http://conncreatives.com/cc Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:31:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The December issue of Graphic Design USA showcases selected winners of their three decade old American Graphic Design Awards competition, and Connecticut made a strong showing. Catalogs: Taylor Design, Stamford Promotions: TFI Envision, Norwalk Public Service/Pro Bono: Caserta Design, Stratford Packaging: Zunda Group, Norwalk; The Worx Group, Prospect; Hughes Design Group, Norwalk; ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/29/gdusas-american-graphic-design-awards/ Compiled by Rich Hollant & Amy Graver; Intro by Rich Hollant By definition, 99.9% of what creatives do is create stuff. And the propensity to create, with any level of proliferation, butts right up against a compulsion to give. Give, give, give. Even in these difficult economic times, when so many of ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/29/what-we-really-wanted-for-christmas/ Fathom of Hartford celebrates the holidays with a Flash-based sledding game. The game offers players the ability to upload their own face picture and post their personalized sledding action shot to the gallery. A Facebook App counterpart was also created, where you can challenge friends and view their action shows in ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/19/fathoms-holiday-game/ Jargon Boy Design Studio of Fairfield was recently featured online in the Fresh section of Communication Arts. CA talks to Greg Chinn about his studio, his influences and his philosophies, and presents a portfolio of his work. The section is their weekly feature of innovative work by people, firms and agencies ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/15/jargon-boy-design-studiofeatured-in-communication-arts/ Fairfield County-based MillerWhite School of Design has launched a series of videos on their site, featuring the industry's leading authorities on design, typography and design education. The initial group of videos features interviews with School cofounder Alex W. White, Charles Nix (Scott & Nix), Graham Clifford (Graham Clifford Design), Rosanne S. ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/15/millerwhite-school-of-designlaunches-video-series/ The Greater New Haven Design & Marketing Meetup meets January 14 at 6pm for a networking happy hour at 116 Crown St. The Greater New Haven Design & Marketing Meetup is for all designers (graphic, web, Flash, interactive), marketers and related professionals. They have speakers on a range of subjects ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/12/15/gnh-design-marketing-meetup-2/ Caserta Design's Fred Caserta was selected to be part of an exhibit at the Nanjing Art Institute, Nanjing, China. The exhibition, "Commemoration of 5.12: China’s Massive Earthquake,” features work from more than 200 artists, designers, film makers and musicians from across the globe. "It is a perfect global response to ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/11/22/fred-casertas-art-on-display-in-china/ Cronin and Company of Glastonbury has promoted Wayne Raicik from executive art director to vice president, associate creative director. Wayne has had two stints at Cronin culminating in 15 years experience at the agency. He has helped create memorable and effective print, web and TV advertising for the CT Lottery, ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/11/18/cronins-wayne-raicik-promoted/ Celebrate the holiday season with your pals at the CADC and help out Foodshare, our region’s food bank. The CADC Holiday Party comes to Oliver's Tavern in Essex, December 4 at 6:30. The event is $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers, at the door only. Receive a $5 discount off admission ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/11/17/cadc-holiday-party/ Gluekit of Hamden created the cover and eight interior pages for Print's 2008 Regional Design Annual. There's an interesting "making of" piece highlighting the studio and its principals, Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Burns. Gluekit had a number of winning pieces in the Annual, from their sister business, Part of It. Part ... http://conncreatives.com/cc/2008/11/10/connecticut-in-print/