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Hello. Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Lazaris and I am so excited to be here with you today.
Today we are doing another episode of Design Fix. I missed my previous one because I was at a wedding, so I apologize. But you guys were all in good hands with Kladi, so that's always great.
For those of you who don't know what Design Fix is, design Fix is our 1 hour segment every Thursday. It's either me or Kladi. We're here to help you out with any design needs that your business might be having, whether it's a side hustle, full time business, whatever it might be.
Kladi and I spend an hour jamming out with you, hanging out with you, having the best time and then incorporating any ideas you might have, any projects you might need, anything like that. So if you aren't familiar with it, I'm going to drop a link in the chat. Drop it in the chat.
If you want to participate in chat, we are going to be reading it from Adobe Live. That's where you can type in comment like all those fun things. Andrew Hawk ratles sam.
What's up, everybody? Welcome, welcome. My besties. Love seeing you guys here.
It's always a great time to be hanging out with y'all. So very, very fun. If you are wanting to chat and you are on the YouTube side, make sure you come over to behancebe net slash Adobe Live and we'll read all your comments, questions, concerns, anything you have direct to my face, eyeballs.
All right, so without further ado, who am I? I'm Alex Lazaris. I run a design studio called Lazaris. Our website's www.wearelazaris.com.
You can check out our work there. I have some free templates right here for brand guidelines you can check out. Just go to the top tab resources.
We also have an acid wave kit and we have a test files for that too, all free. Check them out. They'll help you out whenever you want.
But if you want to just follow my work whenever, go to behance net, Alex Lazaris. And you'll be hanging out with me there. So, yeah, without further ado, today we are going to be working with a brand called FlexFit or sorry, FitFlex.
Fit. Flex. Got it.
Nailed it. That's what we're doing FitFlex today. So Ezra Cunningham has submitted this.
It's a health and wellness brand. That's pretty much all we got from Ezra. Ezra has dropped a couple of different brands in here.
I figured it's about time to give Ezra a hookup with some Adobe Live time. So today we're going to be working on a fitness brand all built within an express. And we'll start to build out the logos, build out some variations, see where we can go with it, and then we can pull it all into some social templates by the end of the stream.
So we've got about 53 minutes left in the stream, so we're going to be hanging out there. We're going to knock it out and have a great time. What's up, Katrina? I see you.
How are you doing? Welcome, welcome. All right. So if you don't know what Adobe Express is, the best way I like to explain it is it's kind of got a little bit of every Adobe tool that you might need for any of your social content posting small business needs.
So it's great. It's robust. You can do some quick little video stuff, some motion stuff in there.
Really, really minor stuff in there. You can also remove background images and details. You can mask things out.
You can do some type styling as well. You can do some really great kind of badges and logos. And all of it can be downloaded as a PDF.
So if you're a graphic designer right now, you can bring it into Illustrator and then start tweaking the logos. And I've done a couple of WB streams where we downloaded it and then just made some small adjustments and then re uploaded it into Exprs and then just built out everything that way. So today, like I mentioned, it's a health and wellness brand.
It's called FitFlex. And we don't have really any other details in that. So I'm just going to go run wild with it.
Chat if you have any ideas. Let's go. Let's go send it.
All right, so if you're new, brand new to Express, you'll see that this kind of top bar here has kind of some quick little templates that you can start running with. So maybe you need like an Instagram post. It's already got it already pre built for you.
You can go in there and start to use the templates to start or YouTube thumbnail, anything like that, you might need. Right here on the top left, you're going to see your account stuff. You'll see your notifications, maybe some behance likes you got on your recent project you just uploaded.
But also you'll see that I'm a premium member. And what that means is I'm paying for my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. That gives me premium access within Express.
Adobe Express is completely free, though it does get better with your Adobe subscription because you do get access to better templates and stock images as well. So that's super duper helpful for you. But don't fret.
You can absolutely use Exprs completely free. So without further ado, we're going to jump into it. On the left side, you'll see your kind of, like, primary navigation bar.
You see projects, brands, libraries, and scheduling. If you aren't familiar, you can schedule out all your Adobe content, not Adobe content. You can schedule out all your content in Adobe Express across all your social platforms, which is super great.
