Students learn to identify 'pain points'—frustrations in daily life—as the foundation for entrepreneurial opportunities and business solutions.
Students define their brand's personality and photography style, using image filters and curation to complete the final section of their professional style guide.
Students create a formal brand style guide, documenting rules for logo usage, color palettes with Hex codes, and typography to ensure brand consistency.
Students learn to use Canva as a professional layout tool, transitioning from building individual design components to assembling a cohesive Brand Board using custom assets, frames, and positioning tools.
Students refine their logo drafts by applying principles of negative space and contrast, creating color and black-and-white versions for professional export.
Students combine their icon and typography choices to build an official brand logo draft, focusing on balance, alignment guides, and the 'Squint Test' for simplicity.
Students master custom shape creation using polyline and curve tools, exploring line weights and the importance of vector scalability for professional branding.
Students move from curating to creating, using Google Drawing to build complex objects with simple geometric shapes while learning the fundamentals of vector design and layering.
Students learn how font choices communicate a brand's tone of voice, distinguishing between serif, sans serif, and display fonts to select a pair that fits their business identity.
Students explore the emotional impact of color in branding, learning to use Hex codes and curated imagery to build a brand mood board that reflects their product's personality.
Students perform quality control on their business proposals through peer review, grammar tools, and text-to-speech auditing before exporting their final work as professional PDFs.