Digital Media
Textile Design 1 Day Intensive
- Instructor
- Joanne Sherrow
- Location
- Digital Media Lab
- Dates
Sunday April 6- FULL!- Registration Deadline
- April 3
- Times
- 11:00p-6:00p
- 1 hr for Lunch!
- Member Price
- $120
- Non-Member Price
- $150
Acquire a lucrative skill in this 6-hour intensive through learning the basics of textile design. Students will create original, digitally produced, production ready designs for printed fabrics marketable for women's, men's, and children's wear, home furnishings and paper products. Professional methods of designing patterns, repeats, and color combinations will be explored using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Students will also gain knowledge of how to market themselves in the various industries where these skills are applicable.
Joanne Sherrow is a Textile and Graphic Designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her clients include Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, Anthropologie, Seamen Schepps, and Liz Claiborne. Joanne teaches Adobe Illustrator for fashion design and digital archiving for artists and collectors at the Fashion Institute of Technology and fashion digital studio classes in Parsons School of Design's undergraduate fashion department. Joanne has also been involved in recording and performing experimental electronic music with the bands Confetti System and Tic-tac-oh. She has her BS from Pennsylvania State University and her AAS from the Fashion Institute of Technology. http://www.funkyjewels.com/
Design Sampler: Web Design with Dreamweaver and CSS
- Instructor
- Claudia Sohrens
- Location
- Digital Media Lab
- Dates
- Saturdays Apr 5, 12, 19
- Registration Deadline
- March 31
- Times
- 11am-2pm
- Member Price
- $180
- Non-Member Price
- $240
- $150
Students who sign up for all three parts of the Design Sampler seminar will receive member price for all 3.
We understand our lives and history through narratives. In the computer age, a database provides frames of understanding of the physical and social as a parallel way of organizing human experience - a database appears to the user as a collection of information to view, navigate and search, regardless of how it is organized.
It goes without saying that any interactive communication tool needs to look good and be error free, this is the bare minimum.
Appropriating the tools and techniques of blogging, in this part of the workshop each student will develop a an interface not only to promote and showcase their media work, but also to create an archive of ideas and concepts, writings, journals and research, as well as a space for dialog and social activities…
In this part of the workshop students will learn the technical aspects of how to produce, upload, and host and promote blogs as well as how to design basic web sites with Adobe Lightroom and Dreamweaver. This section will cover basic CSS, and following the look and feel of their book layouts students will learn how to incorporate their media work, as well as identity and brand design.
We will examine art & photography web sites and blogs that have successfully utilized this technology and discuss concept and ideas for student’s individual projects.
Claudia Sohrens is a German video artist and photographer, that has been based in New York since 1997. She is currently on the faculty at The International Center of Photography, Pratt Institute, and Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. Sohrens participated in artist residencies at the Bronx Museum (AIM 21) in New York and the International Academy of Painting & Photography in Italy. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Bronx Museum and the Artists Space in New York, the Electronic Language Festival in Sao Paulo, the Project Space at Kunsthalle Wien, KW and the Institut for Contemporary Art in Berlin, as well as Kampnagel KX and Westwerk e.V in Hamburg. Her independent, no-budget documentaries include The Art on Fela, a film in response to the Black President Exhibition at the New Museum in New York produced for TSM-TV, Nigeria, and Imagining Me, a collaborative Project with GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services, Harlem) & the ICP Community Program in New York.
Photoshop Intensive
- Instructor
- Mara Taber
- Location
- Digital Media Lab
- Dates
Sundays April 13- FULL!- Times
- 1100a-200p
- Registration Deadline
- April 10
- Member Price
- $80
- Non-Member Price
- $100
Whether you are a non-photographer, novice photographer, artist, non-artist, art director, designer, publisher, or writer you will know how to perform digital miracles on your photographss upon completing this 4-hour workshop on the basics concepts of the Photoshop environment. Even photographers leery of the digital realm can get their feet wet with this no-nonsense introduction to the best digital-darkroom in the industry.
Instruction will cover image manipulation, resolution, file size, bit depth, image adjustment, color correction, brush settings, cloning, healing, layers, type, filters, effects, the difference between raster and vector graphics, as well as creating and retouching images.
All sessions include hands-on practice on Mac computers. Participants may bring their own laptops, provided Adobe Photoshop CS3 is already installed. This class is an introductory class and is not appropriate for students at the intermediate and advanced levels.
