GDC/BC Chapter presents the Perspectives, Opportunities, Guidance and Open-Learning (POGO) Conference.
All the events included in this day long event provide an unparalleled opportunity for design professionals, students and design newcomers to learn, connect, guide and inspire each others creative thinking. Developed with this experience in mind, the conference includes design exhibits, a creative workshop, portfolio critique and studio tours. It’s also a great opportunity to network!
WHEN: Saturday, May 10th, 2008
WHERE: Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver BC
INFO & TICKETS: bc.gdc.net/pogo/
Our friends over at Siggraph are turning 5 soon and celebrating by bringing in Syd Mead. Don’t know the name? Think Blade Runner, Aliens, Star Wars and Tron. Not only is Syd going to speak but there’s going to be a special screening of Blade Runner. Visit the Siggraph site to find out ticket info.
Adobe launches InDesign User Group (IDUG) in Vancouver!
The Vancouver InDesign User Group chapter is now official! Vancouver’s creatives now have a vehicle through which to share ideas, learn advanced techniques and technologies, network, and stay ahead of the curve.
Adobe is pleased to invite you to our inaugural meeting on April 23. Please join us as we welcome Adobe’s Sebastian Distefano, who will treat us to his vast InDesign knowledge. Details below.
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Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH presents:
DROIDMAKER: GEORGE LUCAS &
THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
with Michael Rubin & Dr. Alvy Ray Smith
When: Wednesday, April 16 2008
6:30 pm: Have a drink, socialize and get your book signed!
7:30 pm: Main Presentation
Location: Vancouver International Film Centre, 1181 Seymour St (See Map)
Cost: Members: $10 / Non-members: $20 / Groups (10+): $15 (online only)
For more information and ticket reservation, visit: www.siggraph.ca
[Image Courtesy of Lucasfilm Ltd.]
CAPIC Vancouver Chapter is proud to present this seminar featuring Adobe Photoshop Lightroom with Sebastian Distefano of Adobe.You’ll learn how to use Lightroom to import, manage, adjust, and present large volumes of digital photographs, and use Photoshop to more thoroughly refine individual images. Together, Photoshop Lightroom and Photoshop work the way the digital photographer works, letting you efficiently and seamlessly process all of your digital images.
- March 26
- Doors Open: 7:00pm
- Starts 7:30pm
- Location: Pacific Palisades Hotel1277 Robson StreetVancouver, BCV6E 1C4
- www.capic.org
The ShindigWelcome the spring with the annual NABS-West Shindig industry party!Games, prizes, food and drinks, all happening this year at Library Square. Buy your tickets early and get a chance to win some awesome prizes from Best Buy. COST: $12 Advance – $17 DoorDATE: Thursday, April 10, 2008TIME: 5:30PMPLACE: Library Square 6101 – 300 Georgia StreetWEB: www.theshindig.com
217 Miles from MoTown:
Tim Inkster @ The Porcupine’s Quill, 1974-2008
Tim Inkster, a member of The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada and one of the faces behind The Porcupine’s Quill, will give an amusing and enlightening illustrated ‘memoir’ of his life at the noted and notable Erin, Ontario, press. Inkster is making a rare appearance in Vancouver as one of three judges at the 26th annual Alcuin Society Book Design Competition. Sometimes described as a `hot house’ for the development of Canadian literary talent, The Porcupine’s Quill has also been compared (inaccurately, by one misinformed Heritage Canada consultant) to MoTown Records (whose Head Office on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan is 217 miles from Erin in distance, and considerably further in just about every other conceivable way).
COST: FREE to the public
DATE: Thursday, April 3, 2008
TIME: 7:00 - 9:00PM
PLACE: The Vancouver Museum — Joyce Walley Learning Centre
1100 Chestnut St., Vancouver. BC
RESERVATIONS: contact Leah Gordon (604) 732-5403 or awards@alcuinsociety.com
Tim Inkster is a member of the Graphic Designers of Canada, and has been active within the Literary Press Group and the Association of Canadian Publishers . He was also heavily involved in a variety of roles with the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival for more than ten years, including one term as president. He managed the Upper Canada Brewing Company Writers’ Craft Award the year the prize was awarded to Alice Munro.
As well as winning numerous national and international awards himself (including many, over several years, from The Alcuin Society), in September of 2003 he received the Sixth Annual Janice Handford award which honours `an individual who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of small press publishing in this country’. In October, 2005 he was a featured guest speaker at the Sixth Annual Gaspereau Press Wayzgoose in Kentville, NS.
Co-sponsored by The Vancouver Museum and The Alcuin Society.
