Columbia College Hollywood LRC: Video Lectures

Brand Identity

• Design Process Review Branding presentation Design in Nature - logo design Assignments (1 Hour 5 Min)

The Elements of Iconic Design

• The Elements of Iconic Design
• The Process of Design pt1.
• Design and nature and logo systems

The Process of Design Part II

• Logo Grid, Logo Colors, Brand Books (1 Hour 42 min)

Design Tips

• Communications Theory and Symbiotics (39 min)

More on Logos

Introduction and Demo

• Packaging introduction and small scale mockup demo

Branding and Indesign Demo

• Concepting and sketching methods

Layout basics and set up for final process books

• Sustainability in design and research methods

Adobe Dimension

• Dielines and graphics in Illustrator

Creating dielines

• Package Mockups Part 1 Adobe Dimension CC

Combining documents and dielines from scratch

• Package Mockups Part 2, Integrating Dimension with Illustrator

More on working with dielines

• Package Mockups Part 3, Photoshop + Adobe Assets + Illustrator

Package Modeling

• Working with Illustrator for package modeling

Pack Resources and Color Palettes

• Dimension advanced and demo

Introduction

• Introduction to information graphics and data visualization forms

Visualizing with data blocks

• data blocks Intro
• History and strategy for data visualization and why it is a relevant solution for clients

Data Visualization and Brand Storytelling

• Using Illustrator to your advantage when creating infographics with data blocks

Data Rules

• Appeal & Comprehension with the third partner— Retention completing out the infographic three. Also, a deeper look at how Data Circles function and a dissection of three appealing & clear examples.

 Visualizing with Data Waves

• Analyzing & processing a data set.
• Utilizing Adobe Illustrator for Data Circles & going beyond those pesky pie charts.

Adobe Illustrator

• Getting to know Adobe Illustrator and an introduction to paths

Intro Demo

• Creating elements using the drawing tools and color

Drawing with shapes

• Layer tips and using gradients, blends, and patterns

Brushes

• Using brushes and how to use effects and graphic styles

Sketch to vector method

• Sketches and Inspiration

Blend Tool

• Building out your assets - Type, color, and graphics

Composition and blocking

• Poster composition and blocking

Introduction to Photoshop

• Discussion and breakdown of Photoshop CC workspace and tools, file types and resolution, navigation of open files, Adobe Bridge to open images, ethics of image manipulation

Adjust layers and masks

• Masking, basic layers, and adjustment layers

Image Manipulation Conference

• Creating selections and refining the edge of selections, alpha channels, antialiasing, channels
• Create Composite Image Using Selections

Color

• Discuss, demo and practice the basics of color and creating a color wheel
• How to create color themes using Adobe Color Themes, color harmony rules

Using healing tools to fix a photo

• Adjusting and repairing using clone stamp tools
• Content aware move tool, reading and manipulating histograms

Typography

• Working with the type tool, basic typography, clipping type to images, typing on a path, warping type, and creating 3D type
• Typographic Design Assignment -Advanced Compositing Smart Filters
• Apply color effects to selected areas of an image
• Apply filters to create various effects

Mixer brush and liquify

• Using the shape tools, brush preset and custom brushes

Pen Tool

• The pen tool
• Outputting files for various formats and uses
• Compression techniques to control file sizes

Videos coming soon!

Videos coming soon!

Videos Coming Soon!

Videos coming soon!