so today I'm here to talk to you guys but a really cool piece of software
that's really gonna help with your graphic design workflow especially when
it comes to things like branding and logo design so stay tuned and let's take
a look at Miller notes which is an awesome piece of software that you can
use totally for free right now Miller knows are very orderly in a very clean
way to develop design ideas and also to collect project materials digitally
speaking whilst you walk through your design process stay tuned in today
because this software that I'm about to show you is very unique and is really
really helpful for designers just like me and you I've only really known about
it for a couple of days and I'm actually falling in love with it in that time and
I'm going to keep using it for my projects in the future especially for
logo and brand design projects I'm gonna get into why in just a sec but first
here is the website which you can access a really link in description below it's
free to sign up and you can even use the live demo version if you want to it is
quick and easy to sign up however and once you've signed in you can log into
your accounts
I'm now going to walk you through how I'm going to use mini nodes to develop
my workflow for branding projects and you're gonna see just how useful it
really is but firstly however you do have access to some pre-built templates
and they've really bottomed the toolbar on the left-hand side so as an example
you can enter the design section of the templates and then this drag and drop a
mood board onto the home page if you double click the icon you enter into the
project board and as you can see here there are some pre-made aspects for a
mood board so we have some color swatches with hex codes and some imagery
that could be you to generate ideas and even a video and typeface for
inspiration there are many many templates available to you at Miller
nodes but let's just go ahead and make a branding project from scratch and
develop some awesome ideas for the brand itself to make a new project space click
and drag the board icon onto the home page you'll then need to give it a
relevant name and I'm actually currently working on a branding project for a
media company so I'm gonna use that as a title a really cool feature is that you
can edit the color of the icon itself the brand I'm working on is deeply based
around orange so it makes sense for me to use that as the icon color and then
secondly you can even add a pictorial icon over the top middle name has some
many great features like this and they all work together to help your workflow
become more organized and more visually awesome so like I mentioned my branding
project is going to utilize orange in a big way as the color so I can come over
to illustrator for example and copy the hex color code and then head back over
to Melanie I just they need to click and drag a
note from the toolbar and then type on a hashtag and copy the hex code finally
pressing enter this is a quick and easy way to import specific colors that you
want to use for your projects another cool feature that will help create
inspiration for your workflow is to search for a color in the add image
function generating ideas for a brand can be done with visual stimuli and
Milanoo helps to collect everything that you need here one orderly space
everything in your boredom in and out is able to be resized and moved around and
as you can see I'm starting to develop a nice area of ideas based around the
color a brand new project that I'm working on is based around a campervan
and so I can drag and drop imagery based around that theme right into Melanie
this is a functional and an easy way to tap into your creativity and of course
you can search the library at MIT and it has to offer for yet more imagery when
you select an image or component on your board you will then be placed in front
of all other objects so it's a good idea to keep that in mind when you're
organizing your stuff a minim over
something that is really useful is that when an image is selected you can choose
the caption option in the toolbar now write down a note or reminder about the
image so maybe it's a relevant idea for formation on your design based on our
image this is one of the best functions in my opinion you can see on my boy that
I've got two drawings that I made in Adobe Illustrator based around my ideas
for the logo I saved them as PNG formats from with transparent backgrounds and I
bought them onto the board in Milano to develop my ideas further another great
feature is that you can literally drag and drop font files onto your board so
that you can actually refer back to them throughout the design process
the fonts are then readily available and as a reminder of a kind of style that
you want to be going for for your project my branding board has come along
quite a bit by now so I've been moving between Illustrator and coming back to
Milano to formulate my ideas and concepts I even have some text dropped
in from illustrator based around the font choices and this is gonna help me
realize the logo type before the final brand design finally another awesome
feature is that you can share your board to a fellow designer or even maybe a
client to present your ideas on your concepts firstly we have the choice to
export the entire board as a PDF or PNG but also as a linear document as well
secondly you can create a secret link which I'm gonna show you in a second
that lastly you can invite somebody to edit your board to leave a comment maybe
and a link to a read-only version of your board
I like the secret link because you can create a link very easily copy it and
then send it to whomever you want to see your work and they have it guys an easy
and practical way to collect inspiration and project materials in one place this
will enable you to develop concepts and to create your brand-new project in a
very easy and functional manner Bellino million note is unique and it's
great at what it does and I'm going to surely be using it for future branding
projects I hope you found today's video useful and really I've never actually
come across software like million eight before and as soon as the people over at
million note showed it to me I knew that would be useful for me but also it'd be
useful for you guys out there no matter what the design work you're actually
working on logo or brand name whatever it is this can help to organize your
creativity and boost your workflow within projects I do have a video plan
for Friday but I'm not sure if I've got time for it this week so I might have to
push it back into Monday but whatever happens
Mensch we have a great day and until next time design your future today peace