VIDEO PRIMERS

Stay on your game,
at your pace.

Learning at the speed of YOU.

You know you want to expand the breadth of your knowledge and further develop your skills. But when? Between ‘fire drill’ deadlines, zoominars, concepting, and implementing your design and marketing campaigns, how do you stay on—and even ahead of—the game? That’s why we’ve created our Video Primers—foundational, digestible video courses—with your busy schedule and skill-building focus in mind. Got 15 minutes? Great. Watch a chapter or two of Engaging Print or Foundations of Packaging. Take 10-20 minutes each day, and before you know it, you’ve completed a course that will increase your proficiency, impress your colleagues, expand your expertise, and ultimately—level up your career.

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Video Primer Benefits

1

Foundational

Get the basics and beyond.
This is cornerstone content
that you can build on.

2

Virtual

Each 60 to 90-minute
video course can be viewed
whenever, wherever. 

3

Digestible

Composed of short, bite-sized
chunks, stop and start
between
‘chapters’ at your
convenience.

4

Useful

Practical strategies and
techniques that you can
understand and implement easily.

5

Accessible

Watch unlimited replays for
12 months from the time of
purchase.

6

Memorable

Engaging and entertaining.
We promise you won’t be bored.

Video Primers

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PRINCIPLES OF ENGAGING PRINT

In this highly visual course filled with real-world examples, you’ll learn how to make powerful, attainable print marketing that cannot be ignored. With an eye on budget consciousness, Trish Witkowski will demonstrate how to leverage a wide array of practical, useful print engagement strategies, including image tricks, creative envelopes, and opening mechanisms, mobile integration, interaction devices, folded formats, inks, coatings, special effects—and much more.

  • Tuition: $249
  • Launch Date: January, 2023
  • Duration: 90 minutes
  • Instructor: Trish Witkowski

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FOUNDATIONS OF PRINTING

Take a fascinating journey through a breadth of printing processes, how they work, and their uses. You’ll learn about the differences between types of printing, which to use when, and why. Learn about Offset Lithography sheetfed and web; Digital Printing, including toner-based, inkjet, and nanography; Gravure; Flexography; Letterpress; and Screen Printing. You’ll learn about the principles of print on demand, variable data printing, and Web-to-print (W2P) technologies.

  • Tuition: $249
  • Launch Date: March, 2023
  • Duration: 90 minutes
  • Instructor: Daniel Dejan

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PACKAGING DESIGN 101

From types of packaging to how to design packaging that converts to a purchase, this primer has you covered. Packaging has always needed to perform four fundamental jobs: protect, attract, inform, and delight. But now it needs to achieve these functions both in-store and online, and ideally, it’s also environmentally friendly. In this course, Vicki Strull will teach you to think like a shopper and design accordingly. She will also discuss how things like the unboxing experience and how a package’s ‘second life’ can enhance the customer experience and encourage repeat purchases.

  • Tuition: $249
  • Launch Date: May, 2023
  • Duration: 90 minutes
  • Instructor: Vicki Strull

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CIRCLES

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Still curious about how Fast. Forward. or our Video Primers and Mentoring Circles fit your goals and objectives? Interested in partnering with us or hosting a class in your city? Just feel like saying “Hi”? We love ideas and connecting with people.