I’m an ACD with a copy background who wants to keep growing my art/design taste as I move towards CD. Are there any online courses (free or paid) you’d recommend for building that instinct and developing a better vocabulary for providing feedback to art people I manage?

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The best type course ever! https://www.thefutur.com/typography-01

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It really is!

It depends on your way of learning and how you learn best. Everyone is different. But I commend having the intention and curiosity to do this. I wish more people from
Both disciplines cared enough to do this.
If you’re more of an autodidact and like to learn on your own at your own pace, I would ask your AD friends whose experience and taste you admire, to explain some things to you. Like, “why is this composition good?” “What makes the edition in this video so cool?” Just ask questions, about the why something works and something doesn’t.

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Follow design tutorials on YouTube. No better way to learn than doing.

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Unless you want to truly go all in and spend years taking classes, etc., the most valuable thing you can cultivate is an understanding of your own limitations when it comes to design and art direction.

That sounds like snark, but it’s not. Understanding how you can *and* can’t be constructive is an incredibly useful and, in my experience, pretty rare skill.

I mean, I like the first part of your statement. “Go all in and spend years taking classes.” Why not?

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