Graphic Design Tips & Tricks
With John McWade
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Duration: 10h 53m
Skill level: Intermediate
Released: 6/2/2015
Course details
John McWade, founder of Before & After and former senior staff author at LinkedIn Learning, presents a series that touches on all areas of design, helping designers new and old sharpen their skills and create more powerful work. This series covers a wide range of topics, from typography and layout to color and logo design, but each episode is a standalone technique that can be completed in just ten minutes or less.
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Kruttika Sule
Kruttika Sule
Marketing production specialist at Russell Investments
5/5 July 24, 2023A lot of things about the fundamentals and principles are forgotten while practicing design in our day-to-day life. This one proves to be a refresher with great examples. It talked about the elements - shapes and forms, it talks about the colour theory - complimentary etc, and it also talks about the principles like focal point, harmony, contrasts, repition etc
Contents
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Design a modern cover: Think simple, clean, and angular3m 22s
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Transform a product sheet: Put your words here, not there3m 1s
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Design a business card: Make it look like what it says4m 40s
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Double your artwork for free: Use the same picture twice3m 49s
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Design a ghosted logo: A picture always goes with itself5m 39s
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Design a business card using repetitive shape4m 38s
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Why round letters are bigger than straight ones1m 49s
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Design a powerful poster: Work with your photo, not against it7m 13s
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Design stationery that’s almost a brochure: Picture your product, not your logo7m 42s
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Alignment: Your ruler’s good only for regular things4m 32s
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Logo design: Think simple3m 40s
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Your design needs a focal point: Dramatic photo anchors a strong makeover8m 5s
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Chart your data with images2m 26s
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Make a beautiful logo with off-the-shelf type3m 30s
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How to transfer your look to a new format13m 55s
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Angles4m 52s
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The (very!) versatile art of the silhouette8m 14s
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Easy, functional one-line design6m 30s
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Signage: Consistency makes the brand7m 59s
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Elementals: How black, white, and gray make depth2m 43s
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A beautiful desk calendar you can make yourself9m 28s
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Lesson of the counterintuitive logo5m 24s
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How to design visual instructions5m 42s
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Design a beautiful CD package9m 7s
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Simple brochure presents your face to the public2m 37s
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Soften the edge2m 49s
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Small layout packs a big punch6m 59s
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Shape it: Part one6m 52s
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Shape it: Part two4m
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A logo makeover: Part one5m 3s
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A logo makeover: Part two5m 22s
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Grid collage3m 8s
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People in a group on a grid5m 24s
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Magazine cover redesign4m 33s
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Designing cards with type alone7m 7s
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Designing a small-space advertisement4m 11s
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Designing a business card for a photographer5m 17s
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Designing names with type and basic shapes4m 17s
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Review of an outdoor sign logo7m 58s
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Creating a small multipage brochure9m 21s
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Designing with black, white, and gray5m 19s
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Gestalt techniques: Isomorphism6m 40s
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Redesigning a business card7m 48s
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How to put motion on a static page11m 59s
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The color wheel6m 36s
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Layout decision points5m 3s
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Designing a tiny brochure3m 53s
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Panoramic spacing3m 23s
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Multi-use format for a business card7m 57s
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The boring book cover challenge: Part 17m 31s
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The boring book cover challenge: Part 24m 21s
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The single space practice5m 1s
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Incorporating hairlines into your design4m 22s
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Close enough with color choice4m 39s
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More design techniques with grids4m 35s
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Lanzarote calendar assignment4m 11s
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Foreground focal point2m 58s
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Stop, look, observe3m 50s
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Working with a rule of thumb (dynamic) grid8m 24s
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The humble power of negative space9m 37s
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Go with the flow9m 52s
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Learning by doing11m 43s
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For the love of design!4m 7s
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The boring book cover challenge, part 35m 50s
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Bold moves5m 6s
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Simply beautiful4m 51s
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Common but versatile looks5m 37s
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Audacious philanthropy5m 50s
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Simple slides12m 48s
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Every face has a place5m 8s
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Those little extras1m 53s
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Seeing sight lines13m 34s
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Swiss style grids, part 15m 26s
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Swiss style grids, part 26m 54s
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Poetic type5m 20s
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Visual continuity4m 53s
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Find your balance5m 25s
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Procrastiworking with album covers10m 21s
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Looking around: Why it works4m 17s
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Don't fake it2m 3s
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Find the focal point6m 5s
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Tooth and texture8m 35s
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Small and simple5m 37s
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Design challenge: Dino Water3m 36s
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Looking around: Address the audience2m 52s
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Experimenting with borders5m 20s
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Magazine layout triple threat5m 48s
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Product ad comparison4m 5s
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Lanzarote calendar assignment: Revisited5m 24s
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Rewind: Simply beautiful4m 59s
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Rewind: Seeing sight lines13m 33s
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Find your center with typefaces4m 59s
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Maki poster, part 15m 40s
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Maki poster, part 26m 35s
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Quick look: Decoded wallet case1m 2s
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A type of luxury2m 32s
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Quick look: Saltwater restaurant1m 15s
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Quick look: Nick's Cove1m 1s
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Less is more: Book covers5m 22s
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Less is more: Notices5m 25s
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Less is more: Posters4m 44s
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Movement in design4m 16s
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The British Academy: Logo4m 36s
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The British Academy: Type3m 48s
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The British Academy: Grid4m 45s
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Quick look: Teavana rock sugar53s
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Ask John: Authentic advice2m 33s
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Blue Note: Donald Byrd album cover3m 50s
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Blue Note: Caddy Daddy, Part 14m 45s
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Blue Note: Caddy Daddy, Part 24m 28s
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Blue Note: Caddy Daddy, Part 33m 56s
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Ask John: Finding your passion2m 41s
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It's all in the details: Lineweights1m 49s
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Paper flyer redesign4m 6s
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Set a headline with Gossamer3m 54s
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Ask John: New business logo1m 52s
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A new type: Helvetica Now5m 48s
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In detail: Line values2m
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Typographic silence6m 46s
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Rebranded: Uber4m 6s
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Capture connection with authenticity5m 27s
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What’s included
- Practice while you learn 5 exercise files
- Test your knowledge 1 quiz
- Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone
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