In The Four Principles of Great Design Learn by Video, Robin brings those teachings to video for the first time. In this three-hour course, you’ll learn how to effectively use contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity (C.R.A.P.) to create professional-looking brochures, ads, business cards, and more.
People in a variety of advertising careers share their likes and dislikes, and their expectations and surprises about the industry. This segment concludes with a full-length film advertisement for Jaguar.
Use this video to introduce your students to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. In addition to examples drawn from customary design disciplines—interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture—the video features some more unusual examples that focus on the family dog, kids, and professional models.
The principles of design are visible almost anywhere, but too often they are explained in an abstract, intellectualized way. This hands-on video presents the basic elements of design and their importance in a wide variety of fields and professions: architecture, landscaping, fashion, furniture design, the culinary arts, information technology, and other disciplines.
What makes a good design? What must a designer do to develop a fresh, original approach to a product? This program explores those questions as it investigates one of the main factors that influence design: innovation. Identifying the basic concepts of innovation with help from an engaging host, the video visits design studios and workshops to see innovative practices at work.
Graphic designers must produce a new corporate identity for Digital Animations Group, a company on the cutting edge of 3-D technology. Their task is to create a logo that captures the company’s spirit and works across different formats, such as on paper, signs, windows, and Web pages. This program follows the entire process, from sitting down with the client to determine the mission, to brainstorming and pitching proposals, to unveiling the finished product.
This program explains how product designers work, reviewing the development stage, its application, and the factors that influence final design, such as aesthetics, environmental sustainability, legalities, materials, and more. Students also learn the importance of the relationship between the designer, the client, and end users.
David Carson’s boundary-breaking typography in the 1990s in Ray Gun magazine and other pop-culture books ushered in a new vision of type and page design, breaking the traditional mold of type on a page and demanding fresh eyes from the reader. Squishing, smashing, slanting, and enchanting the words on a layout, Carson emphasizes the fact that letters on a page are art.
If you want to learn how to create modern, appealing, and well-designed websites, this complete Bootstrap course is for you. In this course, you'll create projects to learn one of the most popular and widely used technologies today.
Create a brand online through the use of web design, graphic design (Illustrator and Photoshop), outsourcing, social media, and various other strategies. The objective of this video is to help you create a coherent design that speaks to the mission statement of the brand, and that will increase audience engagement and loyalty.
Prepare a photograph in Photoshop for use as a texture and surface for a 3D object in Cinema 4D Lite, and then animate that 3D object. This video shows you how 3D animation can stand alone and how you could incorporate it into After Effects to add effects and other elements to your animation project.
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Video clips on a variety of subject areas including art and architecture, environmental science, health and social sciences, technology and trades. The videos are copyright cleared for classroom use at Algonquin College.
Up-to-date video tutorials on a wide range of skills such as software development, design, and business, and software such as Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc), Microsoft Office, and WordPress. To create your account and learn about LinkedIn Learning, view the LinkedIn Learning Guide.