Design & Arts
Design & Arts
Learn to create from creatives.
Design user-focused websites that delight. Create impact through brand strategy. Think with your hands and paint. Capture a story through photography.
Then turn your passion into a career.
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Design your dream career with us.
Whether you're just starting out, or have years of experience, UCLA Extension offers courses to sharpen your skills and prepare you for greater levels of success. (And yes, we even have courses you can take just for fun.)
From user experience to photography, studio arts to art history, our courses are taught by experienced professionals who have successful creative careers of their own.
Design & Arts
Courses
ART 865.65
Gouache and Ink Painting
In this two-day workshop, students create a colorful piece of gouache artwork that is finished with black ink.
DESMA X 479.3AB
Graphic Design Career Launch Pad
Gain a polished strategy for the steps needed to take to enter the design profession, with projects designed to challenge creativity and advance preparedness for the real world.
DESMA 713.14
Idea to Image: Illustration for Designers
Discover how illustration is less about technique and more about communication and connection.
ART 803.81
Ikebana
Using branches, leaves, and flowers, create new and differently-styled arrangements each week that capture the beauty and elegance of nature.
DESMA X 481.47
Illustrator I
Discover how this vector-based drawing program integrates into the suite of design tools.
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