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SketchUp for Graphic Designers
SketchUp, taught through an Adobe lens.
Sanaz Vazirian |
Branded Environments, Retail Design & Education, Toronto
Branded Environments, Retail Design & Education, Toronto
Most SketchUp tutorials assume you think like an architect. You think like a designer — and that's the advantage. You live in Adobe. You already understand colour, composition, and brand. What you're adding is a spatial vocabulary.
I trained as an architect and spent 15 years designing branded retail environments. When I started teaching SketchUp to graphic designers, I stopped explaining it like an architect would and started connecting it to what they already knew. 3D isn't a different kind of talent. It's the same eye, working in space.
These tutorials start where you already are and build from there.
I trained as an architect and spent 15 years designing branded retail environments. When I started teaching SketchUp to graphic designers, I stopped explaining it like an architect would and started connecting it to what they already knew. 3D isn't a different kind of talent. It's the same eye, working in space.
These tutorials start where you already are and build from there.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Add the dimension your work is missing.
For 2D designers who want range, not a new career. A touch of 3D makes everything better — packaging, posters, infographics, landing pages, environmental design and branded spaces. The work you already do, with depth.
Not for game or character design.
Not for game or character design.
FREE TUTORIALS
Where Graphic Designers
Get Stuck in SketchUp
If you're a graphic designer learning SketchUp, chances are you're doing a few things the Adobe way — and that's where the frustration starts. Each card is one common wall, with a short, plain-language fix. No jargon, no fluff.
SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE
Built with SketchUp
One model. One prompt. A whole landing page.
This simple model took thirty minutes in SketchUp. Watch where it went.
FREE DOWNLOADS
The Library
Cheat-sheets and reference files you can keep next to your keyboard. New ones land here regularly.
A three-page breakdown of SketchUp's most counter-intuitive concept, translated into the Adobe logic you already know.
FREE. One structural habit. 3 min read.
NOTES & OPINIONS
Design Experiments
This is where I test what I teach. My ongoing design experiments push AI rendering, spatial workflows, and new techniques — shared honestly, before they're polished.
WHAT STUDENTS SAY
Designers, in their own words
Designers, in their own words
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