DesignCasts

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Upcoming DesignCasts


From Order-Taker to Business Partner, Live DesignCast

In-house teams often get treated like transactional creatives who are proficient at banging out mundane tasks. The juicy, high-profile work goes out to agencies while the in-house team aspires to get those projects one day. Well, a heck of a lot has to change to make that actually happen. If you want the work that goes to the agency, then you need to position your team like an agency, make a transformation, and shift everyone’s mindset in the company—the design team included. Bob Calvano will share his first-hand experience on the evolution of a creative team. He will share the steps he is taking to position his in-house team as a strategic partner, as well as some of his tactics to change the mindset within the organization.

From Order-Taker to Business Partner, Live DesignCast

DATE: Thursday, February 23rd
TIME: 3-4pm ET

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21 Free Web Tools for Your Creative Business, Live DesignCast

HOWInteractiveDesign.com editor Grace Dobush has curated a list of the 21 best free web resources for creative entrepreneurs. She’ll take you through each one step by step, showing off the features that will help you get stuff done. If you’re running a business on a shoestring, you won’t want to miss this DesignCast!

21 Free Web Tools for Your Creative Business, Live DesignCast

DATE: Monday, February 27th
TIME: 2-3pm ET

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Web Design for Beginners: Essential Tools and Concepts, Live DesignCast

After the first two sessions in this series, you’re familiar with the language and conventions of web design. Now — how do you actually start designing? This DesignCast will explain how sitemaps, wireframes and grids are essential to web design and introduce you to usability concepts.

Web Design for Beginners: Essential Tools and Concepts, Live DesignCast

DATE: Wednesday, March 7th
TIME: 2-3pm ET

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Are You Getting Clients Through LinkedIn? Here’s how. Live DesignCast

You are probably on LinkedIn, the largest professional social network online. But are you actual using LinkedIn to find and reach out to your best prospects? Are you getting work through LinkedIn? If not, you should be. It is the ideal place to find work, if it’s out there. In this DesignCast, Ilise Benun, of Marketing Mentor, will show you in detail which of the many features offered by LinkedIn are worth your time as a creative professional looking for clients.

Are You Getting Clients Through LinkedIn? Here’s how. Live DesignCast

DATE: Thursday, March 15
TIME: 2-3pm ET

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Web Design for Beginners: Working on the Web, Live DesignCast

You’ve got a solid grasp on the concepts of the web and how your design skills transfer to the web. But this is just the start of your web design education. This DesignCast wraps up all you’ve learned in the first three sessions and prepares you to become an effective web designer.

Web Design for Beginners: Working on the Web, Live DesignCast

DATE: Wednesday, April 11th
TIME: 2-3pm ET

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