Graphic Content!

We're going to make a simple collage by cutting and pasting pieces of photos into a composite image. Time: 60...

A Deck of Cards

InDesign Intermediate

In this exercise you will design a couple of cards from a full deck of cards. Together with the class...

A Simple Booklet

InDesign Intermediate

You're going to create a simple booklet with styled headings and body text. This exercise is a basic guide, you...

A Simple Poster

You're going to create a simple poster using text and images. This exercise is a starting point, feel free to...

A Simple Brochure

Beginner InDesign Lessons

You're going to create a simple brochure using text and images. This exercise is a starting point, feel free to...

A Simple Layout

You're going to create a simple layout using text and images. This exercise is a starting point, feel free to...

Excalibur

Advanced Photoshop

In Photoshop, you can make something glow as if it were a light itself. You can also create lighting by...

Gradients In Depth

Advanced Illustrator

With the Gradient Tool you can choose from 3 types of gradients: Linear, Radial or Freeform. But what if none...

Art Brushes

The Paintbrush Tool is one of the oldest tools next to the Pen Tool. The Pen Tool works with Bézier...

Clipping Masks

Illustrator Intermediate

The terms Clipping Path and Clipping Mask are used interchangeably and mean more or less the same thing. This is a...

Gradient Basics

Illustrator

With the Gradient Tool you create a color gradient between two or more colors. You can color in a straight line or in...

Pen Tool

Beginner Illustrator InDesign Photoshop

Perhaps the oldest vector drawing tool is the Pen Tool. With this you can draw lines, or more complex shapes. This Tool can...

Course portfolio

Uncategorised

In this final assignment you'll collect the exercises you have done throughout the course into one Indesign document. Consider this...

Greetingcard

The goal is simple: with as little (or as much) as you know, design a greetingcard in InDesign. The aim...

Mom, I’m fine.

Beginner Illustrator InDesign Photoshop Project

In this exercise you will create a small 8 page booklet to send home to your loved ones. Through text...

5 minute business card

InDesign

Let's take a superquick first glance at InDesign and create a simple businesscard. You'll place text, import a logo and...

Creating a PDF for print

As its acronym suggests: the Portable Document Format has many different uses. For instance, A PDF can be created for...

Pre-print check

Beginner Project

To prevent your PDF being rejected by the printer or even worse: have it misprinted, you need to check the...

Graphic Identity Guideline

Uncategorised

This guideline is intended to connect all the publications together visually and thereby creating a recognizable identity and a coherent...

Individual Assignment – Postcard Design

Project

Open Day For the upcoming Open Day on January 26th we need communication materials in print such as posters, postcards,...

Graphic Identity

Intermediate Project

The first thing we need to design is an outline for the graphic identity that will be used in our...

Retouching

Editing an image to correct small mistakes or make improvements to light and color is called retouching. Photoshop offers a couple...

Mockup

A mockup is a presentation - image of a product that does not (yet) exist. You are going to create...

Movie poster: double exposure

Before the computer era, a double exposure image was created by literally exposing the same negative twice. This resulted in...

Color Correction

There are many ways to correct color in Photoshop. Choosing the right approach depends on the properties of your image....

InDesign gives you more automation in the form of a generated table of contents. It looks for headers in a...

Paragraph Styles

InDesign gives you control over the layout of your body text and your headers by using 'paragraph styles'. These offer...

Packaging

When you create a design with images and text in InDesign you create a document that is depending on linked...

Handling images

InDesign places images in your document as linked files. This means whenever you edit the image file outside of InDesign, it...

Master Pages

Masterpages let you handle elements that occur throughout your document, such as headers, footers and pagination. Time: 15 minutes Continue...

Setting up a new document

Whenever you start a new project in InDesign you need to set up your document. The right settings depend on...

You’re a brand!

For this exercise we are going to assume that you are a freelance designer. You need to promote your services...

Vector Fun!

When working with vectors, Illustrator is your weapon of choice. Whether it is logo design, pattern design, illustration, architectural or...

Your room

Beginner SketchUp

In this exercise you are going to recreate your own bedroom. First you'll build the room's walls, window(s) and door(s)....

A chair

Beginner SketchUp

In this exercise you will model a very simple chair. It takes only a couple of tools to build this:...

Letter scramble

Beginner SketchUp

Sketchup is a 3D modeling program made by Google. It has a relatively low learning curve and the free version...

Girl at the beach

This exercise takes the concept of masking to where it becomes very useful. Consider selecting individual strands of hair, blowing...

Pulling a sketch from the paper

When you scan your sketches and edit them in Photoshop, you may encounter the need to 'lift' the sketch from...

Red Umbrella

Photoshop offers different selection methods, including color selection. In this exercise we will make all colors black and white except...

Select-a-ball

To select a certain area of a layer that you want to edit, you need to make a selection. Photoshop...

Low poly

Illustrator Intermediate

You'll make a low poly portrait in Illustrator. This is done by drawing little triangles with the Pen Tool in...

Obey

Advanced Illustrator

Design a poster in the style of the artist Obey. Find an image online to trace in Illustrator. Closely examine...

Layer it

Advanced Intermediate Photoshop

Photoshop works with a concept of layers, in which pieces of your artwork are selected. This exercise lets you get...

Burn the house down

You’re going to make an image of burning letters, such as the ones in this example. The objective is to...

Arranging the interface

Photoshop's interface offers a flexible layout of palettes, which can be docked, grouped, hidden or shown when needed. You can...

Flowing text frames

InDesign has a feature called 'threading', or flowing text from frame to frame. This ensures that when text is added...

Drawing shapes with the pen tool

A vector shape consists of two basic elements: the line around the shape, and the fill of the shape. Vector shapes...

Retouching images