Playful Typography for Powerful Communication in Illustrator
Setting up Your Illustrator Workspace
A course by Dani Molyneux , Graphic Designer and Typographic Artist
Joined February 2021
Joined February 2021
About the video: Setting up Your Illustrator Workspace
Overview
“Here you'll look at the tools you need to create your poster. ”
In this video lesson Dani Molyneux addresses the topic: Setting up Your Illustrator Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Playful Typography for Powerful Communication in Illustrator. Learn the basics of typography to create memorable compositions that harness the power of words.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Setting up Your Illustrator Workspace In this lesson, we're going to look at Illustrator and how we set up a workspace. I really like using Illustrator because it's vector-based, which means you can scale up your work to any size, and work with the layers. You can create loads of different visuals. It's also a good one to get started. It's not that hard to use the basics. It's a really good one, if you are not familiar with loads of technical programmes. Before we do anything, we have to set up our Illustrator workspace. Let me show you how to do it. When you open up Illustrator, you'll g...”
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Course summary for: Playful Typography for Powerful Communication in Illustrator
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Category
Calligraphy & Typography -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Creativity, Design, Digital Design, Graphic Design, Poster Design, Typography, Typography Design
Dani Molyneux
A course by Dani Molyneux
Dani Molyneux is a graphic designer and typographic artist based in Manchester, England. She grew up with a pencil and sketchbook in hand and originally wanted to be a fashion designer. During textile class in school, she began experimenting with drawing and painting before being introduced to graphic design by her tutor. Dani studied visual communications at Leeds Art University, where she experimented with a variety of different creative disciplines. After graduating, she worked as a designer for leading creative agencies across the UK before going freelance after the birth of her daughter.
In 2017, Dani started her brand Dotto with the aim of making meaningful artwork. She was also the co-founder of Ladies, Wine & Design Manchester, which supports female creatives, as well as The How, which helps bring artists together in response to the pandemic.
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