Cool Tools: Aviary

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 0 comments
A look in the birdcage…

Aviary was created by creatives for creatives – a perfect complement, we think, for our members. So named because its products all refer to birds, Aviary offers an online suite of creative applications. Imagine having access to tools as powerful as Adobe’s Creative Suite at your disposal – at a fraction of the cost. Aviary’s products include an image editor, a vector editor, a video editor, a painting simulator, and a 3D modeler. Continue Reading>>

Give yourself vast desktop real estate with the Matrox TripleHead2Go

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Not just for games
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Cracking Open the Apple MacBook Air

Monday, June 16, 2008 0 comments
The Apple MacBook Air is thin, light, and a testament to what good engineering and design can accomplish in a notebook personal computer. This latest TechRepublic Cracking Open Photo Gallery explores the technology of this ultra thin notebook.

Click NY

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Click is a one-day digital advertising conference brought to you by Creative Review. Launched in 2005 in London, Click brings leading creatives and their clients from around the world together to analyze and discuss the state of the most innovative and exciting advertising medium around. Click is now coming to New York. The focus is on great work and the people that do it. During the day they will showcase campaigns from the best in the business and bring together industry leaders to discuss the hot topics facing all who work in advertising today.

Wednesday, October 1st
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Visit http://click-conference.com/
Speaker and schedule details to come.
Registration begins June 15.

Sahre, Victore, Wilker: A Summer Design Workshop

Sunday, June 15, 2008 0 comments
Sunday, July 20 to Saturday, July 26

Six hands-on days with Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker at the ADC. Limited to 40 people, no institutional ties, and an unnamed number of surprise guests. Enough said.

July 20-July 26 @ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Registration is closed but check back here for information about a second workshop next year.

New Adobe TV Programming Comes Online

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Designed to educate, inspire, and entertain the creative community, Adobe TV is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com, or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software, also announced today (see separate press release). Adobe Media Player offers a broad range of television programming and entertaining video content from major television broadcasters and leading content publishers, including CBS, MTV Networks, Universal Music Group, PBS, CondéNet, and Scripps Networks.
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The Henry Wolf Summer Photography Workshop

Saturday, June 14, 2008 0 comments
Monday, July 14 - Saturday, July 19

25 area high school students have been chosen to learn from top New York City photographers. The teachers for the Henry Wolf Summer Photography workshop will be David Black, Geoff Green, Carlo Van de Roer, and Faith-Ann Young. By the end of the program each student will have created a portfolio of photography pieces which will be displayed in the ADC gallery.

All are invited to view the work of these extraordinary high school students on Saturday, July 19th.

Reception and Exhibition
Saturday, July 19, 2008
6:30-8:30pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

This workshop is invitation only.
Want to Volunteer? Email Isabel at isabel@adcglobal.org.

Cool Tools: Pencil

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Animation can seem so intimidating these days. With companies like Pixar churning out high-quality 3-D films with a staff of hundreds, animating can appear a daunting task to the common man. But it doesn’t have to be and Pencil proves that with its free and simple-to-use 2D animation software.

Pencil mimics hand-drawn techniques and stays simple by doing so. You draw each individual frame as if it were a single animation cell. The great thing about this is that you are able to test out the animation by stepping through it frame-by-frame. You can even play through the entire sequence using built-in playback controls. Read More>>

The Best FREE or Reasonably Priced Software Titles

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This is my list of the top software titles (free or under $100) worth downloading.

So you're looking for free or rather inexpensive software to you on your computer. These are all compatible with Windows Vista but remember you download at your own risk! This is just a suggestion based on what I've used and like. I hope you can make some suggestions on what programs you like as well. Read More>>

iPhone 3G makes its debut

Friday, June 13, 2008 0 comments
At Apple WWDC 2008, Steve Jobs reveals the iPhone 3G with faster download speeds, longer battery life, GPS, a lower price, and a near worldwide release on July 11.

The Photos.com Challenge

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Photos.com ChallengeView the image In May participants were given the challenge to use at least part of any one of the six images from Photos.com as elements in an original work. The resulting entries provided many interesting takes on the photos of historical personages. Congratulations to May winners Dalibor, LoupGarou, DavidMac, Justcos, Rensor and Mindglove. The winning image at right was contributed by LoupGarou.

