A glowing radial text effect in Photoshop. For more vieos and articles, please visit blogs.effectwave.com. Author: effectwave Keywords: radial text creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: August 14, 2007
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New Release Tuesday: Fridge, Maps & The Polyphonic Spree
Fridge The Sun (Temporary Residence) Kieran Hebden, Adem and Sam Jeffers have been working hard since 2001’s Happiness, though perhaps not with each other. Hebden’s Four Tet is almost as prolific as Prefuse spin-offs, and Adem has released one of the greatest folk-pop albums of the decade with Love & Other Planets (2006). Jeffers is no slouch, working hard in the graphic design and web industry, as well as continuing his musical aspirations. As the group reconvenes to release The Sun, their impatient audience finds them far less electronic than they might expect, utilizing heavier and more emphatic drum and bass arrangements than ever before, while Hebden continues to do his thing on both guitar, synths, loop machines and more. Combining harmony with this strange instrument called “the studio”, Fridge find themselves slightly shorter than they have in the past, but not without a valiant effort combining more traditional elements with their (in this case) more unusual instrumentation and arrangement choices. Fridge “Eyelids” (mp3) Fridge MySpace Fridge Official Maps We Can Create (Mute) Though James Chapman’s Maps has released a few singles and EPs, the redesign of his favorite tracks from prior releases on his first full-length, We Can Create, is definitely a “proper” album. The British electronica guru has mastered the art of breezy Valentine-inspired vocals soaring over layered synths, guitars and hip-hop beats inspired by (we assume) Radiohead, M83 and Junior Boys. There is an undeniable pop appeal to many of the tracks, though “It Will Find You” stands out as a perfectly good single, operating on some plane between ominous song to soundtrack your stalking victim and MI theme song. The album’s only quirk is its unavoidable self-consciousness, considering most of the songs have existed for quite a while and been remixed at least once (some from 16-track) for the release, and at times appear a little too thought-over. Maps MySpace Maps “It Will Find You” (YouTube) Polyphonic Spree Fragile Army (TVT) Hey guys, The Polyphonic Spree is from Dallas. You know why? Because it’s the only city in the state big enough to provide housing for all the band members. And though 80 band members is impressive as far as touring and sharing soap and outfits goes, it’s not necessarily a recipe for brilliance. The Polyphonic Spree is a sort of musical maelstrom, its own bizarre chorus line, traveling circus and creepy following all on its own, and unfortunately, all those things don’t always equal impressive results. This sort of ‘everything all the time’ attitude towards music can generate relatively impressive results (we enjoy a Flaming Lips show just as much as anyone else, but we don’t necessarily want them to perform in our mouth) at times, sure. However, it’s hard to do such a thing honestly and with palpable genuineness: its excess continues to overshadow whatever talent might lie beneath the presentation. Fans of the Spree will love this album, finding Tim DeLaughter & Co. in their typical bizarre bliss, their graphic designer is a genius, and local fans can catch them at Stubb’s on June 24. Polyphonic Spree “Running Away” (YouTube) Polyphonic Spree MySpace 16 Volt: Fullblackhabit (Metropolis) Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu) The Aliens: Astronomy for Dogs (EMI) Amiina: Kurr (Ever) Art Brut: It’s a Bit Complicated (Downtown) Artanker Convoy: Cozy Endings (The Social Registry) Arthur & Yu: In Camera Begushkin: Nightly Things (Locust) Besieged: Atlantis (Blood & Ink) Boom Bip: Sacchrilege EP (Lex) Bumps: Bumps (Stones Throw) Burning Brides: Hang Love Chrisette Michele: I Am (Def Jam) Chromeo: Fancy Footwork (Vice) CPC Gangbangs: Mutilation Nation (Swami) David Vandervelde: Nothin’ No (Secretly Canadian) Digitalism: Idealism (Astralwerks) Dimitri from Paris: Cocktail Disco [LP, Pt. A] (BBE) Donnie: The Daily News (SoulThought Entertainment) Ellen Allien: Fabric 34 (Fabric) Fridge: Sun (Temporary Residence) The Hackensaw Boys: Look Out (Nettwerk) The Hentchmen/Jack White: Hentch Forth Five Glorior Belli: Manifesting the Raging Beast (Southern Lord) Huey: Notebook Paper (Jive) Jennifer Gentle: Midnight Room (Sub Pop) Joe Shithead Keithley: Band of Rebels (Sudden Death) John Lennon: Very Best of John Lennon (Capitol) Kenna: Make Sure They See My Face (Interscope) Kenny