Compositional techniques for Graphic Designers - LIVE stream #5

all right so bridge is a fine management application aimed at designers so it's more about visual stuff and what I prepared for today are categories of different visual work artwork so that will be posters that will be page layouts even logos and I'm going to walk you guys through a lot of things so let me just switch back to my screen for one second because I wanted to show you something so the terms that I'm going to talk about are all these what you can see around me so I make sure that if I sit in the middle you can still read it so these are the terms that you probably are familiar with already if you're interested in design but maybe some of them you never heard of or you're not sure of and I can't promise that I will cover everything I mean all of these but I'm going to mention most of them so we will be talking about depth that's a huge one and very important one I always try to add that in my work so adding depth is obviously going to create interactions and relations between your elements in your design but I will show you really good examples so you will see exactly how that works then we have also we have an emphasis movement balance these are all very important golden ratio color harmony negative space contrast although it's really small here but it's actually a very important technique or tool and first of all what is the goal or what are the goals of composition and what does composition actually mean well composition before we go any further I would probably simplify it saying that it's a purposeful arrangement of elements now what are elements if you think about putting together a design it will involve images so it can be photographs of illustration tax and then color in general like blocks of color so these are already elements and it's a purpose purposeful arrangement of all of these things now another very important thing is that you can consider composition as telling a story so you are communicating with the viewer whenever you design something so you have to convey a message visually that's the stuff so all of these tools will help you to achieve that okay and also very important that when you communicate even when you talk to someone to be able to get your message across you have to be impactful you have to be straight to the point you have to cut to the chase you can't just talk around rubbish you have to be clear and focus on what you want to say and that's exactly the same thing with graphic design your design has to be impactful and there's so many different ways of achieving that to make your design engaging but generally composition and a good use of all of these techniques will help you to achieve that no matter what you are doing all right so this is the introduction I wanted to tell you but now we're going to each of these things and I'm going to show you good examples but then I will also show you bad examples and it's very important I don't really have many bad examples because it's not something you should look at too much but if you only look at good examples you will find it very intimidating to do anything so I wanted to make sure that I have at least one very bad example which probably breaks all of these rules rules and that will help you to see that everyone makes mistakes or you could even consider this not a mistake it might be deliberate breaking of the rules and on top of all of these I want to also at the end share 10 tips not so 10 tips that is probably the most crucial out of all of the things all of these tools put together okay so that's probably really like finalizing all the concepts that we'll go through today at the end I'm going to give you those 10 tips and if you guys heard of patreon I'm on patreon and on patreon you can find let me just close this off you can find additional resources that I used in these lectures and I'm going to share a PDF which has all of these things written down you can decide to support me or not I mean you can write these things down as well just watching the video but if you want to get these assets and resources from the livestream then patreon is the place where you can support me and you can find the links underneath if you would like to check that out I already have my previous streams resources available there so let's get to back to my screen and let's get to going through these things so first of all I want to make sure that we have the topics that we want to cover ready so as I said I'm in bridge so I'm going to go through these one by one you will see always the selected selected image on the right but I can also bring it up in the center like this just to give a little bit more clarity now this is actually balanced but I'm not going to start and I'm not going to go in order instead I'm going to go through the way I think it makes more sense all of these topics so one of the things that I want to talk about is depth and this first example is actually something that is a bad example I'm not going to show you these cheesy things you might think of depth as something that looks 3d but this is actually much more complex than just simply making something look three-dimensional and making the dock look like is jumping out of the pick this is not really depth in graphic design terms so what that is is more about something like this where you already have a little bit of interaction in relation between the elements and this is crucial now what you want to avoid is isolation so when you put down in your design elements it could be taxed it could be an image you don't want them to be sitting next to each other so that's just isolation so they don't have any interaction to each other you want them to interact and here's a very simple example where not only those leaves and I don't know what else did they look like drapery not only those cloths clothes and the leaves are interacting with the frame but they also interact with the text without making it hard to read it so obviously legibility is a very important aspect of design so to be able to read something that's very important but you can play with the elements to add that interaction so that is something you want to have in your design overlap you can also call it overlap so things overlapping each other or we can call it layering you can you can think of it as adding layers on top of each other of different elements so that's very important and here's another example as well I'm just going to go through some of these and you can probably see all of these together let me just go back to have all of the images selected from this group and I'm just going to go through in a carousel mode and I think it's a little bit easier to see them all together but focusing on one at a time if you use bridge the shortcut for this is command B B for Bravo so come on B or control B you can get into this review mode they call later I call it carousel more because that's more what happens so another great example of that interaction and overlap and intertwining of the text and the image and you see it doesn't have to be complicated it can be actually very simple fairly simple and this is a simple technique you can do in Photoshop simply using masks on your image or on the text so I will be able to show you these type of things in future streams that I'm going to do you can let me know in the chat which one you would like to see in a future stream I'm going to come back to them and show you examples of them but in this stream I would like to go through as many examples as possible so we will we won't stop at like going through the technical aspects it's more about understanding why it works so depth and interaction helps you to make it work so if it avoids isolation between your elements and another very important thing that you need to remember and that's also to do with interactions between your elements we sometimes call it InDesign kissing now kissing is actually something you have to avoid although it sounds nice but kissing is something that we call when elements are placed too close to each other but still they are not overlapping so imagine two blocks that are just literally next to each other or a text which is too close to the edge of the page so these are things that you want to avoid and there is a reason we have margins on pages when you do print design you have a margin which makes sure that you don't put text too close to the edges of the page because that would be also awkward is just not comfortable to have text too close to the edge of the page or even something that is not clear whether it's overlapping over there its behind or in front of something and look at this I mean is such a beautiful and elegant design with that v-shape coming in front on one end on her chest but going behind her head on both sides so it's almost like like a necklace or like jewelry which really frames her head and because it works well because it's obvious immediately when you look at that the bottom of the v-shape is in front of by the top edges are going behind now this is what just a visual trick it's not obviously it's not something that was photographed like this it was just a smart way of using this technique of depth and interactions so I hope that makes sense let me know if it doesn't make sense but that's essentially what depth is all about and I would be able to keep on showing you examples of this and you see over lapping elephants don't always have to hide completely what's behind like even in the previous example we have an as nice subtle see-through texture or gradient here again we have blending blend modes can help you to make it look like that number four is in front of the horse right but still we can see the horse so it's