Dec. 9: Out of the Box New Haven
Out of the Box hits New Haven on December 9 from 6:30-8:30 pm at The Playwright, 144 Temple Street, New Haven. Share Happy Hour with your fellow creatives. Absolutely fun. Absolutely free. (Well, except for the cash bar.)
Event Wrap-up: Webtastic!
Close to 40 people gathered at Bentara on October 29th, to learn more about the latest web technologies from Noble Desktop instructor, Dan Rodney.
Attendees had an opportunity to mingle and sample delicious Malaysian appetizers before the presentation. Dan started his presentation off with live examples of Adoble DreamWeaver’s Spry capabilities. The audience had a particularly good laugh when he showed the Adobe Spry technology on Quark’s web site.
Throughout his presentation Dan showed off an amazing range of tricks. He started off with an exercise in Fireworks to create interactive web pages for a client review and concluded with a demonstration of Adobe’s Spry technologies. After each topic there was a chance the audience to ask questions.
Dan Rodney is an Adobe certified instructor and full time instructor at Noble Desktop, LLC in New York. Noble Desktop has been teaching courses in desktop publishing and web design since 1991. Currently offered are comprehensive day and evening classes in QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, web site creation (featuring HTML and Adobe Dreamweaver), Adobe Flash and Final Cut Pro.
CADC members are eligible for a 15% discount on Noble Desktop classes.
Special thanks to Noble Desktop for their support of this event and the CADC.
Event Wrap-up:
An Evening with Marc Alt
A large crowd welcomed Marc Alt to Bentara on November 5th to address the serious issues of sustainability and the environment that are facing us all.
Marc is a founder of AIGA Center for Sustainable Design, has been involved with The Designers Accord since its inception, as well as Greener Gadgets. His main theme was that as designers we can no longer continue to focus on creating just great looking stuff, but rather that we need to join together with other designers (industrial designers, package designers, graphic designers, architects, engineers, etc.) to make informed decisions about the “stuff” that we design for a more sustainable society. While nobody claims to have all the answers, there is a lot of information available both in publications and on the internet for those who are interested.
Some of the individuals and organizations he highlighted were informative as well as eye-opening, including Greener Gadgets, Afrigadget, Project H Design, Nike Considered, Patagonia’s Footprint Chronicles, Steelcase, The Story of Stuff, Cooper Carry, Personal Environmental Impact Report, New Retail Experience, Herman Miller Chairs, and All The Top Design News.
Special thanks to Rideshare for sponsoring this event.
Event Wrap-up:
A Modern Dog in Hartford
Robynne Raye, a co-founder of Modern Dog Design Co., recently came to the Hartford Art School to talk about the hard work — and happy accidents — that went into the making of the acclaimed Seattle design group.
Since the beginnings of Modern Dog in 1987, Raye has continued to do work for entertainment and retail companies — both local and national — and counts poster, packaging and identity projects as some of her favorite work. Robynne has received recognition from every major design organization in the U.S. Her posters are represented in the permanent archives of the Louvre (Rohan Marsan wing), the Library of Congress, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe, the Warsaw National Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum among others. In March 2008, Chronicle Books published a 20 year retrospective focusing on Modern Dog’s poster work.
Her advice to students, gleaned from years of struggle and success? It’s all about balance. Look around at the world around you for inspiration, but be careful not to cross the line into stealing (and everyone knows where that is); stay true to the work, but be sure to respect what is appropriate for the client; and take risks, when you know that the reward may justify it.
Dec. 4: 2008 CADC Holiday Party
It is a season of many celebrations, and we can’t help but join in. We promise that there will be many highlights to the evening, but a key one is sure to be the raffling off of the $200 iPhone gift card to one lucky renewed member.
DATE/TIME:
4 December 2008
6:30 p.m.LOCATION:
Oliver’s Tavern
Essex, CTPAY AT THE DOOR:
Members $20
Future Members $30
Receive a $5 discount off admission when bringing a nonperishable food item to donate to FoodShare. Additionally, new this year, we will be holding a silent auction of gift baskets, with proceeds also benefiting FoodShare.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:
Rena DeBortoli Design, Group4, and Mary Grabell (Brian’s moms).
ABOUT FOODSHARE:
Serving as our region’s food bank and distributing more than 14 tons of food each day to a network of 400 local nonprofits that feed our hungry neighbors. This vital safety net helps 100,000 people in our region who are at risk including seniors, the working poor, and 40,000 children get some of the food they need for today. Foodshare works with food companies to secure donations of good food that would otherwise go to waste. Foodshare is efficient — every $30 that we receive provides enough food for a hungry person for an entire month and 95% of our resources go directly to ending hunger. As efficient as this is, Foodshare cannot meet all of the community’s needs through food distribution alone 14 tons of food per day provides only about two meals per hungry person per week!
Engaging members of the greater community to increase their understanding of these real causes and solutions to hunger. This includes raising awareness that food drives, though well-meaning, are not the solution. We’re continually creating new opportunities for people to help fight hunger. Our goal is to inspire community members to become personally involved in effective hunger solutions.
