Press Association

Course Description

Learn the latest techniques from a top designer for enhancing images and adding a professional finish to design work with this highly practical course.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone with design responsibilities, who needs to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Course Outline

  • The Illustrator screen and palettes
  • Creating simple shapes, layers and colour
  • Designing logos using custom paths
  • Using type effects
  • Charts and graphs
  • The tool bar and keyboard shortcuts
  • Producing ads and editorial pages that combine text and imported graphics
  • How to use Illustrator with other programs

Our partners, Press Association Training will be delivering this course on behalf on Journalism.co.uk.


Getting there

This course will be held at Press Association 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1V 1AE



About Press Association

The Press Association (PA) is the national news agency for the UK and Ireland and a leading multimedia content provider across web, mobile, broadcast and print. For the last 147 years PA has been providing fast, accurate feeds of text, data, photos and video. Today the business is increasingly focused on the delivery of complete products for both digital and print clients. 

The Press Association Training courses are specifically tailored to ensure they include the very latest developments in the rapidly changing world of the media.

All of PA's trainers are working journalists or PR professionals with the most up-to-date knowledge who always shape courses to the individual needs of those attending.