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Bold & Fearless Design

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Overview

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An empowered designer is a truly creative designer. Let designer, author, artist, and activist James Victore show you how to trust your instincts and embrace imperfection in Bold and Fearless Design.

When you follow trends, your ideas stagnate, and you don't create the kind of memorable work that gets you noticed. Victore knows the antidote. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and is represented in the permanent collections of museums worldwide. His commercial work continues to stand out for being bold, strong, and memorable.

Learn how to make work that's captivating and uniquely yours by taking a behind-the-scenes look at this renowned designer's method, thinking, and inspiration. Victore will talk about playing with different tools (not just digital ones) and rethinking the role of a designer.

You'll learn:

  • Exercises for generating concepts and design solutions
  • How to incorporate your hand into your work
  • Unexpected image-making tools and techniques
  • Software strategies for turning the analog into digital

Poster design is the perfect blank canvas for experimentation. Posters can be adapted for anything from book covers to dinner plates. In this class, the poster format provides a launching point for exploring by-hand design and reimagining creative possibilities.

Don't be boring. Watch Bold and Fearless Design with James Victore and energize your unique creative spark.

Syllabus

  • Class Trailer
  • Bonus Video: Workhorse Fonts
  • Let's Start Unlearning
  • Why Posters?
  • The Cliché
  • Show Me the Critique
  • Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
  • Answering the Client Brief
  • Working with the Client
  • Start with a Power Pose
  • Generating Ideas: Sketches & Pushups
  • Inspiration: Seeking the Muse
  • Identify & Eliminate Distraction
  • The Setting for Making
  • The Tools for Mark Making
  • Customizing the Mark Making Tools
  • Mark Making Tools Game Show
  • Review Game Show Work
  • Picking the Right Visual Media
  • Feck Perfuction
  • Paying Attention to Your Obsessions
  • Learn, Forget, & Then Design
  • What is "Success"?
  • D.O.P Case Study
  • Litter Poster Critique: Online Students
  • Litter Poster Critique: In-Studio Students
  • Middle Name Ceremony

Taught by

James Victore

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