| October 22, 2010 | to | October 27, 2010 |
The 2010 Annual Meeting for ASIS&T members will be October 22-27. Pre Conference Seminars: Oct. 22-23, Annual Meeting: Oct. 24-27.
More information will be posted at asis.org.
| April 4, 2009 |
Pittsburgh Web Design Day is a one-day, local web design conference to highlight local talent as well as those with strong ties to Pittsburgh who have gone on to be leaders in our industry. Web Design Day is designed to be an affordable Pittsburgh-based event.
See webdesignday.com for more information (but it is sold out, and starting in an hour, so we really just add it here to help you see what you missed).
| January 22, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The Pittsburgh Chapters of eDG, IDSA, AIGA and IxDA have organized a restaurant crawl with presentations and discussions focused on sustainable design. The event kicks off at 6:30 on Thursday, January 22 at Oh Yeah! Ice Cream and Coffee (232 S. Highland Ave., Pgh) and proceeds to Casbah and Abay. Tickets are $12 if you RSVP and $15 at the door, and include food and drinks at all three locations. See the flyer(.jpg) more information.
| November 13, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
This month’s meet-up will be hosted by our friends at AlphaLab. AlphaLab is located at AlphaLab is located at 2325 East Carson Street in the historic Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Click here for a map and directions.
AlphaLab is a catalyst for launching the next generation of software, entertainment technology and Internet-related companies. Created by Innovation Works, one of the nations most active seed-stage investors, AlphaLab provides funding, hands-on business assistance, access to a network of entrepreneurs and expert advisors, and free office space as part of an intensive 20-week program in Pittsburgh. AlphaLab helps companies rapidly develop their technology, gain user feedback from early product releases, develop go-to-market strategies, and move toward successful commercial launch.
Val Head is a Senior Designer/Developer at New Perspective and is also the brains behind the FlashPitt conference. She’ll be presenting “Observations on Client Relationships and How We Deal with Them”. She’s also provided us with one of the most colorful topic descriptions: The relationship between the designer, or developer, and client can be complicated. They can make you want to dance in the streets, or stab yourself in the eye. Val will talk about some common relationship patterns and how we to make the best of them.
You can read more about Val at her blog thisisportable.com.
Next, we’re really happy to be joined by Samantha Warren. Samantha is a web designer and typophile at Viget Labs, an all inclusive web agency outside of Washington, DC. In addition to being a board member of the Art Directors Club of Washington, DC she also teaches part time at Boston University’s Center for Digital Imaging Arts DC campus. In her spare time she updates her blog BadAssIdeas.com.
Samantha will present “Typography is the Foundation of Good Web Design”. She will illustrate how typographic legibility, hierarchy, and expression contribute to the success of a design through a step by step web-site redesign.
You can find out more about Samantha and the cool work she does at her blog BadAssIdeas.com as well as the Viget Inspire blog.
As usual, please RSVP to info@refreshpittsburgh.org so that we have a good idea of our headcount. It’s especially important for this meet-up as I need to get a headcount to AlphaLab a day in advance
| October 24, 2008 | ||
| 7:20 pm | to | 9:20 pm |
(Design Pittsburgh) x Pecha Kucha Night
20 x 20
A dynamic dialogue with local, creative talent
121 7th Street, 6th floor
Friday, October 24
7:20 p.m. social hour, 8:20 p.m. start time, $10 per person20 images x 20 seconds = 400 seconds of your best work!Join the conversation and discover a place where local creative talent can meet, network and display their work in public in an informal, relaxed, and dynamic environment. To learn more about Pecha Kucha Night click here. If you are interested in presenting click here.Pecha Kucha Night is presented in partnership with AIGA Pittsburgh. It is devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.
Matt
What happens when architects, designers and artists have six minutes and 40 seconds to present their latest labors of love?
Find out Oct. 25 at Pecha Kucha Night, a new signature program of Design Pittsburgh. Local AIA and AIGA chapters have teamed up to bring the innovative practice that’s sweeping the globe’s design communities to Pittsburgh.
Conceived by Tokyo-based Klein Dytham architecture and named for the Japanese term meaning sound of conversation, Pecha Kucha is a presentation format for sharing creative work with peers and the public.
“Our intention is to work with other professional organizations to cross-fertilize and get this repeated throughout the year,” says Anne Swager, with AIA Pittsburgh, who emphasizes the event’s unjuried nature. “It’s fun to show people’s wide range of talents and what’s going on in their head.”
Among the event’s 16 featured presenters are photographer David Eskenazi, architect Mimi Jong and sculptor Hugh Watkins. Architect Rob Pfaffmann will explore the intersection of urban design and social issues via his strategies for the adaptive reuse of the Mellon Arena site. Architect Hyla Willis will present the work of Chicago-based feminist subRosa cyberart collective, while artist Ryder Henry will share his cardboard models of imagined cityscapes.
