🔴 Learn Typography Through This Poster Design Critique 2018

Don't get stuck with your type layouts. Improve your typography skills by watching Chris Do & Emily Xie review and critique fan submitted design and layouts. They offer up helpful suggestions, design alternatives and explore different design options.

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[rgt]

Yay! My poster made it in the thumbnail :)

[BASHACADEMY]

I truly miss those old days when Chris and the team were live for hours, educating me while entertaining with the thing I love the most: design

[AcousticBruce]

I've been a programmer for a while and never saw myself as an artist that could paint a picture but with typography, there is something about it that's drawing me in. I am expanding my mind and even opening up to become an artist myself. I have to say that your videos that you do are incredibly inspiring to me and I feel one with them.

[jermaine]

Here's a suggestion from me - I would love you guys to add the thing that shows keyboard buttons pressed in real time on screen/live stream.
So many times during the video I thought to myself "How convinient, I wonder which keyboard shortcut did Emily use for this trick?".
It would be very useful to learn that along the way. Keep up the great work you guys are my favourite yt channel, not just for design but overall! Love The Futur!

[Hashimhamza]

Free videos like this from amazing guys like you really help people like me.

Your videos really help us to become better designers.

I want to become a good designer but I can never attend a design school.

Your detailed and rich feedback about designs is really helpful to learn about bad design, good design and better design.

You guys rock.

[maheshwariswarnima]

I keep coming back to the poster design critique videos whenever I am stuck with my posters or need some inspiration. They are so helpful omg!! Thank you so much for this. Love you guys! Hope we get to see more like this!

[Numonique]

19:28 I just need to replay Chris Do squeaky voice and I will never EVER stretch my type! Love those small out of normal moments haha!

[bothbou]

Ah yes, The Futur doing a video about type. Nothing is more satisfying.

[oanailea]

Besides the feedback part, the most important thing I learn with occasion is: never be shallow, (doing a quick thing just to be done)- because you never know when what you wish for will happen. So, "do it, it's time" - It's for me - going forward with the"typography" course I bought, going forward with the work - and best is yet to come. Good lesson for me - thank you very much! The Futur is bright! <3

[timson]

He did get tracking and kerning mixed up sometime after 1:10:00 They both owed her money, and I. wonder if she got paid lol

[lowellunlimited]

The stretch of time between 2:50-3:22 makes Chris Do look like a control freak. Kind of an authentic look at what he's really like.

[goobyplease]

CHRIS has always taught us to
DO it the right way

[tonmoykarmoker]

I just love the "Title Music" and how Chris announce it. "Role The TITLE".

[fumakage]

Uh oh. So now I find out the thing I’m weakest at is what is Mr. Do’s priority…type. Now even MORE addicted!!! Love it.

[guruvishnu]

I am watching this in 2023 and it's still being very helpful and insightful. Thanks chris and team! You guys need to keep doing stuff like these. It was fun learning exp/

[samojerom]

Good design depends on design principles + elements + feeling + idea + experience if you are good in these things you can make professional designs, sometimes graphic designers becomes in the top because they have something extra which is the skills .

[liamowen]

Wow I watched the one from a year ago and it's night and day. Love the energy this one has and this video is super informative! Glad to see that Chris seems overall in a better mood, makes the environment a lot easier and the advice better to digest.

[YotamGuttman]

54:15 Pacha kucha is an international event, similar to Ted talk but the alternative version and mainly hosts lecturers from different fields of art. I'm pretty sure that this typeface is their actual logo, that can't be changed.

[srinivasnahak]

Chris thanks a lot for that detailed explanation of type "E" and also thanks Emily for stunning designs

Chris....You just blew my mind in that page fold design OMG 😱 loved it


a side note

This beach ball problem also happens in Mac 😂🤣🤣 to know that

[SloanKaylaRae]

@ 16:31 I have to disagree!
I love stretched type from a little bit starched to a lot! And also some type isn’t meant to be read, that’s the beauty of art! Some things aren’t meant to be read and it’s okay to be different from your design to make it stand out against the others! I will always have stretched type (not in every design just if it needs it) also I love to use 2 or more fonts in my design so that it’s different and I think with some of the posters that are being shown and redesign I like the ideas I would love to design them a tad differently, I think design and the art is about trial and error and by watching this it’s giving me design ideas for my own work!!