Learn core design skills in color, typography, and layout. Find out how to integrate these key skills into your workflow.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introducing graphic design
- What is graphic design?
- Keeping a notebook
- The creative process
- The creative brief
- Research
- Ideation
- Production
- Challenge: Brief yourself
- The language of type
- Type anatomy
- Basic type classifications
- Type measurement
- Challenge: Poster
- Color components
- Color harmonies
- Colour associations
- Color as information
- Digital and print colors
- Process and spot colors
- Challenge: Map
- Images and illustration
- Composing and cropping images
- Form and space
- Principles of layout
- Building a layout
- Using grids
- Challenge: Layout
- Creativity tips
- The companion courses
Taught by
Tony Harmer
