House of Wonder

About this Session:

We’ll take a look at HTML 5 and CSS 3 in an interactive group discussion format. The goal of this event is to discuss what’s new and interesting about HTML 5 and CSS 3, to highlight what can be used now, and show you some of the best strategies to get the most from the next generation of markup and style.

Here is an outline of what we intend to cover. This is a lot of content to cover in a short period of time. If you RSVP, please feel free to comment and let us know what you’re most interested in.

HTML5

• New DTD
• Code standards are a bit different than XHTML
• New tags: aside, article, header, footer, nav, time
• video and audio, video captioning
• canvas
• forms: search, default values, validation (required), autofocus, etc…
• Accessibility issues in canvas and video
• native drag and drop
• local storage (at cache?)
• target=”_blank” is valid once again
• solving the IE issue
• Building a blog with HTML5
• Building a contact form with HTML5
• Geolocation API is not in HTML5, but it is damn cool

 
CSS3

• border-radius
• box-shadow
• rgba (CSS3 color module – Red, Green, Blue, Alpha)
• hue saturation and lightness
• opacity
• text-shadow
• gradients
• transitions, and transforms
• font embedding – @font-face
• styling valid/invalid form input (:valid, :invalid)
• border-image
• media queries: resolution, aspect ratio, monochromatic color, device width/height, etc.
• new selectors: :last-child, :nth-child, attribute selectors
• multiple background images
• multi-column layout module
• 3D transforms
• CSS animations module

NOTE: We will provide pizza and drinks at no extra cost to attendees.

Location: Octane Coffee Bar & Lounge
Date: Tue, Aug 25
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Members: Free / Student Members: Free
Non-Members: Free

Location: The Plaza Theater
Date: Wed, Aug 19
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Members: $5, 8 at door / Student Members: Free, $5 at door
Non-Members: $8,10 at door

This was my second AIGA event at Zoo Atlanta, a place I now know to be THE ZOO in Atlanta. Perhaps I am wrong. Anyone reading this, please set me straight, otherwise. Like the Sagmeister event, I stopped at the Neighborhood Bar just north of Grant Park. It was, like before, the magnet for the hipsters with their brats. It’s annoying to be there since I’m like the lone wolf just trying to get a little buzz on and the young parents are eyeing me like I’m there to abduct their child. I mean, come on, it’s a BAR. I’m over this quickly, though I’m aware of the parents disquiet when one of their kids gets too close. I’m reading Wired magazine…I could see if it was Playboy or Hustler…
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The Stefan Sagmeister event was held at Zoo Atlanta. As a noob to the ATL, I wasn’t sure if this was the Atlanta zoo or some other place just given the name of zoo. There are morning zoos, etc. Perhaps the name referenced some other place, like an estuary. I wasn’t sure so I googled it. I discovered that Zoo Atlanta was located in Grant Park and the exact location I was looking for the Coca-Cola Amphitheatre was here as well. I had asked some folks at work, mentioning the Coca-Cola name and I drew blank stares. Perhaps I am an idiot, I thought to myself. As someone who is involved in the industry of branding I wonder whether it’s getting to be confusing. Names change…I went to see Radiohead at the Lakewood Amphitheater. When I mentioned it to ATL locals they said, “Oh yeah, that’s at Hi-Fi Buys.” “No, my ticket says, ‘Lakewood Amphitheater.” “No, that is Hi-Fi Buys…you’ll see when you get there.” Sure enough, the exit signs off the interstate were labeled, “Hi-Fi Buys”, and not, “Lakewood Amphitheater.” Well, whatever. I made it to the show. I could not care less the name of the joint.
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Voices That Matter Conference: Web Design 2008

Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Nasville, TN
June 10-13, 2008

Inspire ‘08 Motion Graphics Symposium @ Savannah College of Art & Design. Check the site for registration fees and schedule of events.

AIGA_ATL – Big Night!

The Foundry at Puritan Mill is located at:
916 Lowery Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30318

Stefan Sagmeister: <i>Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far</i>, AIGA_ATL, 4.23.08

I’m pretty excited about this event. I’ve been a fan of Sagmeister’s work since I first saw it. Check it out.

Location: Zoo Atlanta: The Coca Cola World Studio
Date: Wed, Apr 23
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Members: 20.00 / Student Members: 15.00
Non-Members: 40.00

This was a great AIGA event sponsored by Mohawk and Mac Papers. It was held at the Mac Papers Creative Design Center a great place to find not only Mohawk paper but a lot of others as well. As a newcomer to Atlanta, these events are a great way to meet and network with people in the design community. I also learn to find my way around Atlanta! I’m still not used to the SW and NW streets with identical names…
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Interested in Adobe Flex and Air technologies? Better check out this conference…

www.360flex.com

$480…but consider that for the noobs a Sunday all day Flex 101 session is included! You need skills to pay the billz…

Wow. This was a great presentation by Adobe Director of Platform Evangelism, Ben Forta. Flex 3 is about to be released publicly and Adobe has gone to great lengths worldwide to promote it and it’s sister product, Air, a new app that works as a desktop application connected to remote servers. Air is something like the Flash player that installs on your machine locally and can accept content locally or remotely. There are already some examples on the Adobe Air pages.

The Flex 3 Builder has until now been available to the public as a beta application. Considering this tour Adobe’s Flex 3 Builder product should be out in a matter of months if not sooner. Also worth checking out are Eclipse and Aptana.

Reagan and I have officially taken up residence in Marietta, GA. Actually, we’ve been here since the 19th of December…almost 2 weeks. Finally got the computers unpacked after a long and unnecessary delay by Comcast. Now it’s time to get back to work!

I’ve added a few web sites to my portfolio page. I plan to continue developing my online portfolio over the next few days and maybe weeks. Some new projects may see the light of day as time allows.

I’m still in the market for work here in Atlanta, so if you like what you see and need someone full time, part time or on a freelance basis, send me a line!

My wife and I are moving to Atlanta…just in time to avoid the Cleveland winter! Anyway, I’m officially in the market for a job doing Graphic Design or Web Design. I’ll be in Atlanta November 19, 20 and 21 for a visit, then permanently in Atlanta December 20th. As you can see, I put my AIGA badge up in the sidebar. Also, a much more extensive portfolio is located here.

I’ve been working at Cleveland.com doing graphic design and web production for the past 19 months. Cleveland.com is the online home of Cleveland’s daily newspaper, The Plain Dealer, and Northeast Ohio’s community newspaper organization The Sun News. I’ve also been busy with my own projects—like this website—implementing CSS and learning PHP, working with feeds and database content. I’m also a print designer and I know a little Flash. It’s fun stuff!

Don’t let this opportunity to hire a great asset to your team get away! I expect to be overwhelmed with offers so make your offer early and make it good! Contact me.

Download my resume here.

Found this nice little font while reading about RSS feeds on the Wordpress site. Silkscreen is a good font for small text and it is available for Mac, Windoze and Linux. The best part is that it is free to use! (Silkscreen created by Jason Kottke…thanks Jason!)