Kansas City USA 2006-08-17 A novice to intermediate workshop created for anyone in the graphic arts community-design, advertising agency, public relations and/or print, involved with Direct Mail. The latest Sappi workshop includes insights and useful information provided by the United States Postal Service, the Direct Mail Association and the Digital Printing Council/Printing Industries of America. Discussion include designing direct mail pieces, details of the many direct mail considerations-including lists, paper selection, personalization/customization, postal regulations- (Readable, Machinable, Mailable)-and provides ideas for increasing direct mail response rates, including offers. Attendees receive the Direct Mail booklet containing in depth copy, forms, concepts and work sheets as well as superb visual illustrations and photographs. A short video on Direct Mail will be shown as a part of the presentation. 8 MO Join AIGA KC to learn about new ways of thinking about print materials & direct mail and then continue your education with information on using printing processes and techniques. 2006-08-16 false http://www.kansascity.aiga.org/event_06sappi02.cfm http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/8 direct mail, graphic design, print Philadelphia USA 2006-09-15 Refreshments & Networking: 6-6:30pm – Food and beverages will be provided. Presentation: 6:30pm – 8ish Where: GSI Commerce Headquarters 935 First Avenue King of Prussia, PA 19406 Directions: http://gsicommerce.com/contactus/directions.jsp Meeting Summary: This is the first ever joint PHICHI & AIGA meeting! As user experience professionals, we always need to interface and collaborate with graphic artists and designers. At times, we all know that this can be difficult. There is a lot that both professions can learn from each other in order to work better together. This is why PHICHI has decided to hold a joint meeting with the local chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). We’ll take a closer look at Avenue A | Razorfish and GSI Commerce. For this first joint meeting, we decided to give members of both organizations a closer look at the User-Centered Design process of two local agencies, Avenue A | Razorfish and GSI Commerce. Each company will explain their design process from start to finish and show sample deliverables of their work. You will get to see how their design and user experience teams work together. Registration is free! Please register for this meeting at: http://philadelphia.aiga.org/event_registration-reg.html ---------------------------- About AIGA: http://philadelphia.aiga.org/about.html ---------------------------- About PHICHI: http://www.cis.drexel.edu/PhiCHI/index.html ---------------------------- Would you like to be notified of all upcoming PHICHI events? Please join our yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phillychi/join PHICHI meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in attending. Membership to the ACM is NOT required. 35 PA As UX pros, we always collaborate w/ graphic artists & designers. At times, we all know that this can be difficult. There is a lot that we can learn from each other in order to work better together. 2006-09-14 false http://philadelphia.aiga.org/event_registration-reg.html http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/35 aiga, chi, design, graphic design, phichi, ux Denver USA 2006-09-16 Design Educators: We encourage you to submit a proposal for participation in The Design Frontier: graphic design education in small programs and non-urban regions. This AIGA Graphic Design Education Conference will be held December 1-3, 2006, in Lakewood, Colorado, a Denver suburb. The Design Frontier will concentrate on the needs of graphic design's maverick educators. Presentations will focus on the challenges and possibilities of dispersed conditions and small faculties in the country's smaller graphic design programs, often in regional towns without professional graphic design communities or AIGA chapters to provide adjunct faculty, professional role models, student internships and entry September 15, 2006 is the deadline to submit Paper Abstracts, Student Project Presentation Proposals, and Discussion Session Leader Proposals. MFA students, young teachers, high school teachers and concerned professionals, as well as experienced educators, are strongly encouraged to submit. 11 CO Call for Participation We encourage you to submit a proposal for participation in The Design Frontier: graphic design education in small programs and non-urban regions. 2006-09-15 false http://www.designfrontier.