#NYC1U Digital Media Training Series

Creating Your Own Graphics for Non-Designers, a training to explore methods that will allow attendees to take their graphics and images to the next level when issuing social

Join us to learn the fundamentals of graphic design - with an organizing spin. Learn the answer to "WHY do I need to bother, anyways?" You'll walk away knowing how to create basic graphics to use for your organization and with an understanding of what makes a compelling visual.

This Class is For You if you are interested in learning more about the following:

*I don't have Photoshop, what do I do now?

*File type throwdown: JPG vs PNG vs GIF

*You, too, can make a Facebook share graphic

*Don't forget the ask

*Button, button, button

*A handy guide to poor design choices

*Let's talk about typography

*All the vocabulary you need to sound like you know what you're doing

Space is limited! Register today!

This class will be taught by Darci Larsen.  Darci is a Brooklyn-based graphic and web designer. Her background is in campaign politics, having worked field, finance, strategy, and new media for issue campaigns and House, gubernatorial, and city council races across the country.  For the past three years she's been working for the Washington DC digital strategy firm Well & Lighthouse (although she's very happy she gets to live in New York while doing so.)

This event is for NYC CLC affiliates and community partners. Other organizations will be accepted on a case by case basis.

For more information, please contact Sean Mackell at (212) 604-9552