::: ADAC EVENTS
:: A D A C event … “By Hand & by Cam” Speakers: David Danz & Jayson Carpenter
Open to both members and non-members.
Free for members, but $5 for non-members and $3 for student non-members.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:30 pm
AIA Central Valley building, 1400 S Street, Sacramento
Come join us and find out what some of our best local creatives are doing! David Danz, an illustrator of exceptional talent, and Jayson Carpenter, a photographer capturing unique images from around the world, will discuss what it’s like to be a creative in today’s fast-paced and digital world.
David Danz has been working as a freelance illustrator for the past 24 years. A graduate of Art Center College of Design, David first began illustrating in wood and linocut prints before abandoning his carving tools for scrapers and x-acto blades to accommodate the faster and more forgiving medium of scratchboard. Today he works out of his Placerville home studio, creating a variety of woodcut and wood engraved looking illustrations utilized in packaging, advertising, and editorial publications. His clients include the NY TImes, Chevron Oil, Wells Fargo Bank, Del Monte Foods, Coors Brewing Company and more. http://www.daviddanz.com/
Jayson Carpenter is a photographer currently based in Sacramento, specializing in humanitarian, advertising, editorial, and travel photography. His images have graced the pages of numerous national publications including Hour Detroit, Sunset magazine, and Running world. Some of his advertising campaigns include, South lake Tahoe tourism, The California Five a day, Save Mart and Safe banks and the NBA Sacramento Kings. While commercal work pays the bills, working with NGO’s and Non Profits fuels the soul. After Four continents and over 20 countries later Jaysons sense of curiosity is still strong. In March of 2009 he returned from a fourteen-month journey thought much of Asia. There he worked on a book and shot for several non profits. Jayson will be sharing the fruits from his journeys. http://www.jaysoncarpenter.com/
Questions? Want to get involved? Contact laurel@mysticdesign.net
Map to the AIA Central Valley building (via Google Maps):
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&q=1400+s+street+sacramento&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=cCypSpycNIOosgOqpKSIBQ&z=16&iwloc=A
::: A D A C Summer Design Network
Summer Design Network
An ADAC event
Sponsored by Image Wise Packaging Communications & GraphXStaff.com
Open to both members and non-members. A free event!
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm
at the Image Wise Packaging Communications studio, 920 24th Street, Sacramento
916-492-9900
Come join us for an ADAC summer networking event!
Door Prizes — You could be rewarded for just showing up!
Our goal: To create a relaxed and informal setting in which you are provided opportunities to promote yourself, make new contacts, develop valuable expertise and share ideas. It’s the BEST way to meet up with that interesting, lively mix of Sacramento’s creatives and other business professionals. Sacramento design studio owners will be there!
Business Card “Art” Creation: It’ll be an experiment using wires & thumbtacks, an endeavor to create an organically growing, huge business card and info display.
A “Looking and Seeking” Job Board: Post what you are seeking for everyone to see. “Plogger” Discussion board: Join a discussion by post-it! See the concerns in the new and changing landscape of design and watch the discussion evolve as the night goes on.
Questions? Want to get involved? Contact webmaster@adac.org.
Directions to Imagewise studio, 920 24th Street, Sacramento – 916-492-9900: (MapQuest link)
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Sacramento&state=CA&address=920+24th+Street
::: A D A C ::: Volunteer Retreat
Join us at this inspiring ADAC luncheon, and bring your ideas for speakers next season! We are gathering at G.V. Hurley’s on June 13th, at 11:30 am. A lunch buffet will be provided for ADAC members, and non-members are welcome, too! We are ready to get volunteers together and motivated and will be sharing our latest ideas and talk about events already in gear for the coming season.
G.V. Hurleys is located at 2718 J St, Sacramento, CA 95816
Sign up soon, space is limited!
Please RSVP to retreat@adac.org to reserve your spot at the beautiful midtown restaurant by June 5th!
It is free for ADAC members, and just $9 for non-members (a value of $22/person!).
If you are a non-member, you can pay at the door (check or cash), or in advance with your credit card, via paypal here (choose the top option). We will waive the $9 event fee for non-members if you join ADAC at the event (a special rate of $40 for professionals, and $20 for students is applied for this event only!).
If you have questions about the event, email boarddirector@adac.org. If you have questions about the status of your membership, email membership@adac.org. Or feel free to call us on our new ADAC hotline at 916-912-4557.
Better Sites, Lower Cost: Designing Database-Driven Web Sites Without Programming
May 17th – Free admission!
Room 127, 1:27 pm
ARC Media Lab
4700 College Oak Dr, Sacramento, CA?
Please RSVP if you plan to come! (click the link or send email to workshop@adac.org if you would like to come – free to the public, ADAC membership not required!)
Presented by David Marsden and Christopher Haupt
Creating sites as a set of static HTML pages makes them hard for clients to update, often requires information to be changed in multiple places, and makes features such as RSS feeds impossible. The solution is to build the site around a database, but as a designer, you don’t want to deal with back-end technology.
