Every professional logo, icon or banner you see started as a vector drawing built in a program designed exactly for that purpose - most often Adobe Illustrator. This training course from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is for anyone who wants to move from admiring that kind of design work to producing it, gaining real, hands-on experience with the software professionals rely on.

Now in its 17th generation as Illustrator CC, the program lets a single project hold multiple artworks in one file and includes a paint-brush tool similar to the one found in Adobe Flash. It is far more than a photo editor: a complete toolkit for drawing shapes and illustrations, free-hand writing with the pen tool (including Arabic script), and building the logos, banners, icons and labels that make up a brand's visual identity - which is exactly why it is taught in design schools around the world.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Produce professional graphic and photo montages.
• Work confidently in Adobe Illustrator specifically.
• Manage, organise and save tools and colors within the program.

This course is designed for:

• Directors and business owners, and website and logo designers.
• Employees and managers in technical, design and development departments.
• Commercial-organisation directors who want to design for their own businesses and products.
• Managers and owners of economic and commercial facilities.
• Technology-development and network-security specialists.
• Company owners, managers and department directors overseeing software-based operations.
• Academics specialising in design and technology.

Module 1: Adobe and the Rise of Illustrator

• The history and importance of Adobe as a company.
• An introduction to Illustrator and where it fits in Adobe's product line.

Module 2: Information Systems Foundations

• Defining information systems and explaining why they matter.
• Methods used to engineer and assess information systems.
• The scientific and methodological basis of information systems.

Module 3: Protecting Confidential Data

• Strategies for managing the security of confidential information.
• Maintaining confidentiality and protecting stored data.
• Information Security Management (ISM): definition and importance.
• Access-protection system management, including the role of smart cards.

Module 4: Applying Systems Thinking to Company Data

• Mastering the most established methods for managing information systems.
• Studying how leading companies use advanced information-system features.

Module 5: Working Through the Illustrator Workflow

• The practical stages of using Illustrator from a blank canvas to a finished design.