Tuesday marked the launch of the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Presented by Nokia, The People’s Voice Awards invite the public to participate in The Webby Awards by allowing them to vote for their favorite nominees. People’s Voice Winners receive special recognition at the end of voting. Anyone can vote online between now and May 1st, so make sure to lobby for your favorites along the way.
Also, the Nominees and Official Honorees for the 12th Annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday. Nominees have been selected by The Academy from a record nearly 10,000 entries representing all 50 states and 60 countries worldwide. Webby Winners and Webby People’s Voice Winners — announced on May 6, 2008 — will be chosen from the five Nominees in each category, announced today. Official Honorees, chosen for an outstanding caliber of work, make up fewer than 15% of the total entries. Congratulations to both Nominees and Official Honorees on a truly deserving accomplishment.
Karim Rashid - one of the world’s most prolific and successful designers - has just announced he will be joining the GRAVITY FREE: 2008 speaker program, May 12-14 in Chicago. Karim is one of the highest rated speakers from GRAVITY FREE:2007 and he returns with new projects and new ideas. The title of his new book “I Want to Change the World” captures it all. Hear his talk, join his roundtable, share refreshments over ideas and one-on-one dialogue in a personal setting not available in any other design conference! Register today and bring a colleague as a VIP guest at no additional cost. But act quickly, this is a matching grant offer made by our generous sponsors and is fulfilled on a first come-first serve basis. When it’s done, it’s done.
Register for GRAVITY FREE online at: www.gravityfree2008.com. Once you’ve completed your registration, they’ll send you a VIP complimentary registration link for you to pass along to your guest (yes - bring a guest for free - or split the tab!).
April 19 - 22, 2008, Toronto Hilton, Toronto, Canada
Break your tools. Break your patterns. Break the norm. Break the standards.
Toronto, Canada [March 5, 2008] — Having just concluded a sold-out event in Amsterdam, FITC returns to Toronto, Canada for FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival. Scheduled for April 19 - 22, 2008 at the Toronto Hilton, FITC Toronto is the largest event of its kind in Canada and a highlight of the international conference circuit with over 1,000 attendees from more than 15 countries.
FITC Toronto is where the world’s top designers and developers come together to share their insights and expertise across three subject areas: creative, technical and business. Sessions cover all aspects of the creative process, explore the latest developments in rich media technology, and provide insight into the ups and downs of running an Interactive business.
“The theme this year is about pushing the limits,” says Shawn Pucknell, Founder and Executive Producer of FITC Toronto. “We want delegates to walk away from the festival with new ideas, new skills, new contacts, and a new sense of purpose about their work.”
New to this year’s program is the FITC “Get-A-Job” event, which takes place Saturday, April 19th at the Toronto Hilton. The Get-A-Job event is open to the general public (no festival pass required) and is organized to connect up-and-coming designers and developers with top Interactive agencies and technology companies. For more information, go to http://www.fitc.ca/getajob.
This is the 7th year for the three-day festival, which also includes a kick-ass Awards show, a speakers’ series devoted to experimental art and programming, a large scale interactive art exhibit as well as some very cool parties.
SAN ANTONIO–February 6, 2008–MyToons.com, the premier online animation community, today announced that it has inked a deal with video site YouTube to showcase the creative work of thousands of animators on the new MyToons branded YouTube channel.
Launched last March at the prestigious SouthXSouthwest Festival in Austin, Texas, MyToons.com provides a global platform for animators to design and share their original animated videos, cartoons, and other content with animators and animation enthusiasts throughout the world.
“We have thousands of animators utilizing our free upload and streaming system to broadcast their work to the world,” said Paul Ford, co-founder and president of MyToons.com. “Our new channel with YouTube provides tremendous new exposure for our artists and enhances our ability to extend the MyToons brand, as well as to reach a broader consumer base with which to share high quality original animations.”
MyToons.com, dedicated to “everything animated,” offers both professional and amateur animators a platform to reach a world-wide web of talented animators, industry specialists and fans alike.
“YouTube is an important step on the road to much wider distribution for MyToons and our animation community members”,” said Ford. “We’re always focused on providing additional enhancements to give our animators even greater exposure.”
MyToons further supports the animation community through contests and events, as well as sponsorships. This week MyToons is a Silver Sponsor of the International Animated Film Society’s (ASIFA) 35th Annual Annie Awards, which will take place on Friday, February 8, at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The Annual Annie Awards recognizes the highest honors awarded for excellence in animation. ASIFA was founded by a group of professional animators in 1957 and encourages the preservation and extension of the art of animation, which mirrors MyToons’ philosophy and mission.
About MyToons
Based in San Antonio, MyToons.com was established in 2006 as an online resource and entertainment destination for professional and student animators, industry executives, artists and fans. Founded by industry leaders Paul Ford, Dan Kraus and Stacey Ford, MyToons.com is currently aligning with content creators and well-known industry personalities to provide the highest quality and best variety of online content and services for MyToons.com.
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About YouTube
YouTube is the world’s most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. YouTube, LLC is based in San Bruno, Calif., and is a subsidiary of Google Inc.
Creating Icons is No Longer A Baffling Ordeal With New Perfect Toolbar Icons
Aha-Soft today announces the immediate availability of Perfect Toolbar Icons, a set of stock icons to trim the interface of any desktop or web application.
No doubt any e-company wants to add some color to the means of its representation: programs, websites or even documents in order to make them distinctive and eye-catching. The simplest way to do so is to decorate the front-end of a product - in this case we start with icons. Creating professional and stylish icons is no easy task and requires talent, skills in design and days and sometimes even weeks of work. Fortunately, with the set of newest icons from Aha-Soft, creating a nice interface for desktop and web applications will no longer be a headache.
Perfect Toolbar Icons delivers the newest eye-catching and most distinctive icons that provide designers with the cost-effective “specimens” for their work, relieving them of the burdensome task of creating icons. All the icons are available for viewing and downloading and can be purchased either individually or in sets. It is possible to order custom icons of your individual design. The icons are available in the following sizes: 16*16, 20*20, 24*24, 32*32, 48*48 and formats: PNG, BMP, GIF and ICO. They also come in two variants: for websites and the old Windows versions and in 32-bit True Color format for Windows XP and Vista.
Aha-Soft offers a flexible purchasing policy. When purchased individually, each icon costs $4 (USD). You are welcome to contact Aha-Soft with the names of the icons you would like to purchase, and the order will be processed immediately. Moreover, a collection of icons with only some of the available sizes can be ordered. In this case you will get a discount off the usual price. Minimum purchase is 2 icons. More information on the icon set can be found at http://perfecticon.com/stock-icons/perfect-toolbar-icons.htm.
About Aha-Soft
Founded in 2000, Aha-Soft is an Information Technology company specializing in professional icon and cursor design and management software. Aha-Soft is the author of such popular tools as AhaView, Any to Icon, Icon to Any, ArtCursors, ArtIcons, ArtIcons Pro, IconLover, IconUtils and IconXP. If you would like to get a comment, request a reviewer copy, have a businesses proposal, want to become an authorized reseller or have any other inquiry, please visit the company’s web site at www.aha-soft.com.
The WebGuild today announced their second annual WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference and Expo to be held on Tuesday, 29 January 2008 from 11 AM to 5 PM at the Santa Clara Marriot. This year’s WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference and Expo is geared towards entrepreneurs, startups and web professionals that want to learn the most up-to-date, industry best business practices for Web 2.0 companies. The event features keynotes, panels, expo, awards, networking sessions, reception, music, food and drinks.
The event’s five tracks will include Web 2.0 industry experts speaking on the new economics of web startups, funding, partnerships, public relations, overcoming legal issues and exit strategies. Attendees will learn from industry experts and thought leaders, connect with the companies changing the rules of the game and those redefining the future. Read the rest of this entry »
Hallmark Cards, Inc., today announces America voted Erin McGuire - a Sarasota, Fla., design student - the best of the best, beating nine other finalists to be named the Grand Prize winner in the company’s national card competition. McGuire’s design features a girl handing a card to a bird to enable the card’s delivery. The colorful, whimsical design garnered more attention than she suspected.
The 10 finalists received $250, with Hallmark matching that amount in a contribution to the Global Fund. Their designs
also were made into actual Hallmark cards currently for sale on http://www.Hallmark.com/you through the end of February. McGuire’s card will be sold on http://www.Hallmark.com/you through the end of the year. Just like the entire Hallmark (PRODUCT) RED collection, 8 percent of net wholesale sales of these cards will go to the Global Fund. As the Grand Prize winner, Erin received an additional $2,250, with Hallmark matching it in a contribution to the Global Fund.
Thanks to Amy at Geek Parenting for showing the way (along with her pet horse, Butterscotch). Pleo is an interactive toy that incorporates Open Source technology. That alone is something to roar about…
Web Handling and Converting for printers teaches the must-know areas of web handling including tension control, nips, roller design, spreading and wrinkling. In addition to important converting related topics such as slitting and winding, the seminar also covers the physics of how web machinery operates. Though theory is included, emphasis is placed on practical problem solving techniques for the plant engineer. This popular and informative course has been attended by more than 1,600 students. Anyone working with web machinery can benefit from this unique course. This includes product/process designers, process engineers, QA, sales/service, maintenance and lead operators. The physics of web handling are applicable to any of the web industries including paper, film, metals, nonwovens and textiles. The course is vital to manufacturers and converters of web products and also to machine builders, component suppliers and material suppliers. For full details and to register, go to Seminars for Engineers.
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FWA recently opened the voting for its People’s Choice Award 2007, sponsored by Adobe. Go vote! Get in practice for this year’s elections! Voting ends 14 January at 12pm GMT. Unique votes only are counted. Winner will be announced on 15 January 2008.
As for other news, according to Robert Ford, FWA’s Principal, the new FWA Web site is in the works. The new site hopefully will provide visitors with the chance to communicate with each other, making FWA “THE hub for interactive industry.” Looking forward to that, mate!
Tuesday marked the launch of the Webby People’s Voice Awards. Presented by Nokia, The People’s Voice Awards invite the public to participate in The Webby Awards by allowing them to vote for their favorite nominees. People’s Voice Winners receive special recognition at the end of voting. Anyone can vote online between now and May 1st, so make sure to lobby for your favorites along the way.
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