Art Direction for Creative Visual Branding – Linus Lohoff

Art Direction for Creative Visual Branding Information

Design a brand’s visual identity and build a professional brand book using key art direction techniques

If there’s a budding Art Director in you, filled with ideas, and searching for the right tools and techniques to build remarkable brand identities, then you’ve come to the right place. Linus Lohoff, freelance Art Director for clients like Adobe, Nike, and Comme des Garçons, wants to show you the ropes and widen your creative scope, so that you too can enchant the world with your visual communication strategy.

In this course, Linus breaks down the art direction profession into a tried and tested step-by-step method, encourages you to find your own conclusions, and leads the way for you to create your own professional brand book, ready to present to a client.

Start the course by getting to know Linus, how his interest for visual communication began, about his interesting career path so far, along with an overview of all the artists, designers, and creatives that continuously inspire his work.

Understand the role of an art director, see their role in the design industry, and what part they play within a creative team. See how to analyze a client’s brief using a case study and learn how to ask the right questions to steer your research. Next, map out your inspiration with your mood board, exploring the visual language and message you want to express using Linus’ mood board framework.

Get to work on your brand project by going through all the creative tools that shape your visual communication, working on the purpose of each. Sketch your logo, choose a color palette, search for typography, and work through each visual element strategically. Decide on your graphic system, illustration and photography style, and create your mockups.

Work on your brand book once you have all your visual elements ready, using Linus’ own brand book from a client, to see his own layout style and inspire yours. Finally, learn how to present it in a professional way and see the different ways that it can be used, as well as how it can evolve with more visual elements.

Here’s what you’ll get:

1. Introduction
2. Design Strategy
3. Identity Design
4. Brand Book
5. Final project

Who is this course for?

This course is for anyone interested in exploring the role of an Art Director and learning how to translate ideas into visual communication tools.

About Author

Linus Lohoff is a German Art Director with Brazilian roots, based in Barcelona, Spain. His creativity began through music, playing the drums with his band, where he was in charge of directing the photoshoots, writing the blog, and creating posters, which led him to study Visual Communication at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. While studying, he was an intern for a major German magazine where he got to organize photoshoots and produce visuals.

Once he finished his studies, he worked as a junior art director for Saatchi & Saatchi, BOROS design studio as an art director, and then moved to Barcelona to work at Vasava.

Now, Linus works freelance, for major brands like Rigato Eyewear, Native Shoes, Adobe, Nike, Comme des Garçons, Selina, Trendmap Barcelona, Austral, PUIG, Veltins, Le Timbre, Aktionskreis Pater Beda, Everpress, Veltins, and many more.

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