6:30 pm - 10:00 pm / 20 May 2010
Downtown Independent Theater
251 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
A three part How-To seminar series on demystifying the web for designers.
Part One: Understanding Interactive Communication Design
Join Kellis Landrum and Brian Wood on May 20 from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm for a seminar on making the web more approachable for designers. Learn how digital media content dissemination works and how extend your print skills on to the Web. Mingle with the LA design community and enjoy food and drinks with us at the Downtown Independent Theater before the seminar. We'll be showing videos from Adobe Youth Voices and giving away a copy of Adobe CS5. Register now to reserve your spot!
You must register here to qualify for the raffle. Winner must be present at time of drawing to recieve prize. (Please do not register if you're not positive you can join us. Seating is limited...)
Reception from 6:30pm - 7:30pm
We'll be showing videos from Adobe Youth Voices in the lounge/lobby and giving away a copy of Adobe CS5.
Kellis Landrum is Owner and Creative Director of Soda Media Inc, an Art Center College of Design Alumni, and former Art Center Instructor. He is also a member of the AIGA, and member of the Los Angeles AIGA Interactive Committee. Kellis is Co-Founded online Style & Culture magazine, NeuBlack.com. He has designed, developed and directed award winning projects for a variety of clients including NBC, Scion Motors, Kia Motors, American Apparel, Guess Clothing, Symantec, and Aiwa. He has worked with agencies and studios including Ogilvy, David and Goliath, Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo, M&C Saatchi, The Groop and Amauta Tech.
Brian Wood is an Adobe Creative Instructor in Acrobat 9, Illustrator CS4 and Dreamweaver CS4, and the author of InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training, and three other books published by Peachpit Press. He has authored InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, Expression Web, and Acrobat 8, 9 video titles for Lynda.com. Some of his Acrobat 8 and 9 video training titles are included in the product box for Creative Suite 3, and are also posted on the Adobe web site. A seasoned web developer and web technology trainer, Brian is the host of the askbrianwood website, which is available online at: www.askbrianwood.com
To facilitate scheduling and to get a global understanding of the series, could you post details of all 3 sessions? Thank you...
how do I register?
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Thanks to all of you who came out for the "Moving From Print to Web Event" last week.
We're working on getting our video edited, but in the mean time we wanted to post a few links for reference in case you're interested in reading up on some of the material we discussed. If you know any other good web references, feel free to post them in comments!
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KELLIS LANDRUM SITES
Soda: http://www.ilikesoda.us/
Neu Black: http://www.neublack.com/
Make NIce Things: http://makenicethings.com/
TWITTER
http://twitter.com/kellislandrum
http://twitter.com/makenicethings
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TYPOGRAPHY
Cufon
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/usage
@Font-Face
Buy Web Fonts: http://www.fontspring.com/bestselling
Free Web Fonts: http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Using Web Fonts: http://nicewebtype.com/notes/2009/10/30/how-to-use-css-font-face/
Convert Fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
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WEB DESIGN REFERENCE
Tutorials
http://www.lynda.com/
HTML Coding Reference
http://www.w3schools.com/
Good Reading
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/
Blogging and CMS
http://wordpress.org/
I keep getting emails asking about our next event. For those of you who are interested-
Part 2. June 17, 2010
AIGA, Jason Taylor-
Pixels vs Print, Designing for Development
Adobe, Kelly McCathran-
Designing with Flash Catalyst
Part 3. July 23, 2010
AIGA, Jose Caballer-
Successfully presenting web projects
Adobe, TBD
Extremely informative seminar, everything made sense when it was explained in "designer" terms. The only bad part...not winning the CS5 drawing! Looking forward for the next event.
Thanx Kellis, for all the details and link. Nice work. Looking forward to the next one!!!
I found the information regarding the next two Print to Web classes but don't see them on your site..
How do we sign up for the classes on June 17 and July 23?
Thank you
Sorry it's taken so long to get these up, but I got the video clips of Session 1 online.
Moving From Print to Web Session 1
Session 1