Overview
Syllabus
- How Milka worked with snapchat.
- the first critique.
- uppercase is hard to read (no more than 5 words).
- “Don’t be afraid of making things ugly. If you never make things ugly then you never discover anything new.”.
- Shapes at the end of the page.
- Take advantage of uppercase.
- the function for rules and shapes (to draw and emphasis, group or divide things, push our eye away from something or pull our eye to something)***.
- Taking two complex things and bringing them together***.
- Different variations of the same information ***.
- cold open (I designed architecture with this) (***).
- Milka’s approach to using shapes/lines to call attention to the names.
- Wolfgang inspiration.
- Milka’s BOOM redesign.
- Make mistakes and have a line party. Don’t design with limitations. When you design with hesitations it shows. .
- is it okay to draw lines over text?.
- Lines cradle your baby.
- your spacing doesn’t have to be even.
- Proximity translates into relatability.
- why drawing out these outlines work.
- the default line weight is no good.
- How do you know to use a rule or not? What problems can you look for that rules and guides can solve that type cannot?*.
- A good example of 1 trick executed really well.
- No relationship between lines and copy.
- Let the layout talk to you.
- how to make centered text work.
- Grids are like underwear, it’s meant for support and not to be seen..
- Don’t treat the work like masterpieces, go all in on experimenting and trying..
- Chris’ guide to making patterns***.
Taught by
The Futur Academy