Design Beginners Bootcamp – A 12 Part Crash Course

About Design Beginners Bootcamp – A 12 Part Crash Course

Why Design Beginners Bootcamp?

How Design Beginners Bootcamp works

CREATING ICONS & LOGOS WITH ILLUSTRATOR: Illustrator in Context

Before you start

About Illustrator CC 2018 [onwards]

Illustrator Essentials 1: Selections, Fills, Strokes and Swatches

Illustrator Essentials 2: Zooming in and out, editing objects

Creating Artboards & a "Play" icon

Create an “Email” icon

Create a “Share” icon

Brief Intermission

Create a "Search" icon

Create a "Chat" icon

Create a "Like" icon

Export all your icons to go on a web page

Create the "Hub" logo [1/3]

Create the "Hub" logo [2/3]

Create the "Hub" logo [3/3]

Create the Espresso Union logo [1/2]

Create the Espresso Union logo [2/2]

Your next steps

TEN STEPS TO BETTER GRAPHIC DESIGN: Start to notice what you like

Deliberately use repeating elements

Deliberately use contrasting elements

Learn about type and start to experiment

Learn about colour theory and apply it

Deliberately create a focal point in your design

Deliberately create balance in your design

Use a deliberate rhythm in your design

Learn how to combine typefaces in your design

Analyse why you like what you like – and use it

WORKING WITH INDESIGN PACKAGES & TEMPLATES: What is an InDesign Package?

What to do with an InDesign Package

How to work with an InDesign Template

How to create a poster from an InDesign template

How to create an advert from an InDesign template

Creating a more complex poster [1/2]

Creating a more complex poster [2/2]

Create a text-based info sheet with InDesign [1/2]

Create a text-based info sheet with InDesign [2/2]

Create a 4 page A5 leaflet with InDesign [1/2]

Create a 4 page A5 leaflet with InDesign [2/2]

How to create a package from your InDesign document

IMPROVING IMAGES WITH ADOBE PHOTOSHOP: About Pixels, Bitmap Images & Photoshop

Checking the size of an image (for online use)

How to resize and crop an image (for Twitter)

How to crop & straighten an image, check its size (for print use)

How to maximize the Tonal Range of an image

How to colour correct an image [1/2]

How to colour correct an image [1/2]

How to improve shadows, highlights & sharpen an image

How to use Adjustment Layers for more flexibility

CREATING WEBSITE & SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPHICS WITH ILLUSTRATOR: Introduction

Create a "Sign Up!" graphic for Hub [1/3]

Create a "Sign Up!" graphic for Hub [2/3]

Create a "Sign Up!" graphic for Hub [3/3]

Create a map pin graphic for Espresso Union

Create an "Always 100% Organic" graphic for Espresso Union

Create a "New Store Opening" graphic for Espresso Union [1/2]

Create a "New Store Opening" graphic for Espresso Union [2/2]

Create an Instagram thumbnail image [1/2]

Create an Instagram thumbnail image [2/2]

Create a Facebook Event image [1/2]

Create a Facebook Event image [2/2]

Create a Pinterest Board image [1/4]

Create a Pinterest Board image [2/4]

Create a Pinterest Board image [3/4]

Create a Pinterest Board image [4/4]

Create an alternative pattern & a gradient

How to create multiple social media graphics quickly

You're half way through...

TEN STEPS TO BETTER TYPOGRAPHY: Understand Type Terminology

Understand Type History

Improve Legibility

Improve Readability

Setting out a "Measure" in InDesign

Use Alternate Characters

Combining Typefaces – Introduction

Combining Typefaces – Humanists

Combining Typefaces – Transitionals & Grotesques

Combining Typefaces – Rationals & Geometrics

CREATE FLYERS, POSTERS & MORE FROM SCRATCH WITH INDESIGN: Welcome

How to create a flyer from scratch [1/2]

How to create a flyer from scratch [2/2]

How to create a postcard from scratch [1/2]

How to create a postcard from scratch [2/2]

How to create a Facebook cover photo image from scratch [1/2]

How to create a Facebook cover photo image from scratch [2/2]

How to create a print advert from scratch [1/2]

How to create a print advert from scratch [2/2]

How to create a poster from scratch

How to create a double sided Information Sheet from scratch [1/3]

How to create a double sided Information Sheet from scratch [2/3]

How to create a double sided Information Sheet from scratch [3/3]

CREATE SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGES WITH PHOTOSHOP: Introduction, Overview, Cropping & Image Sizing

Adding Text, Exporting for Social Media

Placing and Re-colouring an Illustrator Graphic

Adding a Colour Overlay, Blurring and Darkening a Background

Adding a Vignette to enhance an image

Creating Multiple Images for Multiple Social Media Platforms

CREATE BASIC INFOGRAPHICS WITH ILLUSTRATOR: Introduction

Creating a simple Bar Graph

Editing a Bar Graph

Creating a Stacked Column Graph

Creating an Infographic from a Stacked Column Graph

Creating a Line Graph

Creating an Area Graph

Creating an Infographic from a Bar Chart

Creating a Pie Chart

Creating a "donut" Pie Chart

Highlighting a wedge of the “donut”

Creating an Infographic of circles

Creating an Infographic from circles and numbers

Creating an Infographic from triangles with numbers

Creating an Infographic from “squircles" with numbers

Creating an Infographic using hexagons

CREATE A LOGO FOR YOUR BRAND: Introduction

Writing a Creative Brief

Creating a Moodboard

Choosing a Typeface

Recap

Choosing Colours

Creating Final Brand Guidelines

GET YOUR WORK COMMERCIALLY PRINTED FROM INDESIGN: Overview of the design / print process

Dealing with Missing Images

Fix Modified Images

Dealing with Low Resolution Images

Adding Bleeds to a Document

Dealing with Missing Fonts

What you need to know about Colour

How to create a print ready PDF

How to set up your own Preflight system

HOW TO CUT PEOPLE OUT WITH PHOTOSHOP: Introduction

Creating Basic Selections

Creating more complex selections

Introduction to the Pen Tool

Using the Pen Tool

An introduction to Masking

Advanced Masking [1/2]

Advanced Masking [2/2]

Goodbye and Next Steps