Design Classes in NYC, New York

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe InDesign features for beginner level users. Students will create multi-page documents while learning a variety of text and image layout techniques. Topics Covered: Creating & Customizing Documents Page Setup & Layout Working With Master Pages Working With Typography ...

This class is designed to get you up and running quickly with the fundamentals of Photoshop: retouch photos, improve contrast and color, save files for print or web, and more! This 6-hour class is meant to get you started fast. It is designed for people who need to use Photoshop lightly and only have one day to spare. If you want to learn Photoshop...

This class is designed to get you up and running quickly with the fundamentals of InDesign: text, pictures and pages. Learn how to layout pages with text and graphics. In no time at all you’ll be able to control typography, add photos, create/use colors, and more! What You’ll Learn: Section 1 Letter Creation Setting Preferences The Control...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe Photoshop features for beginner level users. Topics include basic image editing, transformation, retouching, enhancement, and compositing.  Topics Covered: Understanding File Formats & Resolution Selections Techniques Image Transformations Layer Management Layer Masking...

This hands-on introductory course details the most essential Adobe Illustrator features for beginner level users. Students will learn how to create and manipulate vector shapes with a variety of tools. The course also covers text, color, effects, and layers. Topics Covered: Understanding Vector Graphics Creating & Transforming Paths...

This course delivers a concise introduction to Rhino and an overview of fundamental skills for creating and editing geometry. Requirements: No prior knowledge required. The course is good for both Mac and PC. Course Topics Overall familiarity with the Rhino interface An introduction to Rhino geometry types Essential skills for creating and editing...

Learn the foundations of the Markup Language used to create webpages. In this class we’ll introduce you to HTML, the standard markup language used to create webpages. You’ll dive in and hand code a webpage from scratch, learning how to format paragraphs, headings, and lists. You’ll also learn how to create links, add images, and modify tags...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe InDesign, the professional page layout standard, used by designers and production professionals to design, preflight, and publish a broad range of documents such as brochures, catalogs, magazines and books. InDesign allows you to lay out and design multiple page documents.  This workshop is designed...

As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This class aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability.  This is a field that affects...

This hands-on introductory level course covers the fundamentals of Adobe After Effects. The class will introduce students to the key concepts, terminology, and interface of After Effects. Topics include compositions, layers, animation, keyframing, effects, 3D, and rendering. Topics Covered: Best Practices File Management Project Organization...

This hands-on course introduces the fundamentals of web design with HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will learn how code is structured and the major features of the languages. Exercises will include creating a small website including text, images, embedded video and links and styling with CSS to control color,...

Through lectures, demonstrations, and studio work, students learn to build an original, effective graphic design portfolio to present to potential employers and undergraduate and graduate admission counselors. They refine existing projects and undertake new projects to fill gaps in their portfolios. They conduct research and develop and refine their...

This course provides an introduction to parametric modelling with Grasshopper. Build various parametrically responsive systems and explore generative design with grasshopper. Requirements: Basic familiarity with Rhino Course Topics: Grasshopper components and Interface Managing data Essential concepts Creating parametric assemblages Patterning...

Adobe Illustrator is a must for any design professional. Learn how to create and edit your artwork. Program includes spacing, scaling, rotating graphics, and importing and auto-tracing objects. Creating text paths and aligning text to a circle are also covered. Required Material: Bring a flash drive to class to save your work. Prerequisite: Mac...

Design the User Interface of Website  Sketch is a Mac app that was built with the specific needs of a modern web designer (or app designer) in mind. Unlike some other image editing programs—which were originally created for print, photo retouching, or illustration—the entire focus of Sketch is on designing user interfaces. Sketch uses Artboards,...