Before & After, How to design cool stuff!
Summary: Before & After teaches graphic design. John McWade explains design using everyday language and simple illustrations. From Web pages to sales brochures to logos to presentations, he will help you understand design and communicate everything more beautifully and clearly.
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- Artist: John McWade
- Copyright: 2010-2012 Before & After | John McWade
Podcasts:
Is your primary photo just ho-hum? Switch it with the less-important one — and get great results.
You've designed a beautiful outside. How do you follow it up inside? Simply.
How to convey a lot of information in an extremely narrow space.
For use in big sizes and small, you may need two logos.
To make big type small or small type big, you need to make some adjustments. Here's what to do.
How do you show off a great photo? Easy. Clear everything else off the page.
Kathy Thomas is a babysitter — for pets. Her friend designed a logo for her, but does she really need one?
Reader Karen Crumb writes lamenting her "image-free" company's insistence on text-only documents. "They're incredibly boring," she says. "We don't use any pictures in our work, just words." Here's the solution.
Need a logo to brand a project or event? Try this.
What happens when your words say one thing, but your graphics say something else?
It's the look of the Black Forest — rich colors, elaborate textures, intricate patterns, complex edges, and robust, multi-dimensional type. Here's how to gild the edges of those ornate letters.
Designing a whole page? Instead of enlarging everything to fill the space, think small and focused.
When designing for a tiny space, think simple.
