Watch Me Work: Real Client Design Projects

In this Skillshare class I take you behind the scenes of three real client projects from initial email to final delivery! Unlike my past classes where I focus in on a specific tool or skill set, this class is focused on the process of working with a client to complete a project, though fear not, I do talk about the tools I’m using along the way. I’ll go through both a range of projects: 

• Redesigning a book cover
• Illustrating and designing a postcard
• and Re-skinning a web app 

and tools 

• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• iPad + Procreate  

It’s one thing to learn the technical skills to complete the work for a project, but it’s quite another to learn how to manage the whole project. Take this as your chance to intern or shadow a designer (me!), right from your computer. Some of the things we’ll touch on are:

• Negotiating quotes 
• Providing contracts
• Apologizing to clients
• Skeletons/rough designs
• Handling revisions and presenting iterations
• Making decisions about fonts, color, and layout based on function instead of aesthetic
• Balancing decision making with letting your client lead the way
• Being flexible for different types of clients
• File management
• Asset Delivery
• Time tracking
• and more!

See you in class! Oh, and feel free to stop by my locker (... er Instagram) to chat afterwards if you have time :)

• Class Introduction
• Class Project
• Book Cover: Onboarding Pt. 1
• Book Cover: Onboarding Pt. 2
• Book Cover: Skeleton
• Book Cover: Refining Pt. 1
• Book Cover: Refining Pt. 2
• Book Cover: Final Edits & Delivery
• Postcard: Onboarding
• Postcard: Rough Draft
• Postcard: Refining
• Postcard: Final Edits & Delivery
• Web App: Onboarding
• Web App: Refining
• Web App: Delivery
• Thank You!