Graphic Design Basics for Illustrators
Influences
A course by Silvio Díaz Labrador , Graphic designer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I am going to talk to you about some of my references, focusing on decisive moments in the history of graphic design and illustration.”
In this video lesson Silvio Díaz Labrador addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Graphic Design Basics for Illustrators. Learn the secrets of design and create a visual campaign with illustrations.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson I will tell you about my main influences. I will focus on the main milestones in the history of design. This is an Enric Satué book about the history of graphic design. In one chapter he talks about the influence of modernism in graphic design. Let's see it. Surely you sound like artists like Alfons Mucha. These artists were framed in the movement of modernism. It is a movement that was a precursor to graphic design. I want to show you some not very well known artists of this movement, that emerged in England. They were the Beggarstaff Brothers, here we can see an ...”
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Course summary for: Graphic Design Basics for Illustrators
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Traditional illustration

Silvio Díaz Labrador
A course by Silvio Díaz Labrador
Silvio Díaz is a graphic designer and art director based in Barcelona (Spain). He specializes in off and online art direction, corporate typography, packaging and editorial design, always establishing synergies with the best professionals.
He works at Estudio Mariscal, where he has been in the team of multidisciplinary illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal for the last six years. His role in the study is to complement and shape his illustrations to turn them into pieces of graphic communication.
He has worked for clients such as Desigual, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Movistar, La Casacend, Brugal, Roca, Louis Vuitton and Camper, among others. His work has been recognized by the National Design Awards Anuaria, published in books such as Selec C of Indexbook and exhibited at Typo_mad fest.
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