Christopher Haupt, CTO of Webvanta, will explain the benefits of database-driven sites and show how the Webvanta hosted service makes this technology easily usable by designers without depending on a programmer. The session will conclude with an open discussion about the challenges web designers face and the various products and technologies that are available to help them.
The Sierra Letterpress Tour at Full Circle Press
Saturday, May 9, 2009
The weather has been great, let’s hope it stays that way. It’s been a few
years since ADAC’s run this popular tour – so after many requests, the Full
Circle Press tour is back!
Tour this full-service Grass Valley letterpress facility run by longtime
ADAC member Judith Berliner … And after, we’ll journey to Nevada City for
a quick lunch (and we’re going dutch for that).
RSVP!
The favor of an RSVP is requested – so we have a rough headcount. Email to:
tour@adac.org. (We can also put you in touch with other attendees if you
wish to car pool)
Tour Cost:
FREE
Where + When:
Full Circle Press 12803 MacBoyle Way Grass Valley
www.full-circle-press.com
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
::: adac sponsored … FREE LECTURE …
INTERACTION DESIGN FOR CULTURAL PLACES
by Alessandro Marianantoni, UCLA Researcher
Rael Hall rm 162
6:30 – 7:30 pm
Wednesday, April 15 2009
American River College
Lecture Focuses on interaction design for people and cities, in particular between the visitor, citizen and the urban civic places. How can the city respond to the flow and the movement of people using interactive technology. Lecture will also overview workshop “Interactive Castle 2009” in Italy, July 11-24.
Chocolate Net, Version 3.0
April 14, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Come to ADAC’s biggest networking event!
at Sierra II Community Center, Curtis Hall – 2791 24th Street, Sacramento
Free entry if you bring a piece of chocolate or a chocolate dish to share!
(Note: Networking event entry fee will be $5)
Activities (and that’s besides the wine and chocolate!):
- “Show-Your-Work-Off” Tables: This has been a big success the last two times! We invite all our ADAC members interested in bringing some of their work to show-off. We will have free display tables waiting & ready!
- New! Portfolio Review: Get some feedback on your portfolio from our experienced design professionals before that all-too-real, all-important job interview.
- New! Business Card “Art” Creation: It’ll be an experiment using wires & thumbtacks, an endeavor to create an organically growing, huge business card and info display.
- A “Looking and Seeking” Job Board: Post what you are seeking for everyone to see.
- “Plogger” Discussion board: Join a discussion by post-it! See the concerns in the new and changing landscape of design and watch the discussion evolve as the night goes on.
- Door Prizes! You could be rewarded for just showing up!
Come join us for ADAC’s biggest networking event of the year! To entice you, we are again laying down a net of chocolate and wine. Our goal: To create a relaxed and informal setting in which you are provided opportunities to promote yourself, make new contacts, develop valuable expertise and share ideas. You’re invited to display your work on tables provided. If you need introductions, ask us and we can help you break the ice. It’s the BEST way to meet up with that interesting, lively mix of Sacramento’s creatives and other business professionals.
Questions? Want to get involved? Contact Laurel at laurel@mysticdesign.net or 530.346.9399.
Directions to 2791 24th Street, Sierra 2 Center: From Broadway turn south onto 24th Street. Sierra 2 Center is 4 blocks on the left, (between Castro St. and 4th Ave). Turn left on 4th Ave. to enter the back parking lot.
::: ADAC Event … Yolo Design Group Tonight
Hey! someone just realized it is the last Friday of the month. That means it is time to meet up in Davis with the Yolo Design Group. Come and join us at Mishka’s cafe at 4:30 or 5:00 or whenever you get off work. Bring some ideas, work, inspiration to share if you like. Or just bring your self.
::: ADAC Event… Game Face, Googley Face
The Xbox 360 game console was released with a great deal of fanfare surrounding its new hardware design and user interface. Google’s Android phone environment endeavors to change the way the world uses the cell phone. Steve Matteson presents these two products from a type designer’s perspective: the design brief, the creative process and the unique challenges for developing fonts for less than optimal displays.
an evening with Steve Matteson
font designer for Xbox 360, Google Android
Music by DJ Alex Trujillo of Visaomedia
Thursday FEBRUARY 5, 6:30pm
Art Institute of California-Sacramento
2850 Gateway Oaks Drive #243
Sacramento
FREE ADMISSION
Presented by
Art Institute of California-Sacramento
Capital Creative Collective and
Sacramento ADAC
::: ADAC Event … subject/verb/object
Don’t miss this excellent show and free lecture! The lecture, with artist/designer Simon Johnston is co-sponsored by ADAC and the Design Museum at UC Davis. Don’t miss the Designer’s Talk on Thursday, January 29 at 6:30 pm in 176 Everson Hall, UC Davis. The building is directly behind the Design Museum on Hutchison Drive.
Using examples from his parallel practices in design and art, Johnston will discuss how typography and language play a central role in his work.
A reception will follow at the Design Musuem. This event is FREE.
