And the winner is…
Congratulations to Aaron Jackson who is the winner of the BackSpaceStudios/Seneca Logo Design Contest!
BackSpaceStudios/Seneca Logo Design Contest
ONLY 5 MORE DAYS LEFT TO VOTE! CONTEST ENDS DECEMBER 12 !
Some if you already know that I am a part-time teacher at Seneca College in various different new media programs. This semester I have been teaching a class in Design Fundamentals for the MFD (Media Fundamentals) program. In our last class the students had to create a logo design for 1 of 3 fictitious companies; sporting wear, cosmetic, and travel. They where giving roughly 3hours to complete this assignment using only Adobe Illustrator.
Just for fun, I made a last minute decision to run a contest for the best logo design.
We received almost 60 entries from 2 classes! Below are the finalists (Chosen by PHUG board members). The winner will receive a cash prize and books.
The vote is in your hands!
Elizabeth Hoare
Holly Carnovale
Japneet Marwah
Joseph Whiteman
Kristina Khotakoune
Leila Talibova
Lindsay Reynolds
Luke Fisher-Gilbert
Mario Frassinelli
Rebeka Coles-Budrys
Shane Okamura
Shyhlana Evanson Teigh
Tamika Walker
Thamara Heywood
Tyler Rampersaud
Aaron Jackson
Adelina Iaccino
Alphonse Kuuku
Andrew Coutts
Annika Rayman
Christy Shelegy
Darwin Deguzman
Denis Wong
Open Source Design Presentation at FSOSS 2008
The good and the bad…This morning I woke up with the flu, how nice on the day of our big presentation. It was a bit of struggle getting through but we did, and successfully to a full house!
BackSpaceStudios presented “Open Source Design” - Exploring the world of Open Source Design, looking at what designers are doing with open source tools like gimp, inkscape, and blender3d. We also look at how designers get creative with interface design using various designer friendly open source languages like CSS, PHP, JS, and more.
We also had the opportunity to sit down with members of Mozilla, Linux, IBM, and other leaders from the Open Source Community to discuss how PHUG is making an impact online and offline. Everyone was really exited about our FREE Workshops, DEV Days, and WordCamp Toronto 2008. This will be a good year for PHUG!
We have uploaded our presentation here!
Some pics of our presentation:
Back from FITC…
FITC was a huge success this year….
I’m happy to report that our booth, Seneca and PHUG, was the most popular booth on the floor…probably ’cause we where giving away FREE chocolate ;0
Attendees where very excited to see the student papervision3D work on display, it’s no swimming dolphin, but the students did a great job considering they had only 7 days to produce a full pv3 interface with collision and interactivity, GOOD JOB!!!
- kapachka interface developed by Students in the Digital Media Arts program at Seneca College, Alex Nasser, Miaomiao Kuang, Dan Coltri, Robbie Luziuz Vanin, Ricardo Jazmines, Amanda Labatia.
Another popular student project at FITC was pv3world.com, developed by Geoff Palin, Digital Media Arts student at Seneca College, this project drew attendees daily. Geoff Palin has also accepted a position at BackSpaceStudios as a lead developer, we are very happy to have him on board!
Geoff Palin was also responsible for designing/developing the official Seneca@FITC blog http://www.phug.ca/fitc
Other highlights at the festival…
I had the opportunity to meet and geek out with the guy’s from papervision3D, paperworld3D, red5, Ribbit, and the one and only AS guru R Blank. I especially enjoyed discussing both PHUG and DMA student experimental pv3 work with Ralph Hauwert. I attended his Flash 2D and 3D effects presentation…all I can say is WOW! I also had the opportunity to sit down with Trevor Burton, the man behind paperworld3D. What an amazing individual, the man is an absolute genius! I’m hoping to contribute to the development of paperworld3D and eventually build some commercial apps with it…One of my favorite presentations was Ribbit. These guy’s have some of the coolest components I have seen in a long time. I am hoping to continue working with them on some PHUG and Seneca events as well as nominating some of my students for internships…I did not forget about R Blank…He gave an excellent presentation on AS3. BackSpaceStudios is happy to announce that we will be helping out with the re-build for the RMI site.
I will back post my blogs from the event under papervision, red5, and AS3.
FITC Toronto 2008
Flash In The Can - Toronto 2008 is just around the corner!
This year at FITC Toronto 2008 members of PHUG will be presenting at the Seneca College table. Alongside with other Seneca projects, programs, and students, we will be exploring experiments in open source Flash. Our presentation will showcase the use of tools like Flash Develop, Papervision3D, and wiiFlash as both educational and professional.
We hope to follow this showcase up with a presentation at FlashInTO next month!
If you decide to go to the conference make sure to check out the official workshop on Papervision3D hosted by one of the core development team members, Ralph Hauwert.
Also make sure you attend the “3D in Flash: Now and in the future†session, which promises to become an interesting discussion between developers and Adobe!
Hope to see you all there…
