ASPP New York Event

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN STILL AND MOVING IMAGES Featuring Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur

Over the years, Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur have worked together on books, exhibitions and photography assignments which have taken them around the world. Their work together has also moved beyond the still image -- into video and other new interactive media.

Their discussions will center around new media and the opportunities it creates for telling stories visually, as well as the implications of our brave new media landscape for the photo industry.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008, 6:00 pm - 8:45 pm
Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avene South, NYC (at 22nd Street, steps from the 23rd Street East Side subway station)
Admission: ASPP Members $10.00, Guests $15.00
Light food and beverages will be served after the presentation
Space is limited. Please RSVP by Jan 28.

InDesign User Group

Join us for our first meeting of 2008! Our guest speaker will be Michael Murphy, an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, and the host and creator of the popular "The InDesigner" video podcast (www.theindesigner.com). The topic will be: STYLES EQUAL SUBSTANCE.

If you think styles are just ways to standardize and speed up text formatting, think again. In the last few versions of InDesign, styles have expanded far beyond text to become, arguably, the heart of the application. Styles are both inter-connected and inter-dependent. They control, improve, and influence many other features, some of which rely entirely on styles to work at all.

In this comprehensive session, Michael explores the breadth and depth of styles throughout InDesign CS2 and CS3. From the smallest settings to the most complex relationships between styles, to features as varied as Find/Change, Text Variables, Tables of Contents, and Anchored Objects, you'll learn just how much substance there is to styles.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Fashion Institute of Technology
Katie Murphy Amphitheater
D Building
27th Street & 7th Avenue
New York, NY 10001

The Vector Conference

The Flash and Illustrator Conference for design professionals. This is a training and networking event you cannot miss.

Vector Conference
The Illustrator and Flash training and networking event for designers.
Most designers who use Illustrator and Flash only scratch the surface of what's possible. At the Vector Conference, you'll go deep, learning the ins and outs of creating high-quality artwork efficiently.

The Pixel Conference

The Pixel Conference is the Photoshop conference for designers. Find out how to use Photoshop in your real world environment.

Pixel Conference
February 26- March 1, 2008

The Pixel Conference focuses on how professionals get their work done - high quality and high productivity. Leave the wacky special effects at home and take some time to master Photoshop's powerful utility features at The Pixel Conference. At the Pixel Conference we only focus on the issues/topics that pertain to designers!

The InDesign Conference

The InDesign Conference is going to Miami. Attend the InDesign Conference and learn the latest and greatest tips and tricks on Adobe InDesign.

InDesign Conference
Miami Beach February 26-March 1, 2008

The InDesign Conference will be at the Miami Beach Convention Center February 26- March 1, 2008. Join us in South Beach and be a part of the largest InDesign event of the year. Join the leading InDesign experts, developers and authors for 3 days of brain numbing InDesign info!

30th Annual Graphics of the Americas Conference

The show runs from February 27th through March 1st, 2008, in Miami Beach, Florida. Graphics of the Americas

Copyleft and copyright

by David M. Berry, Marcus McCallion

'It is clear that copyright is being misdirected from its original intention to that of meeting the needs of corporations desperate to safeguard existing profits and create new markets artificially. '


Designers increasingly see the question of copyright and intellectual property as an important issue. More and more, they are concerned about being ‘ripped off’, and are told that establishing copyright is essential. But there is little understanding of what copyright is, how it works, whom it benefits or what alternatives there are. This Agenda hopes to raise awareness of the issues surrounding copyright and to empower the designer to make informed choices about how to use copyright and its alternative: copyleft.


click here for Full Article.

When Graphic Artists Get Bored

When Graphic Artists Get Bored - Watch more free videos

AdPrint Festival

9th Edition
Brasov, Romania
7-10 February 2008

The name of the festival says it all. AdPrint stands for great print ideas resulting from the chemistry of a very special relationship. The whole philosophy of the festival underlines the connection that bonds together people who seem to work with one brain.

The competition brings together neither agencies nor names of individuals – it depicts in front of the jury a process. Their analysis is the analysis of a bounce, of the steps taken towards the final ad, awarding the road as well as its finish.

One Show College Competition

This year, there are two separate briefs for advertising and design categories.

Advertising brief is sponsored by Doritos.
Design brief is to design a political poster.

Download briefs.

Entry deadline February 21, 2008

One Show Design

New Categories

One Show Design presents the new Product Design category. Judges will be looking for ground-breaking entries that set new standards in terms of utility and creative expression.

One Show has added the category Cinema Advertising, exclusively for commercials screened at the movies.

Download Call for Entries.

Entry deadline January 31, 2008.

New York Festivals

New York Festivals Begins 2008 as the Fastest Growing International Awards Organization, Seeks Entries for This Year's Advertising in All Media Competition
New York Festivals (NYF) saw unprecedented growth and added six staffers in 2007. Three of the new employees bring with them invaluable previous international awards organization experience from time spent at the Clio Awards.
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Istock and me (I)?

