I Designed 30 Posters in 30 Days! What I Learned

One month ago I decided to take on the 30-day design challenge, where the goal was to create 30 different poster designs in 30 days using Adobe Photoshop. I'm excited to report that I achieved my goal! Specifically focused on sports design and pushing the boundaries of what sports posters can look like, this was a super fun process and I had a lot of takeaways after completing the challenge, so I figured I'd share them all in one video.

00:00 Consistency is Hard
01:37 Less is More
02:50 Images + Typography
03:45 Patreon Update
04:13 Color + Contrast
05:04 Tiny Elements
05:57 Plan Ahead
07:30 Embrace Experimentaiton
08:45 What next?

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[josuemartinez]

your work is amazing, I would appreciate if you do a full tutorial about the 27, 26 and 12 days, I would be very grateful.

[WesleyRL]

Thank you for sharing all these insights. Incredible what you came up with during the 30 days. Can't wait for the design breakdowns! 🍿

[toddthompson]

I can't get the photographer to work with me at all. Oh, wait... he is me!

[filipkrenek]

I really liked every single one but my favourites have to be days 5 and 11 and I would love to see those step-by-steps especially of these. I think they are very experimental and probably not many people would have them as their top ones but I absolutely love them. Thank you for giving us such a large source of inspiration.

[jody_li]

You are a good sport designer bro
I think my favorites of your 30-days-challenge are definitely Day 12 or 19.
I also really like Day 17. The shape, the typography, and the threshold effect (maybe) on the subject are simple but great.
Nice work Daniel

[AnthoTheKID]

I would like to see a tutorial on the Reinhardt artwork.

[jonas]

Great work. Please, can you make tutorials of days 4, 8 and 25. Do not stop, you are role model for a lot of us.

[hannahbyrd]

I would love to see day 21. It’s one of my favorites from this challenge

[donkordegraft]

Your work is beautiful but I want to know how and where you get your inspiration from before designing this 30 days challenge?

[kennethadamsjr.]

A question for everyone:

Where do you find your sports images from? I typically use Google and then turn on the advanced search feature but sometimes it's hard to find exactly what I'm looking for so I figured I would ask to see what else is out there.

[NosferatuG]

My current struggle is just to try to find ideas for a design.

[mjven]

I would love to be a designer for sports and my portfolio consists of this but seems like the job opportunity are limited what other type designs should my portfolio include?