Class Project 01 - Design a flyer

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82 lessons / 7 hours 4 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan. I am a graphic designer and Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI)  for InDesign.

Together we will work through real life projects starting with a simple company flyer, then a brochure & a company newsletter. We’ll make business cards & take control of a really long annual report.

We will work with colour, picking your own and also using corporate colours. You will explore how to choose & use fonts like a professional. We will find, resize & crop images for your documents.

There are projects for you to complete, so you can practise your skills & use these for your creative portfolio.

In this course I supply exercise files so you can play along. I will also save my files as I go through each video so that you can compare yours to mine - handy if something goes wrong.

Know that I will be around to help - if you get lost you can drop a post on the video 'Questions and Answers' below each video and I'll be sure to get back to you.

I will share every design trick I have learnt in the last 15 years of designing. My goal is for you to finish this course with all the necessary skills to start making beautiful documents using InDesign.


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe InDesign CC 2018 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous design skills are needed.
  • No previous InDesign skills are needed.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 76 lectures 5+ hours of well structured content.
  • You'll learn to design a flyer, newsletter, brochure, annual report & business cards.
  • Learn how to create PDF files ready for printing.
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • Techniques used by professional graphic designers.
  • Professional workflows and shortcuts.
  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • No previous InDesign experience is necessary.
  • This course is for people completely new to InDesign. No previous design or publishing experienced is necessary.
  • This is a relaxed, well paced introduction that will enable you to produce most common publications. Only basic computing skills are necessary - If you can send emails and surf the internet then you will cope well with our course.

Course duration 6 hours 20 mins + your study.
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

So now its homework time. Well, not homework, it is class exercise time. I'd love for you to go through and do this. When I'm running my in-classroom training I find this is the most valuable part of the whole experience. Instead of following me step-by-step you run into problems, you'd be able to fix them yourself.

Now, like I do in my classroom training, I've got a checklist. I'd like you to do all of these things. So set aside a little bit time now; 15 minutes, 20 minutes, it might take you an hour depending on how fast you're picking it up. The nice thing is you get to do it at home at your own pace. So, go through, and do every single thing on this list, and when you're finished, you can use this thing in your portfolio. You have permission, you can use this in your portfolio, and say this is something that I've made, and it is.

What I'd also like you to do is, send me a copy. You might follow this verbatim, and that's totally fine. I just want to see that you've done it, send it to me. Depending on where you're watching these videos, often there's comments, or class exercise part, stick it in there. Either the PDF, or the JPEG version, or even a screenshot. I'll just work you through this list so let me quickly help you with what you need to do.

Its a new document, easy, but in that new document it needs to be 'US Half Letter', or 'A5' depending on which part of the world you're in. Needs to be a 'Bleed' of 3mm or an eighth of an inch, depending on what part of the world you're from. 'Facing Pages' is going to be turned off. We're going to make a 'Landscape'. I want you to create your very own new library for this client here, called Green Gardener. Add the brand colors, you'll see that in your exercise files, they are there. There is something called-- in '01 Flyer' there's one called 'Class Exercise'. And in here, are your colors, there's the colors there.

There's the checklist that I'm reading through now as well. You can read through at your own time if you don't want to pause this video. And here's some other bits. This is the finished file that you can see in the background here, so you can use that as an example if you get lost.

Other things you need to do, add those brand colors. Add them to your 'CC Library'. You need to use a logo that's in there and one of the images, there's three to pick from. You can use your own, its totally fine. You can use your own logo, your own colors, I'd love you to do that. But if you just want to charge on, and finish them, you can just use the example stuff. Your image needs to be cropped like this one. It's a lot big, we've cropped it down using our special tricks. I want you to make the heading 'upper case'. I would like you to put a 'dashed border', we used a 'dotted' one earlier on.

Create a 'Round all'; 'Round all' is a name of this, like this little round thing with some text in it. I want you to create this with a perfect circle. I want you to 'group' these two together. I want you to 'rotate' them around. Then I'd like you to save and name your file, maybe using the 'V1'. And I'd like you to create a 'PDF with crop marks'. And then send me a version of it, I'd love to see it.

Now, if you get stuck with anything please drop me a comment, or go back through the previous videos. The previous videos will cover everything we've done in here. If you do get lost though, and you're not too sure drop me a message, and I'll give you a hand. Now I promise you, I've been teaching InDesign for about 12 years now, and its the people that actually take the effort, and do these little extra examples, are the ones that pick it up the most. Following me step-by-step is awesome until you run into a problem. Go ahead, do this one. Send me a screenshot, send me a sample. Even if you don't, just keep it on your site, keep it for your portfolio but make sure you do it. Alright, let's go on to the next project. Exciting.

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