Graphic Design USA – October 2021 | English | 100 pages | True PDF | 15 MB

Combining art and design principles with creative storytelling and professional savvy, this book covers everything a serious motion designer needs to make their artistic visions a reality and confidently produce compositions for clients.

Every designer has a typeface in them. The Glyphs app is a friendly yet powerful program that will help unlock that inner visual voice. This course helps you make your own fonts using the Glyphs app, starting with an introduction to the parts of letters (type anatomy) and the parts of a font (the character set). Charles Nix leads a tour of the Glyphs workspace and then coaches you through the construction of a complete font—from outline to

Join author Claudia McCue on a journey that introduces the printing process and reveals the keys to designing a document that prints as well as it looks on screen. Learn about the life cycle of a print job and observe printing presses in action. Discover how to better communicate with your printer, think about print as you're designing, and choose the correct paper, inks, colors, and fonts for your project.

Do you consider yourself a seasoned Adobe InDesign user, but sometimes feel that you’re stuck in your InDesign work habits or wasting precious time completing everyday tasks that you suspect could be handled faster or easier? Join Bart Van de Wiele in this course, where he shows you how to tackle common design problems using advanced InDesign functionality.

Adding a die cut or emboss to your print job can make a striking visual impact; it's a way of sculpturing and increasing a reader's engagement with your work. Learn about the various types of embossing and die cutting as well as the proper ways to set up your documents to achieve consistent results. Author Claudia McCue covers manufacturing concerns like cost, time, choosing the appropriate paper stock, and file formatting; preparing your

GREP offers InDesign users advanced search techniques for finding and replacing text and formatting. This course decodes the language of GREP, showing how to use this versatile tool to speed up everyday formatting tasks. Instructor Erica Gamet begins by exploring what GREP does and where you can find it in InDesign.

You want the inside pages of your magazine to deliver a strong, cohesive look and feel that does justice to the content contained within. In this course, John McWade picks up where he left off in Magazine Design Start to Finish: The Cover and takes you through every part of a typical magazine's interior pages, including the masthead, contents page, and unique feature layouts. John discusses the design decisions that need to be made, as well as

Join John McWade as he takes you step by step through the process of magazine cover design to create designs that are attractive, logical, consistent, and appropriate. John begins by providing insights on the importance of type, as type serves as your cover's "visible voice." Next, he demonstrates how to gather your influences, design for a specific cover size and shape, and use different fonts for your cover's nameplate. John then shows a

There’s nothing quite like seeing a new product or design in a real-world environment, whether it be on packaging, a t-shirt, or plastered across a giant billboard. But getting them there can be expensive. That’s where product mockups can help!