October 2010 Videos & Slides
Many thanks to Jay from Unmatched Style for recording our October meetup. Below you will find the videos and slides from each of the 3 talks.
Running with Font Squirrels
Aaron Hall (@llahnoraa) – aaron.im
HTML5 is the Future NOW!
Jason Beaird (@jasongraphix) – jasongraphix.com
iPhone Photography
Nick Kask (@kaskcreativity) – kaskcreativity.com
Free Thinking with Type Lecture
Sorry for the late notice on this, but I just found out that AIGA is hosting a free lecture at USC tonight with Ellen Lupton. Lupton is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and author of the very popular book, Thinking with Type.
For more details, visit AIGA’s event page.
When: October 28th, 2010 – 5:30pm (social) // 6:30pm (lecture)
Where: USC Campus, Room 214 McMaster, Columbia, SC (map)
October 2010 Meetup
This month’s meetup will be frighteningly close to Halloween, so we decided it’d be a treat to dig up and revive a theme from our October 2008 meetup, The Bleeding Edge of the Web. There are lots of scary techniques and technologies haunting our workflows. This gathering will feature a series of lightning talks (10 minutes or less) that highlight new ways to help us escape the web’s haunted past.
We’ll have lots of candy up for grabs at this month’s meetup and our book giveaway will go to the person with the best costume. Costumes are optional of course, but you can’t win if you don’t dress up. If you can’t make it to the meetup, feel free to join us afterwards at Hunter Gatherer. We’ll be headed there for dinner and drinks around 7:30pm.
This Month’s Talks:
Running with Font Squirrels
Aaron Hall (@llahnoraa) – aaron.im
It’s time to kick your Cufon and sIFR habits in the nuts. Aaron is a web designer and front-end developer who loves experimenting with HTML and CSS. For those who aren’t already onboard with @font-face, he’ll explain how to get up-and-running with them quickly using the free resource, Font Squirrel.
Creative Working Spaces Canceled
Larry Thacker (@cre8ordie) – cre8ordie.com
For this talk I’m going to shift focus from sketchbooks to working environments. For creatives, this could range from a traditional desk with bitching dual monitors and a G7 Tower, a table and laptop at Starbucks, to a park bench while working on your iphone. I’m interested in having Refresh members share pictures of their working environments and some of their favorite collaborative spaces around Columbia.
HTML5 is the Future NOW!
Jason Beaird (@jasongraphix) – jasongraphix.com
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard lots of buzz about HTML5. In less than 10 minutes, Jason will explain what HTML5 is, why people are so excited about it and how you can start using it today.
iPhone Photography
Nick Kask (@kaskcreativity) – kaskcreativity.com
Nick Kask is a brand manager and graphic designer, but he’s been taking photos longer than either. Now, with an iPhone in hand, satisfying photography is even more accessible. Using simple apps, Nick creates interesting and styled imagery, uploading them immediately to a tumblr gallery capture the moment. In this talk, Nick will go through basic ideas and the apps that work best to bring iPhone photos to life.
Featured Book:
Thanks to the user group partnerships advertised in the sidebar, we give away a free book at each of our meetups. This month we’ll be giving away a copy of The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries by Denise Jacobs. Instead of giving it away to a random attendee, we’ll vote for and give it to the person with the best costume. If you’d like to win the book, or if you just want to show off your Halloween costume a few days early, be sure to come dressed up.
When: October 27th, 2010 at 6pm
Where: USC Swearingen Faculty Lounge – 301 Main Street (map)
A few people had trouble parking at Swearingen last month. If you can’t find a meter spot around the building, there’s usually plenty of spots along Catawba on the other side of Assembly.
Topic: The Bleeding Edge of the Web 2010
RSVP: On Facebook
Accessibility Summit
The South Carolina Assistive Technology Program and the SC Assistive Technology Advisory Committee have sponsored a free showing of the Accessibility Summit presented by Environments for Humans on Thursday, September 30th.
This all-day online training event will be presented in the Peeples Auditorium at 2600 Bull St and will feature the following talks from some of the web’s foremost accessibility experts:
- 9:00 a.m. – Christopher Schmitt: “Accessibility & HTML5”
- 10:00 a.m. – Aaron Gustafson: “Progressive Enhancement with ARIA”
- 11:00 a.m. – Jared Smith: “Accessibility & Compatibility”
- 12:00 p.m. – Marla Erwin: “Accessible CSS”
- 1:00 p.m. – Lunch Break
- 1:30 p.m. – Glenda Sims: “Practical Accessibility Testing”
- 2:30 p.m. – Daniel Hubbell: “Future Trends in Accessibility”
- 3:30 p.m. – Derek Featherstone: “Mobile Accessibility”
- 4:30 p.m. – Matt May: “Is Universal Design Still Possible?”
You may attend as many (or all) of the talks you like, but space is limited for this free event. Visit SCATP’s 2010 Training page for details on how to register.
September 2010 Meetup
This month’s Refresh meetup is on Sept 23rd, now that’s a Thursday instead of our customary Wednesday. We’re still in our usual place, the faculty lounge of USC’s Swearingen Engineering Building and we’ll start at 6pm like always.
This month features an evening of design talks from the crew behind unmatchedstyle.com. You know us already, but be the first to experience our new series of talks that we’ll be taking on the road. You can be our beta-testers. As friends and peers in our community, you can provide valuable feedback, so please join us.
This Month’s Talks:
Jay Barry (@petridisc)
Craftsmanship and Code
Jay will talk about the way professionalism, ethics and standards relate to design and front end development and how new technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 facilitate simple, meaningful code.
Gene Crawford (@genecrawford)
Microcopy & Web Design
What is Microcopy, why should you care as a designer and how it can add up into more conversions and love from your clients, plus examples of really great microcopy.
Giovanni DiFeterici (@giodif)
A Button By Any Other Name
Symbolic Imagery in Interface Design. A discussion about the inherent symbolic nature of UI elements, how people interact with them in relation to their real world analogs and how to build a description of an element’s function into its visual presentation.
Featured Book:
Thanks to the user group partnerships advertised in the sidebar, we give away a free book at each of our meetups. This month we’ll be giving away the third edition of Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing with Web Standards. We’ll choose a random attendee from the sign-in list, so be sure to show up and sign-in for a chance to win.
When: September 23rd, 2010 at 6pm
Where: USC Swearingen Faculty Lounge – 301 Main Street (map)
Topic: Design Talks from unmatchedstyle.com
RSVP: On Facebook
