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Joseph

@JaffaBranding

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8 years of freelance graphic design lessons in 3 minutes:

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Joseph

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The best graphic designers to study: - Saul Bass - Chip Kidd - Otl Aicher - Paul Rand - Paula Scher - Herb Lubalin - Milton Glaser - David Carson - April Greiman - Jessica Walsh - Gail Anderson - Massimo Vignelli - Stefan Sagmeister Learn from the best out there to improve.

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The best graphic design inspiration sites: Behance Dribbble Pinterest Awwwards It's Nice That Design Week Design Shack Creative Bloq Visual Journal Designspiration Graphic Design Junction You’ll never become uninspired again.

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Joseph

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What a photo! 😍

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Joseph

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Free stock websites for graphic designers: - Pexels - Freepik - Pixabay - RawPixel - Unsplash - Picjumbo - Vecteezy - StockSnap - Stock Vault - Iso Republic - VistaCreate - Gratisography You'll never use Google Images again.

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The best graphic design inspiration sites: Behance Dribbble Pinterest Awwwards It's Nice That Design Week Design Shack Creative Bloq Visual Journal Designspiration Graphic Design Junction You’ll never become uninspired again.

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There has been a lot of amazing rebrands in recent times. Here's how you can learn from them to become a better graphic designer. /// THREAD ///

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Joseph

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2 years

Mykolenko starting to become good for us now, not arsed what the Twitter crowd say 👍🏻

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The best design styles and movements: Bauhaus Illustrative Geometric Flat Design Minimalism Infographic Swiss Style Photographic Retro/Vintage Postmodernism Kinetic Typography Vaporwave Aesthetics Do some research and get inspired.

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Joseph

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Thankfully people are realising the minority giving Mykolenko stick are just idiots, 120 minutes played on his debut, doesn’t speak a word of English, few training sessions with EFC, hasn’t played in 6 weeks and a clearance off the line. Vitaliy will fight for Everton! 💙🇺🇦

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Joseph

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11 months

Graphic Design is not easy. Graphic Design is not saturated. Graphic Design is not a low income skill. Graphic Design is not all about a college degree. Graphic Design is not just making things look pretty. Ignore all the bullshit.

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Graphic Design advice that will change your life:

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Adobe Illustrator for logos. Adobe Premiere Pro for brand reveals Adobe After Effects for motion graphics. Adobe InDesign for the brand guidelines. Adobe Photoshop for raster based graphics. Know each software like the back of your hand. It will serve you well forever.

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High paying design skills: - 3D - Motion - Brand identity - UI/UX Design - Web designing The software required for each: - Blender - After Effects - Adobe Suite - Figma / Adobe XD - Framer / Webflow Pick one. Get good at it. Then charge whatever the hell you like.

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Graphic Design Print Essentials: - Bleeds - Proofing - Trim Marks - Safe Zones - CMYK Color - Print Resolution - Pantone Colors - Paper Selection - Raster Graphics - Vector Graphics - Binding Methods - Typography for Print Learn these before applying for any design agency.

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You start out as a graphic designer. Then you get into brand identity. You you're onto motion graphics. You then use Premiere Pro to make brand presentation reveals. You're not just a designer anymore. You're an expert at problem solving. Work towards this.

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Design styles to research in 2024: Bauhaus Illustrative Geometric Flat Design Infographic Swiss Style Minimalism Photographic Retro/Vintage Postmodernism Kinetic Typography Vaporwave Aesthetics So much learning potential here for you.

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Start a design business in 2023: Software → Adobe Portfolio → Behance Management → Slack Scheduling → Calendly Take Payments → Stripe Color Palettes → Coolors Social Media → Hypefury Typefaces → Google Fonts Stock Assets → Adobe Stock No Code → Framer/Webflow

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3 months

You start out with Photoshop. Then transition to Illustrator to learn vector. Then Premiere for video editing and storytelling. InDesign to work on client brochures and e-books. Finally you learn After Effects to learn motion. You can now take on various clients. No fear.

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9 months

Best mock-up websites for graphic designers: - PlaceIt - Freepik - Pixeden - PSDRepo - MrMockup - PixelSurplus - Mockup Tree - Mockupmark - GraphicBurger - GoodMockups - Mockup Maison - House of Mockups Impress your client with these websites.

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Font websites for graphic designers: - MyFonts - displaay - Freefaces - Fontshare - Fontfabric - uncut(.)wtf - awwwards - Adobe Fonts - Google Fonts - CreativeTacos - Open Foundry - Creative Market You'll never struggle finding fonts again.

