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Circles Design Conference

Workshops

DIFFERENT LOCATION:
1209 S Main St, Grapevine TX 76051 • Directions

as low as $97/wkshp

At the Circles Workshops you’ll be able to get your hands dirty, go a little deeper, and get answers to your questions floating around in your head. You’ll walk away with practical knowledge and action steps in order to use your words to make some big waves in our world.

Please note Workshops are not included in the Conference Price.
Additional cost will apply, but completely worth it!

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OurClasses

Track I
Track II

Paul Sirmon

Designer & Founder of Monsters of Type

Cheat Your Way to Custom Type

Custom lettering is all the rage these days, but who has that kinda time? This workshop will cover quick and easy tips to help your headlines and logos keep up with the lettering Joneses without all the hassle. We'll look at type pairing, voice, and personality, as well as learn to wrangle those pesky Bézier curves in order to achieve customized type for fun and profit.

Time: 8:30 am
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

Courtney Bradford

Co-Founder & Designer

UX Strategy Workshop

User experience (UX) strategy, a careful blend of business analysis and UX design, is where a successful digital product begins. It bridges the gap between vision and execution. By determining tangible objectives, benchmarks, and a roadmap upfront, you create the opportunity to solve real problems for real people.

Time: 8:30 am
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

Ronnie Johnson

Design Lead at Black Pixel

UX Design Principles Course

A course on the principles of user experience (UX)

Time: 10:30 am
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

April Guzik

Founder of Day Zero Creative

Business Therapy: Spend More Time Dating your Client

An interactive workshop that will guide you to building a bullet proof discovery questionnaire to develop a healthy relationship.

Time: 10:30 am
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

Kyle Steed

Maker of Things

Perfect Shmerfect: Discovering why Good is Good Enough

Let's find out together just how "good" it feels to make something and how perfection is really an illusion and there aren't any mistakes in the creative process. We'll be using raw materials, pencils paints and brushes, to create something good. I don't know what it is yet but I know it's gonna be awesome.

Time: 1:30 pm
Length: 3 hrs
Cost: $157 (price includes 8x4 foot wall and materials)

Wilson Lemieux

Founder of Lemieux Company

Selling as a Freelancer

Whether you're brand-new to freelancing or you've been doing this for years, selling our services (for what they're worth to us) can seem like an uphill battle. Making cool stuff should always come first, that's the whole reason we do this. But why not make a decent living while we're at it? // This workshop is centered on the art of the creative sale. Learn how to build your creative brand, self-marketing, leveraging relationships, and proposal building. // Why don't you sign-on-up, partner? This'll be fun.

Time: 1:30 pm
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

Frances Yllana

Executive Creative Director at Imaginuity

Mind Control: Brainstorm Like A Boss

Ever have a deadline lurking around the corner and all you have is a blank sketchpad or screen staring back at you? Or have you ever been leading a team that was on the cusp of coming up with that killer idea, but just couldn’t seem to get their head wrapped around the hook? That’s being stuck. Get unstuck with this interactive workshop that will teach you different games and brainstorming exercises to help you and your team unleash genius on demand.

Time: 3:30 pm
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

The Banner Years

Tara Victoria and Brad Weaver

Contracts & Collections

Let's take the pain and fear out of contracts, invoicing, and bill collections. In this workshop, we'll break down writing and enforcing client agreements, managing payments, and protecting your business. This is a practical session filled with documents you get to keep that will cover everything from the basics to the more complicated items like intellectual property rights, redistribution, copyright, royalties, and retainers. We'll help you find ways to get paid faster, deal with clients who don't pay, and what to do when you may have to take legal action. We'll have plenty of time for Q&A so that you can get the answers you need to keep the upper hand and stay sane.

Time: 3:30 pm
Length: 1.5 hrs
Cost: $97

TRACK III

The workshops to the right are 3 hours long and cost between $197-$225.

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Lenny Terenzi

Graphic Design, Branding, Illustration, Screenprinting

Poster Layout, Design & Illustration

Let's create a poster shall we? In this 3-hour extravaganza we will jam on poster designs using your own ideas and art or with the bounty of goodies that each of you will be given once signed up.

Wait, what? FREE STUFF you say? YES! My good friend Dustin Lee, founder of RetroSupply is providing a grab bag of fantastic art, brushes, textures and more to help you kickstart the process or add to your already fantastic idea. Each attendee will get a jam-packed RetroSupply Toolkit.

In this workshop you will learn: layout and design tips, tricks and techniques, texturing in Illustrator and Photoshop, creating custom brushes and textures using analog tools, type best practices, augmenting Illustrator and Photoshop with plugins and other tools, file prep for screen printing, setting up your own screen printing poster rig at home.

Time: 8:30 am
Length: 3 hrs
Cost: $197

Hillsong Church

Jay and Brooke Argaet

Executing Creative Campaigns In The Church

From the creation process to campaign execution – Jay & Brooklynne Argaet will share from their experience on outworking a campaign in a global church.

Time: 1:30 pm
Length: 3 hrs
Cost: $227

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