John McWade, founder of Before & After and now senior staff author at lynda.com, presents a biweekly series that touches on all areas of design, helping designers new and old sharpen their skills and create more powerful work. This series covers a wide range of topics, from typography and layout to color and logo design, but each episode is a standalone technique that can be completed in just ten minutes or less. Tune in every other Monday for a new tip.

Introduction
00-Welcome
Graphic Design Tips & Tricks
01-Design a modern cover: Think simple, clean, and angular
02-Transform a product sheet: Put your words here, not there
03-Design a business card: Make it look like what it says
04-Double your artwork for free: Use the same picture twice
05-Design a ghosted logo: A picture always goes with itself
06-Design a business card using repetitive shape
07-Why round letters are bigger than straight ones
08-Design a powerful poster: Work with your photo, not against it
09-Design stationery that’s almost a brochure: Picture your product, not your logo
10-Alignment: Your ruler’s good only for regular things
11-Logo design: Think simple
12-Your design needs a focal point: Dramatic photo anchors a strong makeover
13-Chart your data with images
14-Make a beautiful logo with off-the-shelf type
15-How to transfer your look to a new format
16-Angles
17-The (very!) versatile art of the silhouette
18-Easy, functional one-line design
19-Signage: Consistency makes the brand
20-Elementals: How black, white, and gray make depth
21-A beautiful desk calendar you can make yourself
22-Lesson of the counterintuitive logo
23-How to design visual instructions
24-Design a beautiful CD package
25-Simple brochure presents your face to the public
26-Soften the edge
27-Small layout packs a big punch
28-Shape it: Part one
29-Shape it: Part two
30-A logo makeover: Part one
31-A logo makeover: Part two
32-Grid collage
33-People in a group on a grid
34-Magazine cover redesign
35-Designing cards with type alone
36-Designing a small-space advertisement
37-Designing a business card for a photographer
38-Designing names with type and basic shapes
39-Review of an outdoor sign logo
40-Creating a small multipage brochure
41-Designing with black, white, and gray
42-Gestalt techniques - Isomorphism
43-Redesigning a business card
44-How to put motion on a static page
45-The color wheel
46-Layout decision points
47-Designing a tiny brochure
48-Panoramic spacing
49-Multi-use format for a business card
50-The boring book cover challenge: Part 1
51-The boring book cover challenge: Part 2
52-The single space practice
53-Incorporating hairlines into your design
54-Close enough with color choice
55-More design techniques with grids
56-Lanzarote calendar assignment
57-Foreground focal point
58-Stop, look, observe
59-Working with a rule of thumb (dynamic) grid
60-The humble power of negative space
61-Go with the flow
62-Learning by doing
63-For the love of design!
64-The boring book cover challenge, part 3
65-Bold moves
66-Simply beautiful
67-Common but versatile looks
68-Audacious philanthropy
69-Simple slides
70-Every face has a place
71-Those little extras
72-Seeing sight lines
Exercise Files


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