An Event Apart

May 4 – December 8, 2009 – Touring event

Spend two days with the greatest minds and hottest talents in web design today. An Event Apart offers an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, this is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

InDesign Seminar Tour

June 2 – September 10, 2009 – Touring event

These days, you need to learn how to be more efficient than ever. Join us in this fast-paced, full-day seminar full of tips, tricks, and techniques for getting the most out of Adobe InDesign. Whether you have upgraded to CS4 or are still working in CS2 or CS3, you’ll learn many important skills for boosting your productivity. Taught by world-renowned experts whose lively presentations promise to keep you awake, this is an event you can’t afford to miss.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: The Essential Tool

June 3 – November 8, 2009 – Multiple cities

In this intensive, two-day workshop taught by Jerry Courvoisier, learn how to download, organize, manage, develop, and present digital photography using your own laptop. Topics include digital camera setup, choosing appropriate file formats for image capture, efficiently downloading images from your camera or hard drive, sorting, rating, editing, input and output sharpening, presenting slide shows, and printing photographic images using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 from start to finish.

Digital Workflow, Not Workslow by D-65

June 12 – December 14, 2009 – Multiple cities

The D-65 workshops teach bulletproof techniques for increasing workflow productivity. This four-day intensive workshop taught by Seth Resnick and Jamie Spritzer goes in depth into the five modules of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2. You will learn a detailed workflow, including digital asset management, processing, and delivering images. You will also learn how to create files perfect for reproduction, along with attaching the appropriate metadata and keywords. Days will consist of hands-on training supplemented by a comprehensive Lightroom workflow book.

Getting Started with Flash

June 16-30, 2009 – Touring event

Whether you’re looking to update your skills, work more efficiently in Flash, revamp your web site, or launch a new career or business, you’ll walk away with awesome new skills in the industry-leading animation authoring software! Come learn how easily you can create seriously cool animations and rich interactivity with Adobe Flash Professional.

HOW Design Conference 2009

June 24-27, 2009 – Austin, Texas

Whether you’re looking for software instruction, creativity boosters, or tips on enhancing your career in a tough economy, you’ll find it at the HOW Design Conference. If you can’t make it for the whole Conference, signing up for individual sessions or single days is a great way to get the info you need.

National Educational Computing Conference 2009

June 28 – July 1, 2009 – Washington, D.C.

Learn how Adobe can help you integrate career, cross-curricular, professional development, or administrative solutions across your district or your school.
 

Fine Digital Print Advanced

June 29 – July 3, 2009 – Cushing, Maine

The Fine Digital Print Advanced workshop translates traditional photographic language and practices into new digital media. See, use, and evaluate a variety of printers, ink, papers, drivers/RIPs, and profiles. By the end of the week, you will have been exposed to a solid overview of the digital imaging process, a recommended workflow, and a variety of techniques and tools to help improve your digital files and prints.

Webtastic!

July 16, 2009 – New York, New York

In this free seminar, learn current web design workflows using Adobe Creative Suite 4 as well as the latest trends in technology, including CSS, Ajax, XML, and more.

InDesign CS4 Productivity Tour

July 17, 2009 – Los Angeles, CA

There’s simply not a more renowned Adobe InDesign expert on the planet than Terry White! If you’ve ever wondered how the true experts use InDesign to get unbelievable results here’s your chance. Join InDesign guru and best-selling author Terry White for an amazing day of training specifically designed to dramatically increase your InDesign creativity and productivity!

The CSS Summit

July 18, 2009 – Online

Spend a day with some of the Rockstars of the Web Design industry! The Summit Series lets you build your skill set without having to leave your computer.

Photoshop^® Lightroom^® 2 LIVE

July 20, 2009 – Chicago, IL

Get ready for the best Photoshop Lightroom training on the planet! Two of the world’s top Lightroom experts, Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski show you the insider’s view of Lightroom. From Start to Finish, from image capture to final print – you’ll see it unfold right in front of you, as you learn step-by-step how to take control of your digital photography workflow.

Illustrator CS4 Upgrade – What’s New?

July 20, 2009 – New York, New York

Illustrator CS4 adds features people have been requesting for a long time, as well as some nice improvements to existing features that make working in Illustrator faster and easier. In this free seminar, take at look at what’s new and what’s changed.
 

The Summer XML 2009 Conference

July 27-28, 2009 – Raleigh, North Carolina

Check out the structured authoring capabilities and DITA support in new Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2. Your search for the best unstructured and structured authoring solution ends here.
 

Location Lighting Techniques

July 31, 2009 – South Francisco, CA

Here’s the opportunity of a lifetime to spend the day with a legendary photographer regarded as one of the world’s best shooters! Join Joe McNally, internationally acclaimed American photographer, long-time photojournalist, and author of the ground-breaking smash best-selling book (The Moment it Clicks) for the only photography lighting seminar tour of its kind.

Front End Design Conference

July 31, 2009 – St. Petersburg, Florida

The Front-End Design Conference will be a single-day event featuring presentations that cover details of the web design process. The discussions will begin with inspiration, progress into creating and managing content, discuss usability theory, teach how to put on the finishing details and introduce attendees to designing web apps. The presentations will be performed by industry leaders and the day will feature licensed product giveaways from our generous sponsors.

Image Space Object 6:
Tools for Transformation

August 6-9, 2009 - Denver, CO

At Image, Space, Object, small teams of participants and studio mentors work together to create multi-dimensional environments, human interactions and brand strategies. User-centered narratives serve as a starting place for the design of graphic, interaction, product and environmental experiences. Research, modeling, team ideation and experiential prototyping are employed throughout the three days to produce tangible final presentations that can be brought back to work and used with your design teams.

DrupalCampLA 2009

August 8-9, 2009 – Southern Utah, Irvine, CA

DrupalCampLA is the annual free conference organized by LA Drupal to unite and improve the Drupal Development Community in Los Angeles.

DrupalCampLA is an unconference-style Drupal training, founded in the style ofBarCamp. While there are some differences (DrupalCamp does more pre-planning on the sessions), they have the common goal of bringing smart people together in an environment that is accessible to everyone.

This generally means that you will have a lot of very smart people in a small space who have all come there with something to share and a desire to learn. Since this is a free event and on a weekend, we also get to welcome folks who can’t usually take the time or money to go to commercial conferences – so it’s a lot of fun with fresh faces.
 

Southwest Journey

August 9-20, 2009 – Southern Utah, northern Arizona

Join Stephen Johnson on a 12-day trek through the visual wonderlands of southern Utah and northern Arizona. The trip is designed to be a complete immersion in landscape photography and its digital evolution with the pioneer in digital landscape photography.

CFUnited

August 12-15, 2009 – Leesburg, Virginia

CFUnited is the ideal conference for developers to discover the latest in ColdFusion, Flex, and Adobe AIR technology; share ideas and experiences; discover potential clients; get inspired; and begin collaborating on projects. Don’t miss the biggest and most exciting CFUnited conference yet!

Creative Effects with Adobe Illustrator CS4

August 13, 2009 – New York, New York

In this free seminar, learn to create a poster by compositing artwork drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS4 with various effects and photographs into a unified color scheme.

Light Views in Iceland

August 16-22, 2009 – Reykjavik, Iceland

Come and create your life’s work with Certified Professional Photographer Eddie Tapp in Iceland. Create great compositions in your photographs, and learn techniques to enhance and purify your images and how best to create predictable results using Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Lightroom 2.

Dreamweaver and CSS

August 20, 2009 – New York, New York

In this free seminar, learn how to create and apply three different types of Cascading Style Sheets in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

Creative Freelancer Conference

August 26-28, 2009 - San Diego, California

Introducing a business conference for designers, copywriters, illustrators, photographers and other creative freelancers. Industry veterans will share pricing strategies, marketing techniques and other best practices for maximizing your freelance income.

Apple Education Seminars & Events

Various Dates & Locations

Apple offers educational seminars and events all over the world.

Do you know of any design events planned for this summer that I’ve left off of the list? Please let me know about it in the comments below and I will be happy to add your event. Because I’m in Chicago, I only listed events in the US, but if you know of any amazing design events in other countries, I’d be glad to add those as well. I plan to continually update this post throughout the summer, so check back for new events and look for another Design Events list this fall.

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