Michael Frederick – Design Kickstart

Course Detail

Salepage: Michael Frederick – Design Kickstart

With Design Kickstart, you’ll take on projects that are inspired by the industry while learning crucial design principles that will immediately boost your design work. By the end of this course, you’ll be fully equipped with the fundamental design skills required to begin creating motion-ready storyboards.
STANDOUT FEATURES
more than 20 hours of instructional video
Interviews and solo episodes for podcasts
Comprehensive PDFs to aid with your learning
Master Design Principles
Every motion designer needs to have design skills, and not simply for stunning still images. Additionally, you must learn how to design compositions with motion in mind. Look no farther than this course if you want to add this important ability to your repertoire. By applying them to projects that simulate actual customer requirements, you’ll discover crucial Design Principles and foundations and expand your design knowledge while putting new skills into effect straight away. You’ll have the fundamentals necessary to further explore the depths of designing for motion at the end of this course.
The intended audience for this course is novices. By the time you’re done, you’ll be familiar with the design principles that all designers should know. Additionally, you’ll be prepared to go to additional classes, such as Design Bootcamp, where you may put this fundamental knowledge to use.
For this course, proficiency in Photoshop and Illustrator is a must. While you don’t need to be an expert on the entire software, you do need to understand the fundamentals. Check out our Photoshop and Illustrator Unleashed course if you haven’t used these programs before; you’ll discover industry-recognized tools and methods to get started making art right away.
Course Outline
Week 1
Meet your fellow students and become familiar with the course structure. Additionally, you will get a preview of the design principles you will master in this course.
Week 2 This week, via the use of positive and negative space, you will be exposed to the crucial function that contrast plays in composition.
Week 3 Now is the time to really focus on writing songs that function as a series designed to be performed live. You’ll look at how to draw attention to crucial components and start experimenting with value and color.
Week 4 This week is a “focus week,” giving you the chance to catch up on reading and other assignments. You’ll also get a glimpse of what it’s like to pursue design as a profession.
With a challenging typographical challenge in Week 5, you’ll continue to hone your type setting abilities. By employing basic forms to convey complex thoughts, you’ll also learn a lesson in simplicity.
Week 6 Now it’s time to concentrate on your final project and try out your newly acquired design abilities. You’ll get to create a comprehensive set of boards from start to end while learning some practical advice.
Week 7 & 8
Extended Critique is the last two weeks of class. During this period, you can catch up on work, complete your final project, and submit it for review.
Michael Frederick, your instructor
Mike Frederick, an Emmy-winning designer and art director who has over 20 years of experience in the field of motion design, will be your fearless guide on this adventure. His customer list for broadcast and advertising is enormous.

What is forex?

Quite simply, it’s the global market that allows one to trade two currencies against each other.

If you think one currency will be stronger versus the other, and you end up correct, then you can make a profit.

If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you usually had to find a currency exchange booth at the airport, and then exchange the money you have in your wallet into the currency of the country you are visiting.

Foreign Exchange
You go up to the counter and notice a screen displaying different exchange rates for different currencies.

An exchange rate is the relative price of two currencies from two different countries.

You find “Japanese yen” and think to yourself, “WOW! My one dollar is worth 100 yen?! And I have ten dollars! I’m going to be rich!!!”
When you do this, you’ve essentially participated in the forex market!

You’ve exchanged one currency for another.

Or in forex trading terms, assuming you’re an American visiting Japan, you’ve sold dollars and bought yen.

Currency Exchange

Before you fly back home, you stop by the currency exchange booth to exchange the yen that you miraculously have left over (Tokyo is expensive!) and notice the exchange rates have changed.

It’s these changes in the exchange rates that allow you to make money in the foreign exchange market.