SmartPhone Graphic Design

Explore color as a crucial design element, understand the color wheel and effective color combinations, and learn how color choices convey messages and align with client needs in graphic design.

Explore the color wheel and identify primary colors—yellow, red, blue—and secondary colors—orange, violet, green. Note tertiary combinations like red orange, blue violet, and red violet.

Explore color combinations for mobile design by pairing warm and cool palettes, understanding high-contrast schemes like yellow and black, and selecting combinations to convey mood and context.

Explore fonts as a crucial design element and understand how size and style in typography convey distinct messages in smartphone graphic design.

Explore font combinations for smartphone graphic design, balancing legibility with character by pairing serifs like Merryweather or Quanto Centro with sans serifs such as Roboto, then apply versatile superfamilies.

Define shape as the form and boundary of an object, including its inner and outer outline. Highlight the importance of shapes in graphic design and the most commonly used shapes.

Explore the most commonly used shapes in smartphone graphic design, including square, rectangle, triangle, circle, oval, and hexagon, and learn practical layouts for flyers and posters.

Explore how shapes enhance smartphone graphic design by illustrating five core roles: simplicity, clear idea representation, beautification, bulk representation of ideas, and grouping images effectively.

Explore the grid, a structure of intersecting lines that organizes content and frames graphic elements in a rational, easy-to-absorb layout.

Explore layout as the arrangement of texts and pictures on a page, and preview a practical look at grids and layouts in smartphone graphic design.

Explore how grids and layouts provide a framework for organizing design elements in smartphone graphic design, illustrated with a nine-by-16 flyer and diagonal compositions.

Explore how spacing and alignment shape graphic design for smartphone flyers, testing values like 1.0, 1.5, and beyond to achieve a rational, eye‑friendly layout.

Learn how alignment in design works by positioning objects, shapes, and elements in relation to each other. The lecture emphasizes spacing and alignment in graphic design and previews practical exercises.

Learn practical alignment and spacing in graphic design using a 9 by 16 layout, with a PowerPoint-like workflow that demonstrates background image, text, color, and opacity.

Explore the Pixellab interface and tools for smartphone graphic design, including text editing, color picking, gradients, shapes, spacing and alignment, and layering techniques.

Explore Pixel Lab tools for smartphone graphic design, including undo and zoom, grid-based layouts, panel layering, color and shape editors, text, stickers, drawing, and saving or sharing designs.

Explore the bottom tools in pixel lab to manage projects, save the Introduction project, and access the project folder via the venn diagram icon.

Explore pixel lab tools for smartphone graphic design, focusing on the text tool, styles, fonts, color, texture, and typography enhancements like padding, alignment, and shadows.

Explore shape and text tools, cropping, and relative sizing with maintain ratio. Learn merging, erasing colors with a color picker, and applying 3D rotate, perspective, shadow, and emboss effects.

Explore the background tool in the piezo lab app, applying solid colors or gradients, enabling transparent PNG exports, and using image size, crop, and gallery or camera inputs.

Explore pixel lab tools to edit backgrounds with the effect, noise, strips, and alpha controls, plus brightness, contrast, and saturation adjustments for smartphone graphic design.

Design the 'time is golden' graphic in a practical mini project, using gradient strokes, 3D oblique text, textures, padding, and layered copies to build a polished golden design.

Develop a smartphone graphic by refining the 'time is golden' design: remove white backgrounds, apply strokes, adjust colors, add black marketing-script text, and finalize layered composition with a gradient background.

Design an image-in-text composition by styling text with padding and a gradient stroke, inserting an image, merging layers, and removing the background with remove color and erase color tools.

Learn to convert an image into text by duplicating and merging layers, masking the background, then apply gradient colors, strokes, and the marketing script inline font with grid-based alignment.

Design a campaign flyer in the lab app, remove the background, apply a black to light ash gradient, and compose Oliver State University branding with a logo and circles.

Learn smartphone campaign flyer design with relative sizing, color, Amaranth Bold typography, and inserting text like 'Student Representative Council' and 'Oliver State University' for '2025 election' with a star logo.

Design a campaign flyer by composing a bulletin with shapes, color fills, and precise relative sizing, aligning elements with Oliver State University and OU, applying accessibility-focused typography like Chunk Five.

Finalize the campaign flyer by applying Alex Brush and Chunk Five fonts, adjusting font sizes and spacing, merging layers, and adding logo, decorative shapes, and hashtag messaging.

Design a salon invitation card as a 2-in-1 print project in a mobile app, using a 7 by 4.8 inch canvas with gold and black textures and borders.

Design a salon graduation invitation card by placing white text in Yatagan at size 45 with spacing 20, adding a gold edge and a clock showing time 530.

Create a salon graduation invitation card by adding a circle with a gradient stroke, removing the background, and layering two circle-cropped images behind it.

Add a second background, rotate to landscape, adjust opacity to 40%, and apply texture and fonts to the graduation ceremony text for the invitation design.

Design a salon graduation invitation card on mobile as part 5, arranging shapes, merging layers, aligning text, and adding calendar icons, date, location, and text elements.

Crop gold texture to the brightest middle and apply it to the name area with the texture tool; resize, align with grid spacing, and practice to finish the invitation card.