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Illustrate Your Day: An Intro to Symbol Design

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About Illustrate Your Day: An Intro to Symbol Design

Creating Your List of Referents

Design Techniques for Your Icons

A Crash Course to Adobe Illustrator

Designing a Symbol in Adobe Illustrator

Creating the Final Product

What You Will Learn?

  • Symbols are incredibly powerful communication tools. They can communicate faster than words, in memorable and powerful ways, and in a universal way that transcends cultural and language barriers. They are the one language we all can understand. .
  • During this class you will learn how to create these amazing communication tools using vector editing software, and use symbols to tell the story of a day in your life..
  • What You'll Learn.
  • What You'll Make.
  • You will start off the class by documenting what your daily routine is. After you think through this, you will narrow down these items to a list of the 20 essential activities or objects that define your daily life. Once you have these 20 referents you will learn how to design a symbol that visually communicates the essence of each one of these concepts.Once the designs are completed you will create a linear timeline using your symbols. This will serve as a visual representation of your life. .
  • This class is perfect for anyone wanting to learn more about Adobe Illustrator, graphic design, iconography, illustration, and creative storytelling..