Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas

Creating the Layout Template

A course by Julian Montague , Graphic Designer and Artist

98% positive reviews (146)

3,124 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Creating the Layout Template

Overview

“You will learn how to design the template for your series of fictional lecture posters. ”

In this video lesson Julian Montague addresses the topic: Creating the Layout Template, 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 the Layout Template Previously, we explored sketching in Illustrator. In this lesson, we'll design the template for our poster series. I'll do three posters instead of one as it presents different challenges than designing one poster. We have to find a way to connect these two posters but to also appear different. I picked three subject matters for a fictional lecture series and the subject matters all share that they don't have an obvious way to be illustrated. We'll see why those are complicated when we work on our designs but now, let's concentrate on how to develop our template...”

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Course summary for: Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas

Level: Beginner
98% positive reviews (146)
3124 students
4 units
10 lessons (1h 35m)
5 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Poster Design

Julian Montague

A course by Julian Montague

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Graphic Designer and Artist

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.