Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images
Color: Coexistence and Harmony 1
A course by Genis Carreras , Designer and Illustrator
About the video: Color: Coexistence and Harmony 1
Overview
“To finish your poster series, let's explore a few color palettes and establish the final look and feel. In this lesson, you will learn how color can coordinate or separate a piece. This should inform your selection process. The idea is to choose colors both for their individual qualities and how they work as a set. ”
In this video lesson Genis Carreras addresses the topic: Color: Coexistence and Harmony 1, 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
“Coexistence and Harmony Now that we have our posters pretty much ready, let's begin introducing a color palette and think about harmony and coexistence of the set. We will choose, if we want, a very uniform poster series or we want to add a bit of personality to each poster by adding more colors. Let's take a look. The first thing we will need to do in order to establish a color palette is placing the six posters together. Something like this. Again, duplicating an artboard, we zoom in, and we place this in the middle. We're going to make it smaller. We're going to work now looking at all s...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images
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Branding & Identity, Graphic Design
Genis Carreras
A course by Genis Carreras
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.
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