perfectly visible we just see like it's a blended color on top of it but it's still obvious that it's in front while the number zero is obvious that it's behind because it's not blending together with the horse so even though it's see-through number four still feels like it's in front of the horse so try to remember this try to remember that layering overlapping adding interactions is such a useful tool and even with simple simple cut out shapes you can already create an interesting design by creating something where you feel like you have depth and here obviously because it's a paper cutout design here that we see it's like an illustration but from paper it has that nice real quality of shadows to it but again it's because of that layers or overlapping element elements that helps to make this work as a composition so here's another nice example of just simply using typography and the frame again interlocking of the elements that makes it dynamic and interesting and also you might be saying that alright but here we have characters that are really close to the edge and they even crop to the edge once again because they crop to the edge it's fine the kissing would be if that on the right side would be perfectly lined up to the edge but it is not it's actually clearly cropping and all the edges are cropped so it is an intentional decision and the designer who did this is obviously good at what he or she is doing and that's why because they are aware of how depth works and the composition in general they made sure that we have enough cropping on those characters here's another really nice example of typography and then a photograph how it can be used together and again achieve depth and the interaction it's a really really interesting story by the way of Zelda feature ah there's also a series about her life I think it is on Amazon Prime so I highly recommend these stories be quite amusing here's again another typographic design of achieving depth with just simply tied here we have perspective so actually like almost like a three-dimensional block that was created there's no overlap here at all but still it creates an engaging composition so I still wanted to mention it because sometimes perspective is again something that can help like I mean my hands look interesting like this but if I do this you immediately have foreshortening or if I point at you you have a much more interesting composition in the camera right or if I do you I don't know something like I don't know with my hands something in front of the camera immediately you have a much more dynamic composition within that small frame than if I just put my hands up like that so it's the same thing perspective is also your friend good question about the photos if you can find them later I am going to share the link to these boards I have them boards on my Pinterest so I'm going to put them up on Pinterest after this I will have it in a blog post on my site so check out my son yes I'm a designer calm I will have an article about what we cover today and you will find the links there to the boards alright so again another example and I'm not going to spend too much time now now you can see exactly how depth can help for your design so let's move on to the next topic I hope this made sense so far I'm just going to mark this as finished number eight or comic control eight command eight by default would give you the green label in bridge and that way I can mark and remember which one's recovered now diagonals are another very interesting thing and actually maybe I would start with lines let's just start with lines because that's an yeah one of the most simplest forms that you can use as an element in your design but even lines can be a very effective way of creating engaging compositions so here you have a couple of arrows but it's not a 3d design but still because of that very effect that we have on these arrows you feel like it's a three-dimensional design so just simple lines can also achieve a lot movement dynamic composition and just in general also has a nice rhythm to it so here's another example it's a quiet vintage retro design but still I think it's such a strong composition of just using the road as a way of directing the viewers eye and obviously having the product that it is advertising the car in a very very well placed position that is probably the golden tree golden ratio rule that was applied here or the rule of thirds so let me just open this image up for a second and let me talk a bit about these two things so when you are in Photoshop and when you look at an image you can use the crop tool and when the crop tool is selected here in the options bar you can find a few of these overlay options now using creative clouds or photoshop CC and I think these are only available in this version unfortunately so maybe in cs6 as well but I'm not hundred percent sure on that can't remember now when they introduced this but here you can see these compositional techniques or overlays and the first one is rule of thirds now rule of thirds will show once I start moving this crop rectangle around and yes I was right they place the card exactly on one of these intersect intersection points so this here is one of the intersections of the thirds in the image and that is the most common they looked at point in the image so these for intersection points are going to be your most important parts of the design so you have to utilize at least one of them you can decide which one works with your composition it doesn't have to be always the top left although that's the most commonly used one but depending on your composition you can decide which one you prefer out of the four of these intersection points and there you should place your focal point so that's a way of guiding your viewer and helping them to decide where to look first so this is rule of thirds but let me show you how this would look with the Golden Spiral now Golden Spiral is again another interesting technique or golden ratio this originates from the series of numbers called the Fibonacci sequence and it is a sequence of starting with zero and then number one and then after that each number in the sequence is by adding the two previous numbers together so it would be 0 1 then 1 again and then after that it's 2 and then after that it's 3 and so on and so forth so it's a very interesting sequence but the key with this sequence is that as the numbers are getting larger then the ratio between the numbers are getting closer to the golden ratio which is 1:2 1.618 and that's even sometimes called as the divine proportion you might have heard of it and most I mean loads of artists counting like Leonardo da Vinci use this as well and it has been used in all kinds of fields but what I wanted to test here is to see whether this image actually uses it you can see this spiral is counted based on this golden ratio and I can just quickly switch back and show you how it actually works so counting or creating the golden ratio it works in a way that you divide or have have the proportions set up your your frame or your image or the canvas set up in a way that the shorter side can be counted as one and then the longer side can be counted as 1.618 compared to the other one so that's the the aspect ratio between the two of them so you probably heard of 4 to 3 or 16 to 9 these are very commonly commonly used aspect ratios in video videos and in designers well but generally in video we use it screen sciences but this is another aspect ratio using the golden ratio or divine ratio and divine proportion sorry and then the spiral is actually created based on this ratio is just keep repeating and you can see this in nature I mean there's loads of forms in nature that is actually based on this ratio so there has to be something to this it's pleasing to the eye and that's why some very famous logos actually uses this proportion like national Geographics rectangle uses this so a and B the two sides if you check the ratio it is the golden ratio if you look at the circles in the BP local the circles radius or diameter compared to each other now a check it's actually the radius but even the diameter will be the same ratio again is the divine proportions on Apple logos the bite compared to the leaf the height of these two elements which are these standard features of that logo again uses this proportion and that is not not just out of block it's actually a deliberate decision of these logos Toyota Pepsi and even the iCloud circles again are using these ratios so this is a really really interesting thing to look into and I can just show you one more example that if I open this one up in Photoshop let me just get out of this crop and then it comes up so by the way when I use the overlay option so when I'm in crop C is the shortcut for cropping in Photoshop and then to show your overviews or show the overlay now what happened with my mouse something is not right just one second yeah it's really funny whenever don't know if if it ever happened with you guys but these optical map mice whenever a hair gets in the way they just stop working they just give up yeah sometimes it happens so what I wanted to show you is that we have the overlay options here and let's see if I have the Golden Spiral if I want to see it first of all I have to make sure I click on the image so it comes up and then shift oh is the shortcut to swap the track the spiral around until it gets into the position what you would like to see so there's spiral and you can clearly see it in this design that it was again a very deliberate setup of having that character aligned with the golden spiral or the golden ratio okay so this is a very good thing that that works really well and helps you to