Gemini G.E.L.

Founded in 1966, Gemini G.E.L. is an artists‘ workshop and publisher of limited edition prints and sculptures. At Gemini, the artists do all of the drawing or carving directly onto the printing elements. The edition is hand-printed by Gemini‘s master printers, and each print is signed and numbered by the artist as well as embossed with the Gemini ‘chop‘.

In 1981, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., established the Gemini G.E.L. Archive, which functions as a study center for scholars and collectors, and contains a complete history of the workshop. Included is one example from each of the over 2,000 editions published. Three major exhibitions with works from the archive have been organized and exhibited by the National Gallery in the past 21 years. They recently created a complete online Gemini Catalogue Raisonné at http://www.nga.gov/gemini

Gemini has collaborated with more than 60 highly accomplished artists in lithography, etching, screenprinting, woodcut and a variety of sculptural materials.

Orlando - Calling For all Local Creative Artist

T.i.own Present Caffeine For the Artistic Soul

T.i.OWN Design on April 10th at Full Sail Real World Education is pushing the envelope on expanding the art culture with Pop art, Graffiti, Modern Art, and Digital Art in winter Park and Surrounding Community's.
Come join us @ 5pm at Full Sail Building 3 Back lot for a night of inspiration.
We will be having pieces submitted by local Artist, Live Music and tons of food for the the Soul.
Admission is Free.

For all local artist (students, Staff, Co-workers, everybody) who is interested in submitting work or who wants feed back. Please visit www.tiown.com for more information.

Sponsored By:
www.Full Sail.com
www.tiown.com
The Culture Mart
Sign a Rama Winter Park
Art Systems of Florida
Sink or Swim
www.Bsideartist.blogspot.com
Wpi entertainment
Tatume
Food by:
International Christins Cafe.

Christopher Rodriguez
Bachelor Degree of Digital Art and Design
CEO of TIOWN / TOBARDESIGN

AIGA T-Shirt Competition

So we're looking for our next great t-shirt and that's where you come in. A maximum 3-color design that incorporates the official AIGA logo. Be bold. Be fresh. Be shocking. But be aware that your peers will vote for the winner at the rockin' social at Say It Loud on March 27th! Then watch your winning design be produced as the official AIGA Orlando T-shirt! This contest is FREE to members and $15 for non-members. Download your submission guidelines and templates here. Email your submission in high-res pdf format to sarah@luredesigninc.com by noon on March 23. Pricing Information:
FREE Members
$15 Non-Members

Wim Wenders - New German Cinema

Wim Wenders was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1945. One of the most influential figures of the New German Cinema in the Seventies, his films––among them The American Friend (1978), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987) or Buena Vista Social Club (1999)––have won numerous prestigious awards and international critical acclaim. A major survey of Wenders’ photography, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, has toured museums and art institutions worldwide since 2001. Wim Wenders has also published numerous books of essays and photographs. He lives in Los Angeles and Berlin with his wife, photographer. He is President of the European Film Academy, and member of the order “Pour le Mérite”.

New German cinema is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg and Wim Wenders.

The Talk Market: Making a Web Commercial

Mr. Singer joined last year with Amanda Eilian, a former Baker scholar at Harvard Business School, to build The Talk Market, which helps businesspeople shoot, edit and post videos to the Web. The service costs nothing, although users share with The Talk Market a 5 percent commission whenever someone clicks on the “buy” button in the video window.

The Talk Market begins with an online tutorial on how to shoot product demonstration videos: light well, change camera angles, speak as if you are talking to a friend and look directly into the lens “as if you’re locking eyes with your audience.”

E-Commerce Report

A D.I.Y. Approach to Making a Web Commercial

By BOB TEDESCHI

Published: March 10, 2008

Online start-ups are percolating new methods to help companies create passable videos and commercials on the cheap, and distribute them across the Internet.

Hermann Zapf and his Zapfino typeface

Hermann Zapf, born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1918 and now living in Darmstadt, taught himself calligraphy from the books of Rudolf Koch and Edward Johnston. He has had a distinguished career in type design and typography which stretches over fifty years. His Zapfino typeface, originally released in 1998, was an amazing success that has since worked its way into designs produced all around the world. Hermann Zapf’s artistic and technical masterpiece is both traditional and modern at the same time. Used with popular layout software applications, Zapfino can help create breathtakingly calligraphic layouts.

In 2003, Hermann Zapf reengineered his design, imbuing it with the new OpenType technology. Even though the resulting font, Zapfino Extra, has significantly more characters, OpenType technology makes the face drastically simpler to use.

Hermann Zapf is recognised as one of the world’s leading type designers and typographers, having designed Roman, Greek and Arabic faces. He has been made an Honorary Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts and has won innumerable awards. He is an honorary member of over twenty-four societies across the globe and is also Honorary President of the Edward Johnston Foundation.

Linotype´s Zapfino™ Extra is an expansion of the first Zapfino type family of 1998. The basic roman alphabet with 3 additional script variations is now complemented with small caps, mathematical symbols, additional ligatures, fractional numbers and with hyper-flourishes. Theses are some extremely big swashes running over two or three text lines. Read more...

Color Marketing Group

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Marketing: User Generated Content Promotions

Mark Hardison, VP of Marketing for El Pollo Loco, joins host Paul Lewis to discuss User Generated Content Promotions. Listen…
Consumer Generated Content
Consumer generated content is the actual message contained in consumer generated media. Consumer generated content is typically a review, commentary, or set of opinions on a product or service that the commentator has personal experience with. This content can have positive or negative effects on a brand's image depending on the opinions of the writer. Consumer generated content, as related to consumer generated media, usually refers to commentary cited online - in blogs, personal websites, message boards, and related media. Content created by consumers, as compared to advertising created by businesses, is typically seen as more reputable because it is unsolicited and does not financially benefit the writer.

VSA: Intelligence + Instinct

VSA Partners is design agency to some of the best businesses and brands in the world. Our strategy and design have shaped communications, inspired change and accelerated the competitive metabolism in dozens of leadership companies.

Organizations come to us when they want to create an irresistible marketplace attraction. To understand and fulfill their potential. And to deliver their vision confidently into the arms of their audiences. This involves everything from brand strategy and visual identity to marketing communications, retail design & packaging, through interactive media and corporate communications.

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