Yeah. So you got your Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. But we won't spend too much time on that today.
That's not the point of the stream. We're going to be making brands you can kind of see in previous streams, we've made some really great brands, super fun brands. And what we're going to do is we're going to do another one and we're going to show you kind of how to set up your brand for success.
Maybe you're a designer and you're working with a client. I've built out a bunch of templates in there for my clients as well, and they love it. So, yeah, let's just get into it.
So we're going to click New, we're going to click Logo to start and then we're going to type in the top left. Anything you want. But really we're going to start with fitness.
Just see what we can get. All right, let's see here. So we got some fun ones.
Let's see what we can do with this really quickly. Obviously, maybe your client or friend or whoever you're building this logo for, they might need a little bit extra. Maybe they like the barbells, maybe like the weights.
I mean, I feel like you can't go wrong with a fitness brand and weights. So we're just going to take this and I'm going to do Fit Flex. From my understanding, it's all caps, all the time.
So we're just going to run that. What is this in the middle? Oh, more barbells. All right, so I'm just going to really quickly try to deconstruct and understand how this person built this previous logo.
All right, so they've got a black bar here, black bar above. Okay. And they use two barbells.
Okay. All right, I'm picking up what you're putting down here. All right, so in this Layers tab, so this is obviously somebody else's pre built template, and we're going to make it our own.
Let's see what we can do here. I think if we just pull the Fit Flex above the bars, maybe there's like something. Let's see here.
Okay, so this also has cream in the background. Let me go in here and just make this white. Boom, boom.
That's white now. All right, so we've got this and you can see kind of like the background behind it is obviously very busy and we don't want it to be very busy. We're going to go shapes.
We're going to get a rectangle and just pull any shape that we can use to kind of black out the background just to see as a test concept. All right, so right here, all we're doing is just kind of doing like a quick proof of concept. If you're a logo designer, you might already be familiar with this process of just playing around with stuff, having fun with it.
What I'm going to do really quickly is duplicate this bar by going up to the top right of your screen now and then clicking Duplicate. Or on a Mac. You can do Command D or Windows D on a PC.
I'm just going to go down here and then we're just going to change these two colors to black, and we're going to just make sure boom. I could see that working for our client, potentially, like, or a friend or a business. So that's one quick reference.
We can do what we can do with this. If we don't like how this is like, we obviously know that there's, like, vector shapes behind it. What I would recommend doing is something we'll do real quick.
Download. I'm going to download it as a PDF. Start download.
Let me get my Illustrator booted up. Cool. Bring my project over.
Take your time. All right, we're going to go over here. Bloom, bloom, bloom.
And then grab the PDF and just put it all over into Illustrator. All right, so if you are a seasoned Adobe Illustrator vet, you'll see that there's a bunch of different layers happening here. What we're going to do is just quickly just start to pull apart these layers.
As you see, these layers are already kind of given to us because of how it's exported. So you've already got layers. You've already got things happening.
It's super exciting and really helpful whenever you're starting to do some last minute tweaks to it. All right, let's see here. Command X.
All right, I'm just going to actually delete these pretty much this entire middle section, and then Command F to paste in place, and then boom. If we wanted to, we could adjust the typeface. I think it kind of works.
Maybe it needs to be, like, something like that. You know what? This is turning into an Illustrator stream, but we'll just move it along quickly. All right, I'm going to outline this type, and then I'm just going to shrink it down a little bit just to make it feel a little bit more like an actual barbell.
All right, cool. So what we could do that with this is we could export this out and then upload it. Let's see how far and where we get to today with the rest of the logo exploration.
But as you can tell, this took me five minutes. We've got a decent logo to go. We started with the template, and we've adjusted it and made it our own.
Pretty stellar. All right, so what we're going to do now is go back into Exprs, and we're going to just do an added page. I think the template is going to force me to same as this page.
Probably use another template, but let's keep going. That's fine. I like this one as well.
See, it says replace page. Cool. We can replace page.
Perfect. All right. Fit flex.
Boom. Okay, interesting. So it's got let me move this over so it's using the outline of the type, and I'm going to move this over.