decide where you should place your focal point in the design all right so let me just move on and go back to where we were so we started talking about lines and I just jumped ahead a bit but coming back to this example once again the line of the road really helps direct the viewer gives depth as well because of that little white line in the beginning indicates that the road starts and then it goes down even though it's just a flat black color and there's not even a difference between the colors in the background and in the foreground we still feel like it has depth because of these simple lines and the Vaidya plays now okay so it achieves a lot with very minimal elements all right so here's another nice example of working with lines InDesign is so important and you can simplify a lot of things with a simple line art so that's again something I might explore in the future and do another live stream if you guys are interested let me know of doing this type of simplified liner after illustrations in Adobe Illustrator I do this very often and it's it's something that really helps to including in brochures and UX as well experience design these are all things that really simply find but still convey the message and sometimes conveys the message better than the actual photograph by the way this brand has an amazing design I love that design and it's worth checking them out Pinkberry is is I think I think this is this is a collection of different product sorry but Pinkberry in the middle worse checking them out they have such a cool design if you haven't seen it already here's another nice example again just typography but almost turning into lines and again just by using that folding or waving lines we have again a sense of motion and depth as well okay very very nicely done design line work can be very intricate as well very complex and you can recreate these folk patterns with it really nicely this is again an illustration vector illustration done in Illustrator but I can just show you that lines these are all the same line weight that's the interesting thing about it so it doesn't even change line weight it's the same single line weight used throughout the whole design and only two colors and still we have a very intricate nice design there's another example quite similar to the car and also you can see that we have overlapping elements here there's not much interaction but still it looks really nice and I just want to point out that if i zoom a little bit closer here just notice how this subtle shadow here in the background helps to really reinforce the twist and the three three-dimensional aspect of that swirl right that just that some subtle shadow there is enough and also here on the top right these simple things are enough you don't have to have a massive drop shadow subtle less is more generally in design remember that as well all right so another nice example and I think we jumped into another category yes we have movement but before we go into that one let me just go back to diagonal design so using diagonal lines so lines usually am 45 degrees or 30 or 60 doesn't really matter as long as you use diagonal lines instead of just horizontal and vertical you can achieve a very dynamic and engaging composition and of course once we look at the design like this we can already see repeating things that I already mentioned like the depth and the interlocking of elements so the the 6e and I know you can already see that but let's have a look at a couple of other designs again diagonal lines even though they are very thin they reinforce the photograph so again a very smart thing and it's it's in in in those terms that I mentioned in the beginning rhythm and repetition is also so important in graphic design and you can see like the one on the left especially the purple comma version where we have the dancers legs going also in a diagonal 45 degrees angle and then the same thing is repeated with a very thin hair line so that's what makes it work and not to mention that what makes it even smarter is this the same line actually is used for the N so it's again in interacting with the typography so everything is relating to each other and it just makes it look amazing plus we have also interaction with that big comma sign and dancer so again this is this is not hiding it or not setting it in front or behind it's a blending which you can very easily do in in any of the Adobe applications so the next one I'm going to show you is I think it's a fan art I don't think it was actually used as the promotional campaign for this film The Maze Runner correct me if I'm wrong maybe it was but I love this design is such a such a smart way of recreating the the whole sense of that film so it says the only way out is within and we have the character walking into the maze but what makes this really strong is obviously again and a lot of different things a lot of different elements or principles working together one of which is again the diagonal lines but then we also have negative space which is another very important thing that big red rectangle sorry triangle here on the left I would consider that a negative space we'll talk about that in a second so just a diagonal lines for now again here we have diagonal lines so try not to restrict yourself and put text always horizontally or vertically remember to use diagonal lines and if you create a nice structure like this this is actually a great system and grids are also something I'm going to talk about in a second here again we have a beautiful interaction of type and an image photograph but once again these are all diagonal it's not as strong as the previous ones but still we have that diagonal movement which means it more dynamic all right here's another nice one two diagonal lines creating an amazing dynamic design and it's actually almost a triangle we have the tennis player standing like that and then you have the two lines like that so if you connect these together itself it's it's a triangle and triangle is a very strong geometric shape it doesn't have to be visible as a triangle but if you compose your image in a triangular composition it can again be very strong and dynamic and impactful okay so let me go to the next one again diagonal lines here we also have repetition again so if you have a pattern but having this pattern on top of the text still doesn't make it difficult to read it because we see through these lines so again it's blending so don't feel intimidated to put things over text as long as it's the illegible all right so all readable so you have to make sure make sure you bear that in mind and just remember to to be a little bit braver of doing things like this because it is an amazing composition I like I love the how fresh it looks and how dynamic it looks all right so diagonal lines lines in general are create but diagonal lines are brilliant and then we talked about these so let me just mark this up so we talked about diagonals we talked about the divine proportions or golden ratio and then we talked about lines as well so we are doing what we are doing a good progress I'm definitely going to be more than an hour in this live stream so I hope you guys will be able to stick to the end because I'm going to summarize the things that we go we go through but if you miss the beginning don't worry because we have a recording of this so it's going to be available on my channel and if you guys haven't subscribed to me already then it's probably a good time so I just did this little animation to remind you you can subscribe by clicking on the bottom right corner on the screen and then you will be notified every time when I'm doing the live stream so let me just come back and show you the next topic which is movement so movement is another amazing way of getting your design to be more impactful so I love this design it's so nice I mean there's so many things good about it although there is something that I'm not 100% sure about the few elements but in general it has a very strong sense of movement and that's Tour de France is all about that speed and and the cyclist going like crazy and you can see here we have these lines again helping us to achieve that sense of speed and movement but we also have perspective use so we see the buildings in the background the famous architecture of France Paris and then we we see them in the background so we have a very strong sense of perspective and everything is just helping us to see that so reinforcing that again a different type of representation movement we have more like an ink spreading or paint looks like this when it goes in water so again it's just a nice way of showing movement and and although the runner is facing directly us there's no sense of perspective here apart from the bridge in the background we still have a very strong movement in the image we have another I usually call this explosion effect where we have a central focus from way from where from where we have all the other elements coming out so that's again another way of achieving movement and dynamic composition and notice how it's not only the images but there's also those little geometric shapes that just convey that explosion or bursts of movement from the center so it's similar to these little rounded lines coming out of the cyclist oh it's also similar to this where the ink is spreading here we have the sharp triangles recreating movement it's if you think about movement it's it's the simplest example is when you have a comic book and you see let's say someone running they would have little lines around their arms just to show that they are running it's exactly the same thing but there's so many different ways in graphic design that you can represent that and another