Graphic Design for Business Professionals

Graphic Design for Business Professionals

2h 9mBeginner2014-04-17

Authors

Justin Seeley

Justin Seeley

Graphic Designer, Software Trainer

Course details

Not a graphic designer? No problem. In this course, staff author and designer Justin Seeley shares graphic design secrets anyone can apply to make their business documents look great. No graphic design knowledge necessary!

Justin breaks graphic design into an easy-to-follow acronym, PARC, or proximity, alignment, repetition, and contrast, and shows how to apply these principles to everyday design challenges. He also shows how to use the two major tools in a designer's arsenal, typography and color, to grab attention and set the appropriate mood for your documents. Then you'll work together on four different design projects that you might encounter in any office: a business card, an envelope, a flyer, and even a presentation.

Learning objectives
Applying the PARC system to design projects
Selecting and setting type
Creating a color theme
Adding images and illustrations
Preparing projects to be professionally printed
Designing a slideshow, business card, or flyer

Skills covered

Design BusinessDrawingSmall Business and EntrepreneurshipPersonaGraphic DesignAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

Introduction

  • Welcome
  • Using exercise files
  • How to send feedback
  • Challenges explained

Core Concepts

  • Understanding the PARC system
  • Challenge - Applying the PARC system
  • Solution - Applying the PARC system

Introduction to Typography

  • Understanding the importance of type
  • Finding font inspiration online
  • Challenge - Setting type
  • Solution - Setting type

Introduction to Color

  • Understanding the importance of color
  • Finding color inspiration online
  • Challenge - Create a color theme
  • Solution - Create a color theme

Project - Designing a Business Card

  • Breaking down business cards
  • Setting up your business-card project
  • Adding graphics to your business card
  • Setting type on your business card
  • Getting your cards professionally printed

Project - Designing an Envelope

  • Setting up your envelope project
  • Adding graphics and text to your envelope
  • Printing your envelopes

Project - Designing a Flyer

  • Planning your flyer project
  • Adding images to your flyer
  • Adding text to your flyer
  • Styling the text of your flyer

Project - Designing a Presentation

  • Storyboarding your slides
  • Styling your master slides
  • Inputting info and data on your slides
  • Working with slide transitions
  • Exporting your slides to PDF

Conclusion

  • Goodbye
80,000 Toman