Online Training Leader lynda.com Releases Three Adobe CS4 Beta Training Videos Jun 5, 2008
The companys subscription-based Online Training Library provides members on-demand access to training videos covering a wide range of software, digital design, and digital media technologies and techniques. The videos expert authors create user-friendly online learning for creative professionals, instructors, students, and hobbyists from beginners to experienced professionals. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Analog design expertise is rare, valuable May 28, 2008
"Today, analog designers have to be comfortable in both analog and digital design, a demanding task that makes these designers rare, highly regarded and well paid.". Mixed signal chips that combine both digital and analog circuitry allow chip makers to combine their manufacturing expertise in digital device cores with proprietary analog interfaces to the outside world. (EETimes)
Reel Ideas Studio Cultivates Student Filmmakers at Cannes May 7, 2008
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Real Ideas Studio, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and advancement of student filmmakers, today announced it is teaming with Adobe Systems Incorporated, Vancouver Film Schools Digital Design Program, Intel Corporation, Sony Corporation and Dell Precision Workstations to bring together student and professional filmmakers during the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival taking place May 14 to 25 in Cannes, France ... For the second year in a row,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Is A Mouse-Free Web Experience Possible? Apr 19, 2008
Digital design agency Clusta says they have been able to harness video technology to register movements. In the bottom right-hand of a homepage, a webcam video with a superimposed outline of the user is what detects hand actions. (Sky News)
TSMC Announces Power Trim Service for Advanced Chip Leakage Power Reduction Apr 16, 2008
This means we can provide customers with the ability to minimize power leakage problems, thereby saving their time and money to meet the market demand. " "TSMC has produced exciting results for our mutual customers during the silicon validation process," said Jacob Jacobsson, CEO of Blaze DFM, Inc. "Now customers can have easy access to our patented technology directly from TSMC as part of TSMC's Power Trim Service. (Canada Newswire)
Analog design alive and growing in India Apr 9, 2008
"It took nearly 10 years for Wipro to be at the leading edge of digital design, but with this analog effort, we couldn't wait that long," he said in an interview in his office here. Wipro analog engineer Anand Valavi. (EETimes)
Analog tools must catch up Mar 28, 2008
The first level of digital design automation, emerging in the early to mid-1970s, involved gate-level schematic capture, event-driven simulation, and automatic place and route ... Designer productivity increased, and the combination of RTL and logic synthesis allowed digital designs to be easily migrated to a new foundry or process node ... More-recent tools, such as Magma's Talus environment, can automatically take a digital design from RTL to tapeout in two days or less, irrespective of the... (EETimes)
PCC students' work displayed in Raleigh Mar 26, 2008
PCC works include two digital design collaborative projects created by students enrolled in the College's Digital Effects and Animation program. The third entry was submitted by Person County artist Nathanial Hester, a PCC art instructor in PCC's new Associate in Fine Arts degree program. (Yanceyville Caswell Messenger, NC)
Common Man's Chip Mar 22, 2008
"Its unprecedented level of integration and automation enables significant jumps in productivity in the areas of chip finishing, analog/custom digital design implementation and full-chip circuit simulation," he says. May be it will help to design more affordable products for India soon. (India Times, India -- Intl Business)
Pittsburgh ad firms searching for digital designers Mar 22, 2008
Smith Brothers, Mullen, Blattner Brunner all searching for digital design workers - Pittsburgh Business Times ... Smith Brothers, Mullen, Blattner Brunner all searching for digital design workers. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Theaters embrace digital age Mar 21, 2008
As much as anything, price slashing could cement the future of digital design. Observes Buntrock: "The switch in the producer's head that said 'technology means money' has now, rightly, been turned off.". (Variety)
Smith Brothers, Mullen, Blattner Brunner all searching for digital design workers Mar 17, 2008
Members: Not Registered. for free extra services. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Williams, Menken to wed (34) Mar 16, 2008
He earned his Digital Design Certificate from The Art Institute of Charlotte in 2003. Since graduation, he has worked as a graphic and web designer at Carney ny in Rocky Mount. (Rockingham Daily Journal, NC)
