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This video series was a good in design refresher for me. It also helped me understand the lay out a little better. The most useful for me was how to create the texture brush in photoshop. I didn't know how to do that before and I know I'll use it again.

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Throughout the video series, I gained insight into exactly how a creative workflow operates for a graphic design professional-- obviously, a majority of it involves tweaking, reviewing, and experimenting with, the subject project. I hadn't ever considered designing a menu with a pocket, which I thought was a tremendously unique concept. The use of Kuler was also relatively new to me; it's a functionality I'll endeavor to explore further, given its usefulness in scouting out colors for a project. A majority of the techniques, composition, and design/body copy tips served as helpful review. I thought the custom brush, assembled with burlap texture, was intriguing. It catalyzed some thoughts regarding what other texture brushes could be created.

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I thought the series was good. There was a lot information in the videos that were very useful. Like one videos, he talked about how to create a textured background. To me that is very interesting because I had done a textured background before but after seeing the video it was a refresher on how to do it.

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Nigel French makes great videos demonstrating exactly what you need to do for a specific task or project. I recommend following along with the exercise files or open up InDesign and start to work on your menu while watching the video for a more hands-on learning experience. His videos showed how to make multiple styles of menus which was very helpful if you’re like me and hadn’t decided on a style yet; he showed how each looked and it helped me make up my mind for what to do. I’m pretty familiar with InDesign so a lot of the techniques were a review, but it was still helpful to see again.

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Great information in the video, although a little long and hard to pay attention to though. Although it was a good refresher there were many good tips and things I learned that I would not think of. Layout and typography are the strongest aspects of a menu and if not executed properly can dramatically effect a business.

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It was a great video. I do not have a lot of experience with InDesign. It had plenty of tips to be able to navigate the program. How to add texture is interesting. The one page menu layout is very helpful. To do the double columns.

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The video had a lot of good information on how to layout a menu. It gave some great tips on shortcuts and how to use different aspects of the main menu to create other menus. I found the tips on getting and saving colors to be useful as well as how to create different styles and apply them. The menu layout was an interesting take and very useful for a restaurant that has a menu that changes often. It was nice to have refresher on some of the aspects of InDesign like text flow. Creating textures was also neat to learn.

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This series was very helpful in showing the many ways of setting up a layout, what typography to use, etc. I learned a lot from this video and I also has a bit of a refresher on some of thew techniques. I specially learned a bit more of what to do with the typography, I had a project in the past and I felt like the typography had a lot missing and after watching the video there's several things that are needed so it looks complete.

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There were so many helpful explanations in this video!  Some were things I'd already been taught but needed a refresher on, but some were new to me, and useful. Because I haven't created text for my menu yet, I wasn't able to use the tips about paragraph styles (and nested styles), autoflowing text, hidden characters, etc. but as I begin working on that text today these will come in handy.
I had started watching this video before I created my rough logo, so I was able to utilize Kuler, which is my new favorite thing!!
Kuler has an option of choosing a color theme from a photo. In my case I used works of art by one of the Italian masters, Carravaggio. The program picks out 5 colors from any photo and gives you the matching swatches to use in AI. You can also tweak the palette by choosing bright, dark, etc. variations.
There are lots more technical tips packed into this one video, but those are the ones that either were or will be super useful to me in this project.

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I found this video learning series to be very helpful in introducing me to menu building techniques. I was already familiar with some of the information given but I liked that it was shown in a way that is relevant to this project. I particularly found the video on the single page layout very helpful as that is the type of menu design I am going for, though I am including a backside as well. Another segment I found helpful was the paper choices video which showed me how to change the color of my menu background in InDesign.