really smart way of doing that again another cycling example is just simply using the same exact photograph overlaid in different color or even the same color just make sure that one of them is the most dominant one which has the higher highest contrast so black is obviously the highest contrast there's the center of figure and then you use the same exact character or same exact photograph but with a different blending and color over lay them on top of each other and immediately you have that movement that cyclists would have when they are really like going up hill or something like that you can imagine this guy like working hard and trying to get up and and win the race so graphic design is probably one of the most biggest restrictions in graphic design is that you're working in a 2-month two-dimensional surface right so you have a single sheet of paper that is completely flat and you have to make sure that your design feels like there's depth movement and it has to feel like there's more to it than just a simple flat piece of paper or it's the same thing on the screen if you're working on a website or if it's an app is the same thing it's all flat surfaces but we have to make make it look engaging and we have to convey a message and tell a story that's the most important thing thing again so movement is telling a story look at this image use you know you can see the struggle you can see the movement and that is telling the story so that's very very important remember that and here again we can see a very subtle but nice movement in the image so two photographs exposed on top of each other and then we have even the text with a little bit of movement can you see the shift in the S that is again just repeating the same movement what the girl is doing in the background so lifting her head up the same thing happens with the S oh boy both the typography and the photograph is moving up and down oh it's that vertical movement so where is smart way of doing it cool let me move on so that was movement and now we are moving on to shapes shapes is another very important one I don't have really much of this topic so I will just show them side by side so you can see them all at the same time so which shapes it's some thing we already talked about using geometric shapes but it's a huge thing in graphic design and they can be used for so many different things they can be used as containers holding devices we also call them so you can see for example the images in the second one so from the one here like the discovered full the images are within geometric shapes where we also have the girl on the right in triangle and we also have the owls on the one on the left in triangles and these are all working really nicely because we like to see simple shapes we can relate to them it's just something that has been used in design and in visuals for a very very long time and these basic shapes the circle the square or rectangles and triangles are amazing shapes to work with but then you also have more complex shape like the Pentagon hexagon and then you can go into many stars as well but as long as you start working with these shapes again you can create very strong compositions so let me move on to the next one so that was shapes and let me show you the next topic framing again is something just I can show you all at once or maybe let me just remove that one from that just look at these two for a second let me just drink before I continue so I I was it's a hot day and it's it's quite difficult to talk have it out drinking so looking at these examples it's hard to tell why I'm showing you these probably because there's a lot of things here happening already that we talked about like if you look at the latin on the one the one on the left apart from what i'm showing it now four we have movement in it already we have also overlaid overlapping elements like the clouds coming out of there frame and the guys in front of that so there's already that as well movement obviously a horizontal movement even like a shifting in in his body but then also a very useful technique is framing framing can help in really focusing your viewers attention to the center but the frame itself can also be a very crucial element in your design so here you can see that the frame has a lot of elements like the title is in the frame the page number is in the order issue number is in the frame as well and even elements of the design is in there but the one on the right the the design there is actually probably the frame is the design that's the main element but it still doesn't take away from the focus which is within the frame it's almost like a frame within a frame let me show you another example which is slightly different and this is more illustration and framing doesn't have to be a rectangle frame I mean that's the more traditional and more common way of using it but then you have designs or compositions like these again there is a framing and we normally call these containers or holding devices I already mentioned this before where all the shapes all the elements in your design are kept together in almost a simple geometric shape in this case a circle it doesn't have to be a perfect circle so you can see that they both break out of that simple shape but generally that's the shape that they are representing and that's what holds them together that contains them and unifies them unity and unification is one of the main core principles of the gestalt theory which is of psychology theory which says making sense of how the human mind perceives the whole and not the parts of it so we could look at this design and we could say all right so there's a text that says learn to there's another font and the bigger Texas says escape there's a clown there's some boats there's some building there's some trees there's some so on and so forth but because they are kept in this unifying shape of a circle it looks like a unified composition so the the whole is more important than the sum of its parts and that's that's the main theory gassed out in the gassed up psychology it's worth looking into that as well as something that you would probably hear about if you look into design theory in general I can write it down here in the chat but I'm going to have all of these things written down in my post in my blog post so make sure you come to my website you can check it out so guessed out theory and it's a german word by the way so um let me move on framing i think is we talked about it enough and hopefully it makes sense as well so let's just mark that up words well and similar to framing here's our next very important topic and that is grids now let me start with something a little bit more obvious and again another very important part of graphic design branding and logo design it's nothing different again because this is something where we use the same principles logo design is a very like complex thing because you have to apply a lot of these theories with a very few elements usually the less elements you have in a logo the better and normally what we do is we count like depending on how many elements you used you have to have at least half of the amount of those elements being a separate meaning that is conveying the message or that is representing what the logo or the brand is about if you look at the logo of obama's hope campaign that is a perfect example of that it has at least eight different messages that is obvious when you look at it or if you think about it a bit you can see inside it and I think it has only like four elements so it has twice as much meanings as much element it has and there's a term for it used like this ratio I don't want to go into it because it's another big topic against something we can talk about in the future but what I mentioning here is the grid system using a structured grid for aligning your elements is something that is very crucial in design as well it's not not something you have to use all the time but it's again a tool it's a technique that can make a composition work so it gives it a structure it gives it it's almost like an you can think of it as a spine a grid system will make your design look sharp it makes it it just makes it look like it's it's really planned and it's it's it's all working together but this is a very simple example because you can see those lines and obviously this is just a sketch so the lines wouldn't end up in the final design but if I show you something like this you can probably imagine the grid right so you can see that the letters are aligned into each other like the N is exactly above the odd so there's a another row starting there there are columns there's a certain gap between these columns as well so horizontally we have a certain size that's used within the numbers within the letters and even the letters are very restricted in a way so everything has a place and the images obviously are following that and here you can see another one so when you see a design like this if your eyes are trained enough and if you work with grid systems you will immediately be able to tell whether they use the grid system or not and some cases it's more important than others so I I don't believe in that some designers would do grid system for everything that they do I mean it's useful but I wouldn't force grids on everything it can be useful for a lot of different things like this type of designs it's definitely useful to work with it but I wouldn't always use grids here's another example let me just show you this in full screen might show a little bit more this is actually a website so you can see I'm trying to show you different different areas of design so we already seen illustration we've seen print design we've seen branding