Sessions, labs, and creativity workshops are where you’ll gain the knowledge and skills you need to stay competitive and the inspiration you need to create your best work.
Sessions run an hour and are generally a presentation followed by Q&A.
Labs run ninety minutes and you will be given a dedicated PC or Mac to work on that is preloaded with all the necessary software and files needed for the course.
Creativity workshops run from 90 minutes to three hours, so you'll have plenty of time to play and explore.
Tracks
Sessions, labs, and workshops are rated by skill level and organized by tracks. Do you have to follow the track? No. Pick and choose whatever interests you. The complete catalog of offerings will be available in June. Please check back.
Preconference
Saturday, Oct 4
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform
Creative Cloud @ MAX:
Designing Digital Content
Length — 1 ½ days
This hands-on lab will show designers how to use the full range of Adobe Creative Cloud desktop tools and services to create great digital content that works across a range of screens and devices. Whether you’re just starting to create content or updating existing materials, you’ll learn how to consider differences in screen sizes and input types. The lab covers the latest features in several Creative Cloud products and services. You’ll learn how to:
- Enhance your image and graphic creation skills by learning tips for using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator across projects
- Design responsive web content that you can easily share with developers using Adobe Edge Tools & Services
- Build a website for multiple devices — without writing code — with Adobe Muse
- Create interactive animations with Adobe Edge Animate
- Showcase and get feedback on your designs using Behance
- Produce digital publications with Adobe InDesign (using the EPUB format and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition)
Presenter: Patti Sokol
Bundle
Mac platform
Creative Cloud @ MAX:
Designing Digital Content
Creative Cloud @ MAX:
Designing Digital Content
Length — 1 ½ days
This hands-on lab will show designers how to use the full range of Adobe Creative Cloud desktop tools and services to create great digital content that works across a range of screens and devices. Whether you’re just starting to create content or updating existing materials, you’ll learn how to consider differences in screen sizes and input types. The lab covers the latest features in several Creative Cloud products and services. You’ll learn how to:
- Enhance your image and graphic creation skills by learning tips for using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator across projects
- Design responsive web content that you can easily share with developers using Adobe Edge Tools & Services
- Build a website for multiple devices — without writing code — with Adobe Muse
- Create interactive animations with Adobe Edge Animate
- Showcase and get feedback on your designs using Behance
- Produce digital publications with Adobe InDesign (using the EPUB format and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition)
Presenter: Patti Sokol
Bundle
Mac platform
Sunday, Oct 5
Responsive Web & Mobile Experiences
Length — 1 day
This hands-on lab offers an in-depth look at the best practices of responsive web design for designers creating web content. You’ll learn about what’s possible today on the web and what’s coming in the future. This lab covers several Creative Cloud products and services and includes:
- An overview of responsive design
- Tips for optimizing your HTML and CSS
- Best practices for designing web content for touch interfaces
- How to create interactive and animated infographics
- Best practices for web typography and color on the web
- How to efficiently create graphics for the web
Presenter: Paul Trani
Lab
Mac platform
Responsive Web & Mobile Experiences
Responsive Web & Mobile Experiences
Length — 1 day
This hands-on lab offers an in-depth look at the best practices of responsive web design for designers creating web content. You’ll learn about what’s possible today on the web and what’s coming in the future. This lab covers several Creative Cloud products and services and includes:
- An overview of responsive design
- Tips for optimizing your HTML and CSS
- Best practices for designing web content for touch interfaces
- How to create interactive and animated infographics
- Best practices for web typography and color on the web
- How to efficiently create graphics for the web
Presenter: Paul Trani
Lab
Mac platform
Animation and Interactivity on the Web
Length — 1 day
This hands-on lab offers an in-depth look at the best practices of animation and interactivity for designers creating web content. We’ll walk through the entire workflow for creating animations and interactivity, from the creation of assets to publishing your work. In this lab you'll learn:
- How to prepare assets for HTML5 animations in Photoshop and Illustrator
- How to design interactive banners
- How to make your animations responsive
- The role of web fonts in animation
- Tips for creating animations for touchscreens
- How to add video and sound in your animations
Presenter: Michaël Chaize
Lab
Mac platform
Animation and Interactivity on the Web
Animation and Interactivity on the Web
Length — 1 day
This hands-on lab offers an in-depth look at the best practices of animation and interactivity for designers creating web content. We’ll walk through the entire workflow for creating animations and interactivity, from the creation of assets to publishing your work. In this lab you'll learn:
- How to prepare assets for HTML5 animations in Photoshop and Illustrator
- How to design interactive banners
- How to make your animations responsive
- The role of web fonts in animation
- Tips for creating animations for touchscreens
