You know you could find more & better clients if you could just produce better designs.
You know a good design when you see it, but find it hard to create one yourself.
Your Instagram & Dribbble feeds inspire you to create amazing work, but you feel you don't know how.
You’re not very proud of your current portfolio.
You’re sick of just watching tutorials and not making any progress.
Complete a small design project at the beginning of the course. Redesign it at the end.
Be amazed by how much you’ve grown as a designer.
Amazing layouts take more than just creativity. They’re crafted with a lot of intention. Get ready to discover 9 principles that will help you create engaging, mesmerizing layouts for your projects.
Color can make or break any design project. You’ll discover how to choose colors strategically, compose palettes that are both beautiful and functional, and how to actually use color in context.
One of the main things that separate professional designers from amateurs is how they work with type. You’ll learn how to source, select, and pair fonts, and most importantly: how to work with them like a pro.
Imagery is one of the best ways to add depth and interest to your designs. We’ll be talking about photography, illustration, and texture: how to source them, how to layer them, and how to integrate them to your designs.
This is how you go from a blank screen to beautiful design work. You’ll discover how to balance all the elements on your designs, easily identify what’s wrong with a project, and our 3-step process to kickstart your designs without white page syndrome.
Because design principles can be learned. But design skills can’t. They need to be practiced.
Get your course work reviewed by our team. Receive thoughtful feedback to help you grow.
Make connections, discover business opportunities, and collaborate with other designers.
Get personalized support, join our weekly office hours, and learn with special workshops.
Create standout, professional-grade designs
Pinpoint what’s wrong with a design and how to fix it
Unlock your creativity and open design possibilities
Confidently start projects from a blank canvas
Go from creative brief to beautiful, original designs
Use the timeless principles used by all design masters to create stunning work.
Improve the quality of your designs so you can raise your rates.
Avoid the deadly design mistakes that make you look like an amateur.
Matt Brunton is a Designer, Strategist, and Creative Director from the north of England. He began working full-time as Graphic Designer in 2004 and in the last 18 years has worked for agencies, on his own businesses, and in-house creative and leadership roles.
Today he splits his time between creating educational content with Flux, his own branding studio, and freelancing on high-profile campaigns with some of London’s leading advertising agencies.
Pay in three affordable installments. You’ll receive lifetime access, plus all future updates.
Pay in full to save even more! Enjoy lifetime access to the course and all future updates.
Each module should take 3-4 hours of work — most of which will be spent designing. If you work on one module a week, you’ll be done with Core Design Skills in 5 weeks. The course is entirely self-faced though, so you can adjust your pace as you like.
This course is software-agnostic as it’s focused on how to apply design principles to any kind of design work. That being said, we will talk briefly about software and discuss a few free and paid alternatives you could use, but you don’t need to have previous experience using these tools.
All course videos come with closed captioning and transcripts. If you need any other accessibility features, email team@flux-academy.com and let us know. We’re eager to make our courses accessible and helpful to as many students as possible.
You have lifetime access to the course content, as well as any updates we make to it. Your enrollment also includes 12 months of access to our Flux Academy community, where you can network with other designers and receive feedback on your work from the Flux Academy team.
Yes. This course is for anyone who wants to design a thing — no matter what that thing is and who it is for. It’s 100% focused on design principles and how to put them to practice to create beautiful work. We don’t talk about clients and freelancing at all.
Maybe. If you feel like there’s room for improvement in your work and you’re not quite sure how to create beautiful, original designs… Then we recommend enrolling in Core Design Skills.
You can choose between a one-time payment and a 3-month payment plan. We process all payments securely through PayPal and Stripe. You’ll get an email receipt immediately after your purchase. If you need a more detailed invoice for your records, just email team@flux-academy.com and we’ll be happy to help.
No. What you’ll learn in Core Design Skills does apply to web design but also, to any other type of design work — such as branding, packaging, social media, etc. This course is focused on timeless design principles that can and should be applied to any design project.
Maybe. If you feel like there’s room for improvement in your work and you’re not quite sure how to create beautiful, original designs… Then we recommend enrolling in Core Design Skills.
100%. This will give you a solid foundation to develop your design skills and a leg up on other designers who didn’t take the time to master these core design principles.
