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Design deals for the week Posted: 05 Sep 2013 09:58 PM PDT Every week, we'll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don't miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. Franklin Gothic Sketch Font You can not afford to spend over a thousand dollars for Helvetica? Franklin Gothic is a very good alternative that you can get for a very small price for a limited time. $12 instead of $129 – Get it now! Bundled Set of Web Services Contracts Each web service business has at least one boring side: contracting. This bundle comes to relieve you from that burden. $24 instead of $42 – Get it now! Viral squeeze An awesome WordPress plugin to easily build viral lead pages. $17 instead of $67 – Get it now! The post Design deals for the week appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

11 Online Courses & Alternatives To A Design Degree Posted: 05 Sep 2013 08:28 PM PDT While a degree may be useful to learn design, only practice can make you great a designer. With the recent explosion in online learning, you can learn everything a designer needs to know online, and with less time and money invested. Perhaps, with the curriculum below you can become the next Jony Ive. Creative & Design Focused Courses Foundations via Coursera While you don't have to go to college to become a designer, taking a few Massive Open College Courses (MOOCs) can help you establish a strong design foundation. Free. Art History For Artists, Animators, and Gamers via California Institute of the Arts Intro To Art Concepts & Techniques via Penn State Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society via UPENN Creativity, Innovation & Change via Penn State Hack Design Hack Design is a free resource that is curated by over 40 different respected designers. It contains 30 lessons (with more to come) with articles, videos, and tutorials that you can consume at your own pace. creativeLIVE What set's creativeLIVE apart from the competition is that it's tutorials are live. Anyone watch the can live workshops for free, but viewing after the event has passed requires a purchase. Downloads start at $49/class. Skillfeed Skillfeed is a video tutorial site with  a diverse assortment of 1,000+ tutorials from niche experts on various creative skills and techniques. $19/month w/ 7-day free trial. Web & App Design Aquent Gymnasium Aquent Gymnasium is the MOOC equivalent for front-end web development. Courses are in real-time and vary month-to-month. Free. Treehouse Treehouse is an expansive web development language learning library but also includes design and business considerations. It includes interactive exercises, gamification/badges, community forums, and a job board. $25-49/month. Code School: Fundamentals of Design Code School is similar to Treehouse but with an extra focus the coding. However, they have one especially good design course and its free! Other courses available for $25/month. Learnable Learnable has operates under a similar model to Code School and Treehouse. However, in addition to video tutorials it also has a library of PDF books from its parent-company Sitepoint (a very reputable source for web development learning), and students can download 2 course/books per month. $29/month. Design Boost DESIGNboost is a small library that focuses only on app development. The content is delivered in separate learning kits for various aspects of app development. $49-99/kit or $249 for the whole bundle. The Catch-All Tuts+ premium Tuts+ is a large learning library that bridges creative and technical design and contains a mix of video and text tutorials. While it is available for a monthly subscription, the Tuts+ blog network has a lot of free learning material. $19/month. lynda.com And who can forget the matronly lynda.com. lynda is the oldest and biggest library in the bunch and with over 2,000 video courses, which covers every programming and design consideration under the sun. $25-37.50/month. Don't Forget Your Portfolio While you can hack together a decent education in both the creative and coding aspects design, you are worthless as a designer from employment perspective unless you have a portfolio. Behance, Dribble, and Coroflot are all great site for you to not only aggregate your experience, but also serve to monetize or find you employment. Best of luck hacking design! Brad Zomick works at SkilledUp.com, a leading curator of online educational content, including over 90,000 online courses from over 300 providers available in areas like Programming, Graphic Design, Content Creation, Marketing and more. Find the best online courses at SkilledUp.com to get skills and get ahead, and visit them on Facebook and Twitter. The post 11 Online Courses & Alternatives To A Design Degree appeared first on Design daily news. Are you a blogger? Turn your posts into eBooks very quickly using MagPress, our Premium WordPress plugin.

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