Burrell: 75th Birthday Bash Live! (Blue Note) Kinky: Rarities (Sonic360) Kool & The Gang: Forever Gold (St. Clair) Kool G Rap & DJ Polo: Wanted: Dead or Alive (Traffic Ent.) Lifehouse: Who We Are (Geffen) Lil Boosie: Bad Azz Mixtape, Vol. 2 (BCD Music Group) The Lovetones: Axiom (Tee Pee) Mandy Moore: Wild Hope (Firm Music) Maps: We Can Create (Mute U.S.) Maserati: Inventions for the New Season (Temporary Residence) Master Ace: Take a Look Around (Traffic Ent.) matt pond PA: If You Want Blood (Altitude) Memphis: Little Place in the Wilderness (Arts & Crafts) Minus Story: My Ion Truss (Jagjaguwar) Misha: Teardrop Sweetheart (Tomlab) Nouvelle Vague: New Wave (District 6) Oxbow: Narcotic Story (Hydrahead) Papa Roach: Paramour Sessions (Geffen) Poison Pen: Pick Your Poison: The Mark of the East (Spire Candidate) The Polyphonic Spree: Fragile Army (TVT) Raheem Jamal: Boombox (Brick) Robert Forster/Grant McLennan: Intermission: The Best of the Solo Recordings 1990 (Beggars Banquet) Rondo Brothers: Seven Minutes to Midnight Savath + Savalas: Golden Pollen (Anti) Shop Boyz: Rockstar Mentality (Republic) Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust) Specimen: Electric Ballroom (Metropolis) Stateless: Stateless (K7) Tomahawk: Anonymous (Ipecac) Total Science: Breakbeat Science: Exercise 6 (Breakbeat Science) Tragedy Khadafi: Death of Tragedy (Traffic Ent.) Two Gallants: Scenery of Farewell (Saddle Creek) Van Morrison: The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3 (Manhattan/EMI) Various Artists: Chrome Children, Vol. 2 (Stones Throw) Velvet Revolver: Melody & Tyranny (Sony / Bmg Import) Videohippos: Unbeast the Leash (Monitor) Von Spar: Von Spar (Tomlab) Von S denfed: Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino) The White Stripes: Icky Thump (Warner Bros.) Xavier Rudd: White Moth (Anti) Yarrows: Plum (Empyrean)
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Glossy Button
Create a spherical glossy and shiny button in Photoshop with ease. For more videos, please visit blogs.effectwave.com Author: effectwave Keywords: glossy button creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: August 19, 2007
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Image Extracting in Photoshop
Learn how to use the image extract feature in Photoshop to extract an image from its background. For more videos, please visit blogs.effectwave.com. Author: effectwave Keywords: image extract creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: August 23, 2007
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Dizzymother Showreel Motion Graphics
2007 Motion Graphic Design Author: Dizzymother Keywords: for hire reel television dizzymother 3d 2d design graphics motion paddy art designer freelance Added: September 20, 2007
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Wall Street Breakfast for January 24, 2007
MACRO AND HOUSING D.R. Horton’s Profit Falls 65%, Beats Estimates D.R. Horton Inc. reported yesterday that quarterly profits fell 65% during its 2007 fiscal first quarter but shares still gained 4.6% as they came in above analyst expectations. By the numbers, net income declined to $109.7 million (EPS $0.35), down from $310.1 million EPS $0.98) in the year-earlier period. Revenue slid 1.4% to $2.8 billion. D.R. Horton’s slumping profits match profit declines across the board for homebuilders, amid the biggest slump in home sales in 15 years. Shares rose yesterday despite the bad earnings. With much negativity already built in and Thomson Financial analysts predicting EPS of just $0.33, the $0.35 EPS reported sent shares higher by $1.24 to a closing price of $28.37. “The results are generally favorable given the environment,” said Morningstar analyst Eric Landry. Sources: Press Release, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, MarketWatch Related commentary: Housing Stocks: Is the Worst Over?, Assessing the Homebuilder Stocks, Homebuilders D.R. Horton, Meritage Post Disappointing Sales Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: D.R. Horton, Inc. (DHI). Competitors: Meritage Homes Corp. (MTH), KB Home (KBH), Centex Corp. (CTX), Lennar Corp. (LEN), Pulte Homes Inc. (PHM). ETFs: iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction (ITB), SPDR Homebuilders (XHB) TECHNOLOGY Feds Visit Steve Jobs At Apple HQs In Continuing Options Probe The federal investigation into Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ role in backdating nearly 6,500 options is continuing, according to people in the know. First reported by The Recorder, a legal newspaper in San Francisco, federal investigators apparently visited Jobs’ at his office at Apple