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Graphic Design: Build the Skills to Create, Communicate, and Launch a Creative Career
Graphic Design is the art of visual storytelling. It’s how businesses communicate ideas, share messages, and build their brands. Everything around us includes elements that skilled designers create, from social media content and packaging to digital ads and websites. Whether you’re just finishing high school or already working and ready for a creative career shift, learning Graphic Design skills is the perfect place to start.
At Learning Academy, we offer beginner-friendly online training that helps you learn design tools, sharpen your creativity, and prepare for the workforce. You’ll gain real-world experience, earn a certificate, and get job placement support to help you launch your career as a Graphic Designer.
What Is Graphic Design?
Graphic Design is the process of using colors, fonts, shapes, and images to communicate information. It blends creativity with strategy and software to help people connect with visuals. From logos and posters to websites and social media content, graphic designers are behind the look and feel of everything we see.
As a Graphic Designer, you’ll use your imagination and technical skills to help companies, nonprofits, and individuals deliver powerful messages through design.
Why Graphic Design Skills Matter
Graphic Design skills are essential in today’s digital world. Businesses rely on strong visuals to stand out online, capture attention, and build trust. Whether designing ads, developing a product brand, or creating content for a mobile app, your designs influence how people think, feel, and respond.
Data USA states that the average graphic designer’s salary is just over $60,500 annually; as of 2025, there are over 335,000 jobs. Growth is expected to continue at just over 2.47%.
With the proper graphics knowledge, you can:
Learning these skills gives you the tools to become more than just creative—you’ll become employable.
Who Should Take These Courses?
Our Graphic Design courses are ideal for:
You don’t need previous design experience to begin. Our step-by-step lessons will guide you from the basics to professional-level work.
Learn Online and Build a Portfolio
Learning Academy’s Graphic Design program is 100% online and self-paced. That means you can learn when it works for you, at home, after work, or on weekends. Every course includes hands-on projects, visual assignments, and instructor feedback to help you practice and grow.
As you progress, you’ll create a portfolio of your work, something you’ll need when applying for jobs, gigs, or internships. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to present yourself as a confident and capable Graphic Designer.
What You’ll Learn
When taking these courses, you’ll master essential Graphic Design skills, including:
You’ll also learn how graphic design supports related fields like video, web design, and videography—giving you a broader understanding of visual communication.
Certifications and Employability Services
When you finish these courses, you’ll earn a certificate showing your skills and readiness to prepare for the certification exams. This is a great way to show potential clients or employers that you’re prepared to contribute to their design team.
Learning Academy also provides complete career placement services, including:
You’ll leave not just with graphic design skills, but with a strategy to use them.
Where Graphic Designers Work
With solid design skills, you’ll be able to work in:
You might also create motion graphics, work with video and graphic design, or collaborate with developers, writers, and photographers on big creative projects.
Life Skills to Support Creative Growth
Creativity is essential, but so are workplace and personal development skills. That’s why Learning Academy includes life skills courses in every program. These lessons help you:
These soft skills help you stand out and succeed in your graphic or design career.
Start Your Career in Graphic Design Today
Graphic design is more than a creative outlet; it’s a career path growing fast and changing lives. Whether you want to work for an agency, freelance from home, or support your business with striking visuals, Learning Academy will help you get there.
With online lessons, expert instruction, real-world design projects, certifications, and job placement services, our program is built to help you succeed.
Start learning Graphic Design today, contact us at enrollments@learnkey.com or call 1-800-865-0165 and build the skills to create your future, one design at a time.
Learning Academy’s courseware, powered by LearnKey, is produced so you can learn anytime, in small increments, at your own pace.
Try our free talent assessment to learn more about your natural talents.
When taking certification courses and achieving a score of 85% or better on the post-assessment, your next step will be to take practice tests to prepare you for the exam.
After taking practice tests and achieving a score of 85% or better, it will be time for you to sit for the exam, so you can get certified.
LearnKey offers career-ready training to prepare you for roles in IT support, cybersecurity, networking, software development, graphic design, and more. Each pathway is mapped to industry-recognized certifications such as: CompTIA A+ for help desk and support roles, Network+ for networking professionals, Security+ for entry-level cybersecurity, and Adobe Certified Associate for creative fields.
Another way to look at it is:
Our courses don’t just teach software – they prepare you for certifications that boost your salary, advance your career, and make you stand out to employers. Each course includes exam prep materials and is designed by industry experts who know what certification bodies are looking for.
Each course is carefully mapped to specific certification exams and includes exam preparation materials, practice tests, and often exam vouchers to ensure your success.
If you just purchase one course online, you can access it within minutes.
If you want to enroll in one of our pathways with multiple courses and get certified, call 800-865-0165 or email enrollments@learnkey.com for a no-obligation conversation with a U.S.-Based Enrollment Specialist.
Call 800-865-0165 or email enrollments@learnkey.com for a no-obligation conversation. A dedicated U.S.-based Enrollment Specialist will respond within one business day with course options, pricing tiers, and any available discounts so that you can confidently plan your path forward.
Hardware: A modern PC or Mac with at least 8 GB RAM, dual-core CPU, and a broadband internet connection.
Software: Many courses use free trial versions of Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud (7-day trial), or CompTIA CertMaster labs accessed via browser. We provide detailed setup guides before each lab module.
Yes! All LearnKey courses are self-paced and open-enrollment—start immediately after purchase. You’ll have twelve (12) months of unlimited access.
Additionally, to enroll in one of our pathways with multiple courses, you must speak with an Enrollment Specialist at 800-865-0165 before enrolling.
Not currently. We continue to explore payment options, therefore, please check back periodically.
Learners taking one course get access to the course and online support. If you are taking one of our pathways with multiple courses, test-prep, and certification exams, you have access to:
Instructor access through Q&A: Post questions directly to our senior instructors and get personalized responses within 24 hours.
Student Services Representative: After enrolling through an enrollment specialist, you will be assigned a student services representative (SSR) to assist you on your journey with LearnKey.
Live Coaching Sessions: Optional weekly webinars where you can ask questions in real time.
Study Groups: Join peer study groups in our online community to collaborate on labs and quizzes.
Technical Help Desk: Our support team is available if you encounter platform issues, such as playback errors, le downloads, or SCORM compatibility.
Most of our entry-level IT courses (A+, Network+, Security+) assume no formal background—just basic comfort with computer use—creative courses (Adobe, video editing). Think you know your way around Windows or macOS, but we start each tool from the ground up.
If you’re entirely new, we recommend taking our free “IT Knowledge Survey” to gauge your current skillset and or speak with an enrollment specialist at 800-865-0165 or email enrollments@learnkey.com
Most LearnKey certification prep courses consist of 10 to 30 hours of on-demand video, broken into bite-size modules (3-5 minutes) you can watch when convenient.
For example:
CompTIA A+ prep: ~25 hours
Network+ prep: ~20 hours
Adobe Illustrator prep: ~12 hours
If you dedicate 1–2 hours daily, you can finish in 2–4 weeks. You’ll also have 24/7 access for six months to revisit any module until exam day.
Here is a link that can assist you with creating an account:
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No, we do not.
Yes, our courses are mapped to globally recognized industry certifications, including but not limited to Microsoft, Azure, CISCO, CompTIA, Autodesk, Adobe, Intuit, EC Council, Certiport ITS, Allied Health, and more.
No. Payment is due before your course and course materials can be issued.
No. We recommend Windows 10 or 11, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD
Twelve (12) Months, as most content, such as practice exams and labs, expires after a year.
No. You can test in a center, or there is an option via online proctoring.
Our tutoring/group study sessions are included in our pathway programs. This sets LearnKey apart from other learning institutions, as most outside help is at your cost, whereas ours is included.
The textbooks you order are included in the cost of your program. They are yours to keep; you can highlight them, take notes, or do whatever helps you retain the information.
You should review the test prep several times and score well (i.e., 90% or better) on the practice exams. Once you have done that and feel confident, you should schedule your exam.
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