The Photos.com Challenge

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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

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!

TechRepublic Webcasts

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?

2008 Illustration Portfolio Review

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.

CONNECTIONS Countdown...

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

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

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

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

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