Start with a Power Pose
Lesson 9 from: Bold & Fearless DesignJames Victore
Start with a Power Pose
Lesson 9 from: Bold & Fearless DesignJames Victore
Lessons
Day 1
1Bonus Video: Workhorse Fonts
22:22 2Let's Start Unlearning
23:47 3Why Posters?
13:15 4The Cliché
11:03 5Show Me the Critique
30:21 6Litter Poster Assignment: The Brief
02:33 7Answering the Client Brief
06:59Working with the Client
11:54 9Start with a Power Pose
03:16 10Generating Ideas: Sketches & Pushups
15:01 11Inspiration: Seeking the Muse
05:57 12Identify & Eliminate Distraction
23:21 13The Setting for Making
06:36 14The Tools for Mark Making
17:46 15Customizing the Mark Making Tools
08:40 16Mark Making Tools Game Show
26:53 17Review Game Show Work
25:57 18Picking the Right Visual Media
26:33 19Feck Perfuction
20:19 20Paying Attention to Your Obsessions
12:45Day 2
21Learn, Forget, & Then Design
38:41 22What is "Success"?
17:52 23D.O.P Case Study
24:26 24Litter Poster Critique: Online Students
25:00 25Litter Poster Critique: In-Studio Students
38:10 26Middle Name Ceremony
06:27Lesson Info
Start with a Power Pose
Mohammad Ali. What's he doing? What is he just done? Was just when I should have Russian drawn Jorge Luis on the fund. The floor there. Writer George Foreman on the floor. I couldn't get rights for a picture. So this is like an artist's rendering of except bedroom without pants. So I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry, Ali, But, um, what he's doing is the power pose. It's called the power pose. And it's what athletes do across the board when they've when they've succeeded, you know, everybody does it. It's crazy. We watch the Olympics, you just see it all over. The place is really awesome. And what I want to do with you guys is I'm gonna introduce you to this thing. It's called the power pose. And it is, um um there was a study done at Harvard University, but Amy Cuddy and the study was actually called the benefit of power posing before ah, high stake social evaluation. So what I want you to do is what we do. And what I did before this before we started this morning is the power post. So...
what it is is that like believing in it, feeling it in your body saying to yourself, I got this. This is gonna be awesome. This is amazing. I do it often in the studio. Laura has to read. My wife has to remind me often. I did it before he did it for, like, four hours before here because I needed a lot of power posing to gonna get me. And but we do it before before a difficult phone call before ah, conversation where you ask for more money and what you're doing is you. Your You were altering your body, which alters your body chemistry, which alters your mind, which alters your behavior. And that alters the outcome. And the Harvard study proves that across the board numerous times in studies, it's crazy. So I want you out is a good time right now. Everybody stand up and just feel it like I've got this. I win, I win. This is awesome. Everybody online at home. I win. I win. I am the greatest of all time on, they say in the study. It says to do it like for two or three minutes, which is like, Could you imagine? It's great. It's like kind of It's kind of yoga. If you're saying like this and you're really reaching out, it's very yoga ish, isn't it? Uh, we got this. You guys are awesome. Yes, thank you. So power pose extremely important. Something to think about. Alters your mind, alters your behaviour, alters the outcome. You're like I gotta make a phone call and ask for money. This is gonna be awesome again. Putting it out into the universe extremely important.
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Ratings and Reviews
Jephiner
I am not a graphic designer, I'm an artist, but this class translates beautifully. James' teaching style is nothing short of delicious - fresh, alive, fun, exciting - while being full of depth and poignant, valuable content, much of which transcends medium and brings value to any creative individual. I found particular value in the lessons around tools (and altering tools), the criteria for good work, the need to infuse your opinion into your work, the value of abandoning perfection, paying attention to cancer that is one's ego and that we are meant to be creators, and not 'the help'. More than anything else though, I benefited from being reminded, with such a burning passion, that we are not put on this earth to pay a mortgage and support a family, but to identify our true work and to bring it into existence in this world. So nice to reminded of something I know but forget on a regular basis. One of the best online classes I have ever taken - a real home run.
a Creativelive Student
Came to this course (and site) via Anna Dorfman's blog. Loved the motivational and philosophical aspects of the course. Very entertaining and inspirational. Also loved listening to Victore discuss his own work and process-- the stories of how he got specific ideas, tinkered with them, perfected them, etc.. As for the critiques of student and online work, I didn't find them very useful. I would love to see him pick out a few of the very best, and then give his own short and sweet-- and specific-- insights into how HE would improve them. Or just abandon the critiques entirely and instead show and discuss more of his own or other successful designers' work. Overall, fun and inspirational, with some helpful tips.
dlevans
I loved this course! Exceeded every notion I had. The design, concepts and principles were fun, funny and insightful. But James went so far beyond the "poster design" and into the philosophy, thinking, inspiration - huge! I am so glad I watched this course not only for the quick wit and fast humor (Jame's is smart! Sharp... And Really Funny - compliments his teaching and design), but the reading list he suggests, ways to nudge your creativity and the fashion with which he gets you thinking... Invaluable! Organic, Rich, Impact and message - this course has the design "how-to" covered, the real pearls are Jame's humble experience and generosity. Great Course... Oh, and check out his book! "Victore! or, Who Died and Made You Boss?" Inspiration and fun!