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Create a Website with HTML and CSS

The New York Public Library (Tech) @ 188 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Learn the basics of coding using the languages HTML and CSS to create your own basic webpage. This class is taught on Mac computers.

Make An Interactive Garment: Intro to Wearables

NYC Makery @ 131 8th St, Brooklyn, NY

Make An Interactive Garment: Intro to Wearables - Workshop Series Take this fun and comprehensive Introduction to Wearables, a series of three workshops in March. It’s the perfect introduction for fashion designers, aspiring product designers, crafting lovers, and students of all stripes to learn about interaction design, soft circuitry and electronic basics, and microcontroller programming. Students will get hands on experience programming circuits,...

Build a Website with Squarespace (Without Coding)

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Squarespace is an amazing tool for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to build a beautifully designed website quickly and easily. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to choose a template, customize the look and feel of your website, layout content, and leave with the beginnings of your very own website. Takeaways Create a new beautifully designed 3-5 page website (with or without copy depending on prior preparation) Develop a functional...

Teach Yourself: Computer Self-Study

The New York Public Library (Tech) @ 476 Fifth Avenue (42nd Street Entrance), New York, NY

Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search NYPL’s Catalog for books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2010 and 2013, the Internet, typing and other topics. These are registration based classes and spots may fill up quickly. If for any reason we're unable to accommodate your registration, we will let you know as soon as possible.

Advanced JavaScript with React.js (Ages 14-18)

Upperline School of Code @ 150 Broadway, New York, NY

Advanced JavaScript with React.js is designed to give students familiar with HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript the tools they need to understand and create large-scale web applications using the framework used by major applications like Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify. In this course, students will learn to modularize their webpages into React components and make these components interactive by controlling their states. They'll then tie components together...

5-Day Fashion Sewing Bootcamp

Esaie Couture Design School @ 1515 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY

We'll teach you all you need to know to make a stylish (and simple) wardrobe for yourself, even as a new sewer! Learn on our sewing machines or bring your own. Get step by step instructions to make a bag, a skirt, a top and a dress in 5 days. You'll feel so accomplished as you learn to layout and cut patterns, assemble your garments, clean finish seams inside, make fit adjustments. Learn various machine sewing techniques, hand stitching, hem stitching,...

Intro to Fashion Design

Esaie Couture Design School @ 1515 Church Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This 4-week Intro to Fashion Design Course is constructed for those with no prior expertise in the discipline. It allows students to get an overall understanding of the fundamentals required to begin a career as a fashion designer. And, what better way to understand the skills and knowledge needed to become a success than learning from a talented fashion designer. Students will be given a hands-on, realistic approach to the world of fashion. For...

Adobe InDesign QuickStart

New York City College of Technology @ 25 Chapel St, Brooklyn, NY

This InDesign training class is ideal for those with a basic knowledge of Adobe Programs and Microsoft Office. Students will create an in-class brochure assignment and will learn to manage master pages, thread text, place and wrap images, and publish a pdf document. Students are asked to bring high-resolution photos and text documents to the workshop. Note: Price Includes $20 Registration Fee

Adobe Lightroom 101

LightroomNYC @ 71 W 23rd St, New York, NY

Get ready to understand & control Lightroom in a class with clear concise lessons using everyday language. Also for iPhoto & Aperture users making the switch. Led by two Adobe Certified Lightroom Experts, classes are small for personal attention, include coffee & pastries, a catered lunch & afternoon snacks in a comfortable, social setting. So get ready to understand and control the Lightroom Library, get your imported photos organized,...

JavaScript Crash Course (Ages 13-18)

Upperline School of Code @ 291 Central Park West, New York, NY

For students looking for a lightning-fast introduction to coding in JavaScript, we are offering a one-week, virtual, fundamentals course. Dive into web development! This class, designed for students with little or no coding experience, covers the core principles of building websites using HTML, CSS and basic Javascript.  In this whirlwind week, students will gain exposure to the building blocks of the web using the tools and skills that real-world...

User Testing 1, 2, 3: Prepare, Present, and Learn

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

Find out how to run and prepare for a user test.Learn how to analyze, present, and apply the data gathered in user tests to the design. The key component to User Experience Research & Design is user testing, but few people know how to actually prepare for and run a user test, let alone use the data gathered from the test to improve the design. In this workshop designed for project/product managers, developers, designers, investors, and entrepreneurs,...

The Power of Editing

BKC @ 33 Washington St, Brooklyn, NY

This video lecture examines the process of editing film and video, and how that process has evolved over time. Topics include: Early techniques (from single cam to multi-cam), types of cuts (straight, jump, contrast, form, parallel) with examples of each, and an analysis of flow and innovative techniques. With the rapid development of video technology and equipment, including high-def video-enabled DSLRs, the ability to shoot professional-looking...

Teens: Advanced 2D Computer Illustration & Animation

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

In our semester learn a basic introduction to this exciting media. The first few weeks will be spent getting to grips with software fundamentals: squash & stretch & bouncing ball exercises, and motion exercises (head turning & basic timing- ease in & out).  The second half of our semester we will learn background theory, 1 /2 point drawing perspective, simple Dynamic Movement, Walk Cycle (Looped Animation) as well as more advanced...

Squarespace Tutoring (Private)

LYWDesigns @ 114 5th Ave, New York, NY

You will leave with a first draft of your website.  This includes linking social media, adding pages, a menu, and a blog, uploading content, and purchasing / connecting a domain. We are here to simplify the process of learning SquareSpace.  We guide you through the steps need to feel confident you can upload, alter, and edit your own site.  Since this is a private class, we cater to your exact needs and wants.  We can teach...

Positive Design Workshop

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

Understand positive psychology and its benefits.Learn how to apply positive psychology to the design process. Be able to move forward in a design. Understand how to create healthier, more functional relationships with stakeholders and team member. Feel comfortable creating metrics and methods to design and evaluate a design using tenants from positive psychology. Applying tenants from positive psychology to the design and evaluation process can...

Design Thinking: Beyond the Bounds of Your Own Head

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

This class aims to extrapolate some of the claims Design Thinking makes about the externalization of ideas and “getting out of your head". Design practices that seek to externalize ideas—such as empathy mapping, sketching, prototyping, concept mapping, etc.—are rooted in the idea that thinking happens outside the head, which is based on earlier work within psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy. This class aims to bring these connections...

Intro to Accessories Hardware Production w/ Rhino CAD

Fashion Classroom @ 142 W 36th St, New York, NY

Are you interested in customizing accessories hardware for your fashion line? Need a custom clasp as a statement piece for a handbag, or a stylish fastener for that coat?  In this class I'm going to get you started by going through an overview of the production process of accessories hardware, with a focus on conceptualizing your idea using the 3D program Rhino and prototyping via 3D printing. I will teach you all the techniques, tips and...

Prototyping and User Testing

Noble Desktop @ 185 Madison Ave, New York, NY

Adobe Lightroom Library Workshop & Repair Lab

LightroomNYC @ 71 W 23rd St, New York, NY

In this specialized class, learn skills to manage Lightroom’s challenging import & management system & then apply them to your catalogs in a supervised setting. Led by two Adobe Certified Lightroom Experts, classes are small for personal attention, include coffee & pastries, a catered lunch & afternoon snacks in a comfortable, social setting. In the morning workshop session, you will learn how to correctly setup Lightroom for importing...