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Competitions, Events and Awards Roundup – July 09

Travis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:29:03 +0000

Let’s take a run through some of the the events and competitions that are coming up this month.

There’s no An Event Apart this month, but there are still some quality conventions and training sessions to hit up.

The CSS Summit

An all day, all CSS online event with some big names in the design world.

Price: $139

July 18

Online

Web Design World

Web Design World Seattle is all about teaching you what you need today. Like CSS and markup that’s easy to maintain and broadly accessible. Web typography that carries your message and is beautiful to look at. JavaScript that works. Mobile design that expands your reach. Social networking instead of social not-working. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash power tips…

Price: $1395

July 20-22

Seattle, Washington

Front-End

The Front-End Design Conference will be a single-day event featuring presentations that cover details of the web design process. The discussions will begin with inspiration, progress into creating and managing content, discuss usability theory, teach how to put on the finishing details and introduce attendees to designing web apps

Price: $129

July 31

Saint Petersburg, Florida

SIGGRAPH 2009

Join us in New Orleans in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Price: $900

August 3-7

New Orleans

ilovedesign.com LIVE presents 8×8 London

8 talented creatives have just 8 minutes each to share with us where they find their ideas, what inspires them and what motivates them to get out of bed in the morning.

Price: £15

July 1

Kensington, London

Illustrator CS4 Training

Discover Illustrator’s intuitive features such as intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces. This essential training will allow you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.

Price: $895

July 7

Phoenix

London Geek Nights: Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk

This Geek Night is going to cover how Smalltalk makes web development different and how Seaside is being put to use in the “Real World”. Prepare to question how your favourite web platform works and discover object-orientated programming rather than class-orientated programming.

Price: FREE

July 7

London, UK

DemoCamp Vancouver 07 – Social Platforms Edition

The featured presentations are social platforms – out of the box social networking and other social web experiences.

Price: FREE

July 7

Vancouver, British Columbia

Photoshop Complete

Interfaces 2009, hosted by the International Academy of Design and Technology, is an annual conference promoting the graphic design, digital media and game design industries.

Price: $1,395.00

July 20-22

Orlando, Florida

Designing for the Web

Explore the process of designing a website with Tyler Lee, Executive Director of Production for Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive in Albuquerque.

Price: $249

July 23

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010

Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration. Categories include: Advertising, Books, Children’s Books, Design, Editorial, New Media, Self-Promotion and New Talent.

Price: £38

Deadline July 31

San Francisco

TypeCon2009: Rhythm

TypeCon2009 explores type for the screen, Dutch design, type in motion, advertising typography, the new life of wood type, and much more.

Price: $375

July 14-19

Atlanta

Request for Submissions: The Good Design Book

Designer and writer Christopher Simmons (of MINE) is working on a new book about designing for the greater good. There is an open call for submissions that engage and addresses critical causes.

Price: FREE

Deadline August 1

Competitions, Events and Awards Roundup – June 2009

Travis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:00:45 +0000

We’re back with another full month of events, awards, and competitions from around the world.

There’s some big events this month, including An Event Apart 2009 in Boston.
So check out the location and prices of what’s happening in your area!

Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

Photoshop® CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

It’s time to get down and dirty with Photoshop. Take part in five classes in Photoshop special effects, photographic effects, and design tricks.

Price: £99 / day

June

Toronto (26th) – Calgary (29th)

In Control 2009

In Control 2009 is a a web design workshop and conference rolled into one. Learn from a diverse array of Web experts to use modern tools and techniques to refine your Web design craft. Harness creative inspiration to unlock your potential, amplify innovation, and broaden your reach. Immerse yourself in two days of idea exchange with potential business partners who are as forward-thinking as you are.

Price: $795

June 11-12

Cincinnati

UX London

UX London – geared toward the user experience designer – is a unique three-day event combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names.

Waiting List Only

June 15

London

An Event Apart 2009

The big daddy of them all – An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

Price: $995

June 22-23

Boston

Writing for the Web

Discover how your choice of words influences the ways users navigate to — and around — your site. Learn to use words online to entice and educate users, and to more effectively convert them into repeat customers.

Price: $854

June 25

San Francisco

Standards.Next HTML5

A free HTML5 meetup featuring short talks on the nitty gritty of HTML5, tales from the frontline, the controversies, the agonies and the ecstasies.

Price: FREE

June 27

London, UK

@media ’09

High-value, no-nonsense cutting-edge training and discussion for professional web designers and developers.

Price: £349

June 25-26

London, UK

Small Talk NO. 9: ANTHONY BURRILL

Anthony Burrill is an independent UK-based designer and illustrator whose work is beautifully simple and often hilarious. He works across a broad range of activities, including print, film, and internet.

Price: $35

June 4

New York

InterFaces 2009

Interfaces 2009, hosted by the International Academy of Design and Technology, is an annual conference promoting the graphic design, digital media and game design industries.

Price: $30

June 6

Detroit

Getting Creative: How to put a design degree to work

Listen to a panel of industry professionals currently working in several design-related positions. Find out how these individuals successfully transitioned into careers at companies including Sierra Bravo, Periscope, Larsen and OLSON.

Price: $15

June 11

Minnesota

San Francisco Design Week

SF Design Week reaches out to a diverse community of over 20,000 Bay Area design professionals as well as local businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, students, the design-savvy public, tourists, and more. AIGA SF will be sponsoring a full week of events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay.

Price: FREE

June 15 -21

San Francisco

INDEX – A Designer’s Resource Fair

Philadelphia’s most comprehensive fair where designers meet the vendors that serve their needs. This year, Urban Outfitter’s Jharoka, in the Navy Yard, will be the place to learn about the latest goods and services available and interact directly with the largest community of designers in Philadelphia.

Price: $10

June 18

Philadelphia, PA

cause/affect design competition deadline

We’ve all toiled into the night on projects for good causes with scant hope of any recognition (we’re do-gooders after all!). But we believe one good deed deserves another, so we’re giving out a stack of awards to those whose creative work stacks up.

Price: $30

Deadline June 16

San Francisco

The Case Awards Show

Mix & mingle as you view award-winning design, photography and illustration work from Nashville creative professionals.

Price: $40

June 20

Nashville

Lynda.com Meetup

Lynda.com

Meet Lynda and hear her story! The preeminent leader in Online Software Training.

Price: FREE

June 25

Santa Barbara

Downtown Digital Arts Festival

The Downtown Digital Arts Festival brings together student photographers, designers, and artists, for a three-day event, designed to educate, to inspire, and to entertain.

Price: FREE

June 2 – 4

Columbus, Ohio

Design Experience 2009

The seminar is a consolidated effort to showcase the work done by designers and other professionals related to the field, and hope to provide an opportunity to get an insight into their different experiences while designing.

Price: Rs 2500

June 8 – 9

Bombay

Events, Competitions, Awards Roundup! – May 09

Travis — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:00:16 +0000

And now for something completely different (and no, I don’t mean a man with three buttocks). With the new changes coming to Creattica, I’ve been busy rounding up a delicious list of all that is sweet in the world of events, competitions, and awards.

If I’ve missed one, let me know and I’ll try and snag it for June!

Interaction Design 101: Three-Day Immersion

Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini will be running a three-day tutorial on the basic principles of effective interaction design and how to apply them in the real world.

Price: £509 / day

May 17-22

London UK

Max Design CSS and Accessibility

This all new accessibility workshop focuses on providing practical advice to help developers and organisations comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0.

Price: AUD$450.00 / day

Starts May 18 in Sydney

Various Locations in Australia

UX Intensive

This four-day workshop series is for experienced professionals wanting to take their practice to the next level. It will examine the key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture.

Price: $895 / day

May 11-14

Berlin

Everybody Dance Now: 20 Years of Dancing in Print

The exhibition features performing arts magazines Dance Ink and 2wice, historic collaborations with dancers, choreographers,’ and photographers, the result of a single, powerful idea of creating performances within the unique “stage” of the printed page.

Price: FREE

April 2–May 22

New York

Cocktails with Creatives

Each month AIGA Minnesota hosts a mixer event at various bars and restaurants around the Twin Cities. This event is a great networking and social opportunity so bring your business cards and your ideas! Members and non-members alike are welcome.

Price: FREE

May 7

Minneapolis, MN

Edward Badham Photography Open House

Join AIGA Birmingham & Edward Badham Photography for an Open House Carnival. Have fun on the rock climbing wall, make photos with photobooth, duel on the wii or play pool. Lots of fun, food and drinks to go around.

Price: FREE

May 7

Birmingham, AL

Case Awards 2009: Call For Entries

Join AIGA Nashville for the first annual Case Awards, celebrating and rewarding effective visual communication in the Nashville Area. This is your chance to be counted among the best local talent in this competition showcasing identity, print, web & interactive, motion, photography, & illustration works.

Price: $30.00 / entry

Deadline: May 8, 2009

Nashville, TN

Kathy McCoy: Swiss Design Comes to America

Kathy McCoy presents a lecture about the origins of Swiss style graphic design in America. This event is produced by the Kansas City Art Institute.

Price: FREE

May 14

Kansas City, MO

Workin’ In the LAB: 21st Century Color Correction with Pete Rivard

In this seminar, you will be introduced to LAB color mode and its benefits, gain a better understanding why color looks as it does on your display, learn how to best predict the print outcome before any budget is spent proofing, walk away with some tips on simple and highly effective image adjustments and alterations that can be done without sacrificing the color integrity of the original.

Price: FREE

May 14

Minneapolis, MN

Creative Coffee

Originally intended for those who work or live in the Downtown Scottsdale area, Creative Coffee is open to all creative people who want to wind down the day with a few other interesting and sympathetic folk…

Price: FREE

May 26

Scottsdale, AZ

Nashville BuzZ: The Business of Design

Often overlooked by creatives is workplace ergonomics. And it is too late once we are have an ergonomic related injury. Join April Vance at our May BuzZ event as she defines workplace conditions, discusses the benefits of an ergonomic program, identifying risk factors and controlling strategies to minimize risk.

