This course was the least informative in the specialization so far. There were little to no new concepts taught. I felt like I even got a better idea of imagemaking with the first course. The classes were boring, there was not enough new concepts, and I did not feel like I improved in imagemaking despite actually doing all the assignments and getting good reviews. I could have just drawn whatever I wanted myself and gotten the same experience because I only got to practice what I already knew.

This course is mostly a repeat of the imagemaking and composition sections of the Introductory course: Fundamentals of Graphic Design. However, I found the content less informative , constructive, and applicable than what I learned in the first course. What would have been more helpful is expanding on noticing the denotative and connotative elements of images such as physical quality like lines, textures, textiles, etc. and applying them to context to evoke or portray specific images.

I didn't get on with this course at all. I found the teaching to be quite unclear, the projects to also be quite unclear in what they wanted, and that I didn't learn any skills or knowledge I could apply to the projects. I felt I was heavily relying on skills learned in previous courses to complete assignments. Had I not been trying for the graphic design specialisation, I may have quit this one. 2 stars instead of one as it did force me to become a little more familiar with InDesign.

I found the course videos quite dull and uninteresting. The topics covered could have been taught a lot better. I finished this course only because I wanted to get through the specialization course. I found that the course 'Fundamentals of Graphic Design' did an exponentially better job of explaining image making techniques and composition. The assignments in this course are reasonably good but the instruction videos can definitely benefit from some additional in-depth material.

I was a bit disappointed with this part of the course I felt I didn't improve my skills. Maybe works better for people that are looking for a really basic introduction to image-making. The information available was very rudimental and in a very storytelling book. It was kind of boring, I wish it would have been more modern and more graphic.

It's a very abstract course. Peer review is absolutely useless here. I made some images but I didn't learn something new or interesting. Teacher's information is very unclear and sketchy. Very strong contrast with the previous two courses from the specification in a bad way for this course.

It is my third course in Coursera and it has been the worst of all them. The videos are very short and I could learn nothing. The videos contain very obvious information that contributes little to learn something. The best videos are in the last week but you can ignore the previous ones.

While a number of broad subjects are covered, the video sections are scant and light on helpful details. An absolutely absurd amount of time was spent looking over old art books. I could have gotten more information from watching YouTube videos than I did from going through this course.

I like the concepts mentioned. But they aren't explained well. It would have been great if they were explained in detail. Also the assignment instructions are confusing. I saw many peers confused as their submissions seemed uninformed or they lacked enough clarity on concepts.

I have waited much more from the imagemaking course, but at the end it was quite difficult for me to push myself to make exercises, as I found them boring and senseless. Many topics were repeated during the course. I have learned almost nothing new.

For some reason I don't think this course added to my knowledge of graphic design, there were some interesting exercises for sure, but the whole approach was a little metaphysical and about finding a meaning out of abstract designs.

The level of difficulty on this course was much higher than previous ones and due to the leap in difficulty levels, I could not keep up. Instructions on this course also did not prove to be sufficient for timely completion.

The worst course of the Graphic Design Specialisation so far.Unclear instructions for each assignment and too much asked for so that the focus becomes on getting them done rather than producing pieces of quality.

I understand it was a more practical course but still more information would have been great. Same assignments but more information would have been great. Other courses had more videos.

I honestly didn't learn much from this course. Some of the conventional information about graphics were already included in the first course from the Graphic Design Specialization.

The course wasn't well explained and I didn't seem to learn a lot from this course. I'm sorry for the blunt feedback, but I'm not happy with it.

The instructor makes me sleepy and I really didn't learn a lot. I like other courses in the Graphic Design specification though.

The instructions in assignments are very complicated and there is no response from staff in forum

Quite a repetition of Fundamentals of Graphics Design, the first course in the specilization.

I thought that the assignments were artistically restricting...

One of assignments was really confusing...

it wasn't that much useful like others

good

malo

This course stands out from the others in the specialization... and not in a good way. It is extremely vague and seems thrown together haphazardly without intention. Monologues drift off and don't clearly communicate anything substantive. Assignments are extremely unclear and unnecessarily complicated, as well as the lengthy peer review process. The course relies too heavily on colloquial conversations, short "readings" that link out, and not enough on actual instruction. Very disappointing compared to how great the other courses were.