WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:07.490 --> 00:00:10.590 When you are getting started with InDesign, 00:00:10.590 --> 00:00:13.395 you might also be getting started in design in general. 00:00:13.395 --> 00:00:15.810 Getting ideas for layouts can be quite tough, 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:19.575 so inspiration is how you grow really quickly. 00:00:19.575 --> 00:00:20.820 Look at the best people around, 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:21.960 see what they are doing. 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.110 We're copying here, we're getting inspired by and 00:00:25.110 --> 00:00:28.410 we are appropriating their ideas and using our own content, 00:00:28.410 --> 00:00:30.030 our own fonts, our own colors. 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:31.530 Yeah, so just inspiration. 00:00:31.530 --> 00:00:33.720 The places to go, Pinterest is an easy one. 00:00:33.720 --> 00:00:34.830 The one in here in front of me, 00:00:34.830 --> 00:00:36.525 I put a magazine spread. 00:00:36.525 --> 00:00:41.715 Spread is two pages side-by-side and gives you an of ideas you might get started. 00:00:41.715 --> 00:00:44.600 Once you've signed in, you can start putting them to 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.320 your own boards and you'll have a collection of things you like. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:52.880 I like another versions very similar to Pinterest is called Niice with two i's. 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:54.170 There it is, dot co. 00:00:54.170 --> 00:00:57.440 I like this one. I find a bit of layout. So I have done same thing. 00:00:57.440 --> 00:00:59.060 I've done a search for magazine spread. 00:00:59.060 --> 00:01:03.360 It just removes all the Pinterest branding from it. I like this site. 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:05.270 Just like Pinterest, you can have boards here, 00:01:05.270 --> 00:01:06.515 and when you get them all together, 00:01:06.515 --> 00:01:10.160 let's have a look at one of my boards, hand-drawn type. 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:15.290 You can see, hey, psychonic gathering ideas to get you job going. 00:01:15.290 --> 00:01:17.345 Another really good one is Behance. 00:01:17.345 --> 00:01:20.450 Behance has some other perks other than just inspiration. 00:01:20.450 --> 00:01:22.010 I've done magazine spread in here. 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:26.060 This is the place that we're going to look at later in the tutorial for your portfolio. 00:01:26.060 --> 00:01:29.435 This is where people get found as designers more, and more. 00:01:29.435 --> 00:01:32.300 Another perk in here is often they'll have, 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:34.310 see this one here is not somebody's work so much as 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:36.260 it's a photorealistic catalog magazine, 00:01:36.260 --> 00:01:39.125 you can download and start using it like a little template. 00:01:39.125 --> 00:01:42.030 Now one of the problems often is you'll see this and you'll say, 00:01:42.030 --> 00:01:43.595 "Great, here's a really cool cover, 00:01:43.595 --> 00:01:45.000 I really like it." 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.860 But you have a different project. 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:49.410 Somebody's come to you and said, "Hey, here's the cover." 00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:53.040 They haven't said here's like three words to put on it. They have said. 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.700 "Hey, I want you to fill the cover with two pages of Word documents." 00:01:56.700 --> 00:01:58.430 And you're like, "You don't get to do 00:01:58.430 --> 00:02:02.580 lovely negative space and big blank areas because you've got to fill it jam-packed." 00:02:02.580 --> 00:02:07.775 I find the best inspiration for those who can takes heavy annual reports, 00:02:07.775 --> 00:02:12.410 brochures really takes heavy stuff as tell Google annual reports. 00:02:12.410 --> 00:02:15.664 I'm going to Google here, I've typed annual report, just add the word PDF. 00:02:15.664 --> 00:02:20.740 Publicly listed companies have to go and report their annual reports online. 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:21.800 You will find lots of stuff, 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:23.480 and I've just clicked on a few of these, 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:26.950 and found like, I don't even know what CRH is. 00:02:26.950 --> 00:02:28.810 I'm just looking at how they've getting around. 00:02:28.810 --> 00:02:31.730 Because you see there's a lot of data that have to communicate. 