now we are seeing that and new acts in general here we again we have an obvious grid system all right so we have columns we have we have rows and here it's very obvious that this is using a grid system but again it works because it's all unified and it has a rhythm or repetition and then there is also this example I love the colors in this one is such a nice nice color theme but also we can see the grid for the typography so again it's not obvious if you have a new screens before but you can probably tell feel that there is something that structured the text in here cool so hello everyone was joining right now if you think you missed a lot you can always watch the recording later but let me just keep on going all right yes that's actually a good idea to put links to books on this subject I'm going to probably again put that on my blog because I haven't prepared them but if you guys go on yes I'm a designer calm I'm going to publish a post about this topic and I'm going to recommend the books I read and I found very useful on these topics so that's a very good point again however thank you very much for mentioning that and sorry guys if I don't reply to all the answer other questions I'm going to try to reply to questions at the end so we are getting close to the end and I was actually planning to also we have a few more topics these are not as dense as the previous ones I was also actually to give you guys a little bit of a challenge at the end of this session so I have a few examples in which I am going to ask you to put in the chat what you think is most important in a design that I'm showing so I would show you a design at the end we go through a few of them and I'm going to ask in the chat you guys will be able to add your comments and saying out of the things that we talked about or maybe even things that I didn't mention what's most relevant to that example that I'm showing so it's just going to be a little bit of a test of the things that we covered at the end but let me just go through quickly these few things that are collected here the the ones that are laughs so let me show you silhouette which is another very important technique using the silhouette back again we are going back into illustration and if you guys never seen this series that was used for the British Academy Film Awards in 2016 you should definitely check it out unfortunately I can't remember his name but he is also from Hungary where I'm from originally and he's an amazing artist and illustrator and he did this series for this award show and all these awarded on nominated films he recreated in his illustration style which is this this silhouette which already shows us a very important element or motif from the from the film in this case is the pair of viously but then within that silhouette we have another scene so it's like an image within an image so that's another amazing technique and you can see working in different ways this is another illustration illustrators work and then also you probably seen these type of movie posters where we have again what is this guy's what would be called in this case Darth Vader's head and it's a silhouette but it's also could be considered let's see if you guys remembered I used two terms for this what can hold together things and I have the little bit there there was two terms I use when something I mean there's loads of elements together but something still keeps them together unified let's see if you guys remember that term bounding box yes similar you can call it bounding box as well I see others what what do you remember bounding box container well done Deepak that's that's one of them and that was another one clipping mask is more like a technical way of doing it yes framing yes that's good as well a holding device holding device container framing all these applies well done and now we can also call it a silhouette so or shape yes I mean form there's so many different ways of calling it but yes so Darth Vader is our container in this case or the frame or the cigarette and within that we have loads of things happening at the same time there's a very popular movie poster technique technique and it works well here it doesn't work as well on the spider-man homecoming poster if you guys never haven't seen that video I've done it's called what went wrong let me just find it quickly for you make sure you put that on your list of to watch because I think that worked out quite well and I got good responses so I'm doing a similar analysis to to what we are doing now but I go a little bit deeper on what what went wrong in that poster and I tried to analyze and recreate it and see applying these things that we are talking about now how it can be improved and I have also another similar video on the Ubisoft logos redesign I'm planning to do more of these and by the way if you guys know any any design that came out recently either it's a logo movie poster or packaging or product or something like that where you think it's been really bad and it's like a popular brand it doesn't even have to be a popular brand it can be something else as well but it's good if it's a popular brand or popular it's been in the popular culture and I would be happy to look into it and maybe turn it into a video for that series so let me let me move on yes I'm hoping to do more what went wrong videos so if you guys liked it as I said if you help me out with topics to cover and that would be great and then I I would love to do more because I really enjoy doing them at the moment I just didn't have time to look into and search for topics to cover I was thinking of doing the Skype logo and typeface that they ended up using for the redesign but I haven't had time to cover it and it's not really bad so it's not not a perfect example here's another very quick one symbolism or symbols sometimes you can just refer to something you don't actually have to show it and it doesn't have to be illustration it can be even a photograph and you can see here obviously whoever is into music especially jazz would immediately see the piano the keyboard on this black socks on the radiator so that's symbolism or symbol and the same thing here used with fingers such a brilliant way of representing a piano and music in general and then here we have one of my favorite designers Holly Moss who is was working as the main creative director for this game called fire watch really really cool game as well but mainly I love the graphic design for its promotion and these designs used within the game he's amazing I mean he's he's a master of his craft and all the things that I'm talking about he obviously uses to to like perfection in his designs and [Music] cool I can see some of you played the game so yeah you can you can see a lot of things here that and we talked about already but one of the things I the reasons I'm showing it is again because we have the tree in the middle and it's just coming from the shapes of the the mountains and the rocks in the front but we have the tree there and it's just it's just a symbol of the outdoors the great outdoors and discovery in the wild so it's again an image within an image and even though we see trees in the foreground and mountains in the background the whole message is just strengthened with that smart use of elements in the background so it's just just just a masterpiece and there's so many most of his work is just unbelievably amazing so another one love this series if you guys never watched it I highly recommend it it's about graphic design in I think the 50s it starts the story and then goes into the 60s it's about an agency design agency in New York and yeah if you haven't haven't seen it make sure you look into it such a such a cool series but also you can learn a lot about design because they talk about design a lot in this series so and the symbolism in here is obvious we have the the seeker the cigarettes and also they act as the skyscrapers in in New York so just just a very smart way of using two things that that work together cool so let me move on to our next topic and we are almost getting to the end where I'm going to give you the stage and so symmetry is something we've seen in some of the examples this is fairly simple when you have on the left and the right side almost the same thing that's when you talk about a symmetrical composition it's something that again comes from nature a lot of things in nature are symmetrical if you just think of your body it's also symmetrical you have two hands you have to relax your face is more or less symmetrical not for everyone but it's like relatively symmetrical for most people but yeah I mean a lot of other things in nature you would see the symmetry in them and that's something that again makes it look pleasing and comfortable to look at so it just gives balance as well to your design a very balanced design and you can see a few examples here so let me just switch back to that view when we can see all of this category together it's just a little bit better to see them all together so once once again it's not just the symmetry but again how amazing the depth in this design how cool the photograph is interacting with another layer where the type is such a smart idea then we have obviously Shepard Fairey another amazing designer and illustrator his work is just superb it's it's it's such an impactful design and no wonder why his work is so famous so he is using symmetry a lot and by the way these things that I'm talking about are used in all kinds of other areas in the creative industry so in films you probably heard of now now I won't remember his name I'm really bad with the saying names especially when I have to remember on the spot but help me out guys the grand budapest