We’ve teamed up with Phoenix’s newest independent theatre, FilmBar, to bring you a monthly film and mixer meetup on the last Monday of the month. We will be showing a variety of films that range from fine art to street art, architecture, industrial design, and, naturally, graphic design.

Tickets are only $5 (at the door). No advanced tickets will be sold. The FilmBar offers a number of libations and appetizers prior to the film showing. Get there before 7pm to take advantage of happy hour. The film plays at 8pm.

August’s film is The Universe of Keith Haring.

Official Synopsis -

THE UNIVERSE OF KEITH HARING is an intimate portrait of world-renowned artist Keith Haring whose mantra was that “Art is for everyone!” The film is a thorough and intimate exploration of the background and career of one of the most popular and significant artists of the 20th century.

The film features interviews and archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Kim Hastreiter, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, Kenny Scharf, Carlo McCormick, Andy Warhol, Ann Magnuson, Tony Shafrazi, and Junior Vasquez, among many others. Audio excerpts from original interviews with Keith Haring, were conducted by Haring’s biographer John Gruen (Keith Haring: the Authorized Biography).

Directed by Christine Clausen and edited by Silvia Giulietti. The film’s theme song is by the famed DJ and record producer, Junior Vasquez, with an original soundtrack by Angelo Talocci.

It’s a mixer format and a “show up if you can” gathering opportunity.

At this event, you will learn to:

Use InDesign, Photoshop and other Adobe software more efficiently
Improve your workflow using Adobe CS5.5 tools
Leverage CS5.5 tools across media
Select paper for digital printing
Utilize emerging technologies such as cloud printing and on-demand book printing
Breakout sessions will be presented by Terry White, Rick Burress, Pariah Burke and other industry experts.

IMPORTANT: Please click here to select which breakout sessions you are most interested in attending. We’ll do our best to accommodate everyone.

For additional meeting details, directions and parking info, please see the attached pdf. Also, be sure to forward it to anyone you know who would be interested in attending.

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Agenda
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11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. – Registration/lunch

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Welcome and Keynote presentation

1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. – Breakout sessions (Don’t forget to pick your sessions by clicking here)

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – Raffle

PLUS, Member Appreciation night at the D-backs game!

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Sponsors
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A special thank you to Arizona Office Technologies, who is partnering with the Phoenix InDesign User Group to present this amazing event!

Other sponsors include Adobe, Artistec, Pariah Burke, Kelly Paper, EFI, Xerox, Aquent, InDesign Magazine, Markzware, Peachpit, Shutterstock, and The Creative Group.

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Raffle
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Everyone who attends the entire event will be eligible for the raffle. Prizes include: Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium, Adobe InDesign CS5.5, gift cards (Apple store, Amazon), autographed D-backs memorabilia, Dugout Suite tickets, an iPad and MORE!

It’s a mixer format and a “show up if you can” gathering opportunity.

Learn how to create innovative digital magazines, newspapers, annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements Incorporate 360° rotation and panoramas. Add an interactive layer to your design by using new Folio Producer tools in InDesign CS5.5 and integration with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. These interactive documents can be played back on a range of tablet devices such as Apple iPad, RIM BlackBerry PlayBook and a wide variety of Android tablets including the Motorola Xoom.
As eBook reading devices grow ever more sophisticated, InDesign lets designers keep pace. Learn how to create visually rich experiences for eBook reader applications and browsers that support HTML5 video and audio tags and learn how to take advantage of advanced capabilities in devices such as the Apple iPad, Sony Reader, and Barnes & Noble nook.
InDesign CS5.5 includes support for FLV video and MP3 audio files, as well as dozens of motion presets that make it easy to create animations. Export a document or presentation from InDesign to SWF format for playback in Adobe Flash® Player or a web browser. Or export a document as an interactive PDF file, complete with video and sound. Five panels introduced in InDesign CS5 provide intuitive controls that enable you to create a wealth of dazzling effects.
And as an added bonus we’ll also show you some tips and techniques for speeding up tedious and repetitive layout tasks or just making document layout and production much more efficient than ever before.

Instructed By Brian Wood

Brian Wood is a seasoned web developer and web/print technology trainer. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Acrobat 9 Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Brian has authored several training books, including “InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training,” “Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book”, and others, all published by Peachpit Press. He has also authored online training videos for Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Expression Web and more.