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High paying brand identity checklist: - Logo - Typography - Brand colors - Business cards - Email signature - Brand guidelines - Packaging design - Social media profile - Advertising materials - Photoshop templates You can literally charge whatever you want for this.

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Graphic Design terminology you should learn: - RGB - Serif - Bleed - CMYK - Vector - Kerning - Mockup - Leading - Opacity - Gradient - Prototype - Sans-serif - Responsive - Crop Marks - Moodboard - Composition - Transparency - Negative Space Start speaking like a designer.

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Color websites for graphic designers: - Coolors - Khroma - Paletton - HueSnap - Color Lisa - Color Hunt - Colormind - Colorhexa - ColorSpace - Eggradients - Design Seeds - Color Blender - Designspiration - Adobe Color Wheel Take advantage of these for your next project.

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8 months

You start out with Photoshop. Then transition to Illustrator to learn vector. Then Premiere for video editing and storytelling. InDesign to work on client brochures and e-books. Finally you learn After Effects to learn motion. You can now take on various clients. No fear.

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Joseph

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10 months

Your logo design doesn’t need: - Gradients - A hidden message - Golden ratio measurements It just needs to be: - Functional - Memorable - Working in B&W You don’t need to panic about unnecessary shite. Just tick the essential boxes.

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9 months

Designing logos? Use Illustrator. Making magazines? Use InDesign. Creating animations? Use After Effects Manipulating images? Use Photoshop. Charging $20 for your design work? Use your brain.

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Pinterest is the TikTok for graphic designers.

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Joseph

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Being a graphic designer is all about realising there is no such thing as 'original design'. All design is inspired by something.

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Dwight McNeil | Welcome to Everton. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Joseph

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Start a design business in 2024: Software → Adobe Portfolio → Behance Management → Slack Scheduling → Calendly Take Payments → Stripe Color Palettes → Coolors Social Media → Hypefury Typefaces → Google Fonts Stock Assets → Adobe Stock No Code → Framer/Webflow

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Conor Coady | Welcome to Everton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Idrissa Gueye | Welcome Back to Everton 🇸🇳

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Joseph

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Best typography resources for designers: - Kerntype - Typewolf - TypeScale - Fonts in Use - TypeHunting - Type Anatomy - Typekit Practice - Font Review Journal - Typography Handbook Typefaces make up a lot of your designs. Learn more about them.

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Joseph

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Being a graphic designer is all about realising there is no such thing as 'original design'. All design is inspired by something.

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Joseph

@JaffaBranding

10 months

I love graphic design as much as the next person. However I will never: - Work 10+ hours daily - Neglect my wellbeing - Not take vacation time - Make design my only hobby - Sleep less than 7hrs per night There is more to life than just designing. Make sure you enjoy life.

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6 months

Designing logos? Use Illustrator. Making e-books? Use InDesign. Creating animations? Use After Effects Manipulating images? Use Photoshop. Charging $15 for your design work? Use your brain.

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Joseph

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Vitaliy Mykolenko | Welcome to Everton! 🇺🇦 Віталій Миколенко | Ласкаво просимо в Евертон 🇺🇦

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Challenge yourself daily to improve. As a graphic designer: - Redesign packaging - Remix an album cover - 30 day logo challenge - Fake brief brand identities - Design a poster with one color - Redesign local logos in your area Complete 1 project per day - you'll prosper.

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Dele Alli | Welcome to Everton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Amadou Onana | Welcome to Everton 🇧🇪

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Joseph

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How to ruin a graphic designer's day in 4 words: "That's a good start."

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Joseph

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@FootyAccums You tweeted this about 3 weeks ago 👀

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Carlo Ancelotti: “I think next week Lucas Digne will sign a new contract, it will be officially announced.” Everton are keeping the best left-back in the league 🔵

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James Tarkowski | Welcome to Everton Football Club. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Joseph

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24 today. I’m getting old!

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Joseph

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Understand this: Graphic Design is just the start of the journey. You'll start making logos. Then you'll start customizing typefaces. Then move onto learning motion graphics. Then start providing brand guidelines to clients. You are not just a graphic designer.

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I don't work with cheap clients. The $20 client: - Scope creep - Never satisfied - Endless revisions The $2,000 client: - Work done - Instant payment sent - "I'll be back for more work bro" It's always the cheaper clients who cause issues. I don't make the rules.

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Joseph

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6 months

Being a graphic designer is all about having 58,639 fonts installed and only using 3 of them.

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Joseph

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The best graphic design books: - Design is a Job - Logo Modernism - Thinking with Type - Steal Like an Artist - Geometry of Design - Value Proposition Design - Graphic Design: The New Basics - The Designer's Dictionary of Color Read these and level up your knowledge.

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Designing for yourself is much harder than designing for a client. Every designer can relate to this.

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Design Challenges to Boost Creativity: - Inktober - Goodbrief. io - Daily UI Design - 36 Days of Type - Sharpen. design - Daily Logo Challenge - Behance Daily Creative - 2 color Poster Challenge - Pencil Tool Exercise Sheet - Dribble Weekly Warm-up - Redesign a Familiar Brand

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Some of the best designers to study: - Chris Do - Sagi Haviv - Aaron Draplin - Michael Bierut - Cheryl D. Miller - Adrian Frutiger - Armin Hofmann - Ivan Chermayeff - Margaret Calvert - Yusaku Kamekura - Wolfgang Weingart Learn from the best and level up your skills.

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The best places to learn graphic design: - Udemy - YouTube - TheFutur - Coursera - Skillshare - EnvatoTuts - LinkedIn Learning - Yes I'm a Designer - Creative Cloud Learn - Sagi Haviv (Domestika) - The Graphic Design School There's always something new to learn.

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2 years

Got no clients as a graphic designer? Read this. ⬇️

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Can we all agree that the new Webflow logo is absolutely stunning?

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The Best Graphic Design Tools: GIMP Figma Sketch Inkscape AdobeXD Procreate Canva ($0) CorelDRAW Blender (3D) Adobe InDesign Affinity Designer Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe After Effects Adobe Premiere Pro Design tools have never been this accessible. Take advantage.

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It's not normal to ask a graphic designer for free work.

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Best gradient websites for graphic designers: - CoolHue - Codioful - Grabient - Gradienty - Gradientos - Eggradients - UI Gradients - GradientLab - Gradient Hunt - WebGradients - Gradient Buttons Add some glow to your next project.

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“I know a graphic designer who can do it for much cheaper.” Then why are you speaking to me bro?

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Nobody asks for your graphic design degree. They ask for your portfolio.

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Joseph

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How to high pass a render in Adobe Photoshop. (Easy and has huge impact) ⬇️

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Joseph

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Graphic design is a high income skill. Don't let anybody on the internet tell you otherwise.

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Joseph

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As a graphic designer, don't obsess about: - Perfection - Golden ratios - Design trends - The opinions of everyone - Constantly updating portfolios - Small details that won't be noticed Obsess about: - Results - Consistency - Client satisfaction Stack the odds in your favour.

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Every graphic designer should learn how to copywrite.

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Graphic Design is 5% designing, 35% marketing and 60% managing your emotions.

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Successful graphic designers aren't: - Sticking to one style - Hating on your Tweets - Jealous of other designers Instead they: - Never stop learning - Support fellow graphic designers - Get inspired by other designers' work Successful designers ain't got time to hate.

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Joseph

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It’s Matchday #1 . Everton take on Chelsea today at Goodison Park… #EVECHE 🔵

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Designing a logo? Always start in black & white. - Saves you time - Gives you clarity - Guarantees legibility - Removes all distractions - Allows cost-effective print If the logo works in black and white, it will work with color. You can't save a shit logo with color.

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The Fundamentals of Graphic Design: - Storytelling - Typography - Color Theory - Communication - Print Knowledge - Design Principles - Software Proficiency - Layout and Composition - Photography and Image Editing Tick as much off this list as possible. Leave no stone unturned.

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High paying design skills to change your life: - No Code - 3D Design - Illustration - UI/UX Design - Motion Graphics - Packaging Design - Data Visualization - Photography Editing - Brand Identity Design - Social Media Graphics Just pick one and start making money.

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Joseph

@JaffaBranding

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You start off learning Illustrator. Then you start learning how to make logos. You then learn how to animate logos in After Effects. You then make brand presentation reveals in Premiere Pro. You’re quickly become a brand identity designer. Work towards this.

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Joseph

@JaffaBranding

7 months

Learn to speak like a designer: - DPI - Grid - RGB - Serif - Bleed - CMYK - Vector - Kerning - Mockup - Leading - Opacity - Prototype - Sans-serif - Saturation - Responsive - Crop Marks - Moodboard - Composition - Transparency - Negative Space You'll boost your credibility.

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Just hit 7k followers! 🎉 I help other graphic designers: - Find clients - Learn graphic design - Build a Twitter audience I tweet daily about these topics. Drop me a follow and I’ll help you reach your design potential. Thank you!

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Joseph

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6 months

Being a freelance graphic designer is having no client work for 26 days of the month and then receiving 7 client requests on the same day.

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Joseph

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1 year

Canva is not graphic design. And it never will be.

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5 months

Nobody asks for your graphic design degree. They ask for your portfolio.

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Freelance graphic design lessons I wish I knew 10 years ago:

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Challenge yourself daily to improve. As a graphic designer: - Redesign packaging - Remix an album cover - 30 day logo challenge - Fake brief brand identities - Design a poster with one color - Redesign local logos in your area Complete 1 project per day - you'll prosper.

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Freelancing is difficult. Managing your time is difficult. Building an audience is difficult. Making money online is difficult. Learning how to market is difficult. Being a graphic designer is difficult. Embrace the difficult shit. You will thrive.

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Joseph

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9 months

Adobe InDesign is super underrated. - Guides / Grids - Strong typography capability - Seamless integration from PS and AI Use Adobe InDesign for: - Printed materials - Long form documents - eBook and magazines It's an absolute game changer.

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@JaffaBranding

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Want to improve your graphic design skills? Challenge yourself daily: - Redesign packaging - Remix an album cover - 30 day logo challenge - Fake brief brand identities - Design a poster with one color - Redesign local logos in your area Learn on the job & challenge yourself.

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High paying graphic design skills: - Logos - Illustration - Typography - Infographics - UI/UX Design - Brand identity - Business cards - Motion graphics - Packaging design - Advertising materials - Photoshop templates - Social media graphics Pick one and charge what you like.

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3 months

Free stock websites for graphic designers: - Pexels - Freepik - Pixabay - RawPixel - Unsplash - Picjumbo - Vecteezy - StockSnap - Stock Vault - Iso Republic - VistaCreate - Gratisography You'll never use Google Images again.

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Want to 10x your graphic design skills? Learn the principles of design: - Unity - Scale - Variety - Pattern - Rhythm - Balance - Contrast - Harmony - Emphasis - Hierarchy - Repetition - Proportion - Movement - Negative space You’ll fast track your design career in 6 months.

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My Graphic Design Agency launches tomorrow. Super excited. Will announce everything on here at 12pm midday. See you all there. We have built something special.

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My cheapest ever client never asked if I had a degree in graphic design. My most expensive client never asked if I had a degree in graphic design. Huge lesson there.

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Graphic Design Hack: Surround yourself with other graphic designers who are better than you.

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Graphic design holds no short term fix. It takes time to: - Learn software - Build a portfolio - Find your first client - Create a design network - Have an authentic brand Just be patient and play the long game. Overnight success is a myth.

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I'm launching a graphic design agency next week. It's something I've been planning to do for a while. Cannot wait to share with you all. It's gonna be huge.

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How to maximize Adobe products: Photoshop: - Mock-ups - Photo editing - Raster based graphics Illustrator: - Logos - Typography - Vector based graphics After Effects: - Visual FX - Animation - Motion graphics InDesign: - Editorial - Interactive PDFs - Digital publications

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Skills to master typography as a designer: - Kerning - Leading - Tracking - Contrast - Hierarchy - Font Sizes - Alignment - Readability - Line Length - Consistency - Font Pairings - Color Theory - Grid Systems - Responsiveness Learn the techniques and how to use them.

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Neal Maupay | Welcome to Everton 🇫🇷

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The $50 client: "I like the logo but something just feels off about it. Can you try another 29 concepts? I'll know when I see it." The $5000 client: "Payment sent man. See you next week for more work."

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Challenge yourself daily to improve. As a graphic designer: - Redesign packaging - Remix an album cover - 30 day logo challenge - Fake brief brand identities - Design a poster with one color - Redesign local logos in your area Complete 1 project per day - you'll prosper.

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If you've got no graphic design clients: Ask ChatGPT for a brief and start designing like you would for a client. Then post your design work to X to attract real clients. You have no excuses in 2023.

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How to do a major rebrand and still keep 96% of the client’s audience HAPPY with the changes. Thread ⬇️

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Tools to learn Adobe Illustrator like a pro: - Pen tool - Artboards - Pathfinder - Rotate tool - Reflect tool - Eyedropper - Line segment - Gradient tool - Shape builder - Type of a path - Direct selection - Keyboard shortcuts You'll learn it quicker than you think.

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I refused to learn Illustrator for years. I was stuck in my ways using Photoshop. 9 years later I have learned: - InDesign - Illustrator - Photoshop - After Effects - Premiere Pro Don't be like me from years ago. Learn more skills to explode your income. Do you understand?

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Notice a talented designer? - Ask for advice - Complement their work - Try and get to know them better Don't start: - Hating - Getting jealous - Comparing your work Jealousy and hate gets you absolutely nowhere. You need to be forming connections. Not burning bridges.

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Post your design work. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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