Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #46

Design + Branding:

• Relaunching NO!SPEC with 28 Talking Points
• The History of Visual Communication
• Running a successful web design business
• U&lc lives
• “I am a type snob!”…(and proud of it).
• Johanna Lenander
• Virgin Galactic
• Pentagram’s Paula Scher on drawing with type
• The 7 Biggest Challenges in Merging Design and Business
• Adobe MAX 2010: Interaction Design for Graphic Designers
• New Work: No.17 Submission

User Experience:

• Google TV, Usability Not Included
• Wozniak: Android Will Dominate iOS [Updated]
• Different Approaches to Mobile App Design
• The Kinect effect: how Harmonix mastered Dance Central’s menus
• Google Launches Interactive Book to Teach Everyone About the Web
• Innovation Calls For I-Shaped People
• iPad Owners, Get Ready for TweetMag [Preview Video]
• The difference between searching and finding
• Reactions to being listed on Darkpatterns.org
• More mobile usability testing sleds…

Other Tangents:

• “Where I Live” .CA Impact Awards Call for Entries
• Introducing the Mashable Startups Channel
• How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
• How to Start a Successful Bootstrapped Web App Business (12 hours of audio)
• 35 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed
• A Contextual and Theoretical Christmas

Context Creative :: Project Manager – Toronto

Posted: April 23, 2010
Closes: When filled
Company: Context Creative
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada

We’re looking for a Project Manager with experience in print, email and Web, to join our award‐winning studio. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of a number of accounts: liaising with outside suppliers, developing estimates, assisting with proposals, providing excellent customer service, offering guidance to both the client and the creative team, and building the business from within the existing client base. Highly organized and detail‐oriented, you must also have excellent communication and computer skills, including proficiency on Microsoft Word and Excel. Facility on a Mac is a bonus.

Context Creative is a Toronto based strategy and design company specializing in integrated communications campaigns. These include Web, Email, Print, Direct Mail and Social Media marketing.

For further details visit us on the web at www.contextcreative.com

Please send your resume and cover letter, along with salary expectations, to cjevons@contextcreative.com. We appreciate all submissions and will contact eligible applicants for an interview.

No phone calls please.

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #9

Design + Branding:

• A Merger that Doesn’t Add Up
• Penguin Classics team up with (RED) for typographic covers
• A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services
• Ready for The Brand Quiz, Hotshot?
• Buy fonts at FontShop, host them on Typekit
• Design Multilingual Website: A Beginner’s Guide
• 60 Creative Flash Websites You Should Not Miss
• Speak Human by Eric Karjaluoto
• Google facts and figures (massive infographic)
• Measuring The Strength Of Brand Identity

User Experience:

• Using Light, Color and Contrast Effectively in UI Design
• Onboarding: Designing Welcoming First Experiences
• Five User Experience Trends I’ll be Watching in 2010
• Information Gathering: a Roundup of UX Applications
• 50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files
• Take a Step Closer for an Invitation to Shop
• Mobile Application Stores State Of Play
• Design Patterns – Proxy Pattern
• Augmented reality and the ultimate user manual
• 10 Beautifully Designed iPhone [UI]tilities

Other Tangents:

• Toronto Tech Week 2.0
• Adobe Opens Up About Apple, HTML5 and Flash [VIDEO]
• 13 Ways to Run a Kick Ass Webinar
• From Do It Yourself to Do It Together
• What We All Lost When Business Lost Respect

Weekly Roundup: Design Related Links #8

Design + Branding:

• Excessively Labeled Airplane Tells You Where the Big Cheese Sits
• Future of Employment in the Decade Ahead
• The Chief Marketing Officer – A New Boardroom Role
• Smart or Beautiful?
• Flaunt, our Book on Portfolio Design
• Economists encourage businesses to think design.
• Information Overload Isn’t New
• 2010 is the year of the app
• European + Organic = Euro-Leaf
• The Missile Defense Agency Logo Conspiracy Theory

User Experience:

• Search Suggestions, Part 1
• All aboard the virtual Trans-Siberian Railway
• 15 Amazing Interactive Installations
• Information Landscapes — Muriel Cooper et al
• Information Landscapes in 1994 (MIT Prof Muriel Cooper)
• 10 UX (User Experience) Blogs to Watch in 2010
• A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest
• 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources
• Campbell’s Soup Neuromarketing Redux: There’s Chunks of Real Science in That Recipe
• 11 Blogs to Help You Become a User Experience Expert

Other Tangents:

• YouTube Turns Five Years Old, But Without Google, It Would Be Bankrupt
• LinkedIn Lands In Microsoft Outlook
• Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
• Creating A Quality WordPress Theme: 12 Points to Consider
• The Fall Of The Purchase Funnel
• Work Smart: Stop Multitasking and Start Doing One Thing Really Well
• 7 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Every Blog
• MarketMeTweet: Will It Help You Find Clients on Twitter?
• How To Find Great Keyword Ideas For Your Articles
• 23 Ways to Get Fired

RGD Ontario’s HeadStart 2010 :: Feb 26-27, 2010

Honored to announce that I be will sitting on a panel discussing Industry Trends at RGD Ontario’s HeadStart Conference , Saturday, February 27, 2010.

HeadStart is a Career Development Conference for students, recent grads and professionals held by RGD Ontario.

Panelists include Bernard Hellen R.G.D., President + Creative Director of Traffic Marketing + Design; Scott Morrison R.G.D. of The Bauhub; Arlene Gould R.G.D, Adjunct Professor in Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability at York University; and myself.

For more information on the conference, visit HeadStart 2010