Learning Graphic Design: Techniques
1h 7mBeginner2013-05-28
Authors
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
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
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
Type
- 02 - How to typeset a list of names - Part one
- 03 - How to typeset a list of names - Part two
- 04 - Big type, small type
- 05 - How to design without graphics
- 06 - Expressive type alignment
- 07 - The visual oxymoron
Image
- 08 - Extreme photo cropping
- 09 - A cutout photo adds realism to a page
- 10 - Vertical photo on a horizontal page
Layout
- 11 - Invisible square makes card design easy
- 12 - Nine captions on one photo
- 13 - How to design a second page
- 14 - Working around a weak photo
- 15 - The power of empty space
Logo
- 16 - How to design a logo fast
- 17 - Do you really need a logo
- 18 - Do you really need a second logo
- 19 - Three suggestions for your next logo