Career and technical programs reviewed by state board Mar 8, 2008
Now 34 High 34 Low 12. LOADING Mar 08, 2008 - 04:06:16 CST By SARA KINCAID Bismarck Tribune Career and technical programs in the Bismarck School District received an evaluation in January. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
New Homes: Kitchens for Our Times Mar 4, 2008
According to the "Digital Design Study" conducted by the CABA Internet Home Alliance Research Council, your kitchen is not complete without a recipe finder and a digital calendar as well. The study was based on a survey of 602 homeowners between the ages of 25 and 64 who have broadband Internet access and household incomes of more than $35,000 per year. (RealtyTimes)
Inside Media Networks Premiers Inside Digital Design Radio TV at MOGO Media Event Hosted at Graphics of the Americas Feb 27, 2008
Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Graphics of the Americas Conference & Expo -- Inside Media Networks (), creators of popular technology talk shows Inside Mac and Inside Digital Photo, today announce, Inside Digital Design (IDD) Radio TV at the MOGO Media () hosted InDesign, Pixel, Vector, and Adobe Acrobat Conferences co-located with Graphics of the Americas Conference & Expo (GOA08) at the Miami Beach Convention Center, February 26-March 1, 2008 ... Inside Digital Design (IDD) Radio TV offers creative... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Rahman's design expertise honored by printing industry Feb 26, 2008
The accolade was awarded under the category of "Sheetfed Catalogs (Up to 32 pages, including cover." Also to be recognized is M.I. Hossain, digital design coordinator at Claflin, who assisted in the catalogue's design ... In addition, he has worked to establish a new academic offering, a major in Digital Design, which will begin offering courses in the art department in a new digital media lab in the fall 2008 semester. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Art exhibition embraces themes of love and revenge Feb 26, 2008
The majority of these illustrations are digital prints accredited to students previously enrolled in the fall semester's two-dimensional digital design (alpha course) and digital image course. The remaining images are prints attributed to the artists John Boydell, Edwin Austin Abbey, and Rockwell Kent. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Tred treads forward with low-cost outdoor signs Feb 18, 2008
Edwards, an electrical engineer who previously worked with liquid crystal display (LCD) and light emitting diode (LED) technology, launched Tred Displays in May 2006 to develop a lower cost digital design. Today's LED-based signs, which essentially operate with thousands of tiny light bulbs, cost more than $200 per square foot for black and white displays, and about $1,000 per square foot for multi-colored signs, Edwards said. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)
Secrets of the Bird's Nest Feb 11, 2008
This is Digital Beijing, the control and data centre for the Games, scheduled to become a museum and exhibition centre for digital design and technologies and, apparently, a communications hub for the city. Zhu's design, in stark contrast to the stadium, is a sequence of tall buildings that look, on first encounter, rather like upright 1960s IBM computers. (Guardian Unlimited)
3-D Landscaping Feb 7, 2008
An example of surreal geometric digital design by Thomas Broadfoot. Untitled Document. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Karmaloop launches internet TV station in Downtown Feb 6, 2008
One segment featured the cut-and-paste convention in Boston, which was described on the site as "the first live digital design tournament." "With these segments, we're trying to broaden concepts and expand beyond clothing" Freedman says of the videos. "We recently got a promotional deal with The Wire on HBO." The channel, launched last November, is the brain child of Blake Ricciardi, 25, of Harvard, MA. After a few years at UMass Amherst and hopping around various jobs, Ricciardi says he started... (The Suffolk Journal, MA)
EDA start-up offers 'elastic clocks' as cure for variability Feb 5, 2008
The company claims that for any synthesizable digital design its design-for-variability technology can generate an asynchronous physical implementation that responds automatically to variability, and self-adjusts according to process, voltage, and to temperature and logic conditions. Work started at the Software Department of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (LSI-UPC) in Barcelona, Spain and continues at Elastix' recently-opened Rer in Barcelona. (EETimes)
Alice Rawsthorn: Four speakers debate the future of design Jan 28, 2008
Joining me in the debate were: Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Hilary Cottam, who develops design solutions to problems in education, health care and other public services as co-founder of the London-based agency Participle; and, the digital design star and newly appointed president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), John Maeda. What did we all choose. (International Herald Tribune)