For June we've provided five distinctive silhouette images from the Photos.com collection. The challenge is to use at least part of any one of the five images in a new composition. The creators of three of the winning images will receive three months of access to Photos.com, while three more will receive one month.

Free Seminar: Webtastic! Latest Web Technology

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Monday, June 23
Join Noble Desktop for this free in-person seminar and see the latest trends in web design technology. Topics will include: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), how and when to properly use Flash, AJAX, The Spry Framework, building dynamic sites with XML, and also the new features of Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3.



Monday, June 23, 2008
6 - 8pm
Noble Desktop
594 Broadway New York City

Visit Noble Desktop to sign up!

Community designs phones, inside and out

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Releasing open-source software is fairly common these days, but
Taiwan's OpenMoko broke new ground when it also published the 3D
design files for its mobile device.
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Cell phone workshops by teenage teachers

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While you may never be too old to learn, when it comes to gadgets,
you can never be too young to teach. A Dutch initiative is making use
of kids’ innate cell phone skills by training them as phone coaches.
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Apple iPhone completely disassembled

Thursday, June 12, 2008 0 comments
The iPhone blends a revolutionary touch-screen interface, media player, and smartphone into a slick package.

After waiting in line, spending $600, signing a two-year AT&T contract, and activating the iPhone, we decided that the next sensible action was to take the thing apart -- in classic TechRepublic Cracking Open style. Get a look at the hardware inside the 8GB iPhone and see whether we got it back together in working condition.

TechRepublic Webcasts

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The Software Quality Challenge

Join this live TechRepublic Webcast on June 19th to learn the results of a new industry survey on software development and quality. You'll find out how organizations like yours are meeting today's significant development challenges.

Overview: Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing with these issues or are they just getting worse?

Suggested Reading

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NEVER SLEEP: Graduating to Graphic Design
By Andre Andreev and Dan Covert

There is a major disconnect between the life of a design student and the transition to being a design professional. To demystify the transition, NEVER SLEEP: Graduating to Graphic Design shares the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships. This book can serve as the ultimate companion for design students, educators, and anyone breaking into a creative field.

At the combined age of fifty, Andre Andreev and Dan Covert met while studying graphic design at California College of the Arts and working for MTV's on-air design department in New York. Since then, they have started their own firm called dress code and co-teach at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Andre eats meat, Dan dislikes puppies.

Visit www.neversleepbook.com. NEVER SLEEP is published by de.MO.

2008 Illustration Portfolio Review

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Thursday, June 19

The Art Directors Club invites you to attend the 2008 Illustration Portfolio Review and Luncheon. The event will have fifty established and emerging illustrators in attendance.

Thursday, June 19
Luncheon: 1-3pm
Happy Hour: 5-7pm
Refreshments all day

@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

To RSVP as a portfolio reviewer only, go here.

Live video broadcast: Data Loss Prevention from the Inside Out

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Suddenly, data loss prevention is becoming a huge priority for IT professionals, and no wonder. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse reports that 93.8 million personal records have been reported lost or stolen since 2005 alone. Further, Ponemon Institute estimates that each data breach now costs the average company $6.3 million. Most of these losses are caused by careless or naive employees, not hackers or data thieves. With Internet access now a constant from almost everywhere, how do you make sure that confidential or valuable data is not exposed or released by authorized users?

Details
TechWiseTV
Data Loss Prevention from the Inside Out
Thursday, June 26, 2008, 10–11 a.m. Pacific Time, 1-2 p.m. Eastern Time

Your Ultimate Photoshop and Digital Photography Online Resource

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 0 comments
Safari Books Online: Your Ultimate Photoshop and Digital Photography Resource Center
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CONNECTIONS Countdown...

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LE BOOK, the international reference for fashion, photography and advertising, announces the latest edition of CONNECTIONS: the first and only custom-made tradeshow for Les Creatives worldwide. For its eighth celebrated show on June 10th and 11th, CONNECTIONS welcomes a microcosm of the arbiters of taste: the best in image creation worldwide. Come experience what has been popularly coined as "six months of work in one day."

