Minimalist Graphic Design for Big Ideas
Sketching with Purpose
A course by Julian Montague , Graphic Designer and Artist
About the video: Sketching with Purpose
Overview
“I will show you how I develop a series of options for illustrating a series of posters through sketching and experimenting in Illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Julian Montague addresses the topic: Sketching with Purpose, 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
“Sketching with Purpose In the last lesson we designed our templates. Now, we'll sketch to create illustrations for the poster series. Let's get started. Ok, here we are. We have our template, we have all the names of our events, and now we need to really think about how we could possibly make these illustrations happen. Each one of these titles presents a different kind of problem. "Movements in Outsider Music," that could mean many things, how do we represent music? There are many ways to do it. You can think about sound waves or, in a very clichéd way, you could use musical notes, which I...”
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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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