ENVISION YOUR BRAND EVOLVING IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD.
WHAT MIGHT THIS LOOK LIKE? LET'S CREATE THE FUTURE OF YOUR BRAND TOGETHER!
TRAINING 1 - BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY
For Professional Individuals or Teams
Six Learning Sessions to Supercharge Your Creativity with AI
Unlock the potential of AI with our online, live workshop series! Whether you're a content creator, designer, educator, storyteller, marketer, or entrepreneur, this course is tailored to help you harness AI tools to enhance creativity, streamline workflows, and innovate your projects. Join us to elevate your skills and see what’s possible with AI as your creative partner.
Course Description
Our AI Training 1 program is an immersive, hands-on workshop series that explores cutting-edge AI tools for every stage of the creative process. Across six interactive sessions, you’ll learn techniques for ideation, visual content creation, branding, video production, trend forecasting, and immersive storytelling. Each session is designed to deepen your understanding and enhance your ability to integrate AI effectively into your work.
What You’ll Learn
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Generate and expand ideas using text-based AI tools to enrich early-stage brainstorming.
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Craft stunning visuals with image-generation platforms, understanding the unique capabilities of different AI models.
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Develop a cohesive branding package, including logos, color palettes, and graphic elements, using various AI tools.
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Experiment with video creation tools to build storyboards, generate prompts, and produce a short film.
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Explore trend forecasting with AI, using data insights to shape future-ready products or services.
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Dive into immersive storytelling, blending AI with AR/metaverse for unique and engaging experiences.
What to expect from the Training
In this series, you’ll book six online live sessions, each lasting 1.5 hours, conducted weekly. Led by Ulrike Kerber and associates, these sessions are designed to guide you through the most powerful AI tools and demonstrate effective ways to collaborate with them.
Our hands-on approach introduces new workflows that merge digital and AI tools, creating a partnership between human creativity and AI. And if you’re already familiar with generative AI, we’ll dive deeper to challenge and expand your creative intelligence 😅. By the end of this training, your ideation and productivity will be elevated to new heights!
Course Dates and Details
Dates
Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 5pm, EST
Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 5pm, EST
Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 5pm, EST
Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 5pm, EST
Tue, Feb 4, 2025, 5pm, EST
Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 5pm, EST
Provided Materials
6 recorded workshops, 3 additional extra workshops and the ebook " The Best Ai Tools for Designers"
Live online sessions
6 x 1 .25 hours
Provided Materials
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Course Fee: The total fee for this six-session training is €390 per person, covering all sessions, materials, and access to recordings.
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Missed Sessions: If you can’t attend a live workshop, no worries! You’ll receive a full recording and all relevant materials. Note that no refunds are available for missed sessions.
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Minimum Participation Requirement: Each cohort requires a minimum of 10 participants or payment of 3,900 Euros. If the minimum isn’t met, the start date may be rescheduled, or you’ll receive a full refund.
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Included Resources: At the end of the course, participants receive a copy of The Best AI Tools for Designers, a comprehensive guide to help you continue your AI journey.
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Certification: Upon completion, you’ll receive a certificate from Viva Design Academy, verifying your successful participation and AI training experience.
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Registration Policy: Full payment is due at registration. No refunds are offered once the course begins, but transfers to a future session may be considered if you can’t complete this one.
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Technical Requirements: To get the best experience, participants should have a stable internet connection, access to a computer, and the latest versions of relevant software (links provided as needed).
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Support: During the course, our facilitators are here to answer questions and support you through each workshop. You’ll also have access to a dedicated chat space for connecting with your peers and trainers outside of sessions.
By signing up, you’re taking a step toward mastering AI tools and workflows to supercharge your creativity and productivity!
Questions? Please ask: info@vivadesign.com
TRAINING 2 - CUSTOMIZED
EXCLUSIVELY FOR YOUR TEAM
Get the most of AI for your business & your customers
In this series, you will have 6 online customized online live sessions led by Viva Design (per request on location). Typically these are facilitated once/week over the course of six weeks. You can use the topics from Training 1 or from these example suggestions, or discuss your topics with us. Let us know how we can help you get the most out of this training by customizing it to your needs!
