Instructor Highlight
Sydney Ligouri

Art Director, Designer and Design Educator
I’m passionate about design, design education, and empowering individuals to harness their potential. I’ve spent the last several years dedicating my life to teaching and mentoring aspiring designers. In terms of design I value strong conceptual thinking, dedication to coherent processes, and collaborative experiences.
Sydney's Expertise
User Interface Design
Design Foundation
Art Direction
Portfolio Building
Visual Design
Brand Design
Courses Sydney Teaches at Path Unbound

Color Theories
- Beginner to Advanced
This is a beginner to advanced color theory course that covers a wide and in-depth topics about color that prepares designers with a solid foundation for advanced level design work in print and digital.

Typography
- Beginner to Advanced
This is a beginner to advanced typography course that takes students from the history of typography, foundation of typography to more advanced topics such as customizing typography and using typography as design elements. It sets a solid foundation for any student who wish to pursue design as a career.

Design Layouts
- Beginner to Advanced
This course goes into great details about one of the three modern visual design foundations – layouts. You will learn best practices in print and digital layouts as well as how the use of imagery affects the effectiveness of layouts. You will also be studying case studies to strengthen your understanding.
Brand Design
- Intermediate to Advanced
As a designer, we must understand the brands we design for. If you plan to become a creative director, art director or a freelance designer, understanding branding is a crucial skill because clients rely on our expertise to help them shape the image of their company. This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the branding process specifically for designers.
Art Direction
- Intermediate to Advanced
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the career of an art director. It is a great course for designers who want to graduate to a directorial or management role. It is also great for designers who want to develop art direction skills to better communicate with fellow designers as well as clients.
Designing for Accessibility
- Beginner to Advanced
We live in a diverse world. Our design must be usable for people with a wide variety of needs and abilities. Designing with accessibility in mind is not an option or a good-to-have, but a must for any designer and design team. This course will take you through the process of designing for accessibility from the ground up.

Design Systems
- Beginner to Advanced
This course is designed for the modern collaborative design teams that want to streamline their workflows and create better designs more efficiently. Design system is a relatively new development in the digital design world, but it is becoming more important every day. We will show you how to establish a highly efficient design system for the type of team and work you do.

User Interface Design
- Beginner to Advanced
This course is provides a comprehensive overview of the process of designing for user interface. We walk students through the tools, methodologies, best practices as well as the workflow between design and development.
Portfolio Express
- 6+ weeks
This program is designed for students who have 2-3 portfolio projects completed, either from our School of Design program or another program. The 6-week course provides extensive 1-on-1 training on personal branding, custom website building, visual design for portfolio sites, storytelling and career-readiness.
2-3
Existing Projects Required
9
1-on-1 Sessions Included
10-15
Hours Per Week
Portfolio Kickstart
- 12+ weeks
This program is designed for students who have not yet completed 2-3 portfolio projects or those who want more projects under their belt. The program provides 24 flexible projects prompts that can be customized as well as hand-picked pairing with 1 startup founder who will be the student’s manager for an extra month-long project.
3-4
Design projects complete by end of program
15
1-on-1 Sessions Included
1
Startup founder paired for you
Sydney's Work



Sydney's Experience
5
Years Teaching
10
Years Working
1,000+
Students Taught
I’m passionate about design, design education, and empowering individuals to harness their potential. I’m excited to meet students at Path Unbound and help them become great designers!
