Events, Competitions, Awards Roundup! – May 09

Travis

And now for something completely different (and no, I don’t mean a man with three buttocks). With the new changes coming to Creattica, I’ve been busy rounding up a delicious list of all that is sweet in the world of events, competitions, and awards.

If I’ve missed one, let me know and I’ll try and snag it for June!

Interaction Design 101: Three-Day Immersion

Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini will be running a three-day tutorial on the basic principles of effective interaction design and how to apply them in the real world.

Price: £509 / day

May 17-22

London UK

Max Design CSS and Accessibility

This all new accessibility workshop focuses on providing practical advice to help developers and organisations comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0.

Price: AUD$450.00 / day

Starts May 18 in Sydney

Various Locations in Australia

UX Intensive

This four-day workshop series is for experienced professionals wanting to take their practice to the next level. It will examine the key elements that contribute to a successful interactive experience: Design Strategy, Design Research, Interaction Design and Information Architecture.

Price: $895 / day

May 11-14

Berlin

Everybody Dance Now: 20 Years of Dancing in Print

The exhibition features performing arts magazines Dance Ink and 2wice, historic collaborations with dancers, choreographers,’ and photographers, the result of a single, powerful idea of creating performances within the unique “stage” of the printed page.

Price: FREE

April 2–May 22

New York

Cocktails with Creatives

Each month AIGA Minnesota hosts a mixer event at various bars and restaurants around the Twin Cities. This event is a great networking and social opportunity so bring your business cards and your ideas! Members and non-members alike are welcome.

Price: FREE

May 7

Minneapolis, MN

Edward Badham Photography Open House

Join AIGA Birmingham & Edward Badham Photography for an Open House Carnival. Have fun on the rock climbing wall, make photos with photobooth, duel on the wii or play pool. Lots of fun, food and drinks to go around.

Price: FREE

May 7

Birmingham, AL

Case Awards 2009: Call For Entries

Join AIGA Nashville for the first annual Case Awards, celebrating and rewarding effective visual communication in the Nashville Area. This is your chance to be counted among the best local talent in this competition showcasing identity, print, web & interactive, motion, photography, & illustration works.

Price: $30.00 / entry

Deadline: May 8, 2009

Nashville, TN

Kathy McCoy: Swiss Design Comes to America

Kathy McCoy presents a lecture about the origins of Swiss style graphic design in America. This event is produced by the Kansas City Art Institute.

Price: FREE

May 14

Kansas City, MO

Workin’ In the LAB: 21st Century Color Correction with Pete Rivard

In this seminar, you will be introduced to LAB color mode and its benefits, gain a better understanding why color looks as it does on your display, learn how to best predict the print outcome before any budget is spent proofing, walk away with some tips on simple and highly effective image adjustments and alterations that can be done without sacrificing the color integrity of the original.

Price: FREE

May 14

Minneapolis, MN

Creative Coffee

Originally intended for those who work or live in the Downtown Scottsdale area, Creative Coffee is open to all creative people who want to wind down the day with a few other interesting and sympathetic folk…

Price: FREE

May 26

Scottsdale, AZ

Nashville BuzZ: The Business of Design

Often overlooked by creatives is workplace ergonomics. And it is too late once we are have an ergonomic related injury. Join April Vance at our May BuzZ event as she defines workplace conditions, discusses the benefits of an ergonomic program, identifying risk factors and controlling strategies to minimize risk.

Price: FREE

May 29

Nashville, TN

Gourmet Typography Training

Take control of your type instead of letting it control you! Gourmet Typography Training teaches the typographic skills and aesthetics rarely taught or fully understood by professionals. Learn how to “see” like you’ve never seen before. Gourmet Typography Training will sharpen your eye and give you the practical skills that will visibly improve your type.

Price: FREE

June 4

Boston, MA

Dreamweaver CS4 Advanced Training

Take your web building skills to the next level with Dreamweaver CS4 Advanced. Build engaging websites that incorporate CSS to style different page elements such forms and tables. Design different types of CSS layouts from scratch and learn techniques for dealing with browser compatibility issues with the Adobe CSS Advisor. Create CSS image galleries without using tables and style XML data to build an RSS feed reader within your site. Learn the toolsets necessary to create much better than average websites with this two day training.

Price: $895.00

May 7

Phoenix

Yorkshire Digital Awards

Entries are open to any digital company that is based in Yorkshire and the Humber. Please be aware that companies will be restricted to enter a maximum of two award categories. Also, based on response to the black tie dinner/disco last year they expect an audience of over 300 and demand for tables to be high. Therefore early booking of tables is advised.

Price: ??

May 7

Leeds, England

GeekUp East Coast

GeekUp is a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk from the UK. It’s a grassroots knowledge sharing and networking social for folks involved or interested in the web, design and technology industry. Monthly events take place in Chester, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston and Sheffield.

Price: FREE as in beer

May 8

Grimsby, England

Adobe Flash CS4 class for computer animation

Learn to make computer animation, web design, banner ad content using Flash animations and Actionscript 3. Length of flash class is 6 hrs.

Price: $375

May 12

Los Angeles

Web Designing Workshop

Web Designing Workshop by Creative-Hut. Web design is the skill of designing hypertext presentations of content that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or other Web-enabled software like Internet television clients, micro blogging clients and RSS readers.

Price: ??

May 17

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

unConference 2009

The unConference is Southeast Asia’s #1 participant-driven, startup-focused event for the web industry. Modeled after Silicon Valley culture, the event attracts industry thought leaders, entrepreneurs, developers and professionals from around Asia.

Price: $50 – $90

May 16

Singapore

Webvisions 2009

Explore the future of Web design, user experience and business strategy with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers. Keynote speakers for 2009 include Mark Frauenfelder (author, founder of BoingBoing.net and editor of MAKE Magazine) and usability superstar Jared Spool.

Price: $195

May 20 – May 22

Portland, Oregon

Webvisionary Awards

From virals and mashups to web apps and advertising, the Webvisionary Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in website design.

Price: $30.00

May 21

Portland, Oregon

Vancouver User Experience Group: Designing for the Community Experience

From virals and mashups to web apps and advertising, the Webvisionary Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in website design.

Price: FREE

May 26

Vancouver, British Columbia

CALL FOR ENTRIES: ADOBE DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 2009

The 2009 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry.

Price: FREE

Till June 5

CALL FOR ENTRIES: HKDA ASIA DESIGN AWARDS 09

HKDA Asia Design Awards 09 is open to all designers in the Asia Pacific region. Works entirely designed in the region and first released between 3 June 2007 and 30 June 2009 are eligible for entry.

Price: FREE

Till June 30

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