Topic Suggestions:
Workshop 1:
Intro to Ideation with AI Tools. An overview of Tools, technologies and workflows.
Workshop 2:
Logo Design and Branding.
Using AI tools to create complete branding packages in the time it needs to eat a sandwich
Workshop 3:
Typography and Logo Design.
It has been notoriously hard to create type with AI Tools, but there are tricks to achieve results. How can we max out AI to create type, logos, find font pairings for websites?
Workshop 4:
Creating Talking Head Videos.
Let's create and animate an avatar, a portrait, and let it speak in the voice of a celebrity, AI voice, or your own; see the student sample below.
Workshop 5:
Prompting fashion iconic images.
Mona Lisa on Project Runway, designing fashion and seamless patterns
Workshop 6:
Creating Manga, Cartoon, and Illustrations styles
TRAINING 3 - COMPANY RETREAT
Immerse yourself ! Beautiful Creativity Training for your team - analog, digital and AI
Active, fun and engaging workshops along with our tailored trainings, are perfect for company-specific retreats and events. If you're interested in exploring how we can bring creativity, fun and innovation to your team in a special, relaxed environment, get in touch.
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Team Building: Strengthen relationships and foster trust among team members through collaborative activities.
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Creative Thinking: Provide a change of scenery to inspire fresh ideas and innovative solutions.
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Strategic Planning: Allow for focused time away from daily distractions to develop long-term goals and strategies.
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Employee Morale: Boost motivation and job satisfaction by showing appreciation and investing in team development.
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Skill Development: Offer workshops and training sessions to enhance professional skills and knowledge.
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Problem Solving: Address and resolve ongoing challenges in a relaxed, open environment.
This Retreat is perfect for creative departments, tech companies, start-ups, ad and marketing agencies, consulting firms, media and entertainment companies, and educational institutions.
TRAINING 4 - DESIGN SPRINT
A ONE DAY IMMERSION FOR YOUR TEAM
TRAINING 4: ONE DAY DESIGN SPRINT
A one-day design sprint is a condensed, highly-focused workshop where a team collaboratively tackles a design challenge from start to finish in a single day. It's derived from the five-day design sprint method developed by Google Ventures, but adapted to fit into a much shorter timeframe with the augmentation of AI.
Here’s how it typically works and how it can be facilitated in a One-Day-Design Sprint
1. Empathize with the Target Customer
Creating an ideal customer profile with AI.
2. Define the Problem (1 hour)
Goal: Articulate the problem or challenge. Define Problem statements.
User personas, journey maps, and value propositions.
3.A - Prototyping
Sketch and Write Solutions (1 hour) with AI
Goal: Generate a wide range of ideas.
Activities: Individual sketching (Crazy 8s: sketching 8 ideas in 8 minutes)
Sharing and discussing sketches with the group
Decide on the Best Solution (1 hour)
Goal: Select the most promising ideas.
Discuss and combine ideas to form a coherent solution (SCAMPER exercise)
3.B - Prototyping
Storyboarding the chosen solution
Prototype (2-3 hours)
Goal: Build a tangible prototype.
Activities: Creating a low-fidelity prototype using tools like paper, digital wireframes, or simple mockups
Assign roles (e.g., prototype creator, asset gatherer)
Test (1-2 hours)
Goal: Validate the prototype with real users.
Activities: Conducting quick user testing sessions, Gathering feedback and observations,
4. Discussing insights and potential next steps
Present the ideas and prototypes
Reflect on the process and outcomes.
Celebrate!
This workshop is perfect for creative departments, agencies, diverse teams with skills from different areas: designers, educators, storytellers, marketers, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to elevate their AI knowledge and experience.
About Ulrike Kerber
Ulrike Kerber is the Principal and Design Lead at Viva Design Inc. She provides brand design, animations, and content creation to global clients such as Disney, BBC, TEDx, and Viacom. She is known for her creativity and innovation.
She holds an MA in Communication Design and an MA in Digital Management from Hyper Island. Her research explores the intersection of creativity and Artificial Intelligence. She conducts workshops in Design Thinking, Speculative Design, Motion Design, and experimental storytelling. Her research is published in her latest book "The Best AI Tools for Designers", is available here.
AI Workshop Example at Hyper Island: