Graphic Design for Beginners
The tricks
A course by Silvia Ferpal , Designer and Visual Artist
About the video: The tricks
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you some tricks to make your texts always work well. We will also see how to choose more than one typeface and make the set look good.”
In this video lesson Silvia Ferpal addresses the topic: The tricks, 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
“Tricks As we saw in the crimes, it is not advisable to use more than two fonts, and if we do it we have to think what the purpose is. In that respect it does not make sense to use two very similar fonts, because each one has a purpose, so why choose the same style. In addition, using two very similar fonts will make the design noisy. It’s better to choose two fonts that are not very similar. I will show you some tricks to ensure that two fonts work together. A combination of classic fonts that always works is the use of Futura with Garamond. Futura is a sans serif font and Garamond is a ser...”
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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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