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TIME STAMP IS IN COMMENT SECTION. Graphic design is all around us, in a myriad of forms, both on screen and in print, yet it is always made up of images and words to create a communication goal. This four-course sequence exposes students to the fundamental skills required to make sophisticated graphic design: process, historical context, and communication through image-making and typography. The sequence is completed by a capstone project that applies the skills of each course and peer feedback in a finished branding project suitable for a professional portfolio. ⭐ Important Notes ⭐ ⌨️ This course is created in collaboration with California institute of the ARts TAGS: Graphic design online, #onlinefreecourse, #whatisgraphicdesign, Graphic design tutorial, #graphicdesign, graphic design projects, #graphicdesignbeginner, #learngraphicdesignfromscratch, learn graphics, #basicgraphicdesign, what is a graphic designer, graphic design degree, #Graphicdesigntutorialforbeginner, graphic designing tutorial, #fundamentalsdesign, #designfundamentals, #graphicdesignfundamentals, #graphicdesignbasics, beginner graphic design,

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    Fundamentals of Graphic Design

    FUNDAMENTALS OF IMAGEMAKING
    0:00:00 Course Welcome
    0:03:00 Introduction to Imagemaking
    0:05:32 Denotative Imagemaking 1
    0:10:23 Denotative Imagemaking 2
    0:13:07 Techniques of Imagemaking 1
    0:16:03 Techniques of Imagemaking 2
    0:18:57 Techniques of Imagemaking 3
    0:23:55 Process, Generation, Iteration
    0:28:50 Imagemaking Demo 1 Printing with an Object
    0:37:14 Imagemaking Demo 2 Duct Tape Prints
    0:42:18 Imagemaking Demo 3 Improvised Light Table
    0:47:12 Connotative Imagemaking 1
    0:52:17 Connotative Imagemaking 2

    FUNDAMETALS OF TYPOGRAPHY
    0:56:46 Introduction to Typography
    0:57:46 The Anatomy of Letters
    1:00:45 Words and Spacing
    1:03:41 Type Size The Point System
    1:07:05 Typesetting Text
    1:11:23 Typefaces, Fonts and Type Families
    1:15:46 Typeface Categories
    1:20:16 Denotation in Type
    1:26:58 Connotation in Type
    1:36:04 Looking at Letterforms
    1:40:15 Experimenting with Letterforms
    1:45:39 Typographic Composition

    FUNDAMENTALS OF SHAPE AND COLOR
    1:49:55 Introduction to Shape & color
    1:51:36 Graphic Shapes
    1:54:33 Visual Constrast
    2:00:13 Marks, Icons, and Symbols
    2:03:39 Negative Positive, Figure Ground
    2:12:15 Working With Color
    2:17:17 The Color Wheel
    2:21:55 Mixing Color Paint, Print and Screen
    2:28:26 Rhythm and Pattern 1
    2:33:06 Rhythm and Pattern 2

    FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPOSITIONS
    2:41:37 Introduction to Composition
    2:43:29 Principle of Composition
    2:50:40 Visual Contrasts
    2:56:41 Single Contrasts
    2:59:19 Multiple Contrasts
    3:08:34 Type Contrasts
    3:13:11 Image Constrasts
    3:19:32 Composition in a Single Image
    3:25:20 Cropping and Hierarchy
    3:35:14 Compositions in Context
    3:50:06 Conclusion
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    Introduction to Typography

    TALKING TYPE
    3:51:21 Course Welcome
    3:53:55 Font Versus Typeface
    3:58:28 Stroke and Proportion
    4:02:33 Type Anatomy
    4:05:11 Measuring Type
    4:08:33 Choosing a Typeface

    TYPEFACES AND THEIR STORIES
    4:12:49 Typefaces and Their Stories
    4:15:09 Bembo Humanist Letters
    4:19:07 Didot Enlightened Refinement
    4:23:04 Claredon Type for the Masses
    4:26:59 Futura the Typographic Avant-Garde
    4:31:08 Helvetica International Modern
    4:34:48 Scala Sans Typographic Remix

    PUTTING TYPE TO WORK
    4:38:31 Working with Type
    4:40:23 Typographic Space
    4:46:19 Page Space
    4:51:29 The Grid
    4:55:35 Creating Hierarchy
    4:58:52 Typographic Conventions

    MAKING MEANINGFUL TYPE
    5:04:24 Making Meaninful Type
    5:06:43 Typesetting with expression
    5:12:29 Beyond Typesetting
    5:17:26 The Typographic Poster
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    Introduction to Imagemaking