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/11 design, education, graphic design Austin USA 2006-11-07 Monday, November 6th, 2006 Alamo Drafthouse Downtown 409 Colorado St. Austin, TX 78701 TOPICS * How CSS really works. * How to sell design to tough clients. * How to redesign websites to increase content and brand effectiveness. * Better design and usability through better writing. * And more. SPEAKERS Jeffrey Zeldman is the founder and executive creative director of Happy Cog, whose clients include AIGA, Advertising Age, and Amnesty International USA. He publishes A List Apart for people who make websites, and has written many articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition. In 1998, he co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that persuaded Netscape and Microsoft to support the same technologies in their browsers. Eric Meyer is the best-selling CSS author and best-recognized CSS authority in the world. His seven books have been translated into six languages; his clients include America On-Line, Apple Computer, Sandia National Laboratory, Wells Fargo Bank, and Macromedia, who described Eric as "a critical partner in our efforts to transform Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 into a revolutionary tool for CSS-based design." Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She is Group Lead for The Web Standards Project and an invited expert to the HTML and GEO working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Among her thirty-plus books is the The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. The book artfully showcases interesting and instructive csszengarden.com designs. Happy Cog creative director Jason Santa Maria has been recognized for designing stylistic and imaginative web interfaces that maintain a balance of usability and effective content presentation. His work has won dozens of awards, including seven Addys in 2004. He is also well known for his award-winning personal site, jasonsantamaria.com, where he frequently discusses design and its benefits. 90 TX It's the final Event Apart of 2006! Join Jason Santa Maria, Molly E. Holzschlag, Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman for a Texas-sized day of design and code. 2006-11-06 false http://www.aneventapart.com/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/90 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/90/eventapart-horiz.jpg best practices, content, css, design, editing, graphic design, interface design, markup, usability, web design, web standards, writing Los Angeles USA 2007-03-30 Los Angeles area designers will help Los Angeles celebrate design at the L.A. Defines Design/Design Defines L.A. event presented by AIGA/LA to honor Fellows and praise contributions to the design community. The event will be held on Thursday, March 29, 2007 at The Edison, the city’s first power-plant-turned-nightclub in historic downtown Los Angeles. AIGA/LA will present the 2006 Fellow Award to Sean Adams, Noreen Morioka and Doyald Young, and honor AIGA Los Angeles Fellows Kim Baer, Buddy Berke, Keith Bright, John Clark, Nan Faessler, April Greiman, David Goodman, Toni Hollander, Harold Huttas, InJu Sturgeon and Deborah Sussman. The event will feature music, food, cocktails and live contributions from members of the local design community. In addition, a proclamation from the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will commend design’s value to the local economy. “Through culture, entertainment, products and experiences, Los Angeles designers have influenced how people see and dream all over the world,” noted Agustin Garza, President of AIGA/LA. “And it is Los Angeles’ history, cultural richness and complex, interwoven landscapes that have shaped the visions of the designers who live and work here.” Pre-registration tickets are available at $35 for the public and $25 for AIGA members by calling (818) 558-3968 or visiting www.aigalosangeles.org/ladefinesdesign by March 27, 2007. Tickets are available for $45 for the public and $35 for AIGA members at the door. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the AIGA Los Angeles Scholarship Fund. Those who join AIGA at the door attend the event for free. The event will start at 7pm and end at 9:30pm at The Edison, located at 108 West 2nd Street, #101 in Los Angeles, California. 190 CA Los Angeles area designers will help Los Angeles celebrate design at the L.A. Defines Design/Design Defines L.A. event presented by AIGA/LA to honor Fellows 2007-03-29 false http://www.aigalosangeles.org/ladefinesdesign http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/190 aiga, fellows, graphic design, los angeles Pittsburgh USA 2007-05-31 Refresh Pittsburgh is off to a new start in Pittsburgh! The goal of Refresh Pittsburgh is to create a open community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area. Whether you are a web developer, flash guru, programming wizard, graphic designer, project manager extraordinarie or just want to learn more and share ideas with like-minded people, we want you to be a part of our group. To get things started, we are holding an informal meet & greet at the Craig St. Kiva Han in Oakland on Wednesday, May 30th at 7:00. We would like to share our ideas and plans about Refresh with you and also hear your ideas for the future of the group. Stop by, say hello and meet some folks. Don't forget to bring a healthy appetite for coffee-shop sweets, java, and a stack of business cards pass around. Please visit out website at http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ and RSVP so we have a good idea of how many people will turn out. 227 PA Refresh Pittsburgh Meet & Greet, Re-Boot & Kickoff 