A creative collective - training discounts for web and print design

Want authorized Adobe training? Want a training provider accredited to ISO:9001? Want to work with Chinwag’s training partner? Want all this at a 10% discount for being a Chinwag reader? Find out how you can benefit.

Mekon Creatives, the leading training and recruitment provider to the design and creative industries is teaming up with Chinwag - a creative partnership of sorts.

As well as being highly regarded in the industry, Mekon are the only authorized Adobe Training provider to be accredited with quality standard ISO:9001. Training courses range from beginners to advanced level on, both, Apple Mac and Windows PC systems.

What’s more, Mekon offer training within their clients premises – handy eh!? But with training centres in London, Surrey and Nottingham having to deal with the expense and time of traveling shouldn’t be a problem.

Three months post-training support is also up for grabs, by email and telephone, on anything that’s covered during the session.

Mekon’s consultants and developers are amongst the most highly qualified in Europe and have a wealth of practical experience in using SGML and XML technical authoring applications such as FrameMaker, XMetaL and Epic - covering standards such as S1000D, Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and DocBook

For more details visit www.mekon-creatives.com/chinwag.cfm. Remember to quote “Chinwag” when booking to receive your 10% discount.

Listed below are the upcoming courses available to Chinwag readers over the next couple of months. Click on the links to find out more about each course:

August courses:


15 August 2008: Quark Express - Editorial

21 August 2008: Adobe Illustrator (Introduction)

26 August 2008: Adobe Acrobat 8 (Introduction)

27 August 2008: Adobe Acrobat 8 (Intermediate)

September courses:

1 Sep 2008: Adobe Dreamweaver - Building Web Databases

1-2 September 2008: Quark Xpress (Introduction)

3-4 September 2008: Adobe Photoshop (Introduction)

8-9 Sep 2008: Adobe Captivate 2 (Introduction)

12 September 2008: Adobe Illustrator (Advanced)

18-19 September 2008: Adobe Flash Action Script 3.0

19 September 2008: Adobe InDesign (Advanced)

23 September 2008: Adobe Acrobat (Advanced)

24 September 2008: Adobe Photoshop for Print (Advanced)