00:02:31.730 --> 00:02:34.980 They've done some really cool infographics. 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:38.475 They've gone for a three-column layout, 1, 2, 3. 00:02:38.475 --> 00:02:40.190 I'm just looking for an inspiration, 00:02:40.190 --> 00:02:44.240 just thinking like I never considered the big typed down the side, big image. 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.055 Getting ideas from this. 00:02:46.055 --> 00:02:47.665 Here is BMW is one. 00:02:47.665 --> 00:02:50.250 You can see somebody's going to hand you a thing like this and I'm like, 00:02:50.250 --> 00:02:53.660 how I'm I going to show this Excel graph and actually make it eligible? 00:02:53.660 --> 00:02:58.100 You can see here they've done a really nice job of clarifying the year that we're at. 00:02:58.100 --> 00:03:00.560 Yeah, you just work through some of these really ticks 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.385 heavy documents and get an idea about how you might approach it. 00:03:04.385 --> 00:03:06.980 Another thing you can do is use a standard template. 00:03:06.980 --> 00:03:10.640 InDesign especially, if you go to New, 00:03:10.640 --> 00:03:13.745 or File New, you go to print, 00:03:13.745 --> 00:03:16.505 and let's say we're doing some brochure or a magazine. 00:03:16.505 --> 00:03:19.990 You'll see underneath these blank documents now we have these templates. 00:03:19.990 --> 00:03:22.850 If you're using an older version of InDesign, it doesn't work. 00:03:22.850 --> 00:03:24.635 But here we've got some templates, 00:03:24.635 --> 00:03:26.690 and lets say we are doing some, 00:03:26.690 --> 00:03:28.385 you can see there's a jacket, 00:03:28.385 --> 00:03:29.540 there's a food magazine layout, 00:03:29.540 --> 00:03:33.260 let's click on this, and let's click on Show Preview. 00:03:33.260 --> 00:03:35.275 It just gives you an idea you like, "I like this." 00:03:35.275 --> 00:03:37.290 You might start with this, and you can totally uses and 00:03:37.290 --> 00:03:39.585 just switch out the images. There's is nothing stopping you. 00:03:39.585 --> 00:03:43.610 What you'll find is, you'll end up adjusting it to suit your tastes and you're content, 00:03:43.610 --> 00:03:44.990 and it will change quite a bit. 00:03:44.990 --> 00:03:47.195 You'll be able to take ownership of the design. 00:03:47.195 --> 00:03:49.055 When you click Download, 00:03:49.055 --> 00:03:50.825 you've got to be connected to the net. 00:03:50.825 --> 00:03:53.000 It takes a little while, but eventually, 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.750 the only difference is that these images won't be there when you open it. 00:03:55.750 --> 00:03:57.225 You can see now it's downloaded. 00:03:57.225 --> 00:03:59.940 It is there. Done. Click open. 00:03:59.940 --> 00:04:02.340 It's using fonts. We don't currently have. 00:04:02.340 --> 00:04:04.010 We're going to look at missing fonts a little bit later on, 00:04:04.010 --> 00:04:06.920 but we're going to click Sync Fonts and hit Close, 00:04:06.920 --> 00:04:08.915 and you've got a magazine layout. 00:04:08.915 --> 00:04:12.080 The only trouble is without the images just doesn't look as pretty. 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.125 But hopefully you've got access to some images for your work. 00:04:15.125 --> 00:04:18.410 Otherwise, you're going to have to go to stock Library sites and start filling it in, 00:04:18.410 --> 00:04:19.970 and it's a nice way to get started. 00:04:19.970 --> 00:04:23.420 Now my parting advice for somebody who's a little stressed out for 00:04:23.420 --> 00:04:26.890 getting design ideas is that it does get easier. 00:04:26.890 --> 00:04:28.625 Nobody is born a good designer. 00:04:28.625 --> 00:04:32.150 But now you've got an interest and you've got some tolls in this area. 00:04:32.150 --> 00:04:35.150 You'll start keeping an eye out for designs that you like fonts, 00:04:35.150 --> 00:04:36.890 you like colors, you start liking. 00:04:36.890 --> 00:04:38.690 What will happen after a few projects, 00:04:38.690 --> 00:04:40.160 you'll start knowing what clients like, 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:42.865 and what they don't like, and what's worked, and what hasn't. 00:04:42.865 --> 00:04:44.660 As you get more experienced, 00:04:44.660 --> 00:04:47.300 you'll start to be able to pull designs at a thin air, 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:48.530 but you're not pulling methanol. 00:04:48.530 --> 00:04:52.805 You pulling out of past experiences, successes, wins, losses. 00:04:52.805 --> 00:04:55.235 That's going to be it for our inspiration section. 00:04:55.235 --> 00:04:57.500 We're going to go through onto the next section where we start 00:04:57.500 --> 00:05:00.700 updating somebody else's file. Very important.