Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

We’ve teamed up with CourseHorse to bring you a selec­tion of NYC classes that will be of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to you. Here’s what we rec­om­mend check­ing out in the next five days. As a spe­cial treat, DWL read­ers can get $5 off any class with the promo code: design­work­life.

Here’s what’s hap­pen­ing this week:

Deconstructing iOS Interface Design

Tonight, March 18^th, 6:00PM – 7:30PM / $30
Find out what makes a great iOS app great. Discover the secrets of iOS design and cri­tique the best (and worst) designed apps out there today.
Sign up here.

Digital Photography I

Tuesday, March 19^th, 10:15AM – 12:15PM / $305 (other dates avail­able)
This pho­tog­ra­phy course cov­ers the foun­da­tions of image mak­ing. Course includes expo­sure con­trol, depth of field & motion blur, fram­ing & shoot­ing strangers, built in flash, and the basics of dig­i­tal post pro­cess­ing.
Sign up here.

HTML5 & CSS3 

Tuesday, March 19^th, 6:00PM – 9:00PM / $650 (other dates avail­able)
If you’ve been cre­at­ing web­pages and want to learn what’s new in HTML5 & CSS3, this train­ing is for you. There are new HTML tags and a slew of cool new CSS effects such as shad­ows, rounded cor­ners and gra­di­ents. We’ll show you how to use them and deal with older browsers that don’t sup­port them.
Sign up here.

Adobe Lightroom 4: Manage & Edit Your Photos

Thursday, March 21^st, 9:00AM – 4:30PM / $650
Lightroom is an amaz­ing pro­gram that can help you orga­nize, opti­mize and share your pho­tos. This intro­duc­tory course will cover the basics of import­ing pho­tos from your cam­era into Lightroom’s cat­a­log, edit­ing and orga­niz­ing your pic­tures, opti­miz­ing and devel­op­ing your pho­tos for print­ing, cre­at­ing slideshows, web­pages and printed books to share your work, pub­lish­ing your pic­tures on social media sites and keep­ing your photo library safe by imple­ment­ing backup strate­gies.
Sign up here.

Essential Things to Know When Forming Your Startup

Thursday, March 21^st, 6:00PM – 9:00PM / $55
These work­shops will pro­vide founders and entre­pre­neurs with a prac­ti­cal under­stand­ing of the essen­tial things to know in order to nav­i­gate through the early stage of a company’s exis­tence. Topics will include: essen­tial com­po­nents of start­ing a scal­able com­pany, rais­ing cap­i­tal, startup finance and cre­at­ing mate­ri­als for fundrais­ing.
Sign up here.

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Want to plan far­ther ahead? CourseHorse offers a ton of other NYC classes, both this week and down the road. The design, pro­gram­ming, pho­tog­ra­phy and busi­ness classes may be up your alley.