Simplicity: What does it mean?

This is John’s first time speaking at FITC and I’m really glad he decided to present as he gave quite an inspirational session on simplicity and complexity. John is a world-renowned graphic designer, visual artist, and computer scientist at the MIT Media Labs. Named as one of the 21st Century by Esquire magazine, Maeda is […]

Introducing Apollo

Apollo is a cross operating system runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA’s. This is going to be the next hottest thing for web developers all over the world! Who would have thought that web developers now can use their skills to […]

Bridging the Gap

This presentation was a neat overview on how a 3D commercial or video are brought into reality through 2D sketching. A 60 second commercial is broken down into a handful of storyboard sketches. From there, various renderings are done to show off different features of the scene (shadows, lighting, modeling, etc).
The designer who storyboards has […]

Discover New Ways to Build Engaging Experiences with Adobe

Every year, I look forward to this presentation in order to get the latest info on new software and what is in the workshop. Adobe provided an array of great information for several different types of users. The main topics covered were Adobe Creative Suite 3, Flash CS3, Flex, Apollo and Flash Media Server.

Adobe Creative […]