Learner Reviews & Feedback for The Language of Design: Form and Meaning by California Institute of the Arts
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RH
Mar 28, 2020
During this course i learned the language of design and my perspective to see design changed a bit.mentors also done a good job.the course is interesting and clear.
SR
Oct 28, 2024
I've enjoyed taking this course, and I'm sure that it will be of great use the next time I take part in a debate about graphic design.
226 - 250 of 254 Reviews for The Language of Design: Form and Meaning
By Patrick O
鈥May 5, 2020
Bit more theoretical than I thought. I expected more insight on design patterns but still, it was enjoyable and illuminating nonetheless.
By yegrett
鈥Jul 5, 2020
I had a wonderful experience while doing this course. got to learn visual designing ideas.
By VJ
鈥Jun 23, 2020
excellent course,thanks,it help me a lot to improve my communication design work!!
By Abrar F C
鈥Apr 27, 2020
It's not a starter course. But helped me a lot in understanding Design language.
By Simran
鈥Jul 11, 2020
It's good to have this course it will help you learn design in a better way
By Ma茂 U
鈥Nov 4, 2022
Many terminologies, ways to describes the feedback were very helpful!
By Mahmoud A
鈥May 4, 2020
I gained a lot of experience in this training
so, Thank you very much
By April C
鈥Aug 17, 2024
It was not as easy or as simple as I thought it would be.
By Mariam I
鈥Aug 6, 2020
Interesting course. definitely not for the beginners.
By Vaidehi
鈥Jul 1, 2020
i enjoyed doing the course. it very interesting.
By Nivedita V
鈥May 24, 2025
Good warm up to understand elements of design!
By THE H
鈥Jan 26, 2023
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By Loveleen G
鈥May 8, 2020
good. it will really help me in future
By Erzhan K
鈥Nov 5, 2024
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By Amara A
鈥Jul 19, 2023
Amazing course.
By Vaibhavi_ A
鈥Nov 17, 2020
its awasum
By Mahwish H
鈥Feb 24, 2023
good
By Mehdi S
鈥Jan 13, 2025
The course is well-designed, and the content is genuinely interesting and relevant. However, the delivery by the instructors leaves much to be desired. Instead of actively teaching, they mostly read pre-written essays in a monotonous and disengaging manner. This approach feels more like listening to a dry lecture than being part of an interactive learning experience. As someone with several years of experience as an instructor, I believe teaching should feel natural and dynamic, rather than simply reading aloud. It鈥檚 disappointing because the potential of this course is undermined by poor execution. If the instructors could focus on engaging with the material and presenting it in a more lively and interactive way, this course could be excellent.
By SONDOS A S
鈥Jun 8, 2021
the course was very useful and informative, also the teachers were very clear, however the examples given to us were all posters so it would be lovely if the final exam was the same because it was all about rebranding and visual identity, or at least if we had some example about the same subject so that we avoid the confusing.
By valeria g a
鈥Oct 29, 2024
the discussion approach is good for the subject but specific exercisers would be useful to develop skills to identify the different characteristics of a work
By Janice F B
鈥Mar 25, 2022
The videos, reading lexicon, and practice lessons were easy to follow and was clear, especially with the examples provided.
By Ella G
鈥May 10, 2020
Tries so hard to be objective in the very subjective topic of design. Videos are often unbearable to watch.
By Jack W
鈥Oct 9, 2019
Even though the course discusses form and meaning in general, it discusses it primarily through the lens of post-modernist art. Form and meaning have existed since primitive art (perhaps in an even more pure form than today. For example, hieroglyphs existed as the union of symbol and meaning/language) but they do not include this at all. Furthermore, they believe that social hierarchies are outdated phenomena, which is completely false. Although the lines of upper and lower class are blurred and the classes are a more abstract concept than "king vs peasant", there is still a clear distinction between upper class and lower class individuals, though it may be harder to grasp exactly what that distinction is.
By Henry Z
鈥Aug 25, 2020
I can tell the teachers are experts in their field.
But the material, the way the content is given, is void. This is two persons reading a text, there is no material here for future quick references or something. It is boring, and slow.
You are better off reading yourself than listening to them.
By REG-128 G H A K
鈥Jun 21, 2020
simple and clean easy and quick shoud be there