Composition.
The craft of laying things out, taught properly.
A six-week course on visual composition for designers and developers who can build anything but can't quite make it look right. Grids, type, colour, and the judgement to break the rules.
What you’ll walk away with
The curriculum
See all 38 lessons →- Why composition is a skill, not taste8 min
- The grid, demystified16 min
- Hierarchy: making the eye move14 min
- Whitespace as a material12 min
- Optical adjustments the ruler can't see10 min
Your instructor
Dana Maxwell
Design Director · formerly at Aldermere
Dana has spent fifteen years making things look inevitable — identities, books, and interfaces for names you'd recognise. She teaches the way she wishes she'd been taught: with reasons, not rules.
From the last cohort
“I'm an engineer who always 'designed' by copying. Six weeks in, I finally understand why things work. My side projects look like products now.”
Sam O.
Software Engineer
“Worth ten times the price. The type module alone fixed habits I'd had for a decade.”
Lena R.
Product Designer
“Dana's critiques were brutal and exactly what I needed. The portfolio piece got me the interview.”
Theo K.
Design student