All right, so let me show you what's going on here, because I realize I'm not giving all the context. In Exprs, you have the ability to add shapes, shadows, outlines, anything your heart desires. Pretty much to your type.
Right now. The way that they built it out is the shape layer, and then they did mask text. Oh, no, they didn't do mask text.
We will do a masked math. Wow. It's Thursday.
Words are not working. We're going to figure this out. All right.
We're going to mask the text. Got it. We're just going to increase the height or just the overall width of the shape layer to match the kind of height of these diagonals.
I'm just going to zoom in a little bit more just because I want this to be actually spot on. Cool. So that's there.
And then I'm going to move over this fit. I think I might need to adjust. What is this? Oh, it's two of them.
You sneaky, mom. All right, let me ungroup this stuff. Ungroup command shift G, please.
All right, I'm just going to go up to the top. No, you were there a second ago. All right, ungroup everything.
Let's see here. Oh, my goodness. Click ungroup.
Click ungroup. All right, cool. That's feeling a little bit better.
This bottom section needs to go up now. There we go. This one needs a little bit of love now too.
Let it there we go. Yeah, close enough, maybe. Come on, Nudge.
All right, we're going to just adjust the shape layer a little bit more. Let's see if that too much on both sides now. Sorry.
I know it's like sweating all the details is what makes a logo work, and I know it's not sometimes the most fun use of stream time. So we got that. There we go.
Cool. Little bit of an edge issue on that side, but I think that works for the most part. What we're going to do is just change this background.
I recommend if you're ever building your logos, start from black and white. We could even just do this as white. And we'll do this.
We'll do shape and make the shape black by fixing and making sure everything is black and white. You'll see the imperfections easier than hiding them behind color. It's a much smoother deal for you.
So highly recommend it. To each their own, but that's pretty much what everybody does. All right, then we'll just do this.
Boom. Cool. And if those edges are giving you any issues within Exprs, you can always open up your Illustrator.
I'm going to actually just move this over a little bit as well. Cool. I'm going to select the entire artboard and then group them, and then I could download this as a PDF as well.
And then we can go into Illustrator and also just do some super duper small fine tunement. Oh, no. All right.
It's not wanting you to let me download it right now, but we can solve that later. All right, let me just make sure it's centered. Cool.
Now we're centered in the artboard. Looks pretty good, actually. I like the type and the dynamicism of it.
We could do like, a stroke version on the outside, but I think this is actually pretty nice. So I'm going to go duplicate. I didn't mean to we'll just make a new logo.
So I'm going to go to templates and then add some more. Let's see here. We can also do like, a weights one, stretch it, see if we can get a yoga one.
Since the name is Fit Flex, I feel like we could probably incorporate some stretching motifs. I really like this. Not that this is a good logo for this brand, but I mean, come on.
Fit Flex. Oh, it's got to be all caps. That's pretty cool.
I'm big in love with this cat one. Whoever made this template and specifically this illustration, just kudos to you. How incredible.
All right, let me just duplicate this, and we're going to just adjust it. Actually, I'm going to delete that. I'm going to go back to my pages at that bottom.
Multiple square approach. What a cool little logo. So cute.
All right, I'm going to duplicate this one that we just made. I'm going to do health and wellness. Health.
Sam says it's a winning logo. And Annika says Lull the kitty. Exactly.
Annika says, yes. Stretch motifs. Please use comic papyrus.
Oh, man. Comic Papyrus never works on this stream. It works in my Illustrator file.
Maybe that's what we'll do. All right, we'll do it. We'll do it.
We'll get it working. Don't you worry. All right there's, fit flex.
And then what else are we doing? Oh, yeah, stretching stuff. Let's do stretch. Oh, it's not shapes.
I don't want shapes. I want design assets. Stretch.
It help if I spelt it. Yoga. See if yoga works on okay, let's see here.
Annika says, crying. Laughing cat face. So good.
Let's see here. I don't see anybody who's like really? Maybe this could just that doesn't kind of doesn't really look like a person stretching after you look at it for a while. Let's see here.
All right, work out and see if workout shapes. Okay. There we go.
