Visual Design & Thumbnails

1. 01 Introduction to Elements of Design (Introduction to Graphic Design) The raw material: the elements every designed image is assembled from NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 22 min
2. 02 Introduction Principles of Design (Introduction to Graphic Design) The grammar: balance, emphasis, contrast, repetition — how a viewer's eye is directed NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 26 min
3. 03 Introduction to Typography (Introduction to Graphic Design) Type as a designed object: anatomy, classification, legibility NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 47 min
4. 04 Typographic Principles (Introduction to Graphic Design) Setting type that works: hierarchy, contrast, white space, consistency NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 26 min
5. 05 Color in Context: Revisiting Albers, with Anoka Faruqee Colour is relative: why a colour's effect depends entirely on what surrounds it Yale University 1 Ivy League 35 min
6. 06 21: Attention (cont'd) (MIT 9.35 Perception) The hard constraint: how little of an image a single glance actually registers MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 73 min
7. 07 Understanding Contrast as a Principle of Design (Introduction to Graphic Design) The one principle a glance-sized image cannot do without: contrast, as a working tool NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 28 min
8. 08 Practicum · working creator how to make a killer youtube thumbnail (to blow up your channel) A working creator designs real thumbnails on camera: Lecture 2's emphasis and Lecture 7's contrast used as production tools, under Lecture 6's ceiling on what a glance can register, and Lecture 5's rule that an image must be judged against its surroundings rather than on a blank canvas Aprilynne Alter P Practitioner 30 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Aprilynne Alter — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.