headquarters and tried to learn more about his role in the affair, in which at least two backdated options were granted to him. An internal Apple investigation by Apple cleared Jobs of any wrongdoing. Both sides declined to comment on the ongoing investigation. Sources: Bloomberg, Washington Post, Reuters Related commentary: Apple: Jobs Knew, Apple’s Options Scapegoat: Introducing Ms. Wendy Howell, Why Steve Jobs Should Resign Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: Apple (AAPL). Competitors: Microsoft (MSFT), SanDisk (SNDK), Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Lenovo (LNVGY.PK). ETFs: NASDAQ 100 Trust Shares (QQQQ), Internet Architecture HOLDRs (IAH), iShares S&P Global Technology (IXN), Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) SAP: Warning of Lower Operating Margin in ‘07 Sends Stock Down Further SAP’s shares are lower by about 4.5% in mid-day trading in Germany following the firm’s preliminary Q4′06 and full year ‘06 results. It reported higher Q4 earnings, but analysts were disappointed with margin guidance for ‘07. Q4 adjusted net income grew 28% to 822 million, or 0.67/share, on sales growth of 7% to 3.0b. Q4 adjusted operating margin increased 0.9% to 37.7%. For the year, adjusted net income rose 27% to 2.0b, or 1.60/share, on 10% higher revenues of 9.4b. Operating margin fell 0.1% to 27.3%, but adjusted operating margin increased 0.5% to 28.8%. SAP says it expects full year ‘07 sales growth of 12% to 14%. It warns operating margin will be lower than ‘06, in the range of 26% to 27%, due to spending 300m to 400m over the next two years to expand its midmarket business. Ahead of today’s announcement, the WSJ reported on larger software companies missing targets, including SAP, despite increased corporate spending on software, due to disruptive start-up companies. Also, it seems analysts are increasingly doubtful of SAP’s premium valuation to rivals based on expected ‘07 earnings. Sources: Press release, Bloomberg, Reuters, WSJ Related commentary: SAP’s Software Sales Widely Miss Forecast; ADRs Slump, Why Did SAP Miss?, What’s The Truth Behind SAP’s Share-Gain Claim? Conference call transcripts: SAP AG Q3′06 Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: SAP AG (SAP). Competitors: Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), International Business Machines (IBM), Salesforce.com (CRM). ETFs: Software HOLDRs (SWH), iShares MSCI Germany Index (EWG), iShares Goldman Sachs Software Index (IGV) Seagate Profits Decline 51% On Acquisition Costs Seagate Technology reported after yesterday’s close that its FY 2Q07 profits dropped by 51% over the prior-year period, largely the result of costs stemming from its acquisition of rival Maxtor Corp. On a positive note, the U.S.’s largest producer of disk drives raised it’s guidance for the next quarter and beyond. By the numbers, net income fell to $140 million, good for EPS of $0.23, versus earnings of $287 million, or EPS of $0.57 in the year-earlier period. Excluding one-time items, EPS was $0.39 topping Bloomberg consensus estimates of $0.32. Revenue rose 30% in the quarter to $3 billion, beating the $2.95 billion estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Looking ahead, Seagate forecast FY 3Q07 EPS of between $0.49 and $0.53 on revenue of $2.9 to $3 billion. Excluding one-time costs, profit will be $0.56 to $0.60 a share. Analyst estimates for next quarter are for EPS of $0.55 on revenue of $2.92 billion, according to Bloomberg. Shares of Seagate, rose $1.10, or 4.2%, to $27.28 after hours after falling $0.30 cents during regular trading. Sources: Seagate F2Q07 (Qtr End 12/29/06) Earnings Call Transcript, Press Release, TheStreet.com, Business Week, Bloomberg Related commentary: Seagate: “Our Market Presence and Visibility Has Never Been Stronger”, Competition Driving the Disk Makers, Seagate Gearing up for 300 Terabyte Hard Drive Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: Seagate Technology (STX). Competitors: Western Digital (WDC), Hitachi (HIT) Sun Posts First Profit After Five Quarterly Losses Shares of server manufacturer Sun Microsystems surged 9.5% yesterday as the company posted its first profit since mid-2005. The company reported fiscal Q2 profit of $126 million, or $0.03/share, versus a year-ago loss of $223 million, or $0.07/share. Revenue was up 7% to $3.57 billion. Analysts had forecast EPS of $0.01 on revenues of $3.52 billion. Sales were up 6.9% to $3.57 billion. Sun’s strong results reflect the positive impact of product upgrades and strategic price cuts that have helped the company poach customers from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The