Video: startup explores analog EDA problems Jan 23, 2008
Problems in analog design are typically thornier than those in digital design, he added. "It's relatively easy to get digital right but very difficult to get analog right these days," he said. (EETimes)
Foolish Forecast: Interest in Intel Jan 16, 2008
What management says:Intel added a new seat on its board last November that includes Ms. Carol Bartz, executive chairwoman and ex-CEO of digital design specialist Autodesk. She also serves on the board of Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), which makes her the most direct industry link between the two giants. (MSNBC -- Business)
Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Hanna Strategies LLC Jan 8, 2008
This acquisition supports Autodesk's leadership in creating digital design innovation technology through its software development. "The acquisition of Hanna Strategies supports the Autodesk goal of expanding our global engineering and software development programs and to continue delivering leading software design products to our customers worldwide. Merging our talented development teams in Shanghai strengthens Autodesk engineering operations and provides us with internal efficiencies and... (PR Newswire)
US giant puts up $5m to trap hackers Jan 5, 2008
digital design agency working in the film and ente. To 40k. (Yahoo News -- Computer Viruses & Worms)
Virtual bodies aid surgery skills Jan 3, 2008
The system is being developed by the Digital Design Studio at Glasgow School of Art. It has used car design software to create one of the most advanced medical visualisation systems in the world. (BBC News -- Health)
Agencies sold on cooperation Dec 30, 2007
Ad clients that once worked with one or two agencies to handle TV, radio, print and promotional work now may divide their accounts between 10 shops that specialize in media placement, media buying, digital design, shopper marketing and so on, said Joanne Davis, a New York consultant on client agency relations. As a result, "Agencies have to develop better collaborative skills," she said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Relax, post-bourgeois children are a sign you have done yourparental duty Dec 29, 2007
Relax, post-bourgeois children are a sign you have done your parental duty. Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Solar Powered Bottle Sorter And Other Eco-friendly Inventions By Students Dec 28, 2007
20, 2005) Digital design software has virtually replaced blueprints across all manufacturing sectors. STEP (the Standard for the Exchange of Product Data), a universal format for product data that allows. (Science Daily)
Tech "microclusters" form in Silicon Valley Dec 20, 2007
Moving farther north in the Valley typically means moving farther away from the guts of the machine and climbing up the tiers of computing - from chips and disk drives to layers of business and consumer software and then into San Francisco, where people with online ad and digital design skills live. For start-ups, the location decision can be critical. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
NID alumni to take part in placements Dec 11, 2007
Of the 30 students from the postgraduate (PG) campus, Gandhinagar, 13 are from Information and digital design, 11 from software and user interface design and six from new media design. The convocation on Dec 15 will be presided over by Arun Firodia, chairman of the Kinetic Group. (Business Standard)
Regents to hear plan for fourth master degree's at DSU Dec 8, 2007
DSU's program would prepare students for careers in entertainment technology and digital design. According to the proposal, the program courses would provide instruction on visual communication and design theory. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Satellite unravels mystery of sun's atmosphere Dec 8, 2007
principal digital design engineerscope of responsi. Negotiable. (Yahoo News -- Astronomy and Space)
Teenager accused of leading 12.5m cyber crime team Dec 2, 2007
as future's digital design manager you will be res. On Application. (Guardian Unlimited)
Design will be the last differentiator: Welburn Jr Nov 30, 2007
The new digital design studio will employ technology tools such as clay milling and virtual reality to bring cars on-road faster. The GM design studio in India will contribute to the mid-cycle enhancement of existing models and the advanced design of future models. (Economic Times)
GM opens design studio in India Nov 30, 2007
The digital design studio will initially employ more than 60 workers who will cater to GM's operations in India and overseas, said Karl Slym, president and managing director of General Motors India Pvt. Ltd.. (AZCentral -- Business)
Autodesk Announces Franke Group as Inventor of the Month for November 2007 Nov 29, 2007