Mara Taber an artist and photographer specializing in fantastic imagery inspired by the legacies of classic horror, studio era Hollywood, vintage portraiture and gothic literature, using parody in her work. She was trained as a filmmaker, and has a successful career in photography and web design. Notable clients have been the award-winning journalist-filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, bands such as The Bloodsugars and Atomic Mint, and small businesses such as Queen Doll. To view her work please visit: http://stellamara.net
Illustrator Intensive
- Instructor
- Leah Dixon
- Location
- Digital Media Lab
- Dates
Tuesday April 22- FULL!- Times
- 700p-1000p
- Registration Deadline
- April 18
- Member Price
- $80
- Non-Member Price
- $100
- By enrolling you verify you have read
and agree to our Edu Policy.
Interested in tightening up your drawn illustrations? Want to put together graphics for the web or high-resolution images for business cards, t-shirt designs, cd covers or posters? If so then Abobe Illustrator is your program.
In this Intensive, you will learn all of the basics of the application including the drawing and reshaping tools, combining objects, fill and stroke, applying color, and adding type. Students may scan black and white drawings or import photographs to be enhanced in Illustrator. The class will also explore different ways to prepare files for printing and the difference between print and screen resolution, as well as converting bitmaps to vector artwork, which can be blown up without losing resolution.
Although no prior experience is necessary, Photoshop experience is helpful. Students will learn to use Illustrator in tandem with Photoshop, so as to bring projects back and forth between the two and exploit the programs' respective strengths.
Video Workshop for Artists
- Instructor
- Dan Winckler
- Location
- Digital Media Lab + Classroom
- Dates
- Sunday April 13, 20, May 4, 11
- Times
- 300pm-600pm
- Registration Deadline
- April 11
- Member Price
- $240
- Non-Member Price
- $340
- By enrolling you verify you have read
and agree to our Edu Policy.
This hands-on, project-based workshop is ideal for those wishing to take their video work to the next level, and is aimed at artists with beginning or intermediate experience with video systems. Problems solved, questions answered, video mastered! Participants will broaden and deepen their practical and theoretical knowledge of video through the development of existing or new projects. Topics will include the ins-and-outs of video installation, hardware- and software-based systems for display, compression/conversion, and dynamic (live) control systems.
Specific technologies and techniques explored include compression and conversion (ffmpegX, Compressor, types of video: DV, HDV, etc) as well as hardware systems for display. We'll cover general signal routing, sync'd DVD players, cameras, routers, distribution amplifiers, types of cables, the whole thing. We'll talk about the nuts and bolts of installation - choosing projectors, keystoning, color matching, spanning multiple screens - and how to control them - MIDI, OSC, remote administration, overview of sensor technologies. For the slightly more adventurous, we'll also probably touch upon video software Jitter and Quartz Composer.
Students are encouraged to come to class with a project in mind, but there will be plenty of material and tricks to try out that we're sure you'll be inspired. This class will conclude with a small group show at 3rd Ward.
Introduction to Editing with Final Cut Pro
- Instructor
- Mark Read
- Location
- Digital Media Lab
- Dates
- Sundays April 20, 27, May 4
- Times
- 11a-2p
- Registration Deadline
- Apr 18
- Member Price
- $180
- Non-Member Price
- $225
- By enrolling you verify you have read
and agree to our Edu Policy.
In this introductory class for Final Cut Pro, students will learn all the essentials necessary to enable them to begin editing their own work and further explore the world of digital video editing.
A full introduction to the FCP interface and basic tool kit will be followed by lessons in logging and capturing, basic media management and workflow, three point editing, importing audio files, basic transitions, and finally video filters. Students will learn how to take a project from start to finish in this class, from basic cuts all the way to color correction and audio tweaking. Students are STRONGLY encouraged to bring their own video footage to edit with on Mini-DV tape, but the instructor will provide raw material for those who need it.
Mark Read is a documentary filmmaker, television producer and editor, and NYU Media Studies adjunct professor. His sometimes controversial, and always political, documentary films have appeared in numerous festivals, including Tribeca, Human Rights Watch, Rooftop Films, and the Vermont Film Festival. His work has also been broadcast nationally on WorldLink TV and Freespeech TV. His most recent work, Dance of Death, appeared in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Mark has been teaching video production at NYU for 8 years and he has Apple certification. He is also a passionate cycling advocate, and a frequent rider in Critical Mass. http://www.markwread.com/
Macintosh Tip and Tricks
- Instructor
- Adam K Olson
- Location
- Media Lab
- Dates
Monday April 21- FULL!- Registration Deadline
- April. 17
- Times
- 730pm-1030pm
- Member Price
- $Free
- Non-Member Price
- $Also Free
Whether you are an artist, book keeper, or just a casual user, we'll cover some lesser known - but extremely useful - aspects of the Mac operating system, as well as some common tips and tricks for making sure you're not only generally less frustrated, but also using your machine to its full potential.
Little experience with Mac OS X is necessary. Bring your questions and ideas.
Adam K Olson is a graphic designer and web developer. You can see his work at http://www.adamkolson.com