Brian provides corporate training to companies nationwide, and is an active developer. He co-owns AskBrianWood.com, BeginnersWebDesign.com, BrianWoodTraining.com, and has a training video blog, BrianWoodTips.com

Attendance and Ticket Information:

The Adobe Workshop will continue monthly and delve deep into your favorite and most used Adobe applications. These workshops are meant to deliver useful and applicable information that will help you develop your skills.

The workshops are FREE for AIGA members, however, we do require a $5 seat reservation to be paid in advance. The reservation amount will be reimbursed in full upon arriving at the workshop..

Non-Members may attend the workshops for $40 per.
(Hint: there are 12 adobe workshops per year, that’s $480. Becoming an AIGA member is only $315 at the most. Becoming a member has many other benefits beyond these workshops. To become a member visit http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/join )

We’ve teamed up with Phoenix’s newest independent theatre, FilmBar, to bring you a monthly film and mixer meetup on the last Monday of the month. We will be showing a variety of films that range from fine art to street art, architecture, industrial design, and, naturally, graphic design.

Tickets are only $3 (at the door). No advanced tickets will be sold. The FilmBar offers a number of libations and appetizers prior to the film showing. Get there before 7pm to take advantage of happy hour. The film plays at 8pm.

June’s film is Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect

Official Synopsis -

Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman’s visionary theories about architecture and urban society.

Koolhaas’ work is as much about ideas as it is about constructing buildings; he is equally celebrated as a writer and social commentator, his 1978 publication Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan is heralded as seminal text on modern society. For Koolhaas what is essential is not to create individual masterpieces, but to provoke and excite through the wide range of his activities.

REM KOOLHAAS – A KIND OF ARCHITECT is an engaging portrait of a visionary man, which takes us to the heart of his ideas. The filmmakers have made a visually inventive thought provoking portrait of the architect, prompting Rem Koolhaas to state “it’s the only film about me that I have liked.”

Save time with Acrobat: Prevail over deadlines with professional PDF workflows using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Automate routine tasks, streamline document reviews, and assemble a variety of file types into a polished PDF Portfolio.
Create realistic painting effects with Photoshop Extended. New tools enable you to paint in much the same way you would using real-world brushes and paints. With a new Mixer Brush tool, new bristle qualities, and new ways to blend colors, Photoshop Extended offers virtually endless possibilities for creating outstanding expressive effects, from enhancing photographic images in unusual ways to painting directly on a blank canvas.
Experience fluid vector painting with Illustrator. Enjoy the editability and flexibility of vectors along with the experience and expressiveness of painting in natural media. Paint freely with the vector-based Bristle Brush to produce lifelike brush strokes. Each brush stroke creates a path that can be edited just as easily as if it had been created with the Pen or Pencil tool in Illustrator. A preview window shows you how the Bristle Brush and its brush stroke will look.
Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop Extended. Repoussé is an ancient metalworking technique for embossing artwork on the surface of metals such as gold, silver, copper, tin, and bronze. Inspired by this technique, Photoshop Extended offers a powerful new Repoussé feature for creating attention-grabbing 3D content for print or interactive content, animations, or immersive environments.
Discover Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop Extended. Remove any image detail or object and watch as Content-Aware Fill magically fills in the space left behind. This breakthrough technology matches lighting, tone, and noise so it looks as if the removed content never existed.
Beautiful strokes with Illustrator. Whether you’re designing a complex infographic or a simple icon, finessing the details of strokes is an essential task. Illustrator includes several powerful features that make working with strokes more precise and flexible, including variable-width strokes, precise arrowheads, dashed-line controls, stretch controls for brushes, and brushes with corner controls.
Simplified object selection and editing in InDesign. Whether you’re designing a document that will be printed, viewed onscreen, or both, everything from aligning and distributing space between objects to adjusting corner effects is faster and easier in InDesign. Perform multiple transformations with a single tool, adjust the white space between objects, create corner effects directly on a frame, and create grids by simply pressing arrow keys to add columns and rows.

Instructed By Brian Wood

Brian Wood is a seasoned web developer and web/print technology trainer. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Acrobat 9 Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Brian has authored several training books, including “InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training,” “Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book”, and others, all published by Peachpit Press. He has also authored online training videos for Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Expression Web and more.

