Design
Design Skill
Enterprise-grade visual skills — the kind that hold up in boardrooms, not just Behance feeds.
Our Process Overview
Become the Designer Clients Actually Pay For.
Master brand strategy, visual identity design, client acquisition, pricing, proposals, and professional workflows through a 12-week intensive training program built by a working branding studio.
Why Most Designers Never Break Through
You spend months and thousands of dollars on courses — then graduate with a generic portfolio, no real clients, no pricing strategy, and no idea how the actual design industry works.
Canva and Capcut tutorials don't build careers. They build hobbyists. Enterprise clients don't pay premium prices for hobbyist work.
Visual Identity Systems
Comprehensive visual language designed for permanence, flexibility, and unmistakable presence.
You finish the course, then what?
Pre-recorded content doesn't answer your specific questions, fix your actual work, or tell you why you're not landing clients.
Nobody teaches the business side
How to price. How to pitch. How to handle a client who keeps changing direction. This is 60% of the job — and it's completely missing from most programs.
Certificates don't get you hired
Clients and employers don't care about your Udemy badge. They care about the quality of your thinking and the evidence in your portfolio.
What Stride Training Is
Three months. Two pillars. One complete designer.
We cover the skill and the business — because knowing how to design is only half the game. The other half is knowing how to run a design practice that clients actually pay well for.
Strategy
Design Strategy
How to think like a brand strategist — because every great visual starts with a clear strategic foundation.
Commerce
Design Business
How to find clients, close deals, price your work, and build a practice that grows without you grinding 24/7.
12 weeks.
Each month builds on the last. By week 12 you have a portfolio, a process, and paying clients.
- Brand identity systems & visual language
- Typography, hierarchy & composition
- Motion, digital & print execution
- Design critique & professional standards
- Tool mastery: Figma, Adobe Creative Suite
- Brand positioning & market strategy
- Client discovery & brief development
- Concept rationale & presentation
- Design thinking frameworks
- Real project execution from brief to delivery
- How to price & package your services
- Client acquisition & cold outreach systems
- Proposals, contracts & project management
- Building a portfolio that converts
- Positioning yourself in a specific niche
The Curriculum
Each month builds on the last. By week 12 you have a portfolio, a process, and paying clients.
- Design fundamentals at an enterprise standard
- Typography systems and visual hierarchy
- Grid systems, composition, and space
- Color theory for brand design
- First portfolio project: logo & identity system
- Weekly critique sessions with Israel
Why This Is Different
Not a course you finish. A practice you build.
Typical Online Course
- Pre-recorded videos you might actually finish someday
- No feedback on your actual work
- No real client projects — just made-up briefs
- Business side of design: completely ignored
- Certificate nobody cares about
- You figure out clients on your own
Stride Design Fellowship
- Live, structured cohort with accountability built in
- Weekly critique of YOUR work by Israel directly
- At least one real client project in the program
- Full module on pricing, proposals, and client acquisition
- Portfolio that shows real, high-quality work
- You graduate with a practice, not just knowledge
Your Trainer
Trained by someone who builds brands for a living.
Israel Fasunlade is the founder and creative director of STRIDE® — a branding studio that has worked with enterprise clients including ICANN, DAI, CCA College of Aviation, and Zayn Global. He's not teaching you theory from a textbook. He's teaching you the exact process, thinking, and strategy he uses in real client engagements — because that's the only kind of education worth your time.
Most businesses underestimate the impact their brand makes before they even enter the room. Great design is an immediate credibility check — and I want to train people who understand that.
Admission & Pricing
Invest in the right kind of training.
This is not a cheap course. It's intensive, hands-on, and limited to a small cohort so every participant actually gets the attention they need to grow.
Early Access
The Full Cohort
N590,000
N320,000
Limited Time Offer
Price returns to ₦590,000 once early access closes. No instalment plans at this rate — one payment secures your seat.
- All curriculum materials across 12 weeks
- Weekly live sessions with Israel directly
- Personal critique on your actual work
- One real client project included
- Design business: pricing, proposals, outreach
- Private cohort community access
- Portfolio review at graduation
- 30-day post- graduation support
Cohort seats are limited. We review every application to make sure the training is the right fit — and that you're ready for the level of commitment this requires. Applications for Cohort 01 open shortly. Add yourself to the waitlist to be first in line.