Hands-On Design: Reinvent Your Creative Process
A course by Jan Wilker , Graphic Designer and Creative Director
Reframe your design process by exploring playful experimentation that caters to your project’s specific needs
Reframe your design process by exploring playful experimentation that caters to your project’s specific needs
What’s a good design idea with a bad execution process? What’s a bad design idea with a great execution? The answer is the same: it could have been better. Designer Jan Wilker is here to show you how to get the most out of your design process by exploring the parameters of your project using all your senses.
Discover a unique approach to design that involves exploration and observation in search of new ideas to materialize. Learn how to take your best ideas, find their strong points, and come up with an innovative design.
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 16 downloads
- 95% positive reviews (22)
- 679 students
- 13 lessons (1h 45m)
- 16 additional resources (9 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Design a t-shirt through an exploratory design process.
Who is this online course for?
This course is great for designers and creative professionals who want to broaden their creative horizons.
Requirements and materials
No previous experience is necessary.
To take this course, you need: two plain white t-shirts, a textile marker, scissors, and various household items you might have at home.
Reviews
A course by Jan Wilker
Jan Wilker is a graphic designer and creative director from Ulm, Germany. After completing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, he moved to New York City to start his own studio, karlssonwilker. Alongside his partner Hjalti Karlsson, the studio provides full creative services from branding, signage, environmental design, strategy and ideation, and more.
karlssowilker has worked with a wide range of clients, which include Bloomberg, Capitol Records, Nintendo, Puma, Samsung, TIME Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. They’ve also been featured in a number of publications like Communication Design, Grafik, Creative Review, and more.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Preparation
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What Is Design Process
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How Do We Do What We Do? The Archetypical Design Process
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Materials
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Sketching a T-Shirt
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U3
Design by Doing
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Spend Some Time With a T-Shirt
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Spend Some Time With a Marker
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Spend Some Time With a T-Shirt and a Marker
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Generate Concepts
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Final T-Shirt Prototype
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U4
This Is Not a T-Shirt
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Understand the T-Shirt Process and Its Meaning
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How to Apply the T-Shirt Process
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FP
Final project
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Hands-On Design: Reinvent Your Creative Process
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
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ilina
Refreshing ideas, nice.
graveartist
Jan Wilker has a very interesting approach to design. His methodology helps you to think outside the box and develop creative results for ordinary things.
liekedemulder
PlusLeuk om even stil te staan en te experimenteren met andere manieren om het creatieve proces te doorlopen. Toch heb ik het gevoel met deze cursus niet voldoende tools te hebben om direct aan de slag te gaan. Ik zal me verdiepen in de aanbevolen literatuur die de docent aanbiedt.
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missgg
No me ha gustado. Se pierde mucho tiempo con la chica poniéndose y quitándose la camiseta (también veo absurdo que no lo haga él mismo y tenga que hacer uso de una ayudante) y en general lo que pretende decir podría haberse resuelto en menos tiempo y dedicarlo a enseñar algo más del proceso creativo. Quizás por el tema del la ayudante he percibido al profesor como poco cercano y un poco endiosado. En resumen, no he aprendido nada y no lo recomiendo.
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clickryan
Jans guidance and creative insight has led me down an enjoyable path of creating a T-shirt that I not only connect and love, but I think people will be drawn to want to wear! Well worth the micro-investment in getting into Jan's innovative brain :)