As creatives, we are always looking for new ways to motivate ourselves, find purpose in our projects, and a sense of fulfillment in our practice. This workshop is built to assist individuals in achieving an ultimate understanding of their personal definition of success, how to manage and set creative goals that are in line with their values, and how to be happy while working toward achieving those goals.
The 1975 exhibition, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,” was a watershed moment for landscape photography. The genre, which was largely perceived of as merely office decor or an antiquated aesthetic, was reintroduced with a vibrant and contemporary voice. Using this exhibition as inspiration and photography as the medium, the class will delve into humanity's effect upon the natural world, and its effect upon those within it.
Have you ever used a website or app that makes it hard to do what you want? This class explores the UX Design process and leverages it to bridge the gap between functionality and aesthetics, creating a better experience for your users.
How do you communicate claustrophobia in an image without using words or photographs? What about freedom? Chaos? Joy? Can you make an engaging composition with just one or two elements? After this class, the answer should be “yes”.
In this class, students will be introduced to designing for web and screen. This includes web-specific design fundamentals, best practices, and review of current web design trends.
From ideation to client review, students will be guided through each step of the design process including ways to find inspiration, wireframing, using design tools, and preparing a design for client review. Students will complete a final web design project and continue building and refining their web portfolio.
In this class, students learn how to apply style to HTML using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will create well crafted web pages using various CSS selectors and properties, including fonts, colors, divs and spans, layout, and positioning.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer; students are assumed to have a strong fluency with HTML.
This class introduces the fundamentals language the web: HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Students explore how the web works, tags, links, images, lists, tables, forms, web standards (old, new, and evolving), directory structure, wireframing, web development best practices, and lay the foundation for further web development in the next class, Web Development Basics: CSS.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer.
In this class students learn how to create visually appealing, well-organized web pages using HTML and CSS, the fundamental languages for creating content and style on the web.
The class begins with HTML and is introduced to tags, links, lists, tables, forms, web standards (old, new, and evolving), and the foundation of web page construction. Then, using CSS, students apply style sheets to HTML, using fonts, colors, divs, spans, layout, and positioning to create a well-crafted web page. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer.
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