Brian provides corporate training to companies nationwide, and is an active developer. He co-owns AskBrianWood.com, BeginnersWebDesign.com, BrianWoodTraining.com, and has a training video blog, BrianWoodTips.com

Attendance and Ticket Information:

The Adobe Workshop will continue monthly and delve deep into your favorite and most used Adobe applications. These workshops are meant to deliver useful and applicable information that will help you develop your skills.

The workshops are FREE for AIGA members, however, we do require a $5 seat reservation to be paid in advance. The reservation amount will be reimbursed in full upon arriving at the workshop..

Non-Members may attend the workshops for $40 per.
(Hint: there are 12 adobe workshops per year, that’s $480. Becoming an AIGA member is only $315 at the most. Becoming a member has many other benefits beyond these workshops. To become a member visit http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/join )

For more information about this year’s conference, check out the Brand New site.

http://www.mightybrave.webs.com/

Founded in 1999 by Lisa Wegner, Mighty Brave Productions has developed into a successful and dynamic full service creative film company. Since its inception, Mighty Brave Productions has produced a number of award-winning films that have screened at festivals
around the world, including Cannes Film Festival (Short Film Corner). Mighty Brave Productions have built and nurtured strong industry relationships on all levels of production, from the creative team to industry suppliers to skilled crew members. Our indie company believes the best films emerge from a playful, co-creative and safe environment.

Cannes Film Festival (Short Film Corner) 2007

No Festival Required (Phoenix Arizona) 2007, 2011

Montreal World Film Festival 2004

Calgary International Film Festival 2004

Commonwealth International Film Festival 2004

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We’ve teamed up with Phoenix’s newest independent theatre, FilmBar, to bring you a monthly film and mixer meetup on the last Monday of the month. We will be showing a variety of films that range from fine art to street art, architecture, industrial design, and, naturally, graphic design.

Tickets are only $3 (at the door). No advanced tickets will be sold. The FilmBar offers a number of libations and appetizers prior to the film showing. Get there before 7pm to take advantage of happy hour. The film plays at 8pm. Happy Hour 5-7 pm, networking begins at 7pm, please buy tickets at least 1/2 hour before showtime to guarantee a seat!

CS5.5 allows you to deliver high-impact print designs and enables you to move fluidly among software components to create and produce eye-catching content in whatever mix of print, web, interactive, and mobile design your project demands.

Create digital publications for tablet devices. Discover how you can create engaging digital magazines, newspapers, annual reports, manuals, and other documents that incorporate eye-catching elements such as 360° rotation and panoramas, all for playback on a range of tablet devices.
Incorporate HTML5 and CSS3. Develop world-class websites based on the latest standards (HTML5 and CSS3), and more efficiently craft interactive SWF content that displays consistently on screens of virtually any size.
3D and animation. Use cutting-edge 3D, animation, and painting tools, built-in creative effects, and elegant typographic features to make even your wildest visions real without sacrificing quality or control.
Time saving tips. Save time using dozens of features that have been added over the past few releases that make quick work of everyday tasks in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro.

Instructed By Brian Wood

Brian Wood is a seasoned web developer and web/print technology trainer. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Acrobat 9 Pro, Illustrator CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Brian has authored several training books, including “InDesign CS2 Hands-On-Training,” “Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book”, and others, all published by Peachpit Press. He has also authored online training videos for Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Expression Web and more.

Brian provides corporate training to companies nationwide, and is an active developer. He co-owns AskBrianWood.com, BeginnersWebDesign.com, BrianWoodTraining.com, and has a training video blog, BrianWoodTips.com

Attendance and Ticket Information:

The Adobe Workshop will continue monthly and delve deep into your favorite and most used Adobe applications. These workshops are meant to deliver useful and applicable information that will help you develop your skills.

The workshops are FREE for AIGA members, however, we do require a $5 seat reservation to be paid in advance. The reservation amount will be reimbursed in full upon arriving at the workshop..

Non-Members may attend the workshops for $40 per.
(Hint: there are 12 adobe workshops per year, that’s $480. Becoming an AIGA member is only $315 at the most. Becoming a member has many other benefits beyond these workshops. To become a member visit http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/join )

Reserve your seat or get your ticket for this workshop here.