- How to add video and sound in your animations
Presenter: Michaël Chaize
Lab
Mac platform
Introduction to Design Research
Length — Half day
Conducting effective design research goes well beyond simply talking with customers. There are a variety of tools researchers use to gain the type of predictive information that can help drive design and business decisions. This workshop will review some of the core methods used at different points in the design process, and teach best practices and pitfalls to avoid through interactive activities. In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Early-concept brainstorming techniques
- How to effectively select and screen of testing participants
- Techniques for getting the most out of a site visit (lightweight ethnographic study)
- Quick and dirty user testing
- Best known methods for creating effective personas
Presenters: Ben Hsieh and Cynthia Kaschub
Workshop
Introduction to Design Research
Introduction to Design Research
Length — Half day
Conducting effective design research goes well beyond simply talking with customers. There are a variety of tools researchers use to gain the type of predictive information that can help drive design and business decisions. This workshop will review some of the core methods used at different points in the design process, and teach best practices and pitfalls to avoid through interactive activities. In this workshop you’ll learn:
- Early-concept brainstorming techniques
- How to effectively select and screen of testing participants
- Techniques for getting the most out of a site visit (lightweight ethnographic study)
- Quick and dirty user testing
- Best known methods for creating effective personas
Presenters: Ben Hsieh and Cynthia Kaschub
Workshop
Digital Publishing Suite Training
Length — 1 day
In this course you’ll learn how to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to design and lay out mobile documents and build multi-folio viewer apps to deliver innovative reading experiences, dynamic content, and high-impact advertising on leading tablet devices. Find out how to get consumers more deeply engaged with your content and your brand. In the training you’ll learn this and more:
- Create hyperlinks to different articles within the folio, online resources, or email addresses
- Create multistate objects and specify mobile device controls and functions for viewer interaction
- Create folios as well as articles that you can incorporate into folios
- Manage articles both in the Folio Builder panel within Adobe InDesign and via the DPS Dashboard and DPS Folio Producer tools
- Preview folios and articles via the Adobe Content Viewer
Instructor: Alex Clark, Corporate Trainer, Adobe Training Services
Lab
Mac platform
Digital Publishing Suite Training
Digital Publishing Suite Training
Length — 1 day
In this course you’ll learn how to use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite to design and lay out mobile documents and build multi-folio viewer apps to deliver innovative reading experiences, dynamic content, and high-impact advertising on leading tablet devices. Find out how to get consumers more deeply engaged with your content and your brand. In the training you’ll learn this and more:
- Create hyperlinks to different articles within the folio, online resources, or email addresses
- Create multistate objects and specify mobile device controls and functions for viewer interaction
- Create folios as well as articles that you can incorporate into folios
- Manage articles both in the Folio Builder panel within Adobe InDesign and via the DPS Dashboard and DPS Folio Producer tools
- Preview folios and articles via the Adobe Content Viewer
Instructor: Alex Clark, Corporate Trainer, Adobe Training Services
Lab
Mac platform
Hand-drawn Type and Lettering Studio
Length — 1 day
Beautiful lettering and typography is behind some of the most powerful and effective visual communications. This course is a one-day, hands-on course for graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, and typography fans to get reacquainted with the fundamentals of type and lettering design, and to apply basic drawing concepts to make distinctive hand-lettered designs. You don’t need a formal education in type design. Before you take pencil to tracing paper, you’ll get inspired by real-world examples that demonstrate letter-making principles. Then, you’ll try your hand at basic letter-making exercises using techniques for developing hand-drawn letterforms, successfully pairing letter styles, and recognizing and evaluating good typography and lettering. At the end of the day, you’ll have a digitized version of your work and the confidence to create hand-drawn letters for future unique designs.
Experience level / requirements:
- Basic familiarity working with typefaces
- Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator
Lab
Mac platform
Hand-drawn Type and Lettering Studio
Hand-drawn Type and Lettering Studio
Length — 1 day
Beautiful lettering and typography is behind some of the most powerful and effective visual communications. This course is a one-day, hands-on course for graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, and typography fans to get reacquainted with the fundamentals of type and lettering design, and to apply basic drawing concepts to make distinctive hand-lettered designs. You don’t need a formal education in type design. Before you take pencil to tracing paper, you’ll get inspired by real-world examples that demonstrate letter-making principles. Then, you’ll try your hand at basic letter-making exercises using techniques for developing hand-drawn letterforms, successfully pairing letter styles, and recognizing and evaluating good typography and lettering. At the end of the day, you’ll have a digitized version of your work and the confidence to create hand-drawn letters for future unique designs.