company also announced that an investment fund owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is investing $700 million in Sun and will take a seat on its board, a deal Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz terms an “opportunistic” transaction. In a bid to ensure the best prices, Sun will begin using chips made by Intel this year rather than relying exclusively on AMD chips. Sources: MarketWatch (I, II), Bloomberg (I, II), Wall Street Journal. Conference call transcripts: F2Q07 (Qtr End 12/31/06) Related commentary: Sun Set to Announce Deal to Use Intel Chips in Servers, Sun Microsystems Has a New Sales Approach (And It’s Working), KKR To Invest $700 Million in Sun Microsystems Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUNW). Competitors: Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Dell Inc. (DELL). ETFs: Internet Architecture HOLDRs (IAH), PowerShares Dynamic Hardware & Consumer Electronics (PHW) AMD Reports Q4 Loss as Price War with Intel Crushes Margins AMD shares dropped 5% to $16.60 last night after the company reported a precipitous decline in Q4 gross profit margin due to a price war with rival Intel on server chips. Shipments rose 26% on notebook chip demand, but server chip shipments were flat with Q3 and their prices sharply lower. Gross profit margin dropped from 57% in the year-ago quarter to 36%. The company reported a net loss of $574 million, or $1.08/share, against a profit of $95.6 million, or $0.21/share, a year ago. Revenue fell 3.5% to $1.77 billion from $1.84 billion last year. Results also reflect $550 million, or $1.04/share, in charges related to the company’s October acquisition of graphic chip maker ATI Technologies. AMD forecasts a Q1 2007 revenue range of $1.6-1.7 billion versus a Street forecast of $1.82 billion. Last week, Intel reported a 39% slide in net income from a year earlier and a 5% drop in revenue. The diminishing fortunes of AMD and Intel contrast with those of server manufacturer Sun Microsystems, which just reported its first profit after years in the red. Sun has been taking back share of the server market on systems powered by its own chips as well as chips made by AMD. This week, Sun announced it will start using Intel chips. Sources: Wall Street Journal (I, II), MarketWatch, Bloomberg . Conference call transcripts: Q4 2006 Related commentary: The Intel/AMD Price War Doesn’t Make Sense, AMD Issues Q4 Earnings Warning, Shares Tumble in Extended Trading, Intel Back In Server Driver’s Seat After Sun Deal Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Sun Microsystems (SUNW), Intel Corp. (INTC). ETFs: iShares Morningstar Mid Core Index (JKG), iShares S&P Global Technology (IXN), Internet Architecture HOLDRs (IAH) INTERNET Yahoo Suffers 61% Hit to Profits, but Panama Boosts Shares Yahoo reported yesterday that Q4 profit was off 61% from last year, but its shares rose 5.6% on news that Panama, its long-awaited new ad software, will be rolled out next month. Net income dropped to $269 million, or $0.19/share, from $683 million, or $0.46, a year earlier, when it had a $340 million one-time gain. The EPS report beat Street estimates of $0.13. Sales met forecasts with a 13% rise to $1.7 billion, but were still the slowest Yahoo has experienced in years. Results reflected tough competition from Google as well as stratospheric costs for employee stock options, which were $56 million versus $11 million last year. Newly restructured Yahoo will take on Google head-on with the February 5 rollout of Panama, a feature that allows Yahoo to sort search ads by relevance. Yahoo expects Panama to boost revenue per search 10% by H2 2007. The rollout was delayed from July to October and then to March due to technical difficulties in upgrading clients — difficulties that persist, particularly among smaller customers. Yahoo provided Q1 net revenue guidance of $1.12-1.23 billion, behind the $1.28 billion Street estimate. For full-year 2007, Yahoo provided sales guidance of $4.95-5.45 billion, also shy of analyst forecasts. In related news, Yahoo Japan Corp. today reported a 20% rise in quarterly profit on the increased popularity of its auction site and online mall. Net income rose to 15.2 billion yen ($125 million) versus 12.7 billion yen a year ago, at the high end of company forecasts and slightly behind analyst estimates. Yahoo Japan is one-third owned by U.S. Yahoo. Sources: Wall Street Journal (I, II), Bloomberg, MarketWatch Conference call transcripts: Q4 2006 Related commentary: Yahoo Issues Weak Forward Guidance, Announces Early ‘Panama’ Roll Out, Yahoo: The Real Problem With Panama, Yahoo’s Report Tonight Unlikely To