Stickman Rides the Mouse
A one-day seminar that teaches basic desktop publishing and design thinking and techniques to business professionals, hobbyists, students, and anyone who wants the skills to effectively communicate in print and on the web. Desktop publishing tools are readily available, yet without a firm understanding of page layout and other conventional design practices and techniques, the results are unremarkable, ineffective, and too often smell of amateur.

The Stickman Rides the Mouse Training Seminar will teach even stickman-grade artists learn the valuable thinking processes and design tactics needed to produce effective, attractive pieces for a variety of communication uses. The training is not software or computer-focused, but rather technique and thought-process specific. The participant will be taught base design techniques and tactics that can be applied with any of the currently available desktop publishing software tools.

You will find that the ability to design and produce professional-looking, effective pieces—including ads, flyers, programs, brochures, booklets, newsletters, forms, sales sheets, and the like—will greatly increase your value in the workplace, service/volunteer organization, or any business arena.

Central to the training is also a foundation in critical and creative thinking, providing the base-thinking processes and strategies that fuel continued improvement and development of design and layout skills.

The Stickman Rides the Mouse Seminar delivers:
—A discussion of tools and creative resources
—A foundation in designer-land savvy...the conventions, expectations, common mistakes, support professionals, and lingo.
—An exploration of your own abilities, preferences and prejudices, expectations—all which affect the ways you create, design and communicate.
—How and why to begin with the end in mind so as to work effectively and intelligently.
—The bedrock design and layout concepts necessary to tackle any design project.
—A valuable bag of graphical tricks that you can immediately put into play.
—A list of bad moves that must be avoided to keep the stench of amateur off of your pieces.
—Advice and admonition for getting better, faster, and stronger.

Contact Bonefrog Creative to make arrangements to train your key employees in the techniques and processes of effective visual communication.