This should be of interest to all you designers and illustrators out there.
In this video interview, Ohio-born Mikey Burton speaks with AIGA’s Craig Schlanser about finding creative inspiration in the Rust Belt, how he manages tight deadlines, and what his goals are for the future.
Thanks to our friends at AIGA Philly for allowing us to share the story. Find out more about AIGA at http://philadelphia.aiga.org/about-us/mission/.
Hey web designers, this one’s for you. The Philadelphia New Media Association is bringing Jessica Ivins to town on April 26. Jessica is an expert on UX and user interface design
The talk is titled “Useful, Usable & Desirable: Designing for Users.” It will explore the fundamentals of user experience, including exploring industry best practices and examples of websites that solve real problems for real people. There are many tools and disciplines within user experience, from content strategy to information architecture to user research. By understanding these tools and when to use them, and by understanding the context of each design problem we are faced with, we can begin to understand how to utilize design thinking and creating user experiences that are useful, usable, and desirable.
Thanks to the good folks at PANMA for putting this on. Find out more about PANMA at www.panma.org.
Know someone who’s looking to break into the production business?
The Greater Philadelphia region is home to more than 80 accredited colleges and universities. That is the highest concentration of institutions of higher learning in the country. This is a listing of colleges and universities with Media Arts, Film & Video Production Programs.
Thanks to our friends at the Film Office for compiling this list. Find out more about GPFO at www.film.org/Philadelphia/Public/StaticPages.aspx?j=1
The Philly Ad Club’s annual Movers & Shakers Pinnacle Award Program recognizes the biggest names in Philly advertising.
Join the Philly Ad Club regional community in honoring three “Movers and Shakers” on April 25th at Loews, Millennium Ballroom (12th and Market Streets). Registration will be at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon will end around 2 p.m.
If you’re a photographer, you’ll want to check out the Spring/Summer lineup of workshops at Philadelphia Photo Arts. There’s something for everyone.
Let’s start our whirlwind tour of the new media landscape with the elephant in the room, HTML5. Despite the hoopla, this standard is far from standard. The spec won’t be finalized until 2013 and browser support is uneven, to say the least. As Jan Ozer succinctly put it, Enough With HTML5 Already. Flash is still the most sensible platform for video delivery to the desktop today, though of course iOS devices do require HTML5. So for the foreseeable future, we’re living in a dual world where there is really no choice but to support both platforms.
On February 26, 2012, Temple University’s Film and Media Arts Department will host the Derek Freese Youth Media Film Festival, which offers youth filmmakers, ages 12 to 18, an opportunity to screen their work in front of their peers and other film professionals.
Every month PhillyCreativeGuide.com brings you a full calendar of events in the Philadelphia region of interest to the creative community. Check out this month’s highlights…
Neil Kleinman, senior fellow at the Corzo Center for the Creative Economy and professor of media and communication – The University of the Arts.
Life is a choice. Or actually, a series of choices. From the moment you woke up today, you made hundreds – probably thousands – of decisions, some small, some big, that will shape the way your day turns out… and that will influence, in some way, every day that follows.
So it’s worth thinking about how we make those decisions, and how we can help others make better decisions.