Price: FREE

May 29

Nashville, TN

Gourmet Typography Training

Take control of your type instead of letting it control you! Gourmet Typography Training teaches the typographic skills and aesthetics rarely taught or fully understood by professionals. Learn how to “see” like you’ve never seen before. Gourmet Typography Training will sharpen your eye and give you the practical skills that will visibly improve your type.

Price: FREE

June 4

Boston, MA

Dreamweaver CS4 Advanced Training

Take your web building skills to the next level with Dreamweaver CS4 Advanced. Build engaging websites that incorporate CSS to style different page elements such forms and tables. Design different types of CSS layouts from scratch and learn techniques for dealing with browser compatibility issues with the Adobe CSS Advisor. Create CSS image galleries without using tables and style XML data to build an RSS feed reader within your site. Learn the toolsets necessary to create much better than average websites with this two day training.

Price: $895.00

May 7

Phoenix

Yorkshire Digital Awards

Entries are open to any digital company that is based in Yorkshire and the Humber. Please be aware that companies will be restricted to enter a maximum of two award categories. Also, based on response to the black tie dinner/disco last year they expect an audience of over 300 and demand for tables to be high. Therefore early booking of tables is advised.

Price: ??

May 7

Leeds, England

GeekUp East Coast

GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the UK. It’s a grassroots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in the web, design and technology industry. Monthly events take place in Chester, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston and Sheffield.

Price: FREE as in beer

May 8

Grimsby, England

Adobe Flash CS4 class for computer animation

Learn to make computer animation, web design, banner ad content using Flash animations and Actionscript 3. Length of flash class is 6 hrs.

Price: $375

May 12

Los Angeles

Web Designing Workshop

Web Designing Workshop by Creative-Hut. Web design is the skill of designing hypertext presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, micro blogging clients and RSS readers.

Price: ??

May 17

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

unConference 2009

The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia.

Price: $50 – $90

May 16

Singapore

Webvisions 2009

Explore the future of Web design, user experience and business strategy with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers. Keynote speakers for 2009 include Mark Frauenfelder (author, founder of BoingBoing.net and editor of MAKE Magazine) and usability superstar Jared Spool.

Price: $195

May 20 – May 22

Portland, Oregon

Webvisionary Awards

From virals and mashups to web apps and advertising, the Webvisionary Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in website design.

Price: $30.00

May 21

Portland, Oregon

Vancouver User Experience Group: Designing for the Community Experience

From virals and mashups to web apps and advertising, the Webvisionary Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in website design.

Price: FREE

May 26

Vancouver, British Columbia

CALL FOR ENTRIES: ADOBE DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2009

The 2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry.

Price: FREE

Till June 5

CALL FOR ENTRIES: HKDA ASIA DESIGN AWARDS 09

HKDA Asia Design Awards 09 is open to all designers in the Asia Pacific region. Works entirely designed in the region and first released between 3 June 2007 and 30 June 2009 are eligible for entry.

Price: FREE

Till June 30

Full Code Press

Niki — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:19:38 +0000

Hmmm…looks like I’m not the only one who likes (ha) to build websites in 24 hours. Check out Full Code Press – a website competition that challenges designers and developers to make websites for charity.

The concept is simple. Web teams take each other on, at the same location, to build a complete website in 24 hours. No excuse, no extensions, no budget overruns.

via @styletime

FlashDen – Win Tickets to FITC Toronto

Travis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:00:03 +0000

For all you Flash designers, FlashDen is giving away tickets to the upcoming FITC Design and Technology Festival. All you have to do is post your comment on who your favorite FlashDen author is and why you think you should win.

Massive $600 RSS Subscription Contest

Travis — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:42:14 +0000

PSDFan is running a Massive $600 RSS Subscription Contest! All you have to do is subscribe to their RSS feed. They’ll be giving out prizes when they hit 4000 subscribers.

As a little extra incentive, I’ve compiled my largest prize fund ever. I’ll be giving away a huge $631.70 worth of prizes!

Logofi

Travis — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:10:39 +0000

Logofi is the latest to join the list of expanding Logo sites. Logofi adds value with extras like a blog and forum. You may also be interested in a Logo Design Book Giveaway they just started.

Desktop Icon Contest

Travis — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:03:43 +0000

Artist Kate England is looking for your feedback to find out what kinds of computer icons people really find useful when they work or play in their digital environments. Head over to her site and let her know if you could pick one icon, that you would have an enormous use of, what would it be?

She’ll be giving away seven sets of the icons.

Type Battles

Niki — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:26:01 +0000

Typophile has a weekly competition to help you stretch your creative type muscles. Check out Type Battles:

This is your chance to stretch your type muscles on a weekly basis. You have one week to create and submit your entry. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and comments are welcome throughout the game, from participants and spectators alike. Smack talk is encouraged.

As with any street battle, there is no panel of judges and no prize — only the ability to call yourself the best on the block.

Designing for the Web: PDF Book Giveaway

Travis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:22:00 +0000

Web designer Sachin D. Brojmohun and the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius is offering 2 copies of Mark Boulton’s book : A Practical Guide in Designing for the Web. All you need to do is head over to the site and post a comment about your experience of “learning” from books.

Entires need to be in by March 2/09.