Graphic Design for Beginners
The crimes
A course by Silvia Ferpal , Designer and Visual Artist
About the video: The crimes
Overview
“Next, I'll tell you about some of the most common mistakes we make when using fonts and how to avoid them.”
In this video lesson Silvia Ferpal addresses the topic: The crimes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Design for Beginners. Learn the fundamentals of design by giving shape to your ideas with images, typography, color, and composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Crimes I’d like to talk to you about some of the most common mistakes that we make when we design with typography. These are details that ruin the design. The first is obvious. It is probably the most common error and one of my favorites. Do you remember in Unit 2 when we talked about not saying the same with the image and text, that they have to live together and not say the same thing because it would be redundant? It’s the same with the texts. If, for example, we want to make a birthday card, we would normally put the image of a cake, balloons, confetti, and also a festive and colorf...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Design for Beginners
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Areas
Branding & Identity, Design, Graphic Design, Logo Design, Typography, Typography Design
Silvia Ferpal
A course by Silvia Ferpal
Silvia Fernández Palomar, better known as Silvia Ferpal, walks the line between art and design in her work. In 2019, she won the Spanish National Design Award in the youth category thanks to her unique approach to design that blends traditional disciplines with more contemporary forms of expression. She currently works as a freelance designer and teaches design at the IED art school.
She has collaborated on projects for Ogilvy & Mather, Paseo, Designit Madrid, Designit New York, and, more notably, on a design project for the Royal Spanish Academy which led her to live in Rome for the duration of it. Her client list includes Harvard, Bloomberg, Inditex, and Leroy Merlin; she also designed the official typography for the City of Madrid. Her work has been published by other major companies such as Corraini and Santillana.
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