Hey guys, I know I already posted some stuff about Typographics earlier this week but I had to share this with you…
Typographics was selected for the TypeCon2007, as a part of The Typophile Film Festival.
Here is a little bit about the festival:
Typophile Film Festival 4 will take place at the opening night of TypeCon in Seattle, August 1-5, 2007.
It is open to anything relevant to typography, design history, and/or type design. It can be educational, experimental, inspiring or humorous.
The first Typophile Film Festival debuted at TypeCon 2004 in San Francisco, and showcased fifteen short works of typography in motion from around the world, including films by Erik Spiekermann, H5, Motion Theory, Trollbäck + Company, Cheshire Dave, and others.
The festival will take place in Seattle Aug 1-5 so if any of you guys are in Seattle for the nest few days you should check it out. There’s going to be a lot of really cool stuff on typography there.
Hi guys, there’s a website that I think it’s a good quick and dirty way to share videos online, because I don’t know about you guys, but I hate the YouTube interface.
The website I’m talking about is http://www.vimeo.com, the interface is all AJAX, correct me if I’m wrong, you can edit the information of the movies in real time by just clicking the text you wanna change. It’s really user friendly and the quality is really good. Another cool thing is that it stores the the original movie file that you uploaded, so it can be viewed as a quicktime, in my case, in a different window.
What I like the most is the interface, it’s clean and customizable, you can change the color of the navigation and choose whether or not you want to show the name of the movie, author and/or avatar.
Here’s the application in action, I resized it to the size of the blog’s margins, changed the color of the interface and hid my avatar.
I don’t know why but no one (except instructors and like 4-5 students) seem to be posting and commenting on this public school blog. The digital design program has so many assignments and why we get to see like 5% of the work produced by students? Over 40 students and a average 1 post a week? I would really enjoy if people would actually post stuff every week, or even day. Ask questions and make this a community space for exchanging knowledge and getting some criticism. For a start here is so of my work I did at VFS,
Hey guys how’s it going? Typographics is featured on the first page of yahoo! I don’t know how long its going to stay there for so I took this screen cap for you all to have a look… Apparently, over 500.000 people have watched it already!
Earlier in the week we posted a blog entry about the Vancouver Flash User Group hosting an evening with Paul Ortchanian. Partially due to VFS attendance the event exceeded expected attendance and outgrew it’s venue. After a certain amount of emailing between the organizer, Mark Busse (President of the local chapter of the GDC) and myself, we managed to save the day by moving the event to the Bearpit. Brett Forsyth, who was going to attend the event regardless has offered his services to interface Paul’s tech needs with the technology in the computers. Everyone looking to attend the event owes Mark a bit thanks for calling his friends at VFS, and to Brett for sticking around to make sure Paul gets to present for and meet his fans.
Enjoy the event and good luck to Vancouver Flash User group on future events.
Since we’re venturing bravely into the world of music video production I thought i’d post this.
The 6th Annual INDIE MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL is pleased to announce this year’s lineup of 20 supercalifragalistic videos! (Including DD02 Best Final Project Award winner “War is Beautiful” by Alex Rupert.)
From super spandex ,UFO’s,rollergirls from hell and disembodied hands to antarctic exploration,pussycat people and one freaky pony!
The IMVF has everything that’s expialidocious! With musical guests, CANNED HAMM.
Location: Railway Club - 579 Dunsmuir St.
Date: Wednesday July 18, 2007
Cover: Doors: 8:30 PM, $8/$6
Thurday July 19th the Vancouver Flash User Group is hosting an evening with Paul Ortchanian. We’re flying Paul up from San Francisco to give a 2 hour presentation on getting the most out of the powerful BitmapData class. Paul will also be taking us through a number of the flash experiments on his site, www.reflektions.com .
This event is FREE, but you will need to create an account on the Flash User Group’s meetup website: You can get more information on the event here: http://flash.meetup.com/110/calendar/5982036/ .
Hey, everyone, don’t forget to go see Tom about tickets today…this will be a great event, and a good chance for you to meet lots of industry-types, too.
As many of you know, the documentary “Helvetica” will be screening in Vancouver on August 7th. This year is Helvetica’s 50th birthday, and the film looks at its enormous impact on visual culture, advertising and our everyday lives. The film’s premiere at south by southwest sold out and the film’s world tour has been a smash success. We can’t wait to see it here!
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session with director Gary Hustwit, Douglas Coupland and type designer Jim Rimmer.
Friday the 13th at noon is the deadline for students to purchase tickets through Tom’s office. Tickets for VFS students are only $5 (regular student price is $15), and you will be guaranteed a seat.
Screenings in many other cities sold out in advance, so don’t miss your chance.
Date: Tuesday August 7
Time: Screening begins at 7pm. Discussion and reception to follow.
Location: Empire Granville 7 Cinemas, Theatre #7
If you would like to find out more about the film, you can visit Gary Hustwit’s web site or his blog.
Electrolux, one of the world’s leaders in innovative cooking and cleaning solutions for the home, invites design students to participate in the Electrolux Design Lab 2007 global competition seeking green solutions for the year 2020. First Prize is 5,000 Euro and a six-month internship. Entry deadline is August 1, 2007.