All right, we got some people doing things. Let's do some of this. All right.
So you can search for assets in the sidebar, and then you can pull them in your files. Obviously, what we're going to do here is we're going to pull Fit Flex away from each other. They're going through a breakup.
I'm going to ungroup this. Boom, boom, boom. And then Fit is going to get flex.
Fit Flex. All right. All caps.
Yeah. Hex says, well, that reads different. Yeah, it did.
All right, I'm going to go into my curve tool, and then I'm going to try to how do I want to do this? All right, let's see here. All right, so we got this guy. Let's just add some spaces in here so we can try to lower the curve.
And then I put it some spaces in front and then does that get us closer? For some reason, I keep saying fit. Alex here for some reason. Maybe I'm just biased.
Oh, it's because it's what am I trying to say? Adobe Railway. Where are you? I need it to not be italics. Adobe underscore railway.
No. Let's try to find railway. No fonts.
Come on. Don't give me italics. Just give me extra bold.
Let me just delete italics. No font found. Oh, it's because I misspelled Railway earlier.
I knew that. Chat. All right.
There we go. That's feeling a little bit better. It's still a little flexy.
Little too fit. Flex. Maybe I need to find a different image.
I'm going to drag this over and then I'm going to go click replace, which you can do really quickly. And then I'll do Barbell. I love this curve.
Tool hack. Alex. Fit Alex.
Cool. I think if we just got, like, a curved barbell instead of having the dude on it, I think that might be helpful. Let's see what this does for us.
Boom. I think that might be a better now, this curve is a little bit still a little bit too much. So I'm just going to keep just cheating my way to the top.
Let's see here. Getting closer. Feels pretty close.
Still not perfect. Let's see here. This and this.
This and this. And then a line. Make sure it's centered by just copy pasting all the spaces on both sides.
All right. Why does it feel so off still? It feels like anika asks. Does the spacing change if you size up the text? I think it does mess things up if I change the size up the text box.
Yeah. So let me try that's, because it's essentially still trying to do a half circle. And so what I've been trying to do with the spacing on both sides of it is to allow myself to have a larger text box, but it really just condenses it to just kind of the top of a half circle.
So, yeah, if I was to adjust the size, it's still trying to be a half circle. But you know what I think it is? The reason why it feels off to me is because fit and flex take up different character widths. And so flex is already like a bigger it's got four characters instead of three, and then the X's and E's and L's are all bigger than the I.
So you got fit, which is really tiny, and Flex, which is really large. And that's why it feels uncentered and balanced. So I might separate them out.
Let's just do fit, which already starts to look sad. All right, new logo idea. All right, we don't like this one.
Fit flex. Let's see. We can do center yourself.
All right. We'll do text and then add text. Oh, Annika.
Good question. Annika asked, does changing the kerning help? Let's find out. See that really quickly.
All right, so we're going to go in here and do the letter spacing. Whoop. Because I can't do individual character kerning.
It's not going to be the best, I don't think. Let's see. I think no, it still feels super imbalanced.
That's okay. We're figuring this out live together. I love it.
All right, we're going to work on fit flex. All right, we got this here. Maybe we'll start with that.
All right, let's just remove this and this. Fit flex. Do we make this guy upside down? Does that work best? Because that way he's, like, doing a yoga pose, but he's also doing weights.
Chat, this is how you make great logos, but realistically, we're just going to rotate this around, and then I'm going to rotate this type as well. Let's see here. We'll do a curved see what happens here? Letter spacing.
Whoa. What are you doing, Mr. Express? Okay.
All right, let's get you to chill out for a second. All right, click. Now I'm going to click it, and then I'm going to rotate it, and then I'm just going to expand.
Make it bigger. Cody, what's up? Am I late to the party? Why is he upside down? Why would you expect people to be the correct way up? That's a better question. Come on, Cody.
Fun story for Chat. I texted Cody the other day because his Oilers and my stars were we were hoping that we'd get a Stanley Cup hockey final game, and for some reason, I thought the stars lost the other day, so I thought they joined the ranks of the Oilers. They had not.
The stars won. They surprised me. And so I texted Cody saying, I guess we can wait till next year, or something like that.
