Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas
Creating Meaning with Text and Images
A course by Julian Montague , Graphic Designer and Artist
About the video: Creating Meaning with Text and Images
Overview
“You will see different ways in which a text and simple illustrations can work together to create meaning. I will explain to you how a shared layout can connect a series together. ”
In this video lesson Julian Montague addresses the topic: Creating Meaning with Text and Images, which is part of the Domestika online course: Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas. Create bold graphic elements that communicate big ideas by exploring a visual design process that experiments with the digital tools in Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Creating Meaning with Text & Images We've talked about the importance of design research and visual diet. Now, we'll look at the way text and simple graphics can work together. As I said in last lessons, I'm a big admirer of the way mid-century graphic designers used simple graphics to express big, complicated ideas. Here we've got three covers, two of them are by Rudolph de Harak, the two on the ends, work he did for McGraw-Hill. The middle one is by Willi Baum, a Swiss immigrate designer who worked in San Francisco. This one, "The Uncommon Man," does something that a lot of designers ...”
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Course summary for: Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Poster Design
Julian Montague
A course by Julian Montague
As an artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer, Julian Montague’s professional repertoire spans a wide range of approaches and mediums. His father taught art and design history and as such, Julian was exposed to the arts as a child, which he attributes to being his initial influence.
With a bold, recognizable, and often conceptual aesthetic, his work has appeared in numerous galleries, books, on posters, as murals and more. Julian’s clients include Sonos and Continental Tires, and he won a Silver National Addy award for his 2013 poster series State of America. He has also published a book on his satirical and abstract take on the science behind the stray shopping carts entitled The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.
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