What is Print Design?
Although some argue print design is obsolete in the modern digital age, its is still incredibly relevant and necessary. Print Design is a section of graphic design in which you create words or images intended to be printed on a tangible media. Although newspapers and magazines are some of the most popular forms of print design, it also contains t-shirts, metal signs, packaging, tickets, letterheads, book covers and so much more. Any physical material that has print on it could fall under print design.
Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book
This book is a great resource for beginning a journey into Adobe Illustrator. With Adobe Illustrator you can design or create logos and graphics that are vector based and easy to resize which is wonderful for adjusting your prints to different mediums or platforms. This book gives you different projects and hands on activities to help guide you through learning the software and getting a good feel for what you can produce with it.
Midjourney Bot
Midjourney Bot is a discord-based AI art creation tool. Although AI generated art is still early in production, it is a great resource to begin generating graphics or illustrations for inspiration and ideas. You are required to use this resource through discord, but midjourney has its own discord so that you can also see others creations and do not have to have your own independent server to add the bot too (although that is an option). You simply type in a series of words or ideas and the bot will then generate an image based on the input.
EnvantoTuts+
Tuts is a good series of design videos that cover an array of creative skills utilizing the YouTube platform. They have videos specifically for print design that will help from the basics of software and workspace set up to more intricate topics such as layout and typography. They are all free to access and many of their videos even offer chapters making it easy to click through to the most relevant topics you are looking for.
Vistaprint
Vistaprint is website/online company that can take your print designs and apply them to the medium of your choice. They have a huge selection of products to apply your designs too and good visual representations to see your products before they are printed. They have some in-site predesigned layouts as well that can provide inspiration and ideas. They have different pricing options often bulk purchase discounts.
Creative Bloq
This article outlines some core things helpful to remember about Print Design. Its easy to forget the basics when creating, and this is a good reminder with images on small things to look out for. The website also has other good information for design.