hotel for example is the directors name is Wes Anderson I haven't actually seen the chat yet because there is a delay but I remembered his name he is using symmetry in his films and he is a director who you should watch I mean all his work you should watch and think about graphic design when you look at every scene and frame in his film is composed like it's a graphic design or it's a poster so and he's one of his key or like trademark techniques is the symmetry so yes thank you guys I can see Wes Anderson is coming up now so if you haven't seen his films maybe start with grand Budapest hotel but he has lots of other good films that's that's something I think one of his best work but the something moonlight not moonlight I can't remember the one with the scouts that was also amazing again amazing framing so but coming back to symmetry it's used in illustration as well a lot and also posters apply symmetry even if the two sides of the poster is not the same because we have a symmetrical composition it again is a very strong and impactful design moonrise kingdom that's the one thank you creative spirit and one-to-one twelve 10 degrees ring so another example of symmetry container interacting elements and a lot lines at the bottom as well we have a line and then again another nice like branding using symmetry such as such a smart idea again flower and be all in one again geometric shapes very simple just just beautiful example of a logo design and now let me move on to something very similar to this to symmetry balance balance is something that you have to learn to work with let me just go through one by one on this and I will probably start maybe with this example so this especially when you compare it to the previous examples where I showed you the symmetry where we have a very even left and right side here we have a very uneven ace metrical design so does it work yes it does because it still has a nice balance because the girl on the top she has her legs on the left side and also quite a lot of the big characters are on the left side so there's a quite strong weight on the left top left side of the image and if they don't have those elements on the right side it would tip over and it would fall over to the left side so it has to be kept in balance by those elements on the bottom right so balancing a symmetrical design is is an important thing so if you don't have symmetry you have to make sure the left and the right sides are in balance and it doesn't tip over it feels uncomfortable it's like looking at a photograph which is not the horizon is not straight again if something like a photograph is is framed intentionally to be on an angle it has like a strong angle and the horizon is not straight it is fine as long as it it has a strong sense of rotation but when you have the horizon just a little bit to the left just a bit to the right it's too weak and it looks more of a mistake and most of the time it is a mistake so it's similar to the kissing that I mentioned when you have elements too close to each other so they are not overlapping but they are not far away from each other they are just ditching next to each other it doesn't look good it's not comfortable again in any another nice illustration we have a very strong element on the Left the female character but then it's balanced and with all those elements on the right side so we don't have to have another female or male character late let's say on the right side because all the other elements are balancing the design out so it doesn't have to be symmetrical for it to feel balanced that's just something I wanted to show you as well and also here we have a nice balance because we have the bigger triangles it's a book covered by the way you have a bigger triangle on the right side sorry bigger triangles on the right side compared to the ones on the left but that is nicely balanced out with the typography set to the left and line to the left of flush left we can call it as well so that's again a nice balance there and then last but not least page layout as well when you look at page layout if it's a trifold brochure like this one I will normally look at it and consider balance on the whole spread so opening up the brochure will give us a visual overview and that's what I would look at whether it is balanced or not so I don't necessarily look individual folds I would look at the whole thing together and again you can see that we have a really nice balance here although these elements are very different in size and shape and color they still create a nice balanced composition I can see someone is very happy to be in the stream I'm sorry I can't pronounce your name but I'm very happy you are happy everyone's happy cool so let me move on to move on to the last theory term that I wanted to talk about and that is negative space one of my favorites and this is something probably you heard of again and I could talk about we could have like probably two or three streams just on negative space because there's so many ways of using it there are so many ways of using it let me just show you a few good examples like here we have the type just being empty space it's actually with something we see through and see the white background but we can still read it and it's used as an element so the empty space sometimes works as an actual readable text in the previous example here we see something that is not there and we see a piece of frame or like a paper or something like that or artwork even without actually seeing anything because we have the elements around it and this is again unification or creating unity so the all the elements together summarizing together creates something that is not even there so that's remember guessed out we all get out and we talked about what are they I guess that I think you have to pronounce it again negative space is used to create this number two and instead of using a different color we only see an image use for the depth and we can't see the front face of the number two is just simply empty space or negative space but what's important about negative space that it's just as important what you leave out I mean what you leave out is just as important as what you show and the way you can think about it is without emptiness without or let's just say in music without silence you wouldn't enjoy hearing sounds so if there was a constant noise you can't call that music and music and even popular music but in classical music is the same thing normally the climax or the strongest point in in music is just after like a complete silence so you have the music going on let's think of a popular song it's going on and on and then just before it hits back with with the chorus there's sometimes like a complete silence or just quiets down some internal instrument goes out and then it comes back again so that little bit of silence prepares and adds a huge contrast to the actual music that comes back and that is impactful that's where you have the impact and engagement engagement and that's what you get with negative and positive space so what's not there and what's there but what's not there can be a very important and useful part of your design as well here's another amazing campaign I think this is about molesting females two seconds to spot two seconds two two yeah I mean that the actual topic itself is is obviously important in this case but in general just how smart it is to use two colors and have a story that's told just with the simple illustration the same thing here we have food and wine first of all we have the fork and divine both in one place I'm really smart and I love this one this is showing if you look at this it's showing again the negative space is what she was actually the product that is not there the headphones but we see the crying babies we see the barking dogs around them and it's just probably is talking about or representing how good the sound isolation of these headphones are brilliant piece of illustration and then we have this one again another amazing example of negative space just the two violins a bow tie and then you can see the I guess the conductor or the the the musician but you can see a person there although it's negative space so a huge topic just negative space if I if I have time to talk about it I would probably talk a whole hour at least about that but let me do a little bit of test with you guys so before we wrap up and we finished this stream let me show you a few examples and what I would like to see in the chat is you guys telling me what makes this design work well so out of those things that we talked about give me a few that you can spot in these designs so let me start with something simple or fairly simple so let's see about let's see this one what do you think here is making this strong and impactful so while I'm waiting because there is like a 10 15 seconds delay between me and you guys so I have to wait a little bit lines well done alignment grids brilliant repetition well done domi no effect yet definitely geometric shapes cool you guys are awesome you you really listen to what I said and movement well done that's what I was waiting for as well cool so obviously yeah I can see balance well well done a lot of things are coming back from what we talked about but you can see just a simple design like this already utilizes at least five of those things that we talked about and it is just about learning these rules and that maybe once you know how to use them then then break them so without knowing the rules you can't break them but when you really are familiar with rules and you use them in designs then it might be time to start breaking them you can only break rules that you know how to work with so I mean this