Vancouver's Jeff Hamada will join DCS and friends on Tuesday, March 16. He'll elaborate on his work and how "tangents" helped him create the highest-traffic art blog on the internet, booooooom.com, which gets 2.5 million pageviews each month.
About Jeff Hamada
Jeff Hamada is a Japanese Canadian artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. He was one of 100 artists selected by Converse and Product(RED) to create a shoe in celebration of their 100th year anniversary and has also designed for the likes of Oakley, Electronic Arts, and Endeavor Snowboards. In 2008 Hamada created an art blog called Booooooom, and it has since become his full-time job.
For the past 5 years, Craig Neuman has nurtured great ideas into great design as Creative Director at Midwestern creative powerhouse, Barkley. The Kansas City-based, full-service advertising agency has built up an impressive client list and some impressive work. They also have a rocket on top of their building and, among other notable quirks, they are 100% employee-owned.
Clearly, Barkley takes their work seriously, but they don't take themselves too seriously—and neither does Neuman. Just watch his discussion about Americans butchering the Queen's English and you can see that he delights in observing and critiquing the world around him. Craig’s work has appeared in The One Show Annual, Communication Arts, Graphis, Print, National ADDYs and POP Times.
DCS will present Craig Neuman at SAA on Monday, November 9 beginning at 6:00PM. That's coming up very soon and seating is limited, so register online now to reserve your spot.
(You will be taken to GDAA's website for payment and registration)
About Craig Neuman
Craig oversees a talented design group at Barkley that works on strategy and execution of brand identity, packaging and POP displays. His work has been honored by Communication Arts, Graphis, Print Regional Design Annual, National Gold Addys and One Show Design Annuals. Craig has been involved with creating effective communication strategies for clients including 24-Hour Fitness, Sonic Drive-ins, Blue Bunny Ice Cream, L’Oreal, March of Dimes and H+R Block.
Perhaps his proudest moment? Winning a James Beard Award, the culinary equivalent of an Oscar, for best restaurant graphics in the nation.
On October 20, DCS will be one of the organizations presenting a brand new conference for Dayton. SummitUp: A Social Media Confab will include four nationally-recognized social media rock stars: Bob Garfield, Chris Brogan, Kevin Dugan, and Artie Issac, as well as ten breakout sessions.
Topics range from social media as a vehicle for creativity and growing a business with a blog to social media data analytics and delicious and tagging for PR pros.
Attendees will also take home two books: Bob Garfield’s new book “The Chaos Scenario” and Chris Brogan’s new book “Trust Agents”.
DCS members are eligible for the member rate, $139 for the full day, including lunch. The non-member rate is $179. The registration deadline is coming up fast, Wednesday, October 14.
DCS proudly presents guest speakers Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger from Seattle-based Modern Dog Design Company. They will focus on the 22 year history of their company with a few highlighted client relationships. Learn about how they got started, how to be persistent but not annoying, their creative process and how they get their ideas into production. They will be giving out a lot of small presents and door prizes to people who ask good questions.
As if that wasn't exciting enough, one lucky attendee will win a free copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4, courtesy of the DCS Adobe User Group!
Since co-founding Modern Dog Design Co. in 1987, Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger have continued to do work for entertainment and retail companies - both local and national - and counts poster, packaging and identity projects as some of their favorite work. Recent clients include the Disney, Seattle Aquarium., Blue Q, Olive Green Dog Products, Shout! Factory and HarperCollins. They have received recognition from every major design organization in the U.S., and their posters are represented in the permanent archives of the Louvre (Rohan Marsan wing), the Library of Congress, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe, the Warsaw National Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum among others. Currently they both teach at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, In 2008, Chronicle Books published their monograph, Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art.
*Student rate only available at the event. Must present a valid student ID. Cash only please.
An issue most creative people struggle with is how to stay creative.
Todd Henry of Accidental Creative presented his answer to those struggles on Tuesday night at SAA in his presentation, “Create or Die: Thriving in the Create-on-Demand World.”
We had a crowd of about 65 attendees who had a chance to ask Todd a lot of questions when he was done. We’d like to congratulate Lindsey Kellis Meredith of Link Creative for winning Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium in our door prize raffle.
Thanks to all who attended and especially to Todd Henry for taking time to help inspire and educate the Dayton creative community.
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