Competitions, Events and Awards Roundup – June 2009

Travis

We’re back with another full month of events, awards, and competitions from around the world.

There’s some big events this month, including An Event Apart 2009 in Boston.
So check out the location and prices of what’s happening in your area!

Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

Photoshop® CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks

It’s time to get down and dirty with Photoshop. Take part in five classes in Photoshop special effects, photographic effects, and design tricks.

Price: £99 / day

June

Toronto (26th) – Calgary (29th)

In Control 2009

In Control 2009 is a a web design workshop and conference rolled into one. Learn from a diverse array of Web experts to use modern tools and techniques to refine your Web design craft. Harness creative inspiration to unlock your potential, amplify innovation, and broaden your reach. Immerse yourself in two days of idea exchange with potential business partners who are as forward-thinking as you are.

Price: $795

June 11-12

Cincinnati

UX London

UX London – geared toward the user experience designer – is a unique three-day event combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names.

Waiting List Only

June 15

London

An Event Apart 2009

The big daddy of them all – An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.

Price: $995

June 22-23

Boston

Writing for the Web

Discover how your choice of words influences the ways users navigate to — and around — your site. Learn to use words online to entice and educate users, and to more effectively convert them into repeat customers.

Price: $854

June 25

San Francisco

Standards.Next HTML5

A free HTML5 meetup featuring short talks on the nitty gritty of HTML5, tales from the frontline, the controversies, the agonies and the ecstasies.

Price: FREE

June 27

London, UK

@media ’09

High-value, no-nonsense cutting-edge training and discussion for professional web designers and developers.

Price: £349

June 25-26

London, UK

Small Talk NO. 9: ANTHONY BURRILL

Anthony Burrill is an independent UK-based designer and illustrator whose work is beautifully simple and often hilarious. He works across a broad range of activities, including print, film, and internet.

Price: $35

June 4

New York

InterFaces 2009

Interfaces 2009, hosted by the International Academy of Design and Technology, is an annual conference promoting the graphic design, digital media and game design industries.

Price: $30

June 6

Detroit

Getting Creative: How to put a design degree to work

Listen to a panel of industry professionals currently working in several design-related positions. Find out how these individuals successfully transitioned into careers at companies including Sierra Bravo, Periscope, Larsen and OLSON.

Price: $15

June 11

Minnesota

San Francisco Design Week

SF Design Week reaches out to a diverse community of over 20,000 Bay Area design professionals as well as local businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, students, the design-savvy public, tourists, and more. AIGA SF will be sponsoring a full week of events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay.

Price: FREE

June 15 -21

San Francisco

INDEX – A Designer’s Resource Fair

Philadelphia’s most comprehensive fair where designers meet the vendors that serve their needs. This year, Urban Outfitter’s Jharoka, in the Navy Yard, will be the place to learn about the latest goods and services available and interact directly with the largest community of designers in Philadelphia.

Price: $10

June 18

Philadelphia, PA

cause/affect design competition deadline

We’ve all toiled into the night on projects for good causes with scant hope of any recognition (we’re do-gooders after all!). But we believe one good deed deserves another, so we’re giving out a stack of awards to those whose creative work stacks up.

Price: $30

Deadline June 16

San Francisco

The Case Awards Show

Mix & mingle as you view award-winning design, photography and illustration work from Nashville creative professionals.

Price: $40

June 20

Nashville

Lynda.com Meetup

Lynda.com

Meet Lynda and hear her story! The preeminent leader in Online Software Training.

Price: FREE

June 25

Santa Barbara

Downtown Digital Arts Festival

The Downtown Digital Arts Festival brings together student photographers, designers, and artists, for a three-day event, designed to educate, to inspire, and to entertain.

Price: FREE

June 2 – 4

Columbus, Ohio

Design Experience 2009

The seminar is a consolidated effort to showcase the work done by designers and other professionals related to the field, and hope to provide an opportunity to get an insight into their different experiences while designing.

Price: Rs 2500

June 8 – 9

Bombay

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Chris Robinson June 3rd

Fingers crossed for AEA coming to San Diego some time in the near future
Martyn Web June 4th

Nice to see a few UK dates announced above.

The Standards.Next HTML5 could be worth a look and traveling down for, I might investigate that further.

Thanks for the Heads Up.
Travis June 5th

No problem! I try to find a nice mix of events from all over :)
verygoodservice June 20th

thanks, useful info