this design doesn't really break any rules maybe the only rule it breaks is that it has very less information about what is going on so we don't really know push for change yeah so it's some kind of campaign about change but we don't really know what's going on apart from that but it's very impactful it's something I would look at and I would think like okay so what is it about let's see so it's it's engaging it makes makes me interested cool so thank you for your comments now share we do you maybe two more let's see let's see the next one what do you guys think makes this design work so I'm going to show you now a poster it's an advertisement poster which is generally it's an illustration it's a really nice illustration and one of the things that you can spot in this that we talked about there's again a lot of different techniques that we talked about training well done you can see a frame in them there already that's a good point movement perfect the waves the birds the surf a guy or movement symmetry well done container or the bounding box or container shape explosion as well yes movement going outwards balance very good symmetry kissing you see kissing kissing is actually a negative thing I wouldn't necessarily say there is in this one I can't see anything that is exactly on the edge with something else but depth well done like the surf pro the text is coming out of the bounding box which adds depth and yeah it's like an eighty style and it's back in fashion the eighties both visual and in music the it is is back I'm from the 80s so I'm quite happy with that although I don't remember exactly I was quite young in the eighties but still it's it's it feels good for for this style to come back and yeah so I can see a lot of the things that I wanted to ask you golden ratio yes well done the surfer is on the golden ratio maybe even the Sun is in there so these are good points so let me move on and show you one more let's see what you make of this this is a slightly bit more challenging one it's a very simple illustration yeah one third Mohit was saying yeah for the previous one that was also a good one but for this one let's see let's see if you can yes negative space that's well done man make space yeah what else about negative space movement well done the clouds and the hair there is a movement then even lines well done as I was about to say the the lines are very important in this one so we have this S curve again leads the eye to the girl and then the girl's hair flows into the clouds beautiful beautiful design and the colors are amazing as well focal point in this rule of thirds yes the girl it's probably probably more I'm now how many percent sure if it's on the third but it's definitely not at center which is good yes cool so let me show you maybe one more I'm going to show you also a spread or two spreads they are quite similar so I mean it's it's the same story continuing so let's see what you can make of this one the King of tools and the knives so these Preds what what are they using I think the ones that you are grid yeah I think that applies to this already text and graphics yeah well those are the elements used in it but grid is definitely visible in here balance and space yeah negative space alignment overlap does he overlap yes you are right the the shadow overlaps with the text so there is some overlap in there as well [Music] contrast yeah contrast is actually something I didn't talk much about but that's again such a big topic I would probably dedicate another stream on that framing yeah yeah that's also very good cool lines negative space brilliant all right guys so I will be able to test you a little bit more but I just wanted to finish off with something that will burn your eyes out and not I'm not intentionally I don't want to help you just wanted to show you a bad design after seeing so many great designs it's good to sometimes see something really bad and I don't want to mean any harm to whoever design this I hope whoever designed this is not here on this stream right now or won't be watching it if you are watching it all I'm have to say to you is this is a good start but this is something that really needs improvement so you have whoever designed this will have to spend time learning about design in general and all about the things that we mentioned probably even after just watching this dream hopefully whoever designed this will be able to do a better job just simply applying a few of those techniques that we went through so yes less is more and so on I mean chaos sometimes is good in design but not this type of chaos I guess is are you saying beautiful yeah I mean sometimes sometimes it's actually really I like looking at examples like this and really analyze it because you can learn a lot you sometimes you can learn more from these examples and from nice examples so I I will leave you guys with just this image while I am going to explain can yes can I leave this for so long on the screen probably I should because you will remember this ending well if you will start creating designs like this so let me just go back and maybe have a few of these nice designs on my screen maybe go back to I don't know which one was a good topic maybe the grids you can see these examples on my screen or I can even even better let me just show you these all of these images just going to open up all of them and I'm going to show them all as small elements or small thumbnails so if I turn this off all right so you don't see maybe all of them but most of them are now on the screen that we talked about so to to wrap up and to finalize we went a little bit over the time limit that I would normally do it's already 90 minutes I've been talking for hopefully I didn't bore you guys to death but to finalize what I said in the beginning is that composition is all about conveying the message visually and creating an impact and you have to tell a story and the composition is all about the purposeful arrangement of elements so these are the things that all of these methods that I showed you that balance grades lines and all that that we talked about helps you to achieve and here are my 10 to 10 tips or best practices that you need to keep in mind and as I said I'm going to share these on my blog so if you visit my blog tonight or tomorrow I'm going to post this stream the recorded version and I'm going to add the PDF which you can download and which will have some recommending books to read about design and also I will have the links to the boards of all of these examples that I showed here plus I will have these 10 tips but let me walk you through the 10 so first number one you have to learn the rules to be able to break them so I hope that makes sense without understanding the rules and applying them first it won't be able to break them but once you know them you can break them as long as it is intentional and as long as you understand why you are doing that second overlap or depth interactions and relations between elements are crucial we talked about that what you need to avoid is isolation or kissing where the edges are touching number three simplification trying to avoid clutter right remember that example the ones we don't want to see the one we don't want to see so less is more or simplification avoiding clutter every element you place in your design has to have a reason that's that's what it means so take away anything everything that doesn't actually convey the message all right just just use whatever is necessary number four add movement or drama and guide your viewers eyes remember the car with the with the line will remember the cyclists and so many other good examples here would be perfect to explain that or the dancers or the tennis player so many good ones where we have movement and that helps us to go through the image and guys the viewers I number five be clear about your focal points so you want to make sure that you don't add too much things going on in the design you have one or two very important parts in the design where the viewer can first focus on those are your focal points and those are the most important information that you want to convey yes so that's that's that was on the five number six is contrast so you need to use contrast whether it's light and dark or thick and thin or small and large contrasting details are always useful and that that I didn't really talk about much because it's such a big topic I might talk about it in a separate stream but remember contrast is key in an creating engaging designs I think number seven comes now is hierarchy that's something that helps the viewers to navigate through the design so hierarchy some thing that you can achieve again color with scale and even if you just think about typography you would have title you would have having you will have the body copy and each of these will change in size and color to navigate through and help you or see exactly where to go from where to start and where to go so hierarchy same thing even if it's not type of graph type in general the same thing you can apply to design the number eight is repetition gives consistency and ties together related elements so repetition or consistency is very important it's either if it's just a color that you keep using in a design or it's a typeface a repetition of something reassures the design and makes it more elegant makes it more well-thought-out number nine negative space is just as important as the positive space we talked about this already and we saw a couple of really good examples in these streams in the stream and number ten the last one choose your colors wisely and sparingly they can convey your message or if they can also break your whole design if you do a bad selection of