Unleash your creativity with a solid foundation in color, type, layout & imagery.
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 social 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.
Elevate your designs with Flux Academy's Core Design Skills course. Master color, typography, layout, and imagery to create stunning visuals that captivate audiences. Gain the confidence to tackle any design project and stand out in the industry. Enroll now and unleash your creativity.
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.
Because design principles can be learned. But design skills can’t. They need to be practiced.
Stop trying to "fake it till you make it", and instead - just learn how to actually make it. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
Deliver standout websites using a proven process
Elevate your work by mastering timeless design principles
Design for results with creative strategy workshops
Confidently manage projects and set client expectations
Avoid the overwhelm, and know exactly what to do next
Have questions? Want feedback? Ask your project mentor, get private answers.
Join Ran Segall's weekly Office Hours live & ask your most pressing questions about web design and freelancing.
Struggling with a client site? Stuck on your course project? Reach out to our mentors for personalized 1:1 support.
Get a private invitation to our exclusive workshops to stay ahead of the game and grow continuously.
Collaborate, network, and continue learning with a global community of designers.
Take advantage of special gig opportunities and collaborate with other designers and freelancers.
Stay on track with your learning goals, offer & receive encouragement, and grow together.
Matt Brunton brings two decades of creative experience as a Designer and Art Director with the world’s largest companies and agencies. Today he works as Creative Director for Flux Academy and Studio Spielen—his new sports brand design studio, founded in 2024.
If anyone is looking to strengthen their fundamentals, I highly recommend Core Design Skills. It helped me solidify my knowledge and grow from the experience. 10/10 would recommend it.
I have thoroughly enjoyed completing the Core Design Skills course and can see what huge progress I have made through watching the videos and completing the assignments. The constructive feedback from Stan has been invaluable - always kind and encouraging but detailed and challenging. I think this course is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in design, and imagine it would be of value to those with some experience as well.
The Core Design Skills course was a great introduction to design, including hierarchy, layout, typography, and color. I feel more confident in my understanding of design principles.
The course overall is really well structured, easy to follow and easy to action. The support from the tutors is second to none, the feedback is really helpful and they have been very supportive throughout the entire process. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is starting out in design or anyone who wants to brush up on their core design skills. Great course and I had a great time completing it too.
Great experience with Flux Academy! What makes my experience so great is having a vibrant, dedicated community. Mentors are always available to assist with my queries. I feel like I got more than I paid for. Thank you very much!
This course was well structured. I also received great feedback in a timely manner. I became a better designer because of it.
I highly recommend the Core Design Skills course. I learned a lot and received valuable feedback from Ran's team. It's very helpful to do exercises and assignments instead of just watching free YouTube videos.
Matt Brunton is an amazing tutor/designer and I would highly recommend the core design skills to anyone looking to brush-up their knowledge on design (YES even mid-weight). The assignments and case studies has made me recommend it to friends and colleagues.
Amazing experience - although I was following Flux for a while on social, this was my first course, and it really exceeded my expectations! The tutorials are clear and interesting, and the exercises are so engaging and fun to do. But the most stars go to the mentoring part that keeps you motivated and solves the main issue with online courses - the interactivity, and not feeling alone. Amazing 8 weeks, time and money very well invested, and I can really tell the results are there.
I had a great time doing the Core Design Skills course. The videos were very instructive and the exercises helped me to solidify the knowledge from the videos. The feedback from the Flux teachers was very elaborate and helped me grow as a developer.
I feel like I have learnt so much about what it takes to create beautiful designs through this course, and like I have a solid foundation to fuel my progression in the world of design. The quizzes, exercises and assignment (with helpful feedback) in this course really helped me to internalise and practice the skills I was learning through the informative videos. I also appreciated the resource doc, so that I can refer back to it as I continue designing.
I was hesitant to sign up for Core Design Skills. I had completed two popular frontend bootcamps that promoted design education as part of their curriculum. In reality, they only taught HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a tiny bit of design. I could build a website, but I couldn’t design one to save my life. I was incredibly discouraged and losing motivation. However, halfway through Core Design Skills, I decided to sign up for All Access because by that time I was already building confidence as a designer. On top of that, I’ve already taken on my first client. The curriculum and the mentors are amazing! Flux Academy is the only educational experience where I feel as though the value I’ve received exceedingly outweighs the cost!
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