Impress Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO). Competitors: Google Inc. (GOOG). ETFs: Internet HOLDRs (HHH), First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index (FDN) ENERGY AND MATERIALS Crude Oil Price Rebounds on U.S. Reserve Plan The crude oil price leaped 4.7% to $55.04 a barrel in response to President Bush’s plan, announced last night in his State of the Union address, to double the country’s strategic oil reserve. The plan, which also includes an overhauling of fuel economy standards and increases in federal targets for renewable and alternative fuel use, is designed to wean the country from its oil addiction and protect it from cut-offs by foreign suppliers. The ultimate goal is a 20% reduction in U.S. gas consumption over ten years. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve will be increased from 727 million barrels to 1.5 billion by buying 100,000 barrels of oil a day for 20 years, a process set to begin this spring. The increased reserve will constitute an equivalent of 97 days of foreign imports. Crude for March delivery closed at $55.04 a barrel on the Merc, its highest price since January 9 and biggest one-day gain since the September 2005 hurricane season. The oil price was also boosted by a drop in temperatures in the U.S. Northeast and a fresh spate of kidnappings of foreign nationals in Nigeria. Sources: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, White House Summary of Initiatives [pdf; Wall Street Journal] Related commentary: Crude Bounces Back Thanks To New Petroleum Reserve Plan, Crude Ready To Bounce Back?, Crude Oil Might Be Nearing a Bottom Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: ConocoPhillips (COP), Chevron Corp. (CVX), ExxonMobil (XOM), BP plc (BP), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A), Marathon Oil (MRO). ETFs: Oil Service HOLDRs Trust (OIH), United States Oil Fund LP (USO), PowerShares DB Oil (DBO), Claymore MacroShares Oil Up Tradeable (UCR), Claymore MacroShares Oil Down Tradeable (DCR), iPath Goldman Sachs Crude Oil ETN (OIL), iShares Dow Jones U.S. Oil & Gas Exploration Index (IEO) TRANSPORT AND AEROSPACE UAL Corp. Shares Plummet Following Earnings Miss United Airlines parent UAL Corp., the world’s second-largest carrier and parent of British Airlines, posted a Q4 loss of $61 million ($0.55/share), its first loss in the three quarters since leaving court bankruptcy protection 11 months ago. It cited December storms that grounded flights and boosted costs (excluding fuel) by 1.7%, and a variety of non-cash expenses (including frequent-flier program deferrals) totalling $170m. Analysts were expecting a $0.52 loss. Sales were up 4.6% to $4.6 billion, and fares were up 3.8%. The company said it plans to expand its capacity in 2007 by about 1%, but aircraft maintenance, airport rents, and health-care benefits were likely to increase costs by up to 1.5%. UAL shares fell $3.94 (8.1%) to $44.81 in yesterday’s trading. Sources: Bloomberg, Seattle Post Intelligencer Related commentary: Crude’s Fall Boosted Airline Stocks, Merger Mania Grips the Airlines, Jim Cramer’s Take on UAUA Potentially impacted stocks and ETFs: UAL Corp. (UAUA). Competitors: AMR Corp. (AMR), Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), Continental Airlines Corp. (CAL), JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU), US Airways Group Inc. (LCC). ETFs: iShares Dow Jones Transportation Index ETF (IYT) MUST-READS ON SEEKING ALPHA TODAY U.S. Markets: State of the Union Address: Sectors of Focus and Stocks to Watch Housing: Does Capital One Deserve Valuation Multiple of Bigger Banks? Long Idea: Panera Bread: Rising To The Challenge Short Idea: Going Long Sallie Mae? Then Short First Marblehead Internet: Yawning over Yahoo!’s Earnings Call Telecom: Year-End Vonage Bounce Trade Gone Awry Networking: Alcatel-Lucent’s Big Miss Leaves Merrill ‘Shocked’ Hardware: Reading Between the Lines on Sun/KKR Partnership Software: IT Services CEOs Speak: IBM and Satyam Media: John Malone’s Three Part Plan For DirecTV Healthcare: Patience: The Prescription For Buying Teva Pharmaceuticals Biotech: Novavax Advances Avian Flu Vaccine Despite Government Snub Retail: Crocs: Ugly, But Appealing Gold: Gold Stock Earnings to Shine in 2007 Energy: Desjardins Initiates Buy Recommendation on TransCanada Financial: Citigroup: Q4 Results Promising Asia: Large Corporations Expanding into Bangalore ETFs: David Fry’s Daily Market Outlook Small-Caps: Novavax Should Jump On Avian Flu Results IPO Analysis: IPO Watch: Oculus Seeks Foothold In Wound Healing Sound Money Tips: Making International Calls for Local Charges Jim Cramer: Latest stock picks Conference Call Transcripts: Rediff.com F3Q07, EMC Q4 2006, Xerox Q4 2006, Brinker International F2Q07, Tellabs Q4 2006, Coach F2Q07, Sun Microsystems F2Q07, Yahoo! 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Shiny Glass Text
