Learning Graphic Design: Techniques

Learning Graphic Design: Techniques

1h 7mBeginner2013-05-28

Authors

John McWade

John McWade

Designer and Teacher

Course details

Take a creative refresher course with these 18 simple design techniques that will immediately improve your layouts, brought to you by John McWade, founder and creative director of Before & After magazine. These tutorials combine instruction on topics like designs without graphics, extreme cropping, big and small type, logo design, and more, with John's distinct visual learning style.

Learning objectives
How to design a logo fast
Designing a business card
Understanding the power of empty space
Typesetting a list of names
Working around a weak photo

Skills covered

Design BusinessDrawingSmall Business and EntrepreneurshipGraphic DesignLearningAnimation and Illustration

Concepts

Introduction

  • Welcome

Type

  • How to typeset a list of names - Part one
  • How to typeset a list of names - Part two
  • Big type, small type
  • How to design without graphics
  • Expressive type alignment
  • The visual oxymoron

Image

  • Extreme photo cropping
  • A cutout photo adds realism to a page
  • Vertical photo on a horizontal page

Layout

  • Invisible square makes card design easy
  • Nine captions on one photo
  • How to design a second page
  • Working around a weak photo
  • The power of empty space

Logo

  • How to design a logo fast
  • Do you really need a logo
  • Do you really need a second logo
  • Three suggestions for your next logo
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