Refresh Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Web Design Day will be held on Saturday, April 4th 2009 at Left Field Meeting Space.

Pittsburgh Web Design Day is a one-day, low-cost conference for web professionals in the Western PA region.  No high priced registration fees, no expensive travel  For a registration fee of $40 you get a full day of learning from Pittsburgh web gurus …and lunch!

Registrations will be open this week, but hurry: we’ll be limiting our attenance to 85 people!

Speakers include:

Geoff Barnes, Elliance 
Information Architecture as Storytelling

Christopher Cashdollar, Creative Director, Happy Cog 
Creative Springboard: What Web Design Can Learn from Magazine Design

Val Head, New Perspective 
“Getting Past the Blame Game” – Designer-Client Relations

Whitney Hess, User Experience Consultant 
Misconceptions in User Experience

Jason Robb, My Happy Planet 
“What the Wireframe?” – A Pragmatic Approach to Wireframes

Josh Sager, joshsagermedia.com 
The Story of a Web Project

Samantha Warren, Viget Labs 
Pimp Your Website!

Refresh Pittsburgh is really happy to be organizing such a great event.  We hope that our members enjoy it as much as we are going to!

Flashpitt is a one-day conference for multimedia designers, developers, and artists.  It will be held on Friday, October 10th, 2008.

It’s the first event of it’s kind in the Pittsburgh area.  National and international industry leaders will be present to share inside tips, new technologies and behind the scenes looks to Flashpitt’s attendees.  This event is not just for Flash developers; we have sessions for Designers, Web Developers and Students just starting out in the industry, too.

Usually, events like this are held in other cities, such as Chicago, New York, Boston, DC and other places.  Flashpitt is a conference based in Pittsburgh and hopes to become an annual event.  An impressive list of speakers are lined up and the schedule has something for everyone and consists of two tracks of sessions which will run from 9am until about 6pm.  (We’re particularly excited to see Dan Mall from Happy Cog!)

For more information and to purchase a ticket, please visit flashpitt.com.  We’re really looking forward to the conference and are very excited to help put on an event of this calabre here in Pittsburgh.  Please check out the schedule and join us on October 10th!

A reminder to all our members that this weekend is the 24 Hour Creative Marathon organized by our good buddy Josh Sager.  Some of you may remember Josh when he gave a great presentation on producing a web comic at our first meeting.

The 24 Hour Creative Marathon is a two-part event, beginning with a 24-hour artistic marathon and culminating in a gallery show and sale the following day. Beginning Friday, September 28th, at 8pm, artists will have 24 hours to create a piece of work pertaining to the theme “Lost and Found.” Registration is FREE for marathon participation.

It’s shaping up to be a really cool event for both makers of art and fans of art.  Visit the website for more information on how you can participate.

On a personal note, one of my door-shifts is late Friday night, so feel free to come out and talk about Refresh and maybe, um, bring some coffee!