    IMAGE-BASED RESEARCH
    5:21:50 Course Welcome
    5:24:38 Practice
    5:26:01 What Image Do
    5:29:05 Considering the Book (in a graphic design context)

    MAKING IMAGES
    5:30:56 Making Methods and Techniques
    5:32:54 Denotation & Connotation
    5:35:51 Range of Representation

    COMPOSITIONAL IS REALATIONAL
    5:38:46 Composition is Relational
    5:39:59 About Hierarchy
    5:41:39 Scale
    5:44:29 Space
    5:48:32 Composition Figure Ground (from introduction to imagemaking)
    5:50:44 Narrative
    5:53:08 Simple Compostion Creating page Spreads

    DESINNING A BOOK WITH YOUR IMAGES
    5:57:38 Bookishness
    5:58:58 Complex Composition Putting your book together
    6:01:59 Lazy Mom Lazy Wow
    6:10:16 Katharina Pierini sming Books Nights moves
    6:19:43 Laura Owens Hey What
    6:23:53 Laura Owens New Work
    6:36:27 Bruno Munari A Tale of Three Little Birds
    6:42:55 Two simple bookbinding techniques
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    Ideas from the History of Graphic Design

    EARLY MASS MARKETING
    6:50:38 Coure Introduction
    6:52:10 Introduction to Early Mass Marketing
    6:53:36 Form Follow Function
    6:58:22 A Democratization of choice
    7:00:58 A Revival of Styles
    7:05:20 Style Mash-up
    7:09:29 An Exaggeration of Type
    7:15:24 Branding
    7:21:12 A Household Name
    7:25:01 Text and Image
    7:30:47 Words Doing the Work

    THE BAUHAUS
    7:33:42 Introduction to the Bauhaus
    7:35:20 Founding the Bauhaus
    7:41:01 The Founding year
    7:48:00 The Bauhas and Architecture
    7:52:20 Klee, Schlemmer & Albers
    7:57:23 László Moholy-Nagy
    7:59:20 Herbert Bayer
    8:04:46 Color & Image
    8:07:58 Textiles & Ceramics
    8:09:44 Typography
    8:12:23 Publications

    MODERNISM IN AMERICA
    8:15:31 Introduction to Modernism in America
    8:17:01 The Bauhas Influence
    8:21:55 A Symbolic Language
    8:26:41 Case Study Scope Magazine
    8:27:59 Developing Corporate Identities
    8:31:06 A new subjectivity
    8:34:53 Case Study Fortune Magazine
    8:37:12 Play and Humor
    8:41:58 Case Study The Mechanized Mule brochure
    8:43:32 Duality & Simplicity
    8:48:02 Case Study El Producto Cigars
    8:49:24 Rand’s Logo Designs
    8:53:03 A Clear identity

    GRAPHIC DESIGN RADICALISM
    8:56:34 Introduction to Graphic Design Radicalism
    8:59:36 The Objectivity of Swiss DEsign
    9:05:45 Incorporating abstraction
    9:07:23 Josef Mueller-Brockmann
    9:12:18 The Grid
    9:16:20 Emil Ruder
    9:17:24 Compositional Strategies
    9:19:28 The Subjectivity of Push Pin
    9:25:54 Milton Glaser
    9:31:02 The South
    9:33:39 The Psychedelic Poster and Looking to the Past
    9:41:29 The Diggers
    9:46:56 Sister Corita’s Aesthetics
    9:53:31 Sister Corita’s Politics
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    Brand New Brand

    IDEATION: INVENT YOUR CLIENT
    9:56:01 Course Welcome
    9:59:58 Overview of Project
    10:05:48 Invent YOur Client
    10:08:08 Fake Your History
    10:10:46 Unpack your adjectives
    10:14:09 The Name Game

    VISUALIZATION: MAKE YOUR FAKE
    10:21:13 In The Mood
    10:25:55 Developing Your Identity Manual

    PALLET & LOGOTYPE
    10:27:39 Shapes of Letters, Shapes of Words
    10:32:14 Typographic Skeletons
    10:37:19 Customizing Letters
    10:41:58 Variations and Refinement
    10:45:56 Adding Color
    10:49:31 Adding a Mark Icon
    10:55:29 Adding a Secondary Typeface
    10:58:19 Adding Imagery
    11:00:25 Adding a Secret Ingredient
    11:03:09 Brand Applications and Mock-ups
    11:09:43 Brand Development Guide

  2. I didn’t realize the first 4 hours was a full course! There seem to be multiple courses in this one post. Very well done btw. I do feel I need to go apply these ideas and return to follow up and compare.

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