Then he was like, Dude, what are you talking about? That was a hilarious story. Good job, Laz. All right, I'm done.
Just going to keep fitting and flexing. Fit flex. Annika, are you trying to go to the cup? Tickets have been crazy.
The idea of purchasing a Stanley Cup ticket has never been in my realm of possibility, so I didn't even think that's a normal person. I remember when the stars used to have $20 tickets. I don't think that's been the case for a very long time.
All right. I am wasting so much time on this. All right, you know what? We had a good logo.
We're going to go back to Illustrator. Let me see if we can actually download the cody, you missed this, though. This is the logo of the century.
Feel free to use it for any of your projects. It's FitFlex. It's pretty much all you need to know.
All right, we got this one, Chat, and we've also got the barbell one and the one that we've done in Illustrator. Which one do you all think is the winner? We're going to start making some social templates with this. I think I like this one the most.
This one needs a polish. So let's do that real quick, and then we'll pull it in. I'll chat about this in private.
Great, bring it on. No, it won't let me see. If I refresh my express page, what will happen? All right, let's see if I refresh.
Can I redownload it? All right. Download PDF. Let's go.
Okay, well, the exprs gods have told us we are working with this logo today, which is great. All right. We will export that one, and I'm going to make a white version of it as well.
Why am I being dumb? All right, get rid of that, and then I'm going to duplicate this. All right, I'm making sense now. It's working.
The caffeine is setting in. All right, let's grab this in there. Boom.
Um, feel like yeah, it's fine. Why is this one wider than this one, though? Is it that's the same width, but this one's twice as big. That's why it feels optically weird.
Whatever, we'll leave it. All right, let's start doing some social stuff. All right, let's export logos.
Artboards. One, two. We'll do two through three.
Boom, done. Boom, done. 300 DPI.
And then I'm going to pull it in, and then we're going to start doing some social templates. So what we can do is we can oh, so what we got to do, we got to go home, go to Brands, and then Create Brand. So right there on the top left bar, you'll have your home projects.
Brands go in there, click Create Brand, and we'll go in there and then upload your logo, and we'll do the black one, which is logos. Three for us. Pick your color.
I'm going with black, obviously. What was that typeface? Typeface was Anton. Regular anton, see if you can nope.
All right, cool. We're just going to do, like, lotto peachy sands. There we go.
Fit plex. All right, create my brand. Perfect.
All right, now we can go in there and click more logos. Can add in the white one. Now you can add in, I think, three or four additional logos.
I've tried to do it with a lot more. Hold on. Weird.
Okay. It was like a drop shadow I'm seeing on the previous I was getting worried. Cool.
You can also add in your brand colors. So if you're working as a graphic designer at some company, you can add those in. Or if you have a client, you can put these in your brand guidelines, plop them in there for them, share it with the client.
You can also add in your own custom fonts, so that is helpful. And then up here, you'll see invite people. So I can invite anybody right now if I wanted to, but I think we are set, so let me just back out of this.
Okay, so what has happened now? Is it buried FitFlex right in the middle? Because it's alphabetically stacked, but no, it's not. I don't know why it's in the middle. All right.
Oh, I do. It is alphabetically stacked, but we've got this one starred. What you're going to want to do is go up to the top left of that one card grid, and then you're going to click Make Default, and then you'll have a star.
And by adding the star to it did I click the wrong one? No. Okay. It just did a weird thing.
So we're good. Now the logo is there. When you click star, it'll make it default, and then from there, you can work off that as your primary brand for any of your projects.
You will need to go in there and select the brand that you're working with within the ecosystem whenever you need to. That's just heads up for later on. So what I think we could do is I guess we'll just start with the Instagram post and then we'll move into making a PDF really quickly as well.
So we'll do, like, personal training. Cool. Let's find one that works for us.
Trainer. Cool. Trainer Spotlight.
Great. This is awesome. Meet Megan Strom.
Intensity level. Four out of five stars. We can fill out in all this content if we want to, but honestly, I feel like this is actually pretty solid, and I like that it's already black and white.