colors so colors obviously and color harmony and something we can also talk about and that's again a huge other topic which I'm planning to discuss on this channel so if you guys haven't already subscribed to me now probably would be a good time to do so so let me just remind you of this one sorry those were all the rule or all the topics that we went through but that's all I wanted to cover today and I would like to also just look at the comments below and because we spent so much time today I don't think I'm going to actually reply to your questions but I am going to save all the chat in the blog post I will probably come back to some of these questions so what I'm planning to do is to mention your name as well if you don't mind and include your question and then I'm going to reply in a written form in on my blog blog or website so yes I'm a designer dot-com is my site I think I have a link underneath but I'm just going to write it here quickly so you can find this coming soon I will have to work on it tonight and tomorrow but I'm planning to get it done soon and I can see from creative spirit maybe you guys can recommend some topics for me or maybe just things that I mentioned that you would be interested to see another stream but create is pretty saying let's create a movie poster in the next live chat that sounds like a really good idea and I would be up for that I love films in general movies and movie posters are really great fun to work with so that's something that we could definitely do and maybe we could even create like a collaborative design where you guys send me images and they come up with the title and then I start working on it but did your input as well you can tell me like alright what shall we do that might be a cool one so like a collaborative design stream doing a movie poster the next live stream is on the same time Sunday 5:00 p.m. in green each time 5:00 p.m. so every Sunday I'm doing this there will be unfortunately a little break because I will be on holiday soon but next Sunday is still happening and there might actually be another stream in between maybe on Wednesday or Thursday I'm not hundred percent sure but if you subscribe to my channel you will get notified about it and also follow me on facebook and twitter and maybe instagram as well you can find a channel there because i'm going to always post whenever i apply a new stream and whoever misses that stream today it will be record I mean it's recorded and it will be available on the channel so make sure you share it and tell it to whoever wants to learn about these things make sure others get to know about it as well Francis is saying yeah my courses on Skillshare and udemy let's thank you so much for mentioning that if you guys are not on udemy on Skillshare I actually would prefer if you check out my courses on my own side courses though the assignment design might calm I have more courses on my own side than on these other sites and I'm actually planning in the future to only have courses on my own side so I have a lot of people buying the courses directly from me and I would prefer if you guys want to pay for a course it's probably it's better for me and it supports me more if you get it directly from me so courses that yes I'm a designer com no problem Francis I mean it's good that you mentioned it I'm going to play this at the end but I'm just going to show quickly that the courses that I have currently are big ones like the illustrator Photoshop master classes but I have loads of other specific ones but yeah so so if you want to learn more from me you can also check out my courses and I actually have a subscription model so you can pay monthly and you can get access to all of my courses which is probably similar to what you would get on skier but skier doesn't have all my courses it's actually has only a few of my courses cool so alright yes and design contest Sundeep well done full mentioning that that's again something I wanted to talk about just very briefly I have a slack group created for yes I'm a designer it's let me just show you on my screen so you guys might have heard of slack before but this is something using for my subscribers but unfortunately I can't use it with YouTube subscribers this is only for subscribers on my site so whoever is on my site subscribing to my courses are invited to join into this slack group which is like a communication portal on which and we just started this very recently but I am doing monthly challenges or we are starting to do monthly challenges on this slack group and there's loads of different ways of collaborating as well I'm actually even planning in the future to have my students learning from my courses working directly with me on real-life design projects so I'm getting a lot of projects from all around the world and sometimes I I just don't have time to work on all of them so I work with other designers but what I'm planning to do is to get all the students learning from my courses involved in these projects so if you are interested again I recommend to check out my courses site if you can afford to be a monthly subscriber you will be able to take part in this like group where we collaborate and we do monthly challenges cool alright I'm not sure what discord is but it's probably like slack I mean does Basecamp there's so many different applications but slack I quite like I use it for my my own work as well but yeah I mean there's so many different applications that can be used for this all right so I think that's all once again if you haven't subscribed to my channel make sure you do if you haven't checked out my courses make sure you do and that's actually it's free to create an account on my site so course is the assignment designer comm and you can create an account for free and I have three courses completely for free if you create your account you will see which ones those are and they are also very useful actually one of them and the ultimate guide on how to become a designer is talking about similar things what we talked about today but a little bit even deeper it goes deeper into some of the subjects or topics so as I said even though I didn't really reply to many of your comments in the chat I'm going to save everything you said and I'm going to read through it properly and I will try to reply to as much as possible in the blog post that I'm going to release about this stream and next time will be definitely Sunday at five o'clock in the afternoon might be even one shorter one in between so I have a friend we are planning to do a similar stream about composition but boo boo boo we'll be talking about framing in films he is a cinematographer and we will compare like have a discussion like what we did with Lena about the pattern design I would have Bobbi my friend talking about composition in film and I would show example of how that is used in graphic design so that might be one happening during the week but I will schedule it so you will see it on my youtube channel so keep coming back to my youtube channel and you will see and know exactly when it happens cool yes I'm from Hungary originally I live in the UK the south coast of coast of England called Bournemouth it's a beautiful place especially if you are into nature there's so much things you can do here I was just out kayaking with my lovely wife today I just came back from that on a river but we were just testing out our new inflatable kayak and we are planning to go to the sea next time which will be a bit more challenging and more adventurous but hopefully everything will be fine Matt Mick you've been to Bournemouth brilliant and I can see some of you guys are really far from here like Uganda but I'm so glad that I can connect to you through YouTube so I'm really grateful for this and I'm glad you guys like this end and you think that it's a useful stream I can see some of you are saying that this is the best live stream I'm very happy to see that so it's great cool so thank you guys again for joining me and thank you so much for every support you give me and I'm going to make sure in the future I will share useful techniques and tips and I might do similar streams where I'm going to analyze designs I might do one specifically on bad designs just to see how we can improve them and I like the example of the movie poster and maybe we can do something like that where we work together you guys can send me images and and then we put together something live here on the stream cool so thanks again and have a lovely evening morning wherever you are and a good Sunday I hope everyone is still in some day and then I will see you guys in the next one and whenever that will be so thanks again for joining me today goodbye thanks a lot for staying till the end I hope you found this video useful don't forget to subscribe to my channel as I'm adding similar content regularly if you are interested in learning more from me you should probably check out my comprehensive training courses on my site I have more than 200 hours of video training from beginner to expert levels with lots of exercises quizzes and resources to help you develop your skills and become a professional designer just click on this link and create an account to start your free trial thanks again for joining me today and I hope to see you in the next one [Music]

Channel: Yes I'm a Designer

Views: 152,153

Rating: 4.9722404 out of 5

Keywords: graphic design, composition, hierarchy, golden ratio, design theory, gestalt, negative space, design principles, design elements, grid, how to design, learn composition, online training, design tutorial, learn to design

Id: FVLUhkVk_N4

Length: 98min 52sec (5932 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 13 2017