13 Jul 2010
Digital Design alum Joshua Michie only recently joined the team at the VFS grad-founded interactive agency, Blast Radius, but already he’s completed work on a high-profile infographic for Starbucks. The coffee giant is currently featuring the video on its US home page. Check it out below:
23 Jun 2010
Adobe Audition for Mac, coming in a future release, will bring modern audio post-production to the platform of your choice. Familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording will meet expanded device support, greater workflow flexibility, and optimized performance. Plus, best-of-breed audio restoration tools make it easy to clean up production audio. With the essential tools you rely on for fast-turn projects, Audition for the Mac brings a fresh face to audio post-production.
For more details, please read the page on Adobe Labs.
1 Jun 2010
Last term, Carlos Lanenga (DD17) had the opportunity to work once again with Auckland New Zealand based photographer Fiona Quinn. This month’s edition of the New Zealand magazine HER (for female entrepreneurs) is featuring 5 editorial shots fully edited and retouched by him.
For anyone who doesn’t know Carlos that well, he worked as a professional freelance photo retoucher before joining the DD Program last January. No doubt he made me nervous when he asked me a question in Photoshop class back in Term one. He has tremendous skills on masking, color correction and adjustment layer in PS. We are trying to set up a workshop on photo retouching so he can show students how he works and share some of his techniques. I will keep everyone posted on this topic. Again, thank you Carlos for providing us with these beautiful photos.
25 May 2010
Google announced the 40 regional finalists in its annual Doodle 4 Google competition, which challenges school children to create their own version of the Google logo The winning logo will run on Google’s home page for a day. Over 33,000 students in grades K-12 submitted entries, competing for a $15,000 college scholarship, a $25,000 technology grant for their schools, and other prizes.
23 Apr 2010
Sunlight Labs announced their latest contest — “Design for America.” This 10 week long design and data visualization extravaganza is focused on connecting the talents of art and design communities throughout the country to the wealth of government data now available through bulk data access and APIs, and to help nurture the field of information visualization. The objective for this competition is simple and straightforward — to make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American public. They hope to enliven and engage new communities.
Compete in 3 main category: Data Visualization, Process Transparency & Redesigning the Government. With a few exceptions, anyone over the age of 18 that is eligible to fill out a 1099 tax form is eligible to enter and win this contest. As we are including our grantees and partners in this contests, so those that have actually worked as contractors, employees, or in any other capacity on those sites should not compete in that specific contest.
For more details, please read full article on Sunlight Labs.
23 Apr 2010
I managed to connect with Ozgur Abaci, of DD08 fame, who has started his own company in Turkey and is doing well. You should learn some turkish and check out his companies site: http://www.creative-genie.com.
12 Apr 2010
Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF) is Toronto’s ONLY free-of-charge film festival dedicated to bringing the finest multicultural works relevant to the communities living in Regent Park, the oldest and largest low income housing in Canada!
Deadline May 3rd, 2010
Check out their website at http://www.regentparkfilmfestival.com/, or download the application here
12 Apr 2010
MS has posted a interesting video showing some research into the combination of stylus and touch combinations using surface. Some really interesting ways of working are shown off here. Maybe surface is starting to find it’s niche.
