Win a copy of QuarkXPress 7, Quark Interactive Designer and Quark XPert Tools Pro

Win a copy of QuarkXPress 7, Quark Interactive Designer and Quark XPert Tools Pro

Mekon Creatives, the Quark Authorised Training Partner will be exhibiting at the Publish Expo on stand B47 downstairs in the Creative section. Leave your contact details with a member of the Mekon Creatives team to win a copy of QuarkXPress 7, Quark Interactive Designer and Quark XPert Tools Pro. We have one to give away each day of the event.

Mekon Creatives focuses on supporting anyone who uses creative applications to get their job done. We do this through offering authorised Adobe and Quark training courses, value-add recruitment and professional coaching services.

***Show Special Offer***

Place any vacancy with our recruitment team at the event and qualify for the special rate of just £3,500.00 per placement – which includes FREE attendance at up to 3 of our public courses for the candidate you choose, as well as ongoing discounts for future training. And remember, you only pay once we place the candidate with you.

For more information please visit us at Stand B47 downstairs at the Publishing Expo, or contact us on 020 8722 8400 or visit our website www.mekon-creatives.com.

December update

With just a handful of working days until Christmas, here’s a list of special offers for you and an update on courses we have running in December.

December Courses

17 December

Quark to InDesign migration course

17-18 December

Adobe Flash Actionscript Introduction Course

19 December

Cross Media Publishing with Adobe CS3

***Free 3 hour seminar***

Developed for print designers who need to increase their knowledge and understanding of web tools (such as Dreamweaver, Flash and Device Central) within the design workflow, and creating content for cross media(eg mobile).

We will be running a morning and an afternoon session. Spaces are limited, so please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to attend.

19-21 December

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Advanced Course

January Courses – start the new year with some new skills!

10-11 January

Adobe InDesign Introduction Course

14-15 January

Adobe Illustrator Introduction Course

16 January

Adobe Photoshop Advanced (for Print) Course

17-18 January

Adobe Dreamweaver Introduction Course

Special offers for Flash, Illustrator or Photoshop courses

Book any public Flash, Illustrator or Photoshop course and get a Wacom Bamboo Fun A5 tablet worth around £130.00. (This offer supersedes our usual offer of a Bamboo Fun A6 worth £70.00 for booking 3 weeks in advance.)

Special offers for InDesign, Dreamweaver or QuarkXpress courses

Book any public InDesign, Dreamweaver or QuarkXpress course and get a 15% discount.

For the 2 offers above, courses must be booked before 21^st December 2007 and course must be taken before 31^st March 2008.

Nottingham Training Centre now open

Adobe have now finished the authorisation process for our training room in Nottingham. Scheduled courses will start soon. Please let us know if you’d like to attend our courses in Nottingham.

For more details on any of the above, please visit our website or simply call us on 020 8722 8400.

Flash on the Beach

We'll be at the Flash on the Beach event this year (4-7 November) in Brighton. Will you?

InDesign & InCopy Update

The Adobe Blog 'Notes from NMR' carries a story about the InDesign & InCopy Public Update. Full details available on the site.

I'm an artist, not a copywriter!

Shaun Crowley at Planet Quark writes an interesting article about how savy designers are also turning their hands to copywriting. This is something we've been interested in for some time, and part of the reason we developed our range of skills courses for designers, especially courses such as SEO and Writing for the Web. In particular freelancers who take these courses tell us they give them a new lease of life - not to mention revenue streams.

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