Maybe we want some gold in here rather than the white stars, but I think it's great. I would honestly just probably plop in the logo. So we can either do it by clicking the Magic Wand Tool, and then we can apply the brand.
This will shuffle your colors and give you percentages of colors of your color palette. And it'll also bring in your typeface and your logo as well. And you can click Shuffle, and it'll just keep kind of spinning through different variations for you.
So you just keep pressing that magic button until you're having a great time. Let me press it one more time. Cool.
I like that Sam says, yeah. Nice contrast to this one. Yeah, I agree.
The copy is in a great spot as well. It did make everything have less contrast. I'm just going to go back in there and make sure that it's white.
Boom, boom. I'm going to adjust. Megan strom.
I know that they had it centered. I don't want that copy centered because it's a kind of hanging left grid. And then I'm going to make this white so I can actually read it.
And I'm going to make sure that the Opacity white didn't go white. There we go. What Opacity? Okay, so we got that.
We got the FitFlex logo in a tiny little corner. So I'm going to click replace. We can just select the white logo, and then we can plop it up.
I obviously left the artboard massive on it, and I'd export it again with a tighter crop artboard on it. But I think you could just plop this here right underneath the. Intensity level.
Or you can put it in the top right, which could work as well. Fit Flex. What a fun name.
All right, another option we can do, we'll just take this and we'll duplicate this. Let's see what happens if we click into the background image. Do I need to adjust it a little bit? Let me see.
Boop. Let's see here. Enhancements, contrast.
I just up it a little bit. Don't want too much. What up, Shauna? How are you doing? Warmth blur? No, we don't need to blur her.
Another great thing you can do within Express is you can quickly duotone things. So what you might do with like, a gradient map inside of Photoshop, you can duotone. So if I have two colors that I really like, for me it'd be like a blue and like a green.
Like that probably like a darker blue. Those used to be my racing colors, as you can see in the back. All right, but up the contrast.
But this obviously is not the brand colors we're choosing for this. But it does give you the ability, if you wanted to, to grayscale things really quickly, you can go in there and adjust as well if you do a grayscale. And then I would recommend, like, popping up the contrast a little bit just to make it more intense.
I can't not do my swole voice when this is happening. But yeah, Shauna says that do it. Tone's.
Cool. Is that a bicycle or motorcycle? Oh, it's a motorcycle. I see it.
I'm getting too old, man. I can't even read. Emojis was wrong.
But yeah, you can go pretty wild with it, especially for like, Trainer Spotlights or social posts. It gives you so much flexibility using the duo tone to kind of work with it. I do recommend using a dark color and a light color.
If you don't, you'll see what happens. Kind of like here. It's really hard to read.
You've got two light colors on top of each other. It's not really helpful for you. Colorize? No, grayscale.
I kind of like the grayscale. So we'll do fit flex. I'm going to actually just move her ratings down.
Maybe this is fine. It's just click and then just cool. Just smaller.
Doesn't need to be too big. All right, let's do another social post. I'm going to do duplicate and then we'll do another template.
Actually, let's do not Instagram posts. Let's make a PDF now. Let's see what we can get.
We just did a lady, so we'll do a dude. Now add as a page. Cool.
What is this size for? All right, let's see here. All right. So we got all these layers.
This guy is pulled out of the background. Edit cutout. This is what I was mentioning earlier.
Let's see here. We can do invert. So you can see he's caught it out of the background.
Let's do restore his entire background and everything. You can see now they cropped him out beautifully. The app does a great job just pulling it in.
Boom. So we're not going to mess with that, but it's saving. Do your thinking, man.
Do it. Do your thinking. Trainer spotlight.
All right, let's see here. Cool. All right.
So this obviously has way too much color. So what we'd go into do is actually open group. Come on.
All right. Hard needs to be white on the outline. Actually, what we can do here is quickly just do the apply the magic tool.
Boom. Apply brand. Okay.
We'll make everything white and not this, like, off red color. All right. We're going to do this white boom.
What is this type here? I'm going to do left, align the bottom just to get that all the way at the bottom. And then I'll just do FitFlex fitflex.com. And I'm going to use Anton if I can.
Anton, where are you? Anton. Anton. No.
