Learn what makes some designs look better than others, and how to implement those design fundamentals in your own work.
This course serves as a bird's-eye-view of Design Theory, including industry standards for alignment, contrast, and color in print and web design. Universities and colleges spend entire semesters teaching this single topic, and the goal of this course is NOT to condense every design theory out there into a quick course - that would be impossible. The goal of this course IS, however, to provide students with a solid baseline so that they can begin designing with confidence, and so that they have the tools and resources necessary to continue learning the theories and principles of graphic design on into the future.
At its core, graphic design is an art form, and art is always evolving. Design rules are often made to be broken, but a broad understanding of what actually makes a design pleasing to the eye is key to developing relevant, eye-catching, and on-trend design pieces.
As an added bonus, we have a private Facebook group with over 5600 students and counting, which is an awesome resource for you to take advantage of while you go through the course. The group is an excellent place to post projects, get insightful critiques, and network with other like-minded students and working professionals all over the world.
What Students Are Saying About This Course:
It was very very good. The resources were awesome. - Nikhil G.
I had just used Papyrus within minutes of starting the course. :) I went back and changed it to a free Google font, and it actually suits what I was doing so much better. Instant payoff. - Justin Gramm
I started this course with little experience and thankfully I have learnt a lot throughout this course. - Jimmy Clark
*NOTE: This is an ever-expanding course, and new videos will be added based on student feedback, since my goal is for everything in this course to be 100% pertinent to what my students really want to learn about. So feel free to weigh in on what you want to see added!
I look forward to guiding you through this course, and to giving you the tools necessary to continue learning design principles as your skills grow.
Cheers!
A solid understanding of the foundations and principles of graphic design.
How to find and use the abundant amount of resources and freebies out there to help guide your design journey.
The confidence to create compelling designs with any software. *NOTE: no software will be taught in this course; you will understand HOW to structure your designs no matter what software you use.
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Derrick is a lifelong learner with a passion for making bland things beautiful.He has spent his entire career in the creative arts and marketing sector. He had the opportunity to work with brands such as MTV, Nintendo, and Netflix while employed as an intern for Seven 2 Interactive, which definitely set the trajectory for his design career. in 2008, he...
I really enjoyed this course. It really respects its name as I learned/understood so many things in graphic design really quickly.
Graphic Design is new to me, many aspects I would like to see this presenter expand upon. Thank you!
Teaches some great concepts in a simple manner that is easy to follow and understand. Have taken courses that have lasted a lot longer that didn't have as much information or theory in it.
Great for a quick overview of basic concepts and the resources referenced and shared are helpful.
Great design fundamentals that can support elearning developers and instructional designers. He explains the basics, then provides the specific tools and methods he uses to achieve the desired effects.
I enrolled in this course because I am a self-taught graphic designer who has been doing various kinds of design work for over 10 years, and I wanted to learn about the theory behind design that I may have missed. This course is called "Design Theory" but it's really more like the very basics of creating graphics with Photoshop and some resource suggestions, so it felt very misleading and frankly a waste of time. Beyond that, I would've liked to see some more contemporary and relevant examples of graphic design -- the examples used and created were very dated and not what clients with good design budgets are looking for in today's market. Overall very disappointing.
A strong emphasis on using Photoshop and Adobe design products which I don't use and I probably wouldn't have chosen the course if I'd known that. I also wouldn't have chosen to do a course which uses illustrations of gun advertisements to demonstrate design principles. Some of the design advice was 'don't use Comic Sans'. Some bits were useful though.
Great introduction to help students on their way to understanding design principals.
Really basic. You need to do much more extra work to get into the topic. But good starting links and hints.
A little bit to much advertisement for friends and family websites / music
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Muy bueno para poder recordar como hacer una composición visual cuando te sientes perdido. Las recomendaciones de libros son buenas!