Posts tagged: lecture

Web Development

CSS 2.1 and 3 Lecture Recap

October 7, 2009 On October 1st, Marc Amos enlightened 70+ in attendance about CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 selectors, properties, and values and reviewed examples of actual code, rendered output of that code, and a few in-browser demonstrations. New and experienced web designers and developers found the talk fascinating and the new tips very helpful. His mission of “making your life as a front-end developer much easier” was accomplished! Marc runs Boston Web S Read On...

Photography

Keith Lane Photo Lecