This course teaches the tools necessary to create beautiful and functional compositions such as a thesis cover but also techniques to retouch your images. You will learn how to use Adobe Photoshop from scratch and understand the workspace and tools needed to design. There will be given plenty of exercises to practice the different functions and tools.

This course will teach you the tools necessary to create vector graphics, graphs/charts and illustrations. These are the building blocks of your infographics (advanced course: Infographics). You will translate your data and visualize them in a graphical and functional way. You will deep in Adobe Illustrator and its unlimited possibility to design your scientific artwork.

This course introduces the theory behind infographic design. You will understand how you can use color and typography to create a visual story that attracts attention. It is designed to help you understand the power of icon design towards the design of an infographic. You will have several exercises during the day which will help you understand the designing process of an infographic. For this course a good knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is obligatory (course: Scientific Artwork & Data visualisation with Adobe Illustrator).