DEX
Design Exercises Weekly
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WEEKLY DESIGN EXERCISE abbrev. DEX
/‘wiːkli/ /‘dɪˈzʌɪn/ /‘ɛksəsʌɪz/ | nounnoun: weekly design exercise; plural noun: weekly design exercises1.Activity requiring physical effort occurring once a week, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness of your freakin’ mind.
E.“Weekly Design Exercise improves your Adobe skills and design power”
Feel free to jump into our weekly design brief and produce a mini design project. They are completely free. No catch! These exercises are The Graphic Design School’s contribution to the continuum of the design education of our design graduates, students and the design world at large. Gosh darn that’s nice of us!
Who is this for?Whether you are a Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced level designer. There is a brief to suit you. Follow the instructions in the brief to the letter.
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What if I want to go further?If you love what we do, and think you would like to try your hand at becoming a designer. Check out our courses here.
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Week 41 Create Beautiful Type Design Editorials for Print and Web
Create your shapes with body of text.
Design Brief: Create an Instagram post turning text into texture and applying that to your design.
Resources:
White Smoke - From pngTree.com
iPhone with Mobile UI Kit Mockup - From freepik.com
Stilson - Type from Adobe Fonts.com
Beginner: Fill a shape with placeholder text.
Intermediate: Create a design with a one large letter and make a shape surrounding that letter with body text.
Advanced: Add texture to the background of your design.
Design Constraints: Make a sketch first, before getting started with your computer. Use InDesign to vectorise your letter. Use the Pen, Shapes and Text Tool to create your shape.
Design Goals: Create a design that you can post on instagram.
Total Time Allowed: Allow 30-45 minutes for concept and sketching. After that, allow another 30 minutes for beginner designers, an hour for intermediate and up to 90 minutes total for the advanced challenge.
Previous Weeks
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Week 40
Create your own neon flex Christmas lights sign or design your own for your wall!
Week 39
Create promotion and brand materials with your own optical art design piece in Adobe Illustrator
Week 38
Create a beautiful image design by merging two images seamlessly together in Photoshop
Week 37
Create your own kaleidoscope print in Photoshop
Week 36
Create a live animation for handwritten text in Adobe After Effects
Week 35
Create an animated pattern of your logo in Adobe After Effects
Week 34
Textile Design - Part 2 Creating Print Textures
Week 33
Get Started with a Basic Animation in After Effects
Week 32
Textile Design - Part 1 Repeat Print
Week 31
Use the width tool to create your Own Curvy Letter
Week 30
Create a punchy typographic Xmas gif, then we show you how to embed in your email signature!
Week 29
Using Adobe Dimension & Photoshop To Create Striking Packaging
Week 28
Draw & Apply your Own One-Line Art to a Mockup
Week 27
Social Media Series: Learn to shoot, style and edit an image for your social media channels
Week 26
Social Media Series: Absolute Beginners Design & Present an Instagram Mockup
Week 25
Create a World Cup animated gif in Photoshop to promote your event
Week 24
Create a Seamless Pattern in Photoshop and Apply it to Your Mockups - Part 2
Week 23
Create an Identity Using Engraved Effect on Images - Part 1
Week 22
Create a website prototype in Adobe XD - Part 2
Week 21
Add contrasting light effects to a photographic image - Part 1
Week 20
Create Wonderful Waves with the Twirl Tool
Week 19
Create a Dripping Text Effect in Illustrator
Week 18
Create a live animation for handwritten text in Adobe After Effects
Week 17
Create a Band Artwork using Photoshop Liquify Tool
Week 16
The Best Illustrator Brushes Tutorial Ever
Week 15
Create a Retro Style Surf Poster
Week 14
Create a Corny Holiday Sweater Knit Animated GIF
Week 13
Use Adobe Dimension to create a Perfect Packaging Showcase
Week 12
Create Surreal Compositions in Photoshop
Week 11
Create an Asian-inspired vintage style poster/postcard and ink-effect logo
Week 10
Create Patterns with Photoshop, Pattern Bombing, Apply Patterns to Mockups
Week 9
Layered Effect With Illustrator & Photoshop
Week 8
Gold Typography in Illustrator
Week 7
Stamp Tool & Clipping Mask in Photoshop
Week 6
Envelope Distort in Illustrator
Week 5
Paper 3D Collage
Week 4
Create a Mosaic of Beautiful Polygons
Week 3
Create Your Own Mockup
Week 2
Head Icons Design
Week 1