Anton. Type in Anton. Yay, Anton.
Anton showed up for us. All right, pull that. And then what I'm going to do is just adjust the letter spacing ever so slightly and then make it bigger.
It's a little bit more readable. Flex bit. And then I want it to go from the top to the bottom.
Cool. And then go in here. And then I'm going to change this.
Replace with our other logo. Good job, Anton. Yeah, Sam.
Thank you. Yeah, mr. Anton showed up.
He almost didn't want to, but he did. Let's throw this. Maybe we'll do at train hard at.
Yep, maybe. And then we'll do FlexFit. FlexFit logo.
All right. It's okay. All right, let's see here.
Hard needs to get moved over. That's fine, I guess. All right.
Flexfit.com can get removed. We don't need the URL.
Let's also get rid of the discount messaging. I don't think we need that. And we'll do health and wellness here.
And we'll grab our friend Anton. And we will do we will do our grid or magic. Let's see.
I think magic is great. I'm grabbing the wrong layers. Just expanding this.
And then I'll grab this and have some fun. All right. Train hard.
And then I'm actually just going to remove the boom. Cody and Sean, are y'all still here? If so, have y'all been to Oshavell in Chicago? Because it looks amazing. All right.
Train hard. Where does that go? I think we'll probably put it just up here. Cool.
So we got that. I said Sean is still here. Yay.
Have you been to Oshavel? It's like a burger diner place. French. French food, I think.
French inspired. Completely random thought. All right, that looks good.
We got about six, five minutes left. Holy moly. All right, let's do one more quick piece, I think.
Whoa. Select all. I'm just going to add another.
Let's do letter poster, maybe see a template. It's been forever since I've been down to the city. That's fair.
That makes sense. All right, let's do this really quick. Replace page.
Cool. All right, great. We can do.
Run. Run. Greatrunnings site.
It'll be flex. Flexfit.com? Cool.
And then we're going to apply our magic brand tool. No more black. All right, what we're going to do is go grab this image really quickly, go to the filters, go to duo tone grayscale, and then enhancements.
We're going to bump up that contrast like before. We're going to change Run run to white font. Run run.
All right, cool. Try to think. Actually, let's do a tone and then do I wonder if that would absolutely look scary or not.
Let's see here. What are you doing? Click. Wait, what is this? No, this is normal.
Okay. Why am I confused? Enhancements. Sorry.
Filters. Dual tone. Okay.
White. There we go. And then if I rotate it yes.
Scary. Okay, we won't do that. But this outline is supposed to be white, but it's for some reason, it went back again.
Why did my type change? That's what was confusing me. All right, we're going to go in here. Boom, boom, boom.
I think maybe we'll need to do no outlines, and we'll just do oh, it's thinking so hard. Anton oh, man, it's thinking so hard. Express, we only got two minutes.
Why you got to do me like this? Express, come on. All right, run. Okay.
It's just doing its own thing. We just reverted back so hard for some reason. All right, so with that note, we're going to go back and review all the things we just did really quickly.
All right, so let's go to projects. We did a bunch of different logo explorations really quickly. We started off with the template.
We quickly edited it. We brought it into Illustrator and removed a bunch of the background noise and chaos that was happening and just simplified it really easily. We shortened the height of it to make it feel like an actual barbell.
And then we built this logo. We couldn't download it for some reason, but I think this is a really nice logo for it. It's really clean and simple.
We found this cute cat logo. We messed around with that, but it didn't lead to anything, so I'll just delete it. We also worked on some social graphics that was really fun.
We did this. Cool trainer spotlight image. We also built out it's taunting me now.
We did the Coolest Spotlight Image, and then we did this quick one as well. So, yeah, I think overall, being able to use Exprs to make any of your assets come to life really quickly, really easily, kind of give you all the best of everything. That's what I think it's all for.
So hopefully this was really informative. Hopefully y'all learned a bunch. Yeah.
Well, thank y'all for hanging out with me. I really appreciate it. We'll see y'all next week.
With Kladi taking over for Design Stream next week, make sure you submit your form if you don't haven't already. But anyways, without further ado bye. Bye, everyone.
See you later.
