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Design Guy
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The show that explores timeless design principles and explains them simply. We discuss graphic design in particular, and design in general, to equip you with lessons in process, inspiration, and practice. Get a new concept under your belt in mere minutes and unleash your creativity.
Episodes
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Design Guy, Episode 40, Talking About Type: Let Your Voice Be Heard!
Download Episode 40 Talking About Type: Let Your Voice Be Heard! Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. And before we begin, I'd like to announce my sponsor for the coming episodes. Yes, I have a sponsor. And...
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Design Guy, Episode 39, Talking About Type: An Introductory Word
Download Episode 39 Design Guy, Episode 39, Talking About Type: An Introductory Word Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Today, we turn our attention to Type. That grand subject of design, of graphic…
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Design Guy, Episode 38, Adopt a Negative Attitude
Download Episode 38 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Today we'll discuss why, sometimes, you've got to get negative to be positive. No, we're not talking creative mood swings here, or how to channel…
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Design Guy, Episode 37, All the World's a Stage for Designers
Download Episode 37 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. When beginning a new project, as much as is within your power to do so, choose the best of elements. You're going to be selecting type and image…
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Design Guy, Episode 35, Proximity and Alignment
Download Episode 35 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Today, we'll bring an end to this exploration of the principles of perception, also known as the Gestalt rules by discussing Proximity and Alignment....
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Design Guy, Episode 34, Visual Momentum (Continuance)
Download Episode 34 Design Guy here, welcome to the show, this is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. In our continuing series on Unity, we've been discussing the Gestalt Principles, and to remind once again, this is all about perception, and even...
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Design Guy, Episode 33, All in the Family (Similarity)
Download Episode 33 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Well we're in the midst of a discussion on Unity, and as a part of that topic, we've taken a detour through what are called the gestalt rules. So, if...
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Design Guy, Episode 32, We're All Seeking Closure
Download Episode 32 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. In our continuing series on Unity, we're exploring Gestalt Theory - which is about perception, and how our minds make meaningful wholes out of...
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Design Guy, Episode 31, Figure-Ground
Download Episode 31 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about Unity, which we've described as the compositional goal of taking many elements and fashioning them into a cohesive whole. In…
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Design Guy, Episode 30, Seeing Unity (Gestalt)
Download Episode 30 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about Unity. And when we began this discussion last episode, we said that unity is a goal of composition - unity describes how a...
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Design Guy, Episode 29, Unity: Out of Many, One
Download Episode 29 Design Guy, here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We concluded our recent series on balance with a quotation from Alex White's book, The Elements of Graphic Design. White tells us: "Balance is an...
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Design Guy, Episode 28, Balance On Balance
Download Episode 28 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're in the midst of a discussion on balance, and in the previous episodes we discussed how elements act as optical weights within certain balancing...
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Design Guy, Episode 27, Asymmetrical or Informal Balance
Download Episode 27 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Now these days we've taken up the principle of Balance. And having established the concept of optical weight, and the way our page becomes a kind of...
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Design Guy, Episode 26, Symmetrical or Formal Balance
Download Episode 26 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. In our last episode, we took up the principle of balance. And to lay the ground work for this discussion, we introduced the phrase, optical weight,...
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Design Guy, Episode 25, Balancing Act
Download Episode 25 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explore timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Well, we may not be able to bring balance to the force, but we can speak to the principles of balance that will help us in our design work. In life…
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Design Guy, Episode 24, Elements: Format, The Forgotten Element
Download Episode 24 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Today, we bring to a close our series on the formal elements of two dimensional design. Having surveyed line, shape, value, color, and texture, today...
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Design Guy, Episode 23, Elements: Smooth Moves with Texture
Download Episode 23 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Or as Emerson once exhorted, "If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles, you can devise your own…
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Design Guy, Episode 22, Elements: Value-Added Design
Download Episode 22 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the formal elements of two-dimensional design. And these are the building block elements, the fundamentals at work in our design...
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Design Guy, Episode 21, Elements: The Color of Design
Download Episode 21 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the Formal Elements, which we've defined as the building blocks of two dimensional design. To that end, we've touched on Line and...
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Design Guy, Episode 20, Elements: Things Are Shaping Up Nicely
Download Episode 20 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the Formal Elements, which we previously described as the building blocks of two dimensional design. In the last episode, we...
