Craft
What you will build
The visual skills to execute professional brand work at the highest level.
Our Process Overview
Become the Designer Clients Actually Pay For.
Master brand strategy, visual identity design, client acquisition, pricing, proposals, and professional workflows. 12 weeks of intensive training built by a working branding studio.
Why Most Designers Never Break Through
You spend months and hundreds 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. 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 clients aren't responding. You're left to figure it out alone, with no feedback and no direction.
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 courses.
Certificates don't get you hired
How to price your work. How to pitch a client. How to handle a brief that keeps shifting. This is 60% of the job, and most courses pretend it doesn't exist.
What Stride Design Fellowship Is
12 Weeks. One complete designer.
Clients don't care about your Udemy badge. Employers don't either. What they look at is the quality of your thinking and the evidence sitting in your portfolio.
Thinking
What you will learn
How to think before you design, so every decision you make has a reason behind it.
Practice
What you will own
A complete system for finding clients, closing work, and running a professional design practice.
12 weeks.
Each month builds on the last. By week 12 you have a portfolio, a process, and paying clients.
Enterprise-grade visual skills that hold up in boardrooms, not just Behance feeds.
- Brand identity systems and visual language
- Typography, hierarchy and composition
- Motion graphics and animation production
- Digital and print execution at professional standard
- Tool mastery: Adobe Creative Suite, Cavalry, After Effects
How to approach every project like a brand strategist, because the best visual work always starts with a clear idea.
- Brand positioning and market differentiation
- Running a discovery process and writing a strong brief
- Building full identity systems, not just logos
- Presenting concepts and defending creative decisions
- Real project execution from brief to final delivery
How to find clients, close deals, price your work, and build a practice that grows without you grinding every day.
- How to price and package your services confidently
- Client acquisition and outreach that actually works
- Writing proposals and managing projects professionally
- Building a portfolio that attracts the right clients
- Positioning yourself so you become the obvious choice
The Curriculum
Three months. Structured progression. Every week, building on the one before it.
Most designers skip the fundamentals and wonder why their work never looks professional. This month fixes that.
- The visual grammar of professional brand design
- Typography systems and how type creates hierarchy, tone, and trust
- Grid, composition, and spatial thinking for layout that communicates
- Color theory applied to brand identity, not just aesthetics
- Your first portfolio project: a complete logo and 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 may never finish
- No feedback on your actual work
- No real client projects, just made-up briefs
- The business side of design completely ignored
- A certificate nobody cares about
- You figure out clients entirely 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 inside the program
- A full module on pricing, proposals, and client acquisition
- A portfolio of real, high-quality work
- You graduate with a practice, not just knowledge
Your Trainer
Trained by someone who builds brands for a living.
I'm Israel Fasunlade, founder and creative director of STRIDE®. I'm not teaching from memory or a curriculum I built years ago. Everything in this program comes directly from the work I am doing with clients right now, the same briefs, problems, and decisions you will learn to handle.
Most businesses underestimate the impact their brand makes before they even enter the room. Great design is an immediate credibility check. I want to train people who understand that.
Admission & Pricing
Invest in the right kind of training.
This is an intensive, hands on program limited to a small cohort so every person gets the attention they actually need. One good client from what you learn here pays for this several times over.
Early Access
Stride® Design Fellowship
₦590,000
₦320,000
≈ £175 / CAD $329 / $232
You save ₦270,000 vs full price
Early access closes July 20
Or start from ₦106,667/instalment with our 3 instalment plan. 2 instalment plan also available.
Early access rate applies only if you secure your seat before the deadline above. Price returns to ₦590,000once early access closes.
- Full access to all curriculum materials across all 12 weeks
- Weekly live sessions with Israel, not pre- recorded content
- Personal critique on your actual work every week
- A real client project built and delivered inside the program
- A complete module on pricing, proposals, and getting clients
- Private community with your cohort
- Full portfolio review at graduation
- Access to design opportunities sourced directly from the STRIDE network
Cohort seats are limited. Every application is reviewed individually to make sure you are the right fit and ready for the level of commitment this requires. Applications for Cohort 01 open shortly. Join the waitlist to be first in line.