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John McWade presents a series that touches on all areas of design, helping designers new and old sharpen their skills and create more powerful work.

Take control of your fonts. Find out how to organize, purchase, install, and manage fonts on Mac and Windows.

Explore the fundamental concepts and techniques for working with type in Photoshop.

Learn how to design a logo. Learn the principles of logo design by deconstructing popular logos and then constructing your own in Adobe Illustrator.

Learn how to use Adobe Fonts (formally Typekit), a font subscription service that lets you activate fonts for use in desktop applications and on websites.

Learn how to design a book with Adobe InDesign. Find out how to place and style text, add images, create the book cover, and prepare your design for printing.

Tap into your Illustrator artwork to build amazing videos, animations, and 3D motion graphics. Learn how to use Illustrator files in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Cinema 4D.

Every designer has a typeface in them. Learn how to make your own fonts using the Glyphs app, the industry-standard type design software.

Join Ina Saltz as she explains how to create a visually strong, content-rich resume.

Learn the concepts and software skills that you need to become a graphic designer. Learn about image editing, logo design, and layout in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Design an alphabet of letters from scratch using Glyphs, a popular software for type designers. Learn how to start, refine, and finalize a font design for apps, games, and beyond.

Sharpen your Photoshop skills by learning advanced techniques from industry expert Deke McClelland.

Gain a foundational understanding of typography, and learn how to design your first typeface.

Recreate a type treatment in the Art Nouveau style, using Illustrator, Photoshop, and historically appropriate typefaces and color palettes.

Build a Dada-esque typography treatment with Photoshop, Illustrator, and period-appropriate typefaces and color palettes.

In a talk with Allan Haley of Monotype fame, learn how the evolution of typography has impacted interest in type, how the Fonts.com library developed, and why certain types endure.

Explore the typography options, features, and preferences of Adobe InDesign, in this exploration of macro typography. Learn about text flow, alignment, spacing, styles, and more.

Explore the typography options, type-related features, and type-specific preferences of Adobe InDesign.

Learn to set text perfectly, adjusting letterforms so they are balanced and beautiful, with these tips from lynda.com's Before & After guru John McWade.

Learn the art of comic book lettering—designing word balloons, dialogue, sound effects, and more—with Adobe Illustrator.

John McWade, founder of Before & After magazine, rebuilds a poorly designed informational sign, demonstrating the best, most engaging ways to showcase complex information.

Learn about the future of typography in transmedia and mediatecture, which is changing the way designers develop and apply type to solve design challenges.

Learn how to create EPUBS with great typography in InDesign CC. Find out how to choose fonts, size and scale type, adjust alignment and spacing, and more.

Learn about the history of branding and the key elements involved in designing a brand, from conducting market research to creating logos and identity systems.

Learn how to hand-letter type and turn your letterform drawings into pristine vector graphics and custom typography.

Discover this acclaimed documentary exploring typography graphic design and global visual culture through the history of a single typeface. Get an hour of exclusive bonus features.

Learn how to create an album cover inspired by the punk rock movement of the 1970s, complete with "ransom-note" type, using Photoshop and Illustrator.

Create a poster-sized advertisement inspired by Swiss-Style designer Josef Müller-Brockmann's 1955 original.

Create a book cover design inspired by Bauhaus, with Adobe Illustrator.

Learn how to choose and combine typefaces for maximum visual impact.

Learn to re-create a gorgeous postcard from the Art Deco era, with Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Why do great designers use grids? Learn the principles of using grids to give your compositions strength and structure, break space into units, and streamline your design process.

Learn how to use Illustrator and Photoshop to create a distressed type treatment inspired by Grunge.

Create a poster design that invokes the style, spirit, and typography of the Constructivist movement.

Learn how to create a new design inspired by nineteenth-century Victorian type styles, using period-appropriate fonts, Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Create clear levels of importance and point readers in the right direction, whether it's for print-based or screen-based communication design.

Learn to enhance the clarity and impact of your type—and your message—with effective use of color, contrast, and scale.

Simple graphic design techniques from Before & After magazine to make your page, screen, or presentation look and perform its best.

Explore good typographic practices. Learn how to select and use type to add impact, how type is measured, and how factors like spacing and alignment affect your design.