Events

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Location:
PCC Cascade Campus Auditorium
705 N. Killingsworth
Portland, OR

Time: 6:15 - 8:00pm

Cost: Free

Layout issues! Cross-browser compatibility! Costly accessibility concerns! Limited typography! These are near-endless sources of frustration for designers and developers working in the new media.

Could they all be opportunities in disguise?

Join interactive designer Tyler Sticka for a look back at art and media upheavals of the past to expose web design and development practices for the present and future. An optimistic view of web design tomorrow yields realistic solutions today for topics such as layout, typography, accessibility, identity, community and more.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Tyler Sticka is an interactive designer and illustrator specializing in projects with a focus on communication, marketing and identity. In addition to his freelance work and teaching “Designing Internet Text” at the Art Institute of Portland, Tyler is a principal member of a new design and development team at motion control manufacturer US Digital.

Date: Wed., Oct. 17, 2007

Time: 6:15 - 8:00pm

Location:
Hot Pepper Studios
3377 SE Division - Corner of 34th Ave.

Cost: Free

Phillip Kerman will present an overview of Adobe’s annual user conference MAX that just concluded in Chicago. This is where Adobe celebrates the current offerings and discloses new technology directions. In addition Phillip will give an introduction to ActionScript 3 (the latest incarnation of the Flash programming language).

Here’s a quick list of what’s new, what’s coming, and what may be coming:

Adobe Image Foundation Toolkit (to build your own custom filters);
“Astro” (Flash Player 10);
“Thermo” (which is like a much improved design view for Flex Builder giving designers a way to convert Photoshop documents into MXML);
“Mars” (which is an XML rendition of PDF files);
Adobe’s is also making plans to provide more hosted services (also known as “software as a service”) including “Share” (more than just a “hard drive in the sky”), “Voice” (a VoiP service), Photoshop Express, and Premiere Express, and “CoCoMo” (a revamped version of Connect).

In the maybe/maybe not really coming category, Adobe also sneaked: Visual and scriptable bones and inverse kinematics in Flash authoring; an ActionScript wrapper for C++ code libraries; and “smart” image scaling.

About the Speaker:
Phillip Kerman is a teacher, writer, and programmer focusing on the Adobe Flash platform. He’s programmed several games on MSN and Messenger Live including Sudoku Too and Jigsaw Too. He also programmed the real-time cattle auction site stampedecattle.com. Recently his focus is on cashing-in before Bubble 2.0.