Mark Heaps
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2020. It’s time for another game where instructors will share their best tip or trick for Presentation Design in under 3 minutes, playing for a grand prize for a member of the audience they represent. There are always great tips attendees learn during this time, and we have a lot of fun.Click: Three Minutes Max
Friday, 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Central
John Sturino, Issuu
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Stories has graduated from a Snapchat format to a full-fledged change in the market. With over 500M daily active users on Instagram Stories, the Stories format is remaking the way consumers interact with mobile content. The challenge to marketers and designers in businesses is staying on brand for all channels. Issuu helps creators tell their story with the new Story Cloud: a suite of services to allow any business to create once and share everywhere. Join John as he discusses Stories and how Issuu’s services & InDesign extension save time, protect your brand and stand out on social and mobile web.Sponsored Breakfast Session:
Telling your Brand Story
Thursday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. It was 20 years ago that Adobe released InDesign 1.0 and the design and publishing industry was changed forever. Join us for a “birthday party,” as we celebrate 20 years of innovation, and learn what’s next for the world’s most-popular page-layout app. Featuring: Terry White, Michael Ninness, Maria Yap, Marsha Rivera, and David BlatnerLunch Session:
The Past, Present, and Future of InDesign: Special Event with Adobe
Wednesday, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Bruce Watermann
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Over the past decade, self-publishing has seen tremendous change. Modern self-publishing, through platforms like Blurb and Adobe, has opened up a range of new possibilities, but what are these specific new avenues and what are the most strategic ways of taking advantage? Blurb’s Senior Vice President, Operations, Bruce Watermann, will walk attendees through the full range of Blurb options as well as several case studies highlighting intelligent, creative uses of the modern, self-publishing toolset.Sponsored Breakfast Session:
Modern Self-Publishing with Blurb and Adobe
Wednesday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am
Clint Loveman
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Great designs share information more effectively and we know mapping can be a challenge…. ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to design with data-driven maps inside of Illustrator or Photoshop. Access cloud-hosted content, local files, or search to add locations by name, categories or address. You can visualize travel times and distances and add them as well-organized vector layers or raster images. Grab breakfast and join us for some easy map-making on your Monday morning!Sponsored Breakfast Session:
Making Maps…Easy, Powerful and (kinda) Fun!
Monday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am
James Fritz
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Think all eLearning is the same? Well, think again. While self-paced learning can help you learn a new skill or solve a tricky problem, it isn’t a one-size fits all solution. Join LinkedIn Learning’s Senior Manager of Creative Content as he takes you through a variety of innovative ways to learn online.Sponsored Breakfast Session:
eLearning Tips & Tricks
Tuesday, 8:15 am – 8:45 am
Laura Worthington
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Type and lettering are the essence of visual communication—full of nuance and complexity. With hundreds of thousands of typefaces to choose from, infinite possibilities via calligraphic or typographic lettering—crafting an ideal typographic solution for your design projects has never been more attainable… or more overwhelming! In this three-hour session, we will delve into how to select typefaces for your design projects, craft hand lettering, form custom typographic solutions, and take a close look at how typefaces are designed and developed—all from a pragmatic, demonstrative and engaging approach; full of useful tips, resources, methods and processes. Topics include:Fonts and Lettering: A Creative Design Deep Dive
Friday, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Richard Goring
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Why are most presentations so bad… even truly terrible?! Few people enjoy creating, delivering, or watching PowerPoint presentations… but we can change that. This session explores techniques to create mind-blowing presentations using nothing but standard PowerPoint. Want to know how to create visual slides? Manipulate images? Master animations? Make it interactive? And produce presentations that will astound your audience? Then come along for a masterclass in ways to capture your audience’s attention and help them learn.Mind-blowing PowerPoint. No, Really!
Friday, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Jeff Carlson
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. You’ve been inside conference rooms all week, and your mind is packed full of new ideas and information. Time to stretch your legs and vision! Join Jeff Carlson on a photowalk around the inspiration-rich area of downtown Seattle near the Westin. Within just a few blocks is the famous Space Needle, Olympic Sculpture Park, the Amazon Spheres, Pike Place Market, and more. Bring the camera you’re most comfortable with – whether that’s an iPhone or a DSLR – some walking shoes, and an eye for exploration. After the photowalk, learn how to edit and organize the images you shot using Lightroom and Photoshop, regardless of your photography experience. Discover how to:Seattle Photo Walk
Friday, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Erica Gamet
ARCHIVE: This session was presented at CreativePro Week 2019 in Seattle. Does the word “video” strike fear in your heart? Does the idea of making your designs move frighten you? Many designers either let that fear hold them back. Don’t feel like you have to master shooting, recording, and editing to add video content to your projects! Adding “movement” (makes it less scary, right?) to your digital toolbox will add variety and enhance your designs and will make you even more valuable to your company and clients. Even if someone else will supply much of your video content, knowing what’s possible and how to incorporate that media will ultimately benefit you and your company! In this 3-hour course we will:Design in Motion: Video Techniques and Tools Every Designer Can Master Quickly
Friday, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm