The Lineup:

Every Designer’s Nightmare: Fear of the Blank Page

Jennifer McSwain (@jenmac24)
Jennifer will talk about finding inspiration to keep your work fresh, innovative and satisfying.

Sign Up Form Design

Gene Crawford (@genecrawford)
Gene will cover some basics behind the sign up form: psychology, patterns & design review.

What the @font-face

Jay Barry (@petridisc)
Jay gives us practical steps for using @font-face today.

YQL: Query the Web

Justin Shearer (@justinsane98)
Justin will give us a quick walk through of how to grab RSS feeds and other types of data for display on your site without using any server-side code.

The Care and Feeding of a Developer

Jason Johnson (@jason_johnson)
Jason will show us how to keep your developers challenged, focused and happy.

Featured Book:

Thanks to the user group partnerships advertised in the sidebar, we’ll be giving away a free book each month. This month we’ll be giving away a copy of Microformats Made Simple by Emily Lewis. We’ll choose a random attendee from the sign-in sheet, so be sure to show up and sign-in for a chance to win.

When: February 24th, 2010 at 6pm
Where: USC Swearingen Faculty Lounge – 301 Main Street (map)
Topic: Lightning Talks!
RSVP: On Facebook

When: January 30th, 2010
Where: USC Swearingen Bldg – 301 Main Street, Columbia, SC (map)
Cost: Free!

http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2009

If you haven’t RSVPd via the Facebook Event page, please do that so we have an idea how many people to expect. Happy Holidays!

When: December 8th, 2009 at 6pm
Where: Delaney’s Five Points (map)
Topic: Holiday Game Night
RSVP: On Facebook

• Visual Designer (path & pixel ninja)
• Flash/ActionScript Guru
• Customer Support Specialist (HTML and CSS wizard)

Visit http://www.coffeecup.com/jobs/ for more info.

When: January 8-9th, 2010
Where: ATDC 75 5th Street NW, Suite 202, Atlanta, GA 30308 (map)
Cost: $45 ($35 Earlybird – till Dec 13th)

“Augusta Developers Guild will hold its inaugural Code Camp on November 7th. It will be a day full of free developer content, regional and nationally known speakers, enough breakfast and lunch to keep us energized, some solid SWAG* to ice the cake, and a social get together after the event.”

When: Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Where: Augusta State University
2500 Walton Way
Augusta, GA 30904
Details: http://augustacodecamp.org

Presentation Slides:

• Automated Website Testing – Matt Hooper
• Developing Socially (Facebook Platform) – Jimmy Sawczuk

Thanks to our speakers and to everyone who came out for making this another great meetup. Look forward to seeing you all again on October 28th!

InShow15 | Call-for-Entries

Entry Drop-offs

It’s that time of year again, time for AIGA South Carolina’s annual juried competition that celebrates the best South Carolina has to offer in Print, Interactive, Broadcast and Student Creative. So that means it’s also time for the InShow 15 “Call-for-Entries.” This year AIGA South Carolina will hold drop-off locations for InShow entries on Tuesday, 9/22/09 in Columbia, Charleston and Greenville, from 5-7pm. Entries will also be accepted via US Mail to: 701 Gervais Street, Suite 150-162, Columbia, SC 29201 until Friday, 9/25/09 until 3:00 pm*.

(*Note: If you are unable to make the drop-off deadlines on 9/22/09, AIGA SC will wave all late fees for entries, due to the InShow “Call-for-entries” mailer being delayed in the mail. However, all entries must be received via mail no later than Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:00 pm, EST.)

Drop-offs Locations:

All locations: 9/22/09 5:00pm-7:00pm

Columbia: George Fulton Studios, 1224 Huger Street

Charleston: Charleston Beer Works, 468 King Street

Greenville: Blue Ridge Brewing Company, 217 N. Main Street

InShow Competition Details

For details on categories, instructions and InShow15 form downloads, go to: http://www.inshow-o-rama.com

New for 2009

In celebration of InShow’s 15th Anniversary, we are introducing a very special offer for this year only! For every five paid entries, you will receive one entry totally FREE! So every sixth entry is free! There are no limits to this offer and it is good for both members and non-members as well as all student entries.

InShow15 | Judges Lecture

Thursday, September 24, 2009

On Thursday, September 24, 2009, AIGA South Carolina welcomes Frank Chimero, of www.frankchimero.com, and one of the three judges for InShow15, to join us for a “judges lecture” at USC School of Art at the McMaster Building.

Frank teaches design and typography at Missouri State University. He also frequently contributes his writing and illustrations to Thinking for a Living. Chimero’s fascination with the creative process, curiosity, and visual experience informs all of his work. Each piece is the part of an exploration in finding wit, surprise, honesty and joy in the world around us. For Frank, the work is play, and the play is work. His clients include: The New York Times, Business Week, Starbucks, Fast Company, American Airlines, Edizioni Corraini Press, and Good Magazine.

When: Thursday, September 24, 2009

Where: USC McMaster, Room 214

Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm Social hour; 6:45pm-7:45pm lecture

This event is our will be a FREE event, so bring a friend and learn more about becoming a part of AIGA South Carolina!

The Presentations:

37 (or so) Tips for Becoming a Better Web Designer

Jay Barry – Period Three & Unmatched Style

Small little nuggets of wisdom that can help anyone become a better designer.

Type that Doesn’t Suck

Jennifer Mcswain – ADCO

A case study of type on the web and beyond.

Quick Website Self-Defense Tips for Search Engine Visibility

Gene Crawford – Period Three & Unmatched Style

A jam packed overview of Search Engine Visibility and Tips on being findable on Google.

Playing with JQuery

Jason Beaird – Cyberwoven

jQuery is fun! No, really it is! Jason will share some code examples and explain how anyone can pick up jQuery: the write less, do more, JavaScript library.

When: May 28^th, 2009 at 6pm
Where: RC Main Library (map) Bostick Auditorium
Topic: Tips, Type, Findability & jQuery