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Design Guy, Episode 19, Elements: What's the Point of Line?
Download Episode 19 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. As I've mentioned before, our focus here is on principles, rather than software tips or industry events. Not that there's anything wrong with those...
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Design Guy, Episode 18, The Formal Elements of Design: A Foreword
Download Episode 18 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Well, it's high time we spoke about the basic elements of 2-dimensional design, the so-called formal elements. But before we get into specifics, we...
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Design Guy, Episode 17, Embracing Constraints
Download Episode 17 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Now, we've spent some time trekking through that terrain known as the creative process, and on our way we've looked at a few ideas that will help us…
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Design Guy, Episode 16, The Eleventh Draft
Download Episode 16 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design, and explains them simply. We've talking about creativity in recent episodes. And, continuing this line of thought, I'd like to start today's episode with a quotation. It's by...
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Design Guy, Episode 15, Flow vs. Edit
Download Episode 15 Flow vs. Edit Design guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. If you're just joining us, our motto here is "Principles First." Or to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "If you learn only methods, you'll be...
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Design Guy, Episode 14, The Mind at Odds
Download Episode 14 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the creative process. The last couple of shows, we gave attention to the creative mind. We spoke about the mental patnership of…
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Design Guy, Episode 13, The Mind at Play
Download Episode 13 Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the nature of the creative process, and the things we can do to get a handle on it. Last time, we spoke about the creative mind....
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Design Guy, Episode 12, The Creative Mind
Download Episode 12 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We live in a create-on-demand world, and, whether you're a graphic designer or a college student working on a writing assignment, or a podcaster…
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Design Guy, Episode 11, Getting A Handle on Creativity
Download Episode 11 Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Now, we're talking about the creative process. And in earlier episodes, we discussed the preparation that precedes creativity, which namely takes…
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Design Guy, Episode 10, Getting Creative
Download Episode 10 Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program where we set aside the technical manuals and focus on the timeless aspects of design. Software versions come and go, and new forms of media emerge, but the principles behind our work stay pretty much the same. So, it's...
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Design Guy, Episode 9, Designer's Attributes Pt. 3
Download Episode 9 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores the timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Now, we've been talking about the attributes of the designer. And today, we'll conclude this little rabbit trail with one final observation or...
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Design Guy, Episode 8, Designer's Attributes Pt. 2
Download Episode 8 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. We're talking about the attributes of the designer. And we began last time by asserting that graphic designers take an interest in the world around...
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Design Guy, Episode 7, Designer's Attributes Pt. 1
Download Episode 7 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. If you're just joining us, we're talking about the attributes of the designer. In the last episode, we established the idea that, as designers, we...
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Design Guy, Episode 6, Harry Houdini and the Attributes of a Designer
Download Episode 6 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. If you've been following along, you'll know that we've been talking about the very beginning stages of the design process, and the skills we need to...
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Design Guy, Episode 5, How Design Begins, Pt. 2
Download Episode 5 Design Guy, here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that offers a pause from our technical manuals: all the keeping up we do with tools, technologies, the state of the art. Now, we've got to keep up, of course. It's essential we stay current. But it also can be...
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Design Guy, Episode 4, How Design Begins
Download Episode 4 Design guy here. Welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Last episode we explored Graphic Design. We laid out a basic definition first by clarifying it's difference from fine art. In fine art, it's perfectly...
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Design Guy, Episode 3, On Graphic Design
Download Episode 3 Design guy here. Welcome back. This is the show that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply. Last episode we defined design as the act of creating order out of chaos. And whether we're talking graphic or interior or environmental design, the basic...
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Design Guy, Episode 1, Intro Episode
Download Episode 1 Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is our premier episode, so, by way of introduction I'd like to explain what the show is about, and how you'll benefit. We live in a design-driven age. We've witnessed a productivity revolution and the spawning of vast amounts of new...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The show that explores timeless design principles and explains them simply. We discuss graphic design in particular, and design in general, to equip you with lessons in process, inspiration, and practice. Get a new concept under your belt in mere minutes and unleash your creativity.
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Design Guy currently has 40 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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The show that explores timeless design principles and explains them simply. We discuss graphic design in particular, and design in general, to equip you with lessons in process, inspiration, and practice. Get a new concept under your belt in mere minutes and unleash your creativity.
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