The engineering team imports this 3D digital design data into Autodesk Inventor software and leverages it throughout all phases of the product development process to create a robust digital model. This Inventor model is an accurate 3D digital prototype that enables users to validate design and engineering decisions as they work, minimizing the need for physical prototypes, and reducing costly engineering changes that previously were discovered after the design was sent to manufacturing teams. (PR Newswire)
Young innovators plant seed for future online advertising harvest Nov 8, 2007
Krazyboyz Digital offers digital solutions, such as software development, digital design and online advertising. Its clients include PlayUKLottery, Liberty Properties and Berco Express. (Business Report, South Africa)
My Midlife Facebook Crisis Nov 3, 2007
As I type, my Facebook news feed is telling me that Walt Mossberg, the paper's tech columnist, is heading to Fenway to watch the Boston Red Sox; Jim Spanfeller, a Forbes executive, is unsure what time zone he is in; and Stefan Geens, the friend who made me do this in the first place, has joined a Facebook group dedicated to Soderhavet, a Swedish digital design agency. "It really works as a way of staying in touch passively with people," Stefan emailed to me as part of his badgering campaign. (Wall Street Journal)
Pennridge's new middle school impressive Nov 1, 2007
" Fusco was particularly impressed with one of the classrooms on the tour - a digital design classroom with new Apple computers where students can learn "computer art," as Fusco called it - a class he said he'd like to take. As the tour climbed up to the third floor library, Case warned the residents that they were in for more great views. "This is gorgeous - so gorgeous," said Case. Windows line the wall of the library where tables and chairs await students who have things to research or... (Springfield Sun, PA)
BAFTA winners revealed Oct 27, 2007
The PC World Gamer's Award as voted for by the public went to Football Manager 2007, and BAFTA also picked out Ragnarawk - a role-playing game created by a bunch of students as part of the Dare to be Digital design competition - as one to watch. The full list of winners can be found below. (Eurogamer)
Forget Google. Bunnies rule the Internet Oct 27, 2007
Graphic artist Jennifer Shiman started Angry Alien Productions to help promote her digital design and illustration skills. Bunnies, she found, were the perfect animals to act out an idea for classic movie reenactments in 30 second flat, starting first with The Exorcist in 2005. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Design tip: Model instruments to improve signal integrity simulation Oct 26, 2007
have a large variety of test equipment and simulators available to them--some from the digital design background and some from the analog microwave background. The goal is to use each tool to its best advantage and then combine the measurements and simulation to provide the necessary insight into the design. (EETimes)
Wii Sports sweeps Bafta awards Oct 24, 2007
The game had previously won two prizes at the Dare to be Digital design competition run by the University of Abertay, Dundee. Although most of the awards are voted for by the Bafta jury, one prize is voted for by the public. (BBC News -- UK)
Font Study in Belgium Oct 24, 2007
The first year of the course concentrates on typography, printing processes, current typesetting and pre-press techniques, digital design, bookbinding, and the graphic arts. Year two delves into book layout, type preparation, font design and use, paper, the history of illustration and graphic design, applied graphic arts, advertising, poster and packaging design. (Suite101.com)
Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman Employees Honored by Hispanic Engineering Organization Oct 11, 2007
Luminary honoree Magana is a software engineer and currently a digital design team member for the Transformational Satellite Communications system at Northrop Grumman's Space Technology sector. Magana has had an exceptional career in test set support and software design at Northrop Grumman on such major programs as the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite system. (Primezone Releases)
Rolling ad hits trouble Oct 1, 2007
It doesn't have flashing lights or digital design. Several times a day it passes in front of Rubin Brothers jewelers, an 800-square-foot shop sandwiched between a Cold Stone Creamery and a HoneyBaked Ham restaurant. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Muriel Cooper: The unsung heroine of on-screen style Oct 1, 2007
If you're a digital design buff or graphics geek, you may know who she is ... But because digital design seems so esoteric, and is usually discussed in geek-speak, Cooper is barely known outside that circle. (International Herald Tribune)
Students learn career skills Sep 14, 2007