I was looking through my computer and realized that 80% of it were photos. Me being the random photo taker, I have a lot of images that are album worthy. Being the entrepreneur that I am, I decided to try and sell them on istock. I signed up, I choose my 3 samples and about a day later got an e-mail stating that:

"At this time we regret to inform you that we did not feel the overall composition of your photography or subject matter is at the minimum level of standard for iStockphoto. Please take some time to review training materials, resources and articles provided through iStockphoto. The photographs provided in your application should be your best work. Try and impress us, we want to see how you stand out from the crowd."

WTF - I thought they were good, I mean if those images didn't stand out then I'm not sure what to send them. More on this later.

The STEP Best of Web competition

The STEP Best of Web competition is now open for entries. Enter your entire website, web banners or motion graphics for a chance to be featured in our 2008 STEP Best of Web Design Annual. For more information and to enter, go to www.stepinsidedesign.com/bestofweb.

ISSUE PREVIEW

Here's what you're missing if you haven't read the new STEP:

“Every year, thousands of designers graduate from higher-education programs and many more enter the profession as bootstrappers. Some of them will emerge unheralded and become respected, maybe even leading lights in the profession. Others will have their potential gifts tagged early, but will fizzle out, switch careers or otherwise fade into obscurity. Which makes selecting those whose talents show a high likelihood of success a bit of a crap shoot—not that we haven't rolled our share of 7s. Risks notwithstanding, every year STEP makes the valiant effort to identify a short list of young design practitioners who have demonstrated early in their careers the skills and imagination that will allow them to make a lasting impact."
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Aviary, a collection of web based design tools

Submitted by Ivan on Sat, 2008-01-12 17:08. Review

Once it launches, it will be fun to check out this new project called Aviary, which is a set of many different design tools. It is targeting a semi-professional market, so it's not really us. And, it's unlikely you gonna replace your Adobe CS suite for Aviary anytime soon, but I'm sure we will find a few interesting elements in this new package that can be used together with our traditional applications.

Apparently the flagship application Phoenix is a Photoshop clone with much of the functionality ported. Another exciting title is Peacock, a powerful pattern generator. Check out the sample images. It would be interesting for me to explore the 3D app called Hummingbird and Toucan the color swatches and palettes creator. Check out the whole long product range of Aviary.

Have I mentioned the most interesting part about the project? It's web based. Ironically the whole platform is based on Flex, which is an Adobe product to create rich internet applications. While I can imagine vector editing on a web based interface, but I'm highly skeptical about opening a 500MB image or editing a 10GB video in a browser.

I can't imagine an application made to run in a browser — no matter how well written — can outperform a desktop application in speed. But I can see how these set of tools can bring value into your work process in other ways. I can see your productivity soaring because you can use the power of internet connectivity to share and collaborate with your friends and coworkers to work on projects together. Same way as Google Doc's limited feature set is more useful than using the desktop MS Office or iWork packages in a highly team oriented environment, I can imagine Aviary to be a good tool to create and trade design work by collaborating online within a community.

You can sign up for a beta test here: http://a.viary.com/login/

Identity magazine

Identity - the first Russian magazine on branding and commercial design, Participant of ICOGRADA Design Media Network

Identity magazine - the first Russian magazine on branding and commercial design. Mission of the edition is an open and civilized branding and commercial design market forming. Identity magazine was called the "Debut of a year in Russia" in the field of advertising and marketing (2004).

ADC 87th Annual Awards Extended

Design Challenges

The Liquidlibrary Identity
Challenge 3
Complete the graphic identity for a mythical corporation. Three prizes of liquidlibrary subscriptions can be won.




The AbleStock.com
Design Brief 7
Create a label for a jar of spicy chutney following the design directives. Win three months access to AbleStock.com.

ADC 87th Annual Awards Open

Don't miss the January 18, 2008 entry deadline for Professionals and the January 31, 2008 deadline for Students. It's your chance to win a Gold Cube in the 87th Annual Awards. Enter your Advertising, Design, Interactive, Photography and Illustration, even unpublished work in Playground. There are also breakout categories, ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere, and sponsored awards from Corbis and Yahoo!

INTERACTIVE DESIGN COMPETITION

Deadline: January 11th, 2008

Gain worldwide recognition for your finest work by entering the most prestigious juried competition for interactive media, the 14th annual Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition. Any interactive project created for digital distribution on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, interactive kiosk or handheld device is eligible.

Selected by a nationally representative panel of distinguished programmers, interface designers and creative directors, the winning entries will be published in the September/October Interactive Annual of Communication Arts and on our Web site. Over seventy thousand copies will be distributed worldwide, guaranteeing you outstanding exposure to potential clients and colleagues.

Submission guidelines and FAQs can be found at:
http://www.commarts.com/competition