School of Visual Concepts Seattle

Class Info

Project Management for Design

• 9:00 AM–4:00 PM
• Wednesday, 3/10/10
• $265

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Description

A good project manager helps create great marketing communications, produced on-time and on-budget without team members turning into ulcer breeders. In this workshop we’ll show you how to get projects completed from the client input stage all the way to production and follow-up with silky smooth efficiency. We’ll cover:

> Writing great scope-of-work documents for design and advertising projects
> Getting buy-ins from project sponsors
> Writing creative briefs that are actually useful for designers and writers
> Setting up communications expectations for clients and co-workers
> Maintaining production schedules
> Successful client and team meetings
> Building relationships that lead to satisfied clients and more business.

Who should take this class?

This workshop is made-to-order for project managers, account coordinators, and anyone else who needs to get design projects finished on time and on budget.

Cost
$265

Prerequisites

None

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Instructor Info

Matt Diefenbach Matt Diefenbach is a founding partner and business director at Turnstyle. When he's not breakdancing, he manages new business development, fosters and maintains client relations, runs projects and oversees Turnstyle's administrative activities. Matt occupies a key role in developing and maintaining Turnstyle's client relationships, and works with the design team to ensure that the creative solutions are on target with the client's expectations. Matt has led a wide range of branding and design projects including DRY Soda, Microsoft, Nissan, Precor and Swedish. Prior to starting Turnstyle, Matt spent six years in account management and business development at Fitch:Seattle, a global design and branding firm. Matt graduated from Seattle University with degrees in Psychology and French. Matt's a Ballard native so long as the locals don't realize that "Diefenbach" is not Scandinavian. View Instructor Work