Free Design Bootcamp

Working with Icons

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Introduction

Find out what you'll learn in the course.

Working with Fonts - Part 1

Basic rules to follow and beautiful examples for great looking fonts for our work.

Working with Fonts - Part 2

Basic rules to follow and beautiful examples for great looking fonts for our work.

Working with Colors

Learn how to use colors effectively in your work. Learn where to find inspiration and explore free online tools to generate beautiful color palettes.

Working with Images

How to apply them in your design, a couple examples of where to find them, and what to look for and what to avoid.

Working with Icons

It’s important to be smart with icon use in order to get their full impact, and they can add a visual punch inside your design.

Design Along – Presentation Slide

In this video we'll take what we've learned and apply it to a presentation slide to vastly improve it's appearance through simple steps.

Design Along – Ad

In this video we'll take what we've learnt with photos, colors, fonts, and icons and improve an ad design.

Design Along – Document

In this video we'll improve the layout and design of a Word document using what we've learned so far.

Congratulations!

You made it to the end! Hopefully you've seen how with some simple knowledge and some simple tactics you can produce great looking designs.

Icons are very useful in design. They can be visual queues as to the information you're trying to get across, and a bit of visual punch inside information that may otherwise be a little stale. As with other parts of design, it’s important to be smart with their application in order to get their full impact.

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