Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images

Exploring Creative Routes 2

A course by Genis Carreras , Designer and Illustrator

100% positive reviews (66)

2,288 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Exploring Creative Routes 2

Overview

“Here, I will continue the ideation process, progressing from creativity to society, equality, knowledge, memory, and existence.”

In this video lesson Genis Carreras addresses the topic: Exploring Creative Routes 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images. Discover a unique methodology for transforming big ideas into meaningful designs by exploring color, layout, shape, and typography.

Partial transcription of the video

“Exploring Creative Routes The next word was society, and for society, we had drawings of buildings, of people, but I really like the idea of showing a lot of one thing, and that's an idea that works great on Illustrator, because as we have seen, we can duplicate, duplicate, and do the same here. We select the whole thing. Pressing Command + Shift again, and once this is in a position that we like, we can duplicate, duplicate, duplicate. Again, Command + D. That already looks like a very ordered society. We can also do the same with circles. Let's start with fewer. To do that, we could chang...”

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Course summary for: Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (66)
2288 students
4 units
17 lessons (3h 21m)
6 downloads

Category
Design
Software
Adobe Illustrator
Areas
Branding & Identity, Graphic Design

Genis Carreras

A course by Genis Carreras

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Designer and Illustrator

Genis Carreras is a designer, illustrator, and the founder of his own visual communication studio, Studio Carreras. He studied multimedia design in Spain and graphic communication in the UK before moving to London where he worked in different agencies, learning alongside talented designers. During that time, he published Philographics – a visual dictionary that uses graphic design to explain philosophy, and attracted enough clients to help him start his own studio.

Since then, Genis has worked with brands such as Google, Polaroid, New Philosopher, and Google Play. Together with his team, he works on everything from visual identities and editorial design to icons, using simple shapes to convey complex ideas. His work has been exhibited in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, at design festivals, and in design publications including Wired, and Communication Arts. He has also won multiple awards and been nominated at the Word Illustration Awards.