Graphic Design Tips & Tricks
10h 54mIntermediate2019-11-01
Authors
John McWade
Designer and Teacher
Course details
John McWade, founder of Before & After and former senior staff author at LinkedIn Learning, presents a series that touches on all areas of design, helping designers new and old sharpen their skills and create more powerful work. This series covers a wide range of topics, from typography and layout to color and logo design, but each episode is a standalone technique that can be completed in just ten minutes or less.
Skills covered
Design BusinessDrawingSerial (Weekly)Small Business and EntrepreneurshipGraphic DesignAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
The Best Practices of Graphic Design
- 02 - Design a modern cover - Think simple, clean, and angular
- 03 - Transform a product sheet - Put your words here, not there
- 04 - Design a business card - Make it look like what it says
- 05 - Double your artwork for free - Use the same picture twice
- 06 - Design a ghosted logo - A picture always goes with itself
- 07 - Design a business card using repetitive shape
- 08 - Why round letters are bigger than straight ones
- 09 - Design a powerful poster - Work with your photo, not against it
- 10 - Design stationery that s almost a brochure - Picture your product, not your logo
- 11 - Alignment - Your ruler s good only for regular things
- 12 - Logo design - Think simple
- 13 - Your design needs a focal point - Dramatic photo anchors a strong makeover
- 14 - Chart your data with images
- 15 - Make a beautiful logo with off-the-shelf type
- 16 - How to transfer your look to a new format
- 17 - Angles
- 18 - The (very ) versatile art of the silhouette
- 19 - Easy, functional one-line design
- 20 - Signage - Consistency makes the brand
- 21 - Elementals - How black, white, and gray make depth
- 22 - A beautiful desk calendar you can make yourself
- 23 - Lesson of the counterintuitive logo
- 24 - How to design visual instructions
- 25 - Design a beautiful CD package
- 26 - Simple brochure presents your face to the public
- 27 - Soften the edge
- 28 - Small layout packs a big punch
- 29 - Shape it - Part one
- 30 - Shape it - Part two
- 31 - A logo makeover - Part one
- 32 - A logo makeover - Part two
- 33 - Grid collage
- 34 - People in a group on a grid
- 35 - Magazine cover redesign
- 36 - Designing cards with type alone
- 37 - Designing a small-space advertisement
- 38 - Designing a business card for a photographer
- 39 - Designing names with type and basic shapes
- 40 - Review of an outdoor sign logo
- 41 - Creating a small multipage brochure
- 42 - Designing with black, white, and gray
- 43 - Gestalt techniques - Isomorphism
- 44 - Redesigning a business card
- 45 - How to put motion on a static page
- 46 - The color wheel
- 47 - Layout decision points
- 48 - Designing a tiny brochure
- 49 - Panoramic spacing
- 50 - Multi-use format for a business card
- 51 - The boring book cover challenge - Part 1
- 52 - The boring book cover challenge - Part 2
- 53 - The single space practice
- 54 - Incorporating hairlines into your design
- 55 - Close enough with color choice
- 56 - More design techniques with grids
- 57 - Lanzarote calendar assignment
- 58 - Foreground focal point
- 59 - Stop, look, observe
- 60 - Working with a rule of thumb (dynamic) grid
- 61 - The humble power of negative space
- 62 - Go with the flow
- 63 - Learning by doing
- 64 - For the love of design
- 65 - The boring book cover challenge, part 3
- 66 - Bold moves
- 67 - Simply beautiful
- 68 - Common but versatile looks
- 69 - Audacious philanthropy
- 70 - Simple slides
- 71 - Every face has a place
- 72 - Those little extras
- 73 - Seeing sight lines
- 74 - Swiss style grids, part 1
- 75 - Swiss style grids, part 2
- 76 - Poetic type
- 77 - Visual continuity
- 78 - Find your balance
- 79 - Procrastiworking with album covers
- 80 - Looking around - Why it works
- 81 - Don't fake it
- 82 - Find the focal point
- 83 - Tooth and texture
- 84 - Small and simple
- 85 - Design challenge - Dino Water
- 86 - Looking around - Address the audience
- 87 - Experimenting with borders
- 88 - Magazine layout triple threat
- 89 - Product ad comparison
- 90 - Lanzarote calendar assignment - Revisited
- 91 - Rewind - Simply beautiful
- 92 - Rewind - Seeing sight lines
- 93 - Find your center with typefaces
- 94 - Maki poster, part 1
- 95 - Maki poster, part 2
- 96 - Quick look - Decoded wallet case
- 97 - A type of luxury
- 98 - Quick look - Saltwater restaurant
- 99 - Quick look - Nick's Cove
- 100 - Less is more - Book covers
- 101 - Less is more - Notices
- 102 - Less is more - Posters
- 103 - Movement in design
- 104 - The British Academy - Logo
- 105 - The British Academy - Type
- 106 - The British Academy - Grid
- 107 - Quick look - Teavana rock sugar
- 108 - Ask John - Authentic advice
- 109 - Blue Note - Donald Byrd album cover
- 110 - Blue Note - Caddy Daddy, Part 1
- 111 - Blue Note - Caddy Daddy, Part 2
- 112 - Blue Note - Caddy Daddy, Part 3
- 113 - Ask John - Finding your passion
- 114 - It's all in the details - Lineweights
- 115 - Paper flyer redesign
- 116 - Set a headline with Gossamer
- 117 - Ask John - New business logo
- 118 - A new type - Helvetica Now
- 119 - In detail - Line values
- 120 - Typographic silence
- 121 - Rebranded - Uber
- 122 - Capture connection with authenticity