Experience level / requirements:
- Basic familiarity working with typefaces
- Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator
Lab
Mac platform
Draw from L.A. — From Real-World Inspiration to Final Art
with Sketching & Drawing
Length — 1 day
In this lab, you’ll explore ways to capture inspiration from real life and evolve your creative process to take your ideas further. Step out from behind your computer and into downtown Los Angeles, where you’ll gather ideas from the people, streets, and architecture. Back in the studio, you’ll receive hands-on instruction on how to take your ideas into more finished designs using new sketching and drawing apps, technologies, and techniques. You don’t have to be an expert illustrator to use drawing and sketching to jump-start your creative thinking, push your ideas in new directions, and spark new ways to approach your design work. You’ll leave with a reinvigorated creative mind and artwork that commemorates your experience in L.A.
Experience level/requirements:
- BYO smartphone, iPad, or camera for taking photos
- Basic familiarity with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop — instruction not included in this workshop
- Comfortable being outdoors for a half-day in a potentially busy public area
Instructor: Matthew Richmond
Lab
Mac platform
Draw from L.A. — From Real-World Inspiration to Final Art
with Sketching & Drawing
Draw from L.A. — From Real-World Inspiration to Final Art
with Sketching & Drawing
Length — 1 day
In this lab, you’ll explore ways to capture inspiration from real life and evolve your creative process to take your ideas further. Step out from behind your computer and into downtown Los Angeles, where you’ll gather ideas from the people, streets, and architecture. Back in the studio, you’ll receive hands-on instruction on how to take your ideas into more finished designs using new sketching and drawing apps, technologies, and techniques. You don’t have to be an expert illustrator to use drawing and sketching to jump-start your creative thinking, push your ideas in new directions, and spark new ways to approach your design work. You’ll leave with a reinvigorated creative mind and artwork that commemorates your experience in L.A.
Experience level/requirements:
- BYO smartphone, iPad, or camera for taking photos
- Basic familiarity with Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop — instruction not included in this workshop
- Comfortable being outdoors for a half-day in a potentially busy public area
Instructor: Matthew Richmond
Lab
Mac platform
Exploring Time-lapse Photography with Adobe Creative Cloud
Length — 1 day
With time-lapse photography, you can literally see the passage of time. This style of photography is easy to learn but tough to master. In this hands-on training you’ll learn all the essential skills needed to shoot, develop, and assemble beautiful time-lapse sequences.
Join photographer Richard Harrington as he shows you:
- How to design time-lapse shots
- How to shoot time-lapse with a DSLR, Micro Four Thirds, or smartphone camera
- How to develop the shots in Photoshop or Lightroom
- How to assemble the shots with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
- How to deliver digital files in professional and sharing formats.
Instructor: Rich Harrington
Lab
PC platform
Exploring Time-lapse Photography with Adobe Creative Cloud
Exploring Time-lapse Photography with Adobe Creative Cloud
Length — 1 day
With time-lapse photography, you can literally see the passage of time. This style of photography is easy to learn but tough to master. In this hands-on training you’ll learn all the essential skills needed to shoot, develop, and assemble beautiful time-lapse sequences.
Join photographer Richard Harrington as he shows you:
- How to design time-lapse shots
- How to shoot time-lapse with a DSLR, Micro Four Thirds, or smartphone camera
- How to develop the shots in Photoshop or Lightroom
- How to assemble the shots with Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro
- How to deliver digital files in professional and sharing formats.
Instructor: Rich Harrington
Lab
PC platform
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform
Monday, Oct 6
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Russell Brown@MAX Presents:
From Mobile Phones to Movie Posters
Length — 2 ½ days
The Russell Brown@MAX lab is a 2 ½ days, hands-on course designed for art directors, designers, illustrators, and photographers to learn advanced imaging techniques to use with Adobe Photoshop, as well as some of Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Led by Adobe Principal Creative Director and mad scientist Russell Brown, in collaboration with his distinguished team, this course gives you the opportunity to work with some of the best designers and instructors in the industry.
The goal is to demonstrate the potential of mobile devices as a powerful source of creativity for designers.
You’ll learn how to capture, edit, and composite compelling movie poster images using Lightroom and Photoshop. When we’re done, each student will have mastered some great new skills in advanced image editing and discovered some unique ways to use Adobe’s latest mobile tools. Taught in combination with the latest Mac computers, Russell Brown@MAX features a limited class size and an intimate, inspiring environment for in-depth instruction.
Back by popular demand: We’ll print out our Kaiju monster poster projects on an Epson large-format printer and T-shirt designs on a Brother garment printer.
Projects include:
- 40x60-inch movie poster for each student
- MAX gallery exhibit displaying all class posters
- Printed T-shirt designs that include white ink
Instructors:
Russell Brown — Adobe principal creative director
Rayce Bird — creature creator and designer
Julieanne Kost — Adobe principal evangelist
Chris Converse — Designer and developer
Lisa Carney — Movie Poster Retouching Expert
Bundle
Mac platform