Become a Visual Trendsetter
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
During this 4-week cohort course, you'll learn how to create visual languages that stand out from the crowd.
Become a Visual Trendsetter
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
During this 4-week cohort course, you'll learn how to create visual languages that stand out from the crowd.
Course overview
What's the course about?
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 & 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! 👋
The ultimate course for
01
Product designers looking to train their creative and visual skillset
02
Startup designers
looking to create a visual language to use in brand, product, marketing and more.
03
Freelance Designers
Looking to learn a framework to consistently come up with fresh ideas and visual work.
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'
Become a Visual Trendsetter
Meet your instructor
Fons Mans
Fons is a Dutch designer with over 10 years of experience in visual, product and brand design. His work got featured by Adobe, Figma, Framer & others, and now he’s helping designers to think out of the box and level up their work and careers.
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Live Rooms
Mondays or Fridays
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.
Bite Sized Lessons
2 Lessons per week
Learn at a pace that feels right for you! Lessons consist of theory in the form of videos and/or documentation.
Practice Projects
1 or 2 assignments per week
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.
A-Sync Feedback
Anytime during the course
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.
Resources & Templates
Made available every week
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.
Course syllabus
01
Foundation
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.
02
Define and create your own style
Now that we know the our deeper motivations for the project, it's time to start applying this to our own (fictional project)
03
Dissecting top notch visual languages
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.
04
Apply your identity
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.
05
Maintain and evolve
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.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active learning, not passive watching
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Get reimbursed by your employer
Your employer may have funds to cover this course
More than 80% of our participants have had our course reimbursed. In many cases, their company didn’t have a formal policy. It’s worth asking.
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Get a taste
Watch me dissect 3 different visual tricks in Figma and explain how to re-create them!
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