Master the craft of creating stand-out visual design languages for your product, feature or company.

Cohort 1 - Spring 2023

During this 4-week cohort course, you'll learn how to create visual languages that stand out from the crowd.

Fons Mans

Become a Visual Trendsetter

As designers, we often spend the majority of our time on research, wireframing and solving problems. This can result in design that works and is technically correct, but lacks ‘soul’ (Or 'pop' as some call it... 😅) With this course you’ll learn how to elevate your work by creating timeless, stellar visual languages for brand, marketing, product, web and other design projects! The 4-week course includes ✦ Video instructions✦ Bite-sized theory and exercises✦ Live office hours✦ Feedback rounds✦ Community chat &amp; support✦ Template files In short, 'Become a visual trendsetter' is a complete framework on ideating, creating and maintaining visual languages. You'll learn how to use and master this framework during a 4 week online bootcamp together with other designers. After the course, you'll unlock all of the templates and files, so you can apply the framework for future design projects. Can't wait to see you in class! 👋

What's the course about?

Product designers looking to train their creative and visual skillset

Startup designerslooking to create a visual language to use in brand, product, marketing and more.

Freelance DesignersLooking to learn a framework to consistently come up with fresh ideas and visual work.

The ultimate course for

Overcome the creative challenges of

Not being sure where to start

Being frustrated that you can't visualise your ideas

Having difficulty explaining your visual decisions

Learning new visual styles

Thinking out of the 'Frame'

Meet your instructor

Once a week, we're getting together to spend time on questions, feedback and more. These sessions will be recorded for those who can't make it.Sessions will run at 17:00 and 19:00 CET.

Live Rooms


Learn at a pace that feels right for you! Lessons consist of theory in the form of videos and/or documentation.

Bite Sized Lessons


In addition to the lessons during this course, you'll receive weekly assignments to practice and apply the newly learned frameworks.This can be in the form of documentation, iterations and more.

Practice Projects


You will be able to share your (design) progress and receive feedback from Fons and other community members in the form of Loom videos and Figma comments.

A-Sync Feedback


You'll get access to design and documentation templates which you can use as a starting point for your course assignments, as well as 'real life' projects.

Resources & Templates 


Course schedule

With every stellar visual language comes a strong conceptual base. During the first part of this course we'll take a look at how to approach foundations like this and apply this framework to your own (fictional) project.

Foundation


Now that we know the our deeper motivations for the project, it's time to start applying this to our own (fictional project)

Define and create your own style


Let's take a look at some strong examples of visual language. Why are they good? How are they executed? During this second part of the course we'll learn through observing and recreation.

Dissecting top notch visual languages


In this part of the course, we'll take a look at our newly created identity and see how we can successfully scale this across different mediums like products, marketing, socials and more.

Apply your identity


As designers, we know that our designs are never done. The same goes for visual languages. In this last part of the course we'll take a look at how to evolve and maintain, while keeping our foundation and consistency intact.

Maintain and evolve


Course syllabus

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active learning, not passive watching

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Learn with a cohort of peers

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