Competitions, Events and Awards Roundup – July 09

Travis

Let’s take a run through some of the the events and competitions that are coming up this month.

There’s no An Event Apart this month, but there are still some quality conventions and training sessions to hit up.

The CSS Summit

An all day, all CSS online event with some big names in the design world.

Price: $139

July 18

Online

Web Design World

Web Design World Seattle is all about teaching you what you need today. Like CSS and markup that’s easy to maintain and broadly accessible. Web typography that carries your message and is beautiful to look at. JavaScript that works. Mobile design that expands your reach. Social networking instead of social not-working. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Flash power tips…

Price: $1395

July 20-22

Seattle, Washington

Front-End

The Front-End Design Conference will be a single-day event featuring presentations that cover details of the web design process. The discussions will begin with inspiration, progress into creating and managing content, discuss usability theory, teach how to put on the finishing details and introduce attendees to designing web apps

Price: $129

July 31

Saint Petersburg, Florida

SIGGRAPH 2009

Join us in New Orleans in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Price: $900

August 3-7

New Orleans

ilovedesign.com LIVE presents 8×8 London

8 talented creatives have just 8 minutes each to share with us where they find their ideas, what inspires them and what motivates them to get out of bed in the morning.

Price: £15

July 1

Kensington, London

Illustrator CS4 Training

Discover Illustrator’s intuitive features such as intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces. This essential training will allow you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.

Price: $895

July 7

Phoenix

London Geek Nights: Seaside: The Revenge of Smalltalk

This Geek Night is going to cover how Smalltalk makes web development different and how Seaside is being put to use in the “Real World”. Prepare to question how your favourite web platform works and discover object-orientated programming rather than class-orientated programming.

Price: FREE

July 7

London, UK

DemoCamp Vancouver 07 – Social Platforms Edition

The featured presentations are social platforms – out of the box social networking and other social web experiences.

Price: FREE

July 7

Vancouver, British Columbia

Photoshop Complete

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: $1,395.00

July 20-22

Orlando, Florida

Designing for the Web

Explore the process of designing a website with Tyler Lee, Executive Director of Production for Sony Pictures Imageworks Interactive in Albuquerque.

Price: $249

July 23

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Images 34: the Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010

Images is the showcase for the best of contemporary British illustration. Categories include: Advertising, Books, Children’s Books, Design, Editorial, New Media, Self-Promotion and New Talent.

Price: £38

Deadline July 31

San Francisco

TypeCon2009: Rhythm

TypeCon2009 explores type for the screen, Dutch design, type in motion, advertising typography, the new life of wood type, and much more.

Price: $375

July 14-19

Atlanta

Request for Submissions: The Good Design Book

Designer and writer Christopher Simmons (of MINE) is working on a new book about designing for the greater good. There is an open call for submissions that engage and addresses critical causes.

Price: FREE

Deadline August 1

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Zach July 1st

These are expensive, and that doesn’t even cover travel!