Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
Creating a Mood Board
A course by Justin Poulter , Graphic Artist
About the video: Creating a Mood Board
Overview
“In this lesson, you will be doing the stylistic part of the research by looking at typography and illustration.”
In this video lesson Justin Poulter addresses the topic: Creating a Mood Board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design. Explore the sweet spot between art and design by learning how to create memorable book covers with Procreate and Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating a Mood Board In this lesson, we'll create mood boards and do stylistic research. First, I want to look at some existing guidebooks and see what they included on some of the covers. This first book here for France has one single big image and quite a bit of text at the bottom, but then two smaller images alongside that text. The second book for Madrid here has a really nice illustration, but actually not very much text on it, just the title saying "Madrid". Our third option here has quite a number of different photographs and different areas that they've included, although not very ...”
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Course summary for: Expressive Illustration and Lettering for Editorial Design
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography, Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Procreate -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Editorial Design, Editorial Illustration, Hand Lettering, Lettering, Poster Design, Vector Illustration
Justin Poulter
A course by Justin Poulter
Justin Poulter is a London-based graphic artist from Capetown, South Africa. Growing up, he loved to draw and always knew he wanted to be an artist. He eventually went on to study communication design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, where he discovered a love for commercial illustrations that inspired his career.
Justin’s work combines illustrations with hand-drawn typography. With over 10 years of experience in his field, he’s designed a book cover for the Britannica Books, and a coloring book for National Geographic. He’s also created illustrations for Nike, Levis, Bud Light, Cadbury, and Delta.
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