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Failing Fast Forward: How to Innovate from Mistakes

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY

Understand the reasoning behind "fail fast, fail often" Understand how to leverage failures into learning experience Innovate from past mistakes to turn something good into something great The newest maxim for today's innovators is "Fail often, fail fast."  As a designer or entrepreneur, you can create good product/services by playing on the safe side. In fact, you may avoid failure together. But if you do fail, learning what is wrong...

Design Process as a Problem-Solving Tool for Businesses

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY

​Understand the thinking process of design, from conception to completion Apply the design process to real-life applications in business Solve your own problem within class using the design thinking process An optimal design solution does not come out of thin air -- process is an integral part of developing a successful and functional design. If we look at design as a problem solving tool, what are the steps that need to be taken...

Design of Addictions: How design influences behavior

Input Lofts (formerly WECREATE) @ 58 E 11th St, New York, NY

​Understand how design influences obsessive user behavior Understand addictions and their characteristics Learn how design can be used to influence "good" addictions or healthy behaviors​ Have you ever wonder why you can’t stop checking your Facebook? Or why you can't stop playing Candy Crush or the latest game of the day? Ever wonder how people can sit for hours at a slot machine losing money? Design possesses a benign force...

InDesign Essentials

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Prototypes Made Easy – and Fast, and Inexpensive

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

In this course for beginners, you will learn the basics of developing interactive prototypes, from site maps and flow diagrams to understanding how the development process works and the wireframe template library. Rapid interactive prototyping is becoming a key step in the development of digital projects (sites, apps and software). In the bad old days, you paid thousands to get wireframes, and then made a clickable map, and then spec-ed the type,...

Adobe Photoshop CS6: Part 1

NetCom Learning @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY

Adobe Photoshop CS6: Part 1 focuses on some of the basic features of Photoshop so that the student can navigate the environment and use Photoshop tools to work with photographic images. In addition, the orientation to Adobe Bridge and organization of files in Bridge is covered. Although Photoshop is used by a variety of professionals, from photographers to designers to videographers, Photoshop Part 1 will focus mainly on the photography component....

Intermediate to Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

Improve your knowledge of the software that’s become the industry standard for video editing Adobe Premiere is the industry standard for video editing. It is a high-performance and complex software that demands expertise and artistry. This four-week hands-on module is for anyone interested in improving their basic knowledge of Premiere for video storytelling. Session 1: Review of the principles of editing.  Styles and types of editing....

Photoshop Foundations

Awesome Design School @ 425 Broadway, New York, NY

Photoshop is the leading image correction, manipulation, web design and creation software used to prepare images for digital illustration, product mock-ups, web sites, mobile apps and print. In this foundations course, students learn the basic features of this powerful, industry-standard. It is also a strong companion to UX and Product Design.  Topics Covered: Hands-on practice in image preparation and manipulation selection techniques...

InDesign Bootcamp (For Mac)

NYIM Training @ 594 Broadway, New York, NY

Illustrator Essentials (For Mac)

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Secrets of Photoshop: Far Beyond the Basics

Newmark Graduate School of Journalism @ 219 W 40th St, New York, NY

Photoshop is more than just a photo editing tool. It is a powerful design platform. In this workshop we’ll review the basics of the Adobe Photoshop platform. Course Topics: Layers and non-destructive editing Creating masks Using text in Photoshop Photo composites and montages Professional photo retouching techniques for portraits and illustrations

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY & Virtually Online

Lightroom is an amazing app that will help you organize, optimize and share your photos. The more photos you deal with, the more you need Lightroom because it can speed up your workflow and help you manage and edit vast amounts of photos, quickly and easily. In this intro Lightroom course, we will start with importing photos from your camera into Lightroom’s catalog, and then learn how to edit and organize all those pictures. You'll optimize...

Illustrator for Fashion: Level 1

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Adobe InDesign Essentials1

NYC Career Centers @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro

NYC Career Centers @ 594 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY

Illustrator Essentials (For PC)

NYIM Training @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Beginner Digital Art with Procreate App

Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo @ 98 Water St, Brooklyn, NY

Unlock your creativity with the power of digital art! Join our beginner's course and learn how to create stunning images using the Procreate App. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, our instructor will meet you at your level and guide you through the fundamentals of digital art. Don't miss out on this invaluable tool for visual artists and business professionals in the stunning setting of Creatively Wild Art Studio Dumbo.

2D Character Design

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

Characters are the way people relate to a game or brand and with good character design, can take on a life of their own. A character is defined by their both their appearance and actions, and can be cute or weird, good or evil, but needs to relate to the audience in some way. Even simple puzzle games can benefit from having a little character. The class will be split into two parts. First, there will be an intro presentation on the conceptual design...

Kinect & Unity 3D

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

Kinect v2 allows for players to use their bodies in physical space as controllers with more precision than ever before. Now's your chance to learn how to integrate Kinect functionality into your games through Unity 3D, today's most popular game engine! In this free sponsored class, Jason Walters from Microsoft will walk you through setting up Kinect, integrating it with Unity and establishing skeletal data as an input source for your games. We'll...

Pixel Art: From Start to Finish

Playcrafting NYC @ 11 Times Square, New York, NY

Learn about the different art styles, how to become a pixel artist yourself and how to use it for your own games! This class will teach you all the basics you’ll ever need when it comes to pixel art. First, we’ll define what pixel art actually is: An aesthetic! An aesthetic that can have several different types of art styles. The most common art style techniques being black outlines, pillow shading, and/or dithering.  After we’ve defined...