Luke Wroblewski

Luke Wroblewski is a Web strategist, designer, and author. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy he founded in 1996. Luke has authored a book on Web interface design principles entitled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability, as well as numerous articles on design methodologies, strategies and applications. He is also frequent presenter on topics related to Web strategy and design, and a former member of the board of directors of the Interaction Design Association. Here, the hardest working man in web design shares his insight into the most important topics in the field today… Read the rest of this entry »

Be sure and swing by Graphic Define Online Magazine! (Issue #2 was just released from our friend Dan Schutzsmith). Of special note, the featured article for Issue 2, On Staying Creative by D. Keith Robinson.
Also on deck, some familiar faces, including Emily Cohen, Eric Karjaluoto and Ilise Benun.

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Emily Cohen, Doyenne of the Creative Brief

Emily is a creative consultant with an expertise in the creative development process. Emily has spoken at: How’s “InHOWse” Design Conference, AIGA/Chicago, (Discussion Panel: “The Path to Profitable Growth”), Apple Store in New York City, (Presentation: “Winning Strategies for Creative Professionals.”

Q: What issues do creative professionals face over and over again? Can you recommend any alleviation for these issues?

Emily: While I find designers incredibly smart, many often have little or no experience running and managing a business or a creative services department. They often leap before planning in many areas of their business, from how they market their firm to their hiring strategies. This organic growth strategy ultimately has its limitations. At some point, designers realize they want more from their business: higher fees, better clients, more respect, and more staff. This is when the common issues become apparent: How can I charge more money? Read the rest of this entry »

A New T-Shirt Design Competition has just been launched by Allmightys.com

The Theme: Monsters and Mayhem
Submission Deadline: 30th May 2007, 11pm GMT
Winners Announced: 12th June 2007

DETAILS

It’s official…the 2007 International Davey Awards Call for Entries was just recently launched.
They’re looking for the best of the best in smaller firms and companies worldwide. Focusing on creativity, the Davey Awards honors smaller agencies that often do the best work but rarely get their fair share of accolades.

With the introduction of an online entry system and the inclusion of additional categories exclusively for Integrated Campaigns, this year’s Davey Awards is going to be bigger, better, and brighter than ever.

* Early Entry Deadline June 8th

DETAILS:

Attention CG animators: you’re invited to participate in the first international FJORG! competition – an animator event being launched at SIGGRAPH 2007.

Competing teams will be called on to try to create the best character-driven animation the world has ever seen, within a limited window of 32 straight hours, while overcoming multiple staged distractions in a test of skill, talent, creativity, and physical endurance.

* There’s a small entrance fee, click here for DETAILS

Designers who are interested in learning more about sustainable practice, can join the fight and take a pledge to work toward a greener future at a new online resource, Design Can Change, created by our friends at smashLAB.

To find out how you can make a difference, click here

Lew Baldwin

Lew Baldwin is a creative art director for web, film, sound, broadcast and motion graphic design projects. He works out of his Los Angeles-based studio team agency, which just recently located from New York.

Lew recently shot and directed a series of video for Nike Soccer, including a music video starring Clint Dempsey from the U.S. National Team. He is also a musician and created the musical score for the Sony feature film “November” (sonyclassics.com/November) starring Courteney Cox.
He has exhibited artwork at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Foundation Polar in Caracas, Venezuela and is recognized internationally for his videos, visual art and installations.

Lew currently resides in Los Angeles.

Margaret Penney has known much of Lew’s work since he launched one of the first online interactive narrative art projects at Redsmoke.com.  Lew’s style is distinctive, as it moves across a variety of mediums from new media to film, television, theater, and music.

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Andrew Clemente, Creator of Devlounge.net

Andrew Clemente is an award-winning site designer / developer and creator of Devlounge.net, a well-known design and developer resource. Devlounge provides original content covering web design standard and usability. Most people that have been in design and development for 7 years are not in high school, but Andrew is. He is 17 years old. We had to talk with Andrew to find out how he founded a successful design resource site with a larger international following before he moved away from home.

Devlounge – Homepage

Q: Andrew, I recently heard that one of your “first-ever” design projects was when you created a site close to 7 years ago for your Little League team in 2000. Can you tell us a bit about the project? (How long did it take? Is the site still up? Was this when you first started thinking about design as a “career”)?

Andrew: The site (if you can call it that) was nothing amazing. I had created a Homestead account (free at the time) and laid out a site using a WYSIWYG editor and various images from around the web. At the time I was so young and I didn’t even think what I had just figured out would be worth something some day. I was really just a kid having fun.

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I just read a great interview with illustrator/animator Kao Lee Thao.

Kao mentions that the one theme that resonates in her work is the swirl, ‘…the swirl is a symbol of proportional perfection but what I’m drawn to more is the visual appearance of having no beginning or end is could easily travel on forever. A swirl has an underlying energy that dissipates from the central origin and reaches out to the viewer.

Check out Kao Lee Thao’s swirls as she gets ready to launch her personal website soon at www.innerswirl.com.