [...]

How do you Choose a Graphic Design School?

By Tara: Freelance Designer | Published: November 6, 2007

I have received a few emails recently from people asking me for advice on choosing a graphic design school/university. It’s a long time since I was at design college and so I thought I would throw the question open to you to see if any one else can help. What made you choose the Design [...]