2007-05-30 false http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/ http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/227 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/227/refresh.gif css, graphic design, information architecture, pittsburgh, project management Schwarzenberg Vorarlberg Austria 2007-07-08 The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) is proud to announce Vision Plus 12, a multi-disciplinary international conference devoted to exploring one of the most critical issues facing communicators today: how to measure the impact of information-relevant communications. This event, the twelfth in the Vision Plus series of symposia, will be held July 5 - 7, 2007, in Schwarzenberg, located in the breathtakingly beautiful Bregenzerwald region, in Vorarlberg, Austria. The Theme for Vision Plus 12 Everyone agrees: design is the intermediary between information and understanding. But how can we demonstrate the truth of that proposition? How can we measure the impact and quantify the results? Vision Plus 12 will explore this controversial question from all sides: • How and to what extent can we measure the success of a given work? • How do we quantify the role and impact of intangibles such as design? • What techniques and technologies can be used to get measurable results? • How do information designers build the necessary metrics into their projects? • What are educators and researchers doing to tackle this challenge? The IIID welcomes proposals that shed light on any aspects of this theme. Please note that there is also a Call for Speakers for this conference (Deadline: 15 January 2007). For event details and proposal guidelines for Call for Speakers please go to www.iiid-visionplus.net. 126 Austria IIID Vision Plus 12 at Schwarzenberg: Information Design - Achieving Measurable Results 2007-07-05 false http://www.iiid-visionplus.net http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/126 communication design, graphic design, information architecture, information design San Francisco USA 2007-10-26 Now grab the chance to listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry at Voices That Matter: Web Design, a conference hosted by New Riders. 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. At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions. Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career. Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007! 315 CA Listen to, learn from and mingle with your favorite New Riders authors and the most respected professionals in the Web design industry, including Jakob Nielsen, Steve Krug, and Jeremy Keith and more. 2007-10-22 false http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2007 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/315 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/315/VTMWeblogo.gif ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, graphic design, html, javascript, photoshop, search engine optimization, web, web design, xml New York USA 2008-01-17 Jakob Trollbäck, President and Creative Director of Trollbäck + Company, will be speaking at the Soho, New York, Apple Store this Wednesday, January 16, at 6:30 pm. Part of a series of talks hosted by AIGA New York and Apple, “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed” features the world’s most respected designers discussing their creative process in the changing landscape of design. Additional information can be found at: http://www.aigany.org/events/details/7A06/ ABOUT TROLLBÄCK + COMPANY Trollbäck + Company is a visual and conceptual creative studio producing expressive and purposeful graphics, design and live action for advertising, broadcast, and entertainment. Led by creative directors Jakob Trollbäck and Joe Wright, the collaborative group of designers and writers launches and rebrands TV networks, creates motion graphics, live action, print, environmental design, and film titles. T + Co's trademark approach relies on unorthodox thinking and immersive storytelling, and the belief that a compelling and focused message is essential for any communication to be truly successful. 389 NY Jakob Trollbäck, President and Creative Director of Trollbäck + Company, will be speaking at the Soho, New York, Apple Store as part of the series "Pro Sessions: Design Remixed." 2008-01-16 false http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/389 graphic design Boston USA 2008-03-07 Learn about designing for Drupal! Drupal is a powerful and elegant CMS that is growing in popularity for community, e-commerce, social networking, web applications, and blog sites. Add a new skill to your arsenal of web design techniques! Drupal designers are in high demand. There will be sessions and showcases of Drupal site designs, including case studies for creating Drupal themes. Cost is $195. The conference will be co-located with AIIM content management conference. Proposed session topics are below. We are recruiting presenters! http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/design-and-user-experience-track-descriptions Graphic design: “Drupal for Designers” * Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…) * Introduction