Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
Lesson 6 from: Bold & Fearless DesignJames Victore
Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
Lesson 6 from: Bold & Fearless DesignJames Victore
Lessons
Day 1
1Bonus Video: Workhorse Fonts
22:22 2Let's Start Unlearning
23:47 3Why Posters?
13:15 4The Cliché
11:03 5Show Me the Critique
30:21 6Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
02:33 7Answering the Client Brief
06:59Working with the Client
11:54 9Start with a Power Pose
03:16 10Generating Ideas: Sketches & Pushups
15:01 11Inspiration: Seeking the Muse
05:57 12Identify & Eliminate Distraction
23:21 13The Setting for Making
06:36 14The Tools for Mark Making
17:46 15Customizing the Mark Making Tools
08:40 16Mark Making Tools Game Show
26:53 17Review Game Show Work
25:57 18Picking the Right Visual Media
26:33 19Feck Perfuction
20:19 20Paying Attention to Your Obsessions
12:45Day 2
21Learn, Forget, & Then Design
38:41 22What is "Success"?
17:52 23D.O.P Case Study
24:26 24Litter Poster Critique: Online Students
25:00 25Litter Poster Critique: In-Studio Students
38:10 26Middle Name Ceremony
06:27Lesson Info
Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
I want to introduce the brief for the next assignment, Which will be we're gonna be quitting tomorrow. And the assignment is the new mayor of New York City. Is your brother in law? How awesome is that? He has an awesome budget. He you have his full confidence. He's hired you to do a job. He's like, You know what? This city, you know, I was walking to work in this guy, just ate the candy bar and drop the rapper right in front of me. What's up with that? All sudden? The mayor of New York is Jerry Seinfeld. I don't just Why don't I don't know what happened. Um, he wants to give you the job of teaching, reminding New Yorkers about later. Pretty straightforward task again. Litter. Big idea. Lots of imagery comes to mind. Eventually, it's gonna be a campaign he might ask you to do. Like, what you're gonna do is you're gonna do an amazing job with litter and you're gonna Then you're gonna go. You like that, you know? Oh, yeah. You're gonna put out a whole fleet of post war on smoking when I'm...
picking up after your dog. One about stay out of Williamsburg, New York, cause James wants his parking spot, You know, like that would be awesome. But he wants one now. And he being me, right? Just like love. Tell the truth. Be specific. What else? Interesting. Make it interesting. Give me something to give me something like Like like Stephanie's here. I've got nothing. Well, actually, I've got a lot of work I gotta figure out, You know, whether she means it or not, But but But it's like it's really good for a greeting card because reading cars don't ask anything of you Greeting cards. Very pedantic. They kick in the head with the joke. You know, they don't ask any work. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with putting out imagery in New York City that asks the public to to work. I believe that the public is extremely smart. I worked to that. I will never talk down to an audience. I don't want to make it simple for everybody. Life doesn't work that way, right?
Class Materials
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Ratings and Reviews
Jephiner
I am not a graphic designer, I'm an artist, but this class translates beautifully. James' teaching style is nothing short of delicious - fresh, alive, fun, exciting - while being full of depth and poignant, valuable content, much of which transcends medium and brings value to any creative individual. I found particular value in the lessons around tools (and altering tools), the criteria for good work, the need to infuse your opinion into your work, the value of abandoning perfection, paying attention to cancer that is one's ego and that we are meant to be creators, and not 'the help'. More than anything else though, I benefited from being reminded, with such a burning passion, that we are not put on this earth to pay a mortgage and support a family, but to identify our true work and to bring it into existence in this world. So nice to reminded of something I know but forget on a regular basis. One of the best online classes I have ever taken - a real home run.
dlevans
I loved this course! Exceeded every notion I had. The design, concepts and principles were fun, funny and insightful. But James went so far beyond the "poster design" and into the philosophy, thinking, inspiration - huge! I am so glad I watched this course not only for the quick wit and fast humor (Jame's is smart! Sharp... And Really Funny - compliments his teaching and design), but the reading list he suggests, ways to nudge your creativity and the fashion with which he gets you thinking... Invaluable! Organic, Rich, Impact and message - this course has the design "how-to" covered, the real pearls are Jame's humble experience and generosity. Great Course... Oh, and check out his book! "Victore! or, Who Died and Made You Boss?" Inspiration and fun!
a Creativelive Student
Came to this course (and site) via Anna Dorfman's blog. Loved the motivational and philosophical aspects of the course. Very entertaining and inspirational. Also loved listening to Victore discuss his own work and process-- the stories of how he got specific ideas, tinkered with them, perfected them, etc.. As for the critiques of student and online work, I didn't find them very useful. I would love to see him pick out a few of the very best, and then give his own short and sweet-- and specific-- insights into how HE would improve them. Or just abandon the critiques entirely and instead show and discuss more of his own or other successful designers' work. Overall, fun and inspirational, with some helpful tips.