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Design Strategy for Creative Professionals

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Overview

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Discover the Creative Strategy Framework, which explores the business side of design, and learn to develop creative solutions to marketing challenges
  • Introduction
  • The Communication Gap
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: 4 Columns
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: The Process
  • Final project
“The reason artists are in the room is to turn the rational “language of the suits” into the emotional language of design.”

Award-winning designer and strategist Douglas Davis combines creativity with the principles of business to come up with innovative marketing solutions for clients including HSBC, The Economist, Campbell’s, and Deutsche Bank. He has also published a book, Creative Strategy and the Business of Design.

In this online course, he teaches you how to build your own step-by-step methodology for solving design problems. Learn to use the Creative Strategy Framework to produce strategic threads that you can apply to execute creative concepts for your personal brand or clients. Organize the chaos and question the answers to turn insights into action!

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • Negotiating the Transitions
  • Business Concepts Creatives Should Understand 1
  • Business Concepts Creatives Should Understand 2
  • Three Levels
  • What They Say vs What We Hear: Translating Client Requests
  • The Target 1
  • The Target 2
  • Product and Finding the Facts
  • Features and Benefits
  • Objective or Message
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: Quantity and Quality 1
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: Quantity and Quality 2
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: Pulling Out Strategic Threads 1
  • The Creative Strategy Framework: Pulling Out Strategic Threads 2
  • Scenario Analysis: Rhinoceros, Rhombus, and Rainbow
  • Design Strategy for Creative Professionals

Taught by

Douglas Davis

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