to Drupal for designers * Drupal-friendly CSS tricks * Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements Theming Drupal * Theming for Drupal after starting with Wordpress, Joomla, or static HTML * Theming Panels/Views * Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes (case studies) * Creating themes for Drupal 6 * Security for themers * Using Color.module to create recolorable themes Usability/Interaction design: “User friendly Drupal” * Usability bling in Drupal 6 * User Experience Testing * Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6 * Building intuitive forms * Brainstorming: An interface for media handling * Learning jQuery Site Planning and Information Architecture: “Building Drupal to Specification” * A WYSIWYG in Drupal 7: How do we get there? * Obstacles on localized and internationalized sites * Improving the Drupal user experience with the best contributed modules * Site statistics, how to obtain and what we can learn from them * Identifying and overcoming Drupalisms (odd workflows, …) 391 MA The design and user experience track for the Drupal conference will feature 16 design and user experience tutorials, panels, and presentations over 4 days. Drupal designers are in high demand! 2008-03-03 false http://drupalcon.org http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/391 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/391/drupalcon-175.png blog, cms, community, drupal, graphic design, interaction design, joomla, open source, social networking, templates, theme, usability research, user experience, web design, wordpress Boston USA 2008-05-22 CINCINNATI – April 23 – The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. The annual creativity, business and technology conference for graphic designers, the HOW Conference will feature 59 speakers, 60+ sessions and 10 three-hour workshops. According to HOW magazine editor Bryn Mooth, “the HOW Conference is a wonderful opportunity for designers to develop their design careers, hone their business skills, get their creative juices flowing and network with thousands of fellow designers.” Many industry experts and well-known designers will present at this year’s Conference, including Allan Haley of Monotype Imaging, House Industries’ Ken Barber, design entrepreneur Charles S. Anderson, Adobe’s Russell Brown and Julieanne Kost, plus Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger of Modern Dog Design Co. Attendees can choose from sessions in seven tracks: Creativity & Inspiration, Design Disciplines, Business & Management, Career Development, In-House Issues, Technology & Production and HOW Learning Center. The Conference will also feature Boston Design Studio Tours, which allow attendees to tour these six local studios: Arnold Worldwide, Catapult Thinking, Sametz Blackstone Associates, Seltzer, Silverscape and Visual Dialogue. The HOW Conference is expected to attract more than 3,000 graphic designers, art directors, creative directors, illustrators and other design professionals from around the world. The 2008 HOW Design Conference is presented by HOW, the creativity, business and technology magazine for graphic designers. HOW is published by F+W Publications, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH. For registration information, call (800) 436-8700 or (513) 531-2690 ext. 1450; fax (513) 531-0798; email howconference@fwpubs.com or visit HOWconference.com. 463 MA The 2008 HOW Design Conference is coming to Boston’s Hynes Convention Center May 18-21. 2008-05-18 false http://www.howconference.com http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/463 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/463/08HDC_logo1.gif 2d, 3d, adobe, graphic design, information architecture, mad skills, paper, photography, photoshop, technology, training Nashville USA 2008-06-14 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. At Voices That Matter: Web Design, our lineup of speakers, including Steve Krug, Garr Reynolds, Jeremy Keith, and many more, will teach you new techniques; some will show you how to avoid the potholes and pitfalls in how-to sessions; still others will inspire you to try new pathways in creative, energizing, thought-provoking, idea-driven sessions. Entertaining, informative, authoritative, but most of all, inspiring, Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference will bring you face-to-face with the authors whose books have shaped your career. Register now at www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2008! 433 TN You've read their books. Now you're ready for more. Come join the conversation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference coming to the Loews Vanderbilt in Nashville this June! 2008-06-10 false http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/2008 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/433 http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/433/weblogo.jpg ajax, conference, css, design, dreamweaver, flash, garr reynolds, graphic design, html, javascript, new riders, photoshop, search engine optimization, steve krug, voices that matter, web, web design, xml