The 2012 class of Youth Design met for the first time at MassArt for the Pre-Summer Adobe Workshop on June 2nd.
Program Coordinator Jasmine Daniel and Youth Designer Daniel Smelansky
Students were divided into two groups for a workshop in Adobe InDesign or Adobe Photoshop. Each session lasted three hours. After their first session Youth Designers travelled off to lunch at the MassArt Cafeteria.Students arrived promptly at 8:45 A.M. for check in and began participated in the first half of a daylong training on the Adobe Creative Suite.
Youth Designers in the Photoshop workshop
When they came back they switched rooms for their second workshop.
Patrick Bibbons, a senior level designer from Children’s Hospital Boston, led the Indesign workshops and Nat Jabbawy, a highly skilled photographer and Art Director at Joss & Main, led the Photoshop sessions. Students were enthralled, engaged and vested in their learning. One Youth Designer, Daniel Smelansky, stated, “ I learned so much, in such a short time!” Patrick and Nat made learning fun, meaningful and relevant. Youth
Design Volunteer Peter Weatherbee helps Youth Designer Daisy Mejia
Design volunteers were on hand to serve as teacher’s assistants and made sure students absorbed the material being presented.
At 4 P.M. the Pre-Summer Adobe Workshop ended with Youth Designers feeling ready to experience success
during their summer design immersion. The Pre-Summer Adobe Workshop was an amazing success!
Youth Design thanks all of the teachers, teaching assistants and students for their hard work and dedication.
Stay tuned for updates on the 2012 Youth Design program during the coming weeks!
Until then…
Jasmine Daniel
Youth Design Program Coordinator
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