Create realistic blue shiny glass text in Photoshop. A very cool effect. For more videos and articles, please visit blogs.effectwave.com. Author: effectwave Keywords: glass text creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: August 10, 2007
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AIGA Small Talks w/ The Butler Bros.
Small Talks is a forum for Austin’s creative community to share and exchange ethical and practical discussion relevant to the local design industry.About AIGA Austin (aigaaustin.org)AIGA Austin is the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).AIGA MissionAIGA, the professional association for communication design, is committed to furthering excellence in communication design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research, and advance education and ethical practice.AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural, and creative contexts. AIGA is the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice, and culture of designing. Founded as the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1914 as a small, exclusive club, AIGA now represents more than 16,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by 48 chapters and more than 150 student groups.AIGA supports the interests of professionals, educators, and students who are engaged in the process of designing, regardless of where they are in the arc of their careers. The disciplines represented in the profession range from book and type design through the traditional communication design disciplines to the newer disciplines of interaction design, experience design, and motion graphics. In addition, AIGA supports the interests of those involved in designing from other disciplines, professions, and business who share designers’ commitment to advancing understanding of the value of design.Through the relationships members develop within the community of designers, the information they share, and the standards they develop for the profession, AIGA helps the profession to validate its own ethos and role in business and society. AIGA actively communicates the value of design to the business community and the public.AIGA serves as a hub of thought-leadership and activity for the designing community. The association is committed to stimulating thinking about design through conferences, competitions, exhibitions, publications, and websites. AIGA inspires, educates, and informs designers, helping them to realize their talents and to advocate the value of design among the media, the business community, public agencies, and the general public. While AIGA was created to advance the design profession, its members now place a higher priority on AIGA’s work in communicating the value of design to audiences outside the profession.About the Butler Bros. (www.thebutlerbros.com/)For a combined 15 years as creative staffers (Adam as a writer, Marty an Art Director) at GSD&M, the Butler Brothers generated ROI and award-winning communications for Southwest Airlines, Land Rover, The United States Airforce, Kinkos, The Steel Alliance, Pennzoil, Macaroni Grill, and SBC. Roy Spence, GSD&M founder, calls us, “Big idea guys with a sixth sense for what is right on a given brand.” Since launching our own firm we’ve served the following brands: Avanza Quartz Countertops, AvenueOne Realty, Budweiser, Central Market, Charles Schwab, The Ford Restaurant Group, Frost Bank, Heineken USA, KLRU Television, Premium Records, River Roots Music Festival, Texas Blueberry Marketing Association, United Healthcare, and The University of Texas School of Information.Two brothers, two unique ways of looking at the world form a visionary partnership to tell stories about companies they believe in.
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Photoshop Shiny Text
A Photoshop shiny text effect full of diamonds and jewels. For more videos, please visit blogs.effectwave.com Author: effectwave Keywords: shiny text creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: August 16, 2007
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Segmented Pipes in Photoshop
Create authentic segmented pipes in Photoshop. For more videos, please visit blogs.effectwave.com. Author: effectwave Keywords: segmented pipes creative blog photoshop training videos web design graphic artist website development freelance designer Added: September 4, 2007
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