MIKE McCLEARY/Tribune Century High School student Abby Anderson works on her computer creating a classroom brochure for the Digital Design class at the Bismarck State College Technical Center on Thursday. In the background is class instructor Kim Eslinger helping a student. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Dressing up for the opening of the Natick Collection, Adobe Cut and Paste, Michael De Paulo, and other events Sep 13, 2007
But perhaps our favorite scene was the Cut & Paste Digital Design event at the Roxy, where some of the area's best graphic designers competed for top honors. - HAYLEY KAUFMAN AND SUZANNE RYAN. (Boston Globe)
Many small-business owners go back to school Sep 9, 2007
Brenda Sullivan, owner of BLS Communications, a San Diego-based public relations business, is in the midst of obtaining a certificate in digital design. She's been doing design for years, and handled some projects for her clients, but "the last couple of years, the technology has just grown by leaps and bounds. ... I have started to feel like the technology was getting away from me.". (North County Times)
Student creates TV set designs Sep 5, 2007
Erwin, who is currently taking a hiatus from his double-major in English and digital design, has practiced making sets for television programs since he was a small boy and said the opportunity to make this set has been a dream come true. t's exhilarating to produce something that's actually going to be seen every day on television. (Taylor Daily Press, TX)
New Lost creates film frenzy Aug 19, 2007
Chris Hassell, director of Ralph, a digital design agency, which designed a viral email campaign to promote the TV series Dexter, said: 'The web now plays a massive part in marketing movies, but this takes it to another level. J J Abrams has an interested following, so they've got the right audience: just drip out a few nuggets of information, get it mentioned on popular film sites, then sit back and watch people promote your film even though they don't know what it is. (Guardian Unlimited)
Guitar game takes design prizes Aug 18, 2007
Called Ragnarawk the game was created by a five-strong student team for the Dare to be Digital design competition. Run by the University of Abertay Dundee, it gives 12 teams of student designers 10 weeks to produce working prototypes of a game. (BBC News -- Technology)
Apple reseller to buy NZ's Natcoll Aug 13, 2007
Natcoll, which runs creative digital design technology courses, would become a subsidiary of Renaissance, its CEO, Paul Johnston, said. Payment would include $1 million in Renaissance shares. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Nokia Renews its Chipset Development Strategy Aug 8, 2007
Nokia will however continue to develop its leading modem technology*, which includes protocol software and related digital design for WCDMA/GSM and its evolution. Nokia will then license this modem technology to its chipset manufacturers, who will use it in the chipsets they develop and produce for Nokia and - if they so decide - in the chipsets they produce for the open market. (PR Newswire)
Queens College connects with Cuba for design show Jul 27, 2007
Participating graphic designers began to exchange ideas on the themes of Shared Dreams, Dreams of Peace and Love Conquers All in 2004 and continued for two years, showcasing the final work at the annual International Digital Design Exhibit in Havana. Eighteen artists from each country participated to design posters that expressed their visual representations of these concepts. (Bayside Times, NY)
Drive towards energy efficiency a boon to BCT Jul 21, 2007
The company plans to leverage on its analog and digital design expertise to produce about 10 green power solution products by year-end. We are now making more efforts in power supply solutions as this is the direction we heading, BCT founder and chief executive officer Ken Lee told StarBiz. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
We want to know all about ... The Dexter viral Jul 15, 2007
It was created by Ralph, a digital design agency based in Clerkenwell, central London. Its director, Chris Hassell, said it has caused such alarm he has had calls from the police. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
More of this story Jul 11, 2007
Muir has worked in all three branches of digital design. He has built 3-D models for "Pearl Harbor.". (Rexburg Standard Journal, ID)
Aflac Enlists Zubi, Momentum Jul 4, 2007
In addition to its digital design consumer work, Ogilvy has added business-to-business and work site marketing assignments. Herbert joined the company as its first CMO in October 2006. (AdWeek)
Deal gives local design firm Benchmark global reach Jul 3, 2007
An international branding firm has acquired local agency and is transforming it into a part of a global network of digital design and packaging firms. Under the deal with Chicago-based , Benchmark's operations are being combined with those of former local package designer , acquired by Schawk in July 2006. (Cincinnati Business Courier, OH)
