Graphic Design: Communicate Complex Ideas with Simple Images

Presentation and Mock-Ups 2

A course by Genis Carreras , Designer and Illustrator

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2,288 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Presentation and Mock-Ups 2

Overview

“To end this unit, it's time to share your achievements with the world! Let's mock up your prints. ”

In this video lesson Genis Carreras addresses the topic: Presentation and Mock-Ups 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

“Presentation and Mock-Ups The long way of doing this would be creating an animated GIF, and that's going to take a while, so I'm going to rewind a tiny bit. The first thing I wanted to do is export each image separately. What I'm going to do is place them centered in a square. I think that's going to be a good format. Now, I'm already on the edge of Illustrator. Look at that, we've created... We still have some space on the top, but a very busy Illustrator file. Usually, my files don't look that organized. Usually, what you see here happens all over the place and it's a big mess, but I thin...”

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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.