June 10th-11th
@The Puck Building
295 Lafayette Street
NYC
By invitation only
www.lebook.com/connections

For more information, contact:
CONNECTIONS by LE BOOK Press
Alexandra Tallo / a.tallo@lebook.com or 212.334.5252
Michael Kazam / michael@lebook.com

Happy Hour with ADC Young Guns

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Wednesday, June 18
Last month's Happy Hour was such a good time; we're doing it again. Whether you've entered the ADC Young Guns 6 competition, want to learn more, or just want to have after-work drinks with like-minded creatives, join us!

Wednesday, June 18
6:30-8:30pm
@The Delancey
168 Delancey St. (between Clinton & Attorney)
*We'll be on the rooftop.

Ed Fella and Post Typography in the ADC Gallery

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Thursday, June 12th


The OppositesAttract series, moderated and led by Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio, brings two opposites - Ed Fella and Post Typography - to the ADC Gallery. This format has proven to be a vibrant and interesting way to see the work of and learn the backstory of creatives with divergently different perspectives.

Post Typography was originally conceived and founded in 2001 as an avant garde anti-design movement by Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen. Their work has received numerous design awards and been featured in Ellen Lupton's Thinking With Type and D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, The Art of Modern Rock, Metropolis magazine, Taschen's Contemporary Graphic Design, and Phaidon's Area 2. Post Typography have appeared in numerous design and art exhibitions, and their posters are collected by high school punk rockers and prominent designers. Strals and Willen currently teach classes in design and typography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and have lectured at the Cooper Union, Minneapolis College of Art &Design, and Harvard University.

Ed Fella is an artist and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography here and in Europe. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist for 30 years in Detroit before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award and in 1999 an honorary doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and the MoMA in New York. He was a finalist for the National Design Award in 2001.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
6:30-8:30pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

This series continues on the following evenings:
Thursday, October 16
Thursday, November 13
ADC Members $21
Non-members $30
Students $15

Sponsored by Veer

RSVP online by going here.

87th Annual Awards Exhibition

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Thursday, June 5 - Friday, June 27

ADC's 87th Annual Awards Exhibition features the work of ADC's Gold, Silver, and Distinctive Merit winners in 4 key categories: Design, Advertising, ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere. The exhibition opened on Thursday, June 5 and will be on view at the ADC Gallery until June 27 before it embarks on a global tour.

Sponsored by Corbis
June 5-June 27
10am-6pm
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC


This year at the ADC 87th Annual Awards Gala the Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award was given to TAXI Canada Inc. for its work on the 15 Below Project and to Vitruvio Leo Burnett for its work for The Prodis Foundation. The 15 Below Project and Prodis Foundation will share the $20,000 Grand Prize and you can help them raise more! Every day you search on www.corbis.com/searchforjustice now until July 31, Corbis will donate an additional $1 to the winning non-profits. One search, every day, up to $10,000.

Join the Conversation at the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference

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Industry's top authors to lead Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference

As a Web designer, you understand the challenges you face. Gone are the days when a good grasp of HTML and some straightforward usability knowledge would get the job done. Now your clients want to know that you're comfortable with CSS, XML, Ajax, Web standards, interaction design, information architecture, interface design, search engine optimization, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, mobile design, mash-ups and much more.

This not-to-be-missed conference brings you face to face with the Web design authors whose books have shaped your career. Get your most difficult questions answered and gain insights from the brightest thinkers and practitioners in the Web industry during four days of entertaining, informative, and inspiring sessions and conversations.

Two tracks (one inspirational, one practical) mean there's always a session for you: whether you're looking for the up-in-the-clouds ideas that'll transform your work when the conference is over or the down-to-earth techniques that'll make your job easier every day.

Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference

Wild computer mods from Euskal Encounter 2006

Sunday, June 1, 2008 1 comments
Euskal Encounter 2006
From July 22nd through July 25th, computer enthusiasts descend on the Bilbao Exhibition Centre for Spain's oldest, large scale computer/LAN party-Euskal Encounter 2006. According to the event's Web site, Euskal Encounter 2006 was prepared for more than 5,700 attendees with a network for over 3,500 computers, a 2 Gbps Internet connection, and over 35,000 square meters of floor space in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre.

While attending Euskal Encounter 2006, Webshots member katxikamo, snapped pictures from the show floor and captured dozens of serious computer case mods. From aliens to aluminum cases, these wild mods are definitely not your everyday computer cases.

Compiled and captions by Bill Detwiler
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