Design

The principles behind why some layouts work and others don’t.

Videos

• The Principles of Design (Video) — Envato Tuts+ on the eleven principles behind compositions that work: balance, unity, contrast, emphasis, repetition, pattern, rhythm, movement, proportion, harmony, and variety. 22 minutes, one chapter each, demonstrated on real posters and flyers rather than described in the abstract.
• Graphic Design Tutorial For Beginners (Video) — an eleven-hour course stitched together by My Lesson, chaptered in the pinned comment: fundamentals of imagemaking, typography, shape and colour, and composition, then typeface histories, Paul Rand’s logo work, and the radicalism of Swiss design against Push Pin. It closes on “Brand New Brand,” a project where you invent a client, fake their history, and build the identity.