My Entire Graphic Design Degree in 12 Minutes

In this video I'll tell you exactly what I learned while getting my design degree. Also, I’ll let you know what I was NOT taught about design in school, and learned during my career in the real world. Hopefully, I can save you 4 years and nearly +100k in student debt.

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[aaronpulley]

OK, college class idea: students do a group project where one is a business major, one is design, one is web dev, etc., and they're each graded on the results of the same project, but based on different rubrics based on their majors. And they're allowed to see each others' rubrics and have to work together to get everyone a good grade. I see all sorts of ways that could go wrong, but I also think it would create a level of project realism I never saw in school.

[dont-want-no-wrench]

advice from an old designer: leaving school is just the beginning of your education- if it was the right kind of school it gave you some foundation and the discipline to work and improve on your own. not all students can make the change from being told what to do to being self driven. continual learning and experimentation should go on the rest of your life.

[thedeanscottshow]

As an agency owner, I love this. Keep educating! Fave tip: In the end you will not work alone. For the ones wanting to be a freelancer I'd like to add this to his tips... At some point clients will make you do things you don't get, like or agree with no matter what boundaries you set, and it's usually your friends/family/referral work. Don't let it frustrate you or you won't make it - either due to being overly sensitive about creative freedom / being trusted for your knowledge, or losing clients due to having attitude about it. Customer service with a smile is just as important as design when you're running a business.

[rocheuro]

"have to learn how to make designs tell a stories" ! - I really like this one! a strong one! it's kinda like storytelling in a film. I also use a design book first for sketchups (even if you can't beautifully draw) it's a great tip to shorten your time spend on your screen figuring out what you really want.

[Jonas_æ]

I come from a filmmaking background. My degree is in cinematography, and I've been mostly making things that started with me grabbing a camera. However I've gotten into motion graphics a lot over the past years, and having a decade of After Effects behind me helped a lot getting going – but I've come to the obvious realization that if I am going to do motion graphics I need to learn graphic design as well. So I'm extremely grateful that there's all these resources out here for people like me to get a better grasp of it.

[gabbywilliamson]

So glad I found your channel. I graduated college in 1999 and I've been working at a newspaper for 23 years. Not much change until the last few years. I feel like I need to return to school now.

[Promentalist]

Seriously THANK YOU for this curriculum.

[chondasaine]

This is my favorite video! As a junior designer, I find this very helpful, thank you!

[sam-harrison]

Whoever is doing the Flux thumbnails these days are doing a great job 👍

[ArthurLarin]

Thanks Ran! Such great mentorship as always!!

[JosiahFickinger]

My main interest at the moment is not so much graphic designing, but illustration work, such as my current profile picture, but I'm not sure how to turn that into a career. I wouldn't mind developing skills related to all aspects of computer designing including engineering, graphic designing and programming.

[snehapatnaik]

Thank you for such an amazing video!! Every single pointer makes so much sense to an aspiring designer like me 😊

[momo-xhbm]

Thank you for such a brief consolidation of what you learnt. It’s pretty inspiring and think on a second thought for these core elements topics. Love you and thank you so much

[kiarab]

I appreciate you my dude 🎉 it hard to keep my attention and I love how you got to the point and added a little details to help me get the gist and a better understanding

[mydigitaldesignspace]

I’m not sure you saved me 4 years or 100k, but good summarization. It’s easy to say the things you learned and what you learned yourself, but without college, I would have never learned what I know now. AI, XD, LR, ID, PS, PR, DW, Cinema4d, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Java, art history and the impacts on modern culture, design techniques, media writing, importance of Ux/UI, workflow, photography, film, proper typography, and the list goes on. And that was just in 2 years!!

[rlstone]

Considering changing my major to graphic design and minor in digital marketing (or should I double major?). I love that you included punk flyers, I never really gave much thought to the style. I grew up playing and sometimes creating show flyers, band logos, stenciling band shirts, never gave graphic design much thought until now lol Raymond Pettibon did a lot of awesome art for Black Flag. He was actually the guitarist, Greg Ginn's brother and had played bass in Panic beforehand. They had to change their name and he choose the name and created their famous bar logo and tons of awesome flyer and t-shirt designs.

[RafayelSylus]

Thank you sooo much😊. I stopped with my studie and now I'm searching for a new one, this video helped me alot😊

[whiskyo]

In Canada, our design education is highly focused on business. In fact, we had business and marketing classes every semester for the last 2 of 3 years. It could be because we also have Canadian design associations to help protect and support the industry?

And our work always had an element of working with support workers, such as in teams, or the photography department.

[itsALYcheea]

Yesss! I did a year and have been itching to learn more in graphic designing. GD has a special place in my heart. I

[artsandtechnology]

By far best video about design I watched in my life. Thank you all the best man