Pittsburgh USA 2007-10-25 Our next meeting will at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 24th at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue. We currently have 2 presentations for the evening: First, our good pal Josh Sager will be making a presentation titled "Rapid Design Techniques in Fireworks that make PhotoShop Jealous". Rapidly create mock ups for web content with Fireworks CS3. Learn time saving tips for organizing multi version designs, reusable layout elements, generating web prototypes with only a few clicks, and easy integration with Adobe Flex. Next, Val Head and Joe Kromer will be making a dual presentation on two new web technologies: “Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight. What are they and why should you care?”. Joe and Val’s presentation will give you an overview of what each of these technologies are and talk about what impacts they’ve had on our industry so far. Then they will discuss their opinions — and hopefully some of yours as well — as to how these might impact you and your work in the near future. Also, now that it’s nice and cool, we don’t expect to need nearly as many fans as we had at the last meeting! In fact, I’ll be providing some tasty hot coffee this time! 341 PA Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area. 2007-10-24 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/341 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/341/sm-refresh.jpg creativity, css, web design, web standards, xhtml Pittsburgh USA 2007-12-12 We currently have 2 presentations for the evening: First, Jason Head will be presenting "10 Ways to Provide Top-Notch SEO Without Doing any Extra Work!"* Clients are always asking "how can I make it into the search engines". I'll show you how you can get results for your client by following rules of web standards, good design and taking advantage of one or two free tools along the way. (* Well, maybe a little bit of work...) Next, Founding Developer and CEO of JoinSources, LLC, Don Charlton will be joining us to show a very impressive project he has been working on here in Pittsburgh: Join Sources. For this presentation, "Let's JoinSources and Conquer Web Content" Don demos a new Web-based CMS meant to equally empower Web site developers, designers and their clients. They're also giving away free hosting and CMS usage to 50 JoinSources recruits who develop a site on the beta platform. I've seen a preview of the CMS and it's a sharp product. While it's always nice to see a creative and useful product developed in our own community, it's even better when it's soomething that we all may be able to put to great use. If you run a small business or do a good deal of freelance web-site work, you should make an effort to check this one out! Finally, we would like to add an additional short presentation for the evening. If you would like to present on a topic or show off a recent project, please drop me line! As usual, we should have a good supply of coffee and cookies and other sweets to get you through the night. Also, if anyone would like to stick around after the meeting and take the conversation down to Affagoto's that would be a good deal too! RSVP Please RSVP to let us know if you will be joining us. I need to make sure we have enough seats and most importantly, coffee! 366 PA Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area. 2007-12-11 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/366 cms, content management, creativity, css, design, seo, web standards, xhtml Brighton United Kingdom 2009-03-27 Connecting Innovation A free event for the creative and digital media industries- 26 March 2009, The Old Market, Hove Creativity and innovation are words that are banded about but what do they really mean in practical terms and how can they be applied effectively and profitably? This event specifically for the creative and digital media industries will look at the opportunities to work together, the ways creativity is cultivated and how productive partnerships can be formed. Confirmed speakers include: Charles Leadbeater, a leading authority on innovation and creativity and the author of “We-think: the power of mass creativity”, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning. Ken Thompson, an expert practitioner in the area of swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books: “Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs” and “The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks” Visit an exhibition of local artists, companies and organisations supporting the creative and digital industries 26th March 2009, the Old Market, Hove Places are limited so please register on-line http://www.connectinginnovation.co.uk or by phoning 01273 643222 665 United Kingdom This event specifically for the creative and digital media industries will look at the opportunities to work together, the ways creativity is cultivated and how productive partnerships can be formed. 2009-03-26 false http://www.connectinginnovation.co.uk http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/665 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/665/headerconnecting__ok_.jpg ated content, best design, charles leadbeater, creative, creativity, design, digital media, enterprise networks, graphic design, innovation, ken thompson, multimedia, startup, use8, user gener, virtual teams, virtual teams, wethink Berkeley USA 2009-10-31 :: ACM CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2009 :: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA :: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS :: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Psychology & Management, Claremont Graduate University, USA JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory, California Nanosystems Institute, USA Jane Prophet, Professor of Interdisciplinary Computing, Goldsmiths University of London, UK ----------------------------------------------------------- :: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION :: Full Papers, Art Exhibition, Live Performances, Demonstrations, Posters, Workshops, Tutorials, Graduate Symposium Submission deadline: April 24, 2009 Creativity is present in all we do. The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages participation in everyday creativity? We welcome submissions from academics and practitioners, makers and scientists, artists and theoreticians. This year's broad theme of Everyday Creativity reflects the new forms of creativity emerging in everyday life, and includes topics of: - Collective creativity and creative communities - Shared languages and Participatory creativity - Incubating creativity and supporting Innovation - DIY and folk creativity - Democratising creativity - New materials for creativity - Enriching the collaborative experience :: PROCEEDINGS :: All submissions will be peer reviewed. Printed proceedings, published by ACM Press, will be available at the conference and will be included in the ACM digital library. 635 CA :: ACM CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2009 :: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA Submission deadline: 24 April 2009 2009-10-27 false http://www.creativityandcognition09.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/635 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/635/cc09.png art, berkeley, cognition, communities, conference, creativity, demonstrations, diy, event, everyday, exhibition, graduate, hci, papers, performance, posters, psychology, science, tutorials, workshops Chicago USA 2009-09-18 Two days of innovation, intelligence, provocation and inspiration courtesy of 20+ incredibly diverse presenters. If you believe in the power of ideas, the value of imagination, the strength of the human spirit -- and that thinking like a designer is more important than being one -- Cusp Conference is for you. 2010 Presenters include: Richard Saul Wurman - founder of TED 2009 Presenters included: Dr John Cohn - IBM Fellow / reality TV star Emily Pilloton - Project H Design Dave Lyon - General Motors designer Alan Berger - MIT Lynda Barry - cartoonist DBR and DJ Scientific - violin and turntable Hartmut Esslinger - founder frog design Sara de Freitas - Serious Games Institute September 22-23, 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art Theater Chicago Seating is extremely limited. Approximately 45% of available seats are currently pre-sold (01.14.10). Early registration and group discounts are available. 632 IL A conference about the design of everything. 2010-09-22 false http://www.cuspconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/632 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/632/cusp-size2.jpg alternative energy, architecture, creativity, design, education, ethics, innovation, law, music, social good, technology