“The relaxed dynamic environment promotes networking around design. There are no rehearsals. We don’t want people to feel stifled by the format—when you’re done, you’re done,” adds Rachael Kelley, with AIA, who says the event features a social hour, emcee Dutch MacDonald and a beer break. “Limited time slots keep the energy up. We want Design Pittsburgh to be more collaborative.”
For more information about Pecha Kucha Night, go here.
| October 8, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Wednesday, October 8th
7:00pm.
AIP is located downtown at 420 Boulevard of the Allies. We’ll be in room 440. Take the gold elevator up to the fourth floor. Take your first right and the room will be a few doors down on the left. There may be a security guy at the door - if there is just let him know you are there for the Refresh Pittsburgh meetup.
A HUGE thank-you goes out to our friend Norm Huelsman for offering to host a Refresh meeting at AIP.
We have three presentation on tap for this one:
Michael Fulk is a an interactive developer at Wall to Wall and also does freelance work as Future Designs. He’ll be presenting “Bending the Pipes” - which will give us a crash course on making mashups, feeds and recombining web content with Yahoo Pipes and Dapper.
Next, Olivia Blonde is a web designer at the University of Pittsburgh and previous worked at the Carnegie Libraries where she was responsible for the redesign of the Carnegie Library website. She’ll present “Design Process in a Nutshell”. Each designer - or design group - develops a method for solving problems, then evolves that method over time. While no one person or group may view a problem from the same perspective, general similarities often appear in their approach. Olivia’s presentation will take us from requirements to concepts to design and to handoff.
Finally, Isaac Gierard, a new media developer at Elliance with be showing off a recent project of his, a “CSS Combiner”. Isaac will give a brief introduction to a recently developed open source CSS preprocessor for combining multiple CSS files into on and it’s benefits for website performance.
Also, we’ll be giving away one free pass to the Flashpitt conference taking place the following Friday!
As usual, please RSVP to info@refreshpittsburgh.org so that we have a good idea of our headcount. I’ll make sure to bring the usual cookies and coffee too.
| September 18, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
School of Design Fall 2008 Lecture Series Speakers
Giving Form to Vision: Balancing the Three Disciplines of Leadership, Innovation, & Execution
Stuart Morgan, Director of Industrial Design and Human Factors for Ethicon Endo-Surgery. Thursday, September 18, 8:00pm
Margaret Morrison Breed Hall, on the Carnegie Mellon main campus
For design to play a significant role in the success of an organization, the three disciplines of leadership, innovation, and execution must be active and in balance. Over the past six years, the role of design at Ethicon Endo-Surgery has changed from one of support to one of leadership. Through recent product examples, Morgan’s lecture will outline guiding principles, strategies, processes, methods, and tools employed to deliver significant results to the company, and show the importance of balancing the three disciplines of design.
Morgan is director of Industrial Design and Human Factors for Ethicon Endo-Surgery, a Johnson & Johnson Company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that develops and markets advanced medical devices for minimally invasive and open surgical procedures. He is responsible for product branding and usability in the corporation, including design strategy and user research. He envisioned and led the development of ethnographic research methods and visualization tools, transforming the new product development process within the corporation and establishing usability as a standard of innovation in the surgical device industry. Under his leadership the industrial design and human factors group has moved from support into a leadership role.
http://www.design.cmu.edu/show_news.php?id=187
| August 13, 2008 | ||
| 5:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Please join IXDA Pittsburgh for a summer Happy Hour (half price appetizers and 1$ off drafts, wine and well liquor) and discussion about submitting to the IXDA conference.
Date: Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008
Time: 5:30 - 7 pm
Place: Walnut Grill
5500 Walnut Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
| October 10, 2008 |
FlashPitt 08
Design. Develop. Art. Flash.
On The Fridge LLC & Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group
Date: Friday, October 10, 2008
Time: 9:00am – 6:00pm
Location: Sheraton Station Square Hotel
300W Station Square Drive, Pittsburgh, PA
New Media conference announced for Pittsburgh
Another push for Pittsburgh’s new media and web technologies market: a conference that will bring some of the big names in the national Flash community to the “Steel City” in October.
PITTSBURGH, PA [April 15, 2008] On the Fridge LLC and the Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) announce the first Flash-centric New Media conference for the Pittsburgh area. Flashpitt 2008 will take place on October 10th 2008 at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh. National industry leaders will be present to educate, inspire, and engage the region’s New Media community.
Flashpitt 2008 is for the Pittsburgh region’s designers, artists, students, and developers working with Flash, Flex and AIR. Two tracks of sessions will run from 9am until 6pm. The day will be finished off with an after party full of fun and networking opportunities.
Visit flashpitt.com to sign up for the event notifications mailing list and to be notified when tickets for the event go on sale.
| October 18, 2008 | to | October 19, 2008 |
PodCamp Pittsburgh 3 will take place on October 18 and 19, 2008, with a meet-and-greet the evening of October 17.WHEN: October 18 and 19, 9am to 4pm each dayWHERE: Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 420 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 (map/directions)COST: free! Register on the websitehttp://www.podcamppittsburgh.com/
