Workshops for Design Managers

If you’re a design manager, HOW Design University is a great resource for ongoing professional-level education. Learn about branding strategies, marketing and learn how to become a master design project manager. If you’re looking for web design classes, you’re in luck. HOW U has a great selection of beginner-level courses to choose from.

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Basic Typography Bootcamp

Typography is much more than just putting type on a page. It is choosing the right font, learning how to create hierarchy within information, making the type legible and readable, directing the typography to suit the appropriate audience and knowing that you have the power to create awesome design. In this one-week, intensive crash course, typography expert Denise Bosler will show you how to harness the power of typography to tackle any design situation. You’ll begin with the history and basics of typography and letterforms, then move into step-by-step lessons where you’ll design a real-world poster project. You’ll get one-on-one feedback during this week-long project that’ll prepare you for your design future! Learn More →

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Strategic Brand Development

In this course, Margaret Hartwell, author of Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists, demystifies the concept of archetypes and offers a highly participatory approach toward the creation of resonant and authentic communications. Learn More →

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Managing a Web Design Project from Start to Finish

Learn how to provide web design project leadership from research all the way through testing. In this course, Dave Holston will teach you about the key research and planning phases that inform the online design process, and about project management tools and techniques that can create efficiencies for you as a manager. In the end, you’ll walk away with the ability to deliver a website that is strategically focused to attract, engage and convert visitors. Learn More →

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Breakthrough Logo Design and Branding Success

In the 1960s, Dr. Bill Haig worked with Saul Bass as his logo planning and account manager, working with all client logo accounts for many years. Dr. Haig benefited from Bass’s teachings, learning about logo design and branding, and went on to develop an approach that he’s coined, “credibility-based logo design.” In this course, Dr. Haig will break down this concept and teach you how to design logos that sell. In just two weeks, you’ll walk away with a greater understanding of how to plan a logo design project with your client, create effective logo design solutions, and be able to pitch yourself and your ideas. Learn More →

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Advanced WordPress

In this course, you’ll learn WordPress skills that will take you from novice, to expert. Jesse Friedman will begin with some foundational basics to get you started, and then will cover WordPress theming and industry best practices. Learn More →

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Mastering Typography

Learn about organization, relationships, composition, message, experimentation and using expressive typography to solve complex visual problems. Relevant design history and theory are examined in relation to these ideas as well. You’ll have the opportunity to broaden your overall understanding of type, and then dig in and push the limits of your typographic creativity! Learn More →