Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn ten tips and techniques for working with Patterns in Photoshop. You will learn three ways to apply patterns to a document, how to rotate a pattern and how to edit one. You will learn how to package patterns ready for distribution and how to create a range of patterns including creating a stripe pattern from a photograph. The techniques and tips in this course will be a valuable addition to your pattern making skills in Photoshop.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to create two very different designs for the same basic object - one flat design and one which has a lot of dimension to it. You will learn different ways to create objects like sprinkles, how to create a layered donut from a single shape  in the Appearance panel, how to use Brush Profiles and Blends as well as how to add simple highlights and shadows to suggest dimension. This class is packed with handy techniques you can use in your everyday work in Illustrator.  

Today’s designers do more than ever before—and that means you have to design smarter, not harder. Enter: designer Aaron Draplin's 21 productivity tips for creating your dream designs in a fraction of the time!

Get ready to transform the way you work in this in-depth, entertaining class all about design productivity. You'll join superstar designer Aaron Draplin for a deep-dive into practical, actionable advice for working in Adobe Illustrator—and gain templates, shortcuts, and handy tricks you can use again and again!

This 2-hour class has a straightforward, easy-to-navigate structure so you can hop to the exact tips you need, exactly when you need them. Key lessons include:

• 7 Tips x Before: Learn 7 ways to prep your projects for major payoff. Gain tips for setting up your digital workspace, organizing palettes and tools, creating document profiles, and more.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you will learn how to make whimsical texture brushes which look like hand drawn marks in Photoshop. You will learn how to make these simple brushes, how to configure them to paint like hand drawn marks, how to use them and how to save their setups. You will use these brushes to add whimsical effects to hand drawings.

We will travel through the logo design process and explore:

Whether you are a Graphic Designer, business owners that just need to design your their own logo,  or even a hobbyist, one of the most important factors of good logo design is versatility. Meaning does the logo work in as many different places as possible? This is more important than ever because logos appear in ways we never previously predicted.This is a very important aspect of how to design a logo.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to create a seamless repeating pattern of watercolor stripes. The designs uses a free download of vector watercolor brushes. You'll see how to pick the brushes to use and how to make a seamless repeating stripe pattern from them. If you are using Illustrator CC you will see how to use the Puppet Warp tool to help with the seamless repeat, if you are using another version of Illustrator I'll explain how to achieve the same effect using a different tool. You will simply follow the video relevant to your version of Illustrator. By the end of the course you will know how to make a organic seamless repeating pattern of stripes which look like they've been painted in watercolor. You will also have learned some valuable techniques for working in Illustrator every day.

Make a good design great with Adobe Illustrator swatches and brushes! This class will teach you the basics of building your AI libraries in order to have some go-to tools as you work. Pattern designer Elizabeth Silver will walk you through different types of brushes and swatches, how to create them from a variety of sources and how to use them in a fun illustration of your favorite snack.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to use Transparency masks, Clipping Masks and Layer Clipping Masks in Illustrator to crop shapes, text and images and to blend them. You will learn new techniques and the presentation is peppered with helpful tips and tricks for using Illustrator. All images and fonts used are free for download and I'll give you links to them all. Here is one of the effects we'll create in the class:

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make two circle patterns in Photoshop. One is an overlapping circles pattern and the other (shown below) is a pattern of random circles. You will learn some handy techniques for building patterns in Photoshop:

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make a series of patterns based on a single diamond shape - a diamond pattern, a harlequin pattern and an argyle pattern. The process can be completed using any version of Illustrator. This is a sample of the argyle pattern we will make:

Diamond & Crystal Patterns in Adobe Illustrator - Graphic Design for Lunch™ 

Want to level up your logo design? Join acclaimed graphic designer and DDC founder Aaron Draplin for a 60-minute tour de force championing the techniques and challenges of combining type and icons into a circle, a foundational shape of graphic design. 

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to create a co-ordinated range of doodle shapes that you can customize yourself and which you could package and sell or give away on your blog. While, these designs look simple to make, you will find yourself using a large range of tools and techniques in making them. The sheer range of tools and techniques shown makes this class particularly valuable for beginner and intermediate Illustrator users alike.

Interested in how I'd approach a professional assignment? In this class, you will learn a few tricks on how to come up with a logo and a visual language for my friends' PEI Toys brand. Furthermore, we will dive into how to design a creative website from ideation to final production including 3D graphics (webGL).

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn Ten Awesome Illustrator Pen tool and path tips. You will learn tips for creating bezier curves and straight line paths and how to edit paths. You will learn a technique for adjusting unlocked direction handles as if they are locked, handy shortcut keys, how to use the new
Curvature tool in Illustrator and much, much more. 

It's one thing to learn how to "design" Wedding Invitations. And another thing altogether, to learn how to design Wedding Invitations that BRIDES are actually buying!

Demystify graphic design! Join educator and designer Lisa Larson-Kelley for this 25-minute class on the ins and outs of Canva, the friendly design software that makes graphic design easy, accessible, and effective.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video lessons you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make two watercolor text effects using free downloadable brushes, textures and fonts. You will learn to create white text on a watercolor splash and then how to fill text with a watercolor pattern. You will also learn to use the Touch Type tool to move text around while still ensuring it is editable. I've included an additional video at the end for anyone who uses Illustrator CS6 or earlier as you won't have access to the Touch Type tool. This video shows a way that you can achieve a similar effect using the tools in your version of Illustrator. 

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn how to make frames that have curly edges. You will learn to make the shape, save it as a custom shape that you can use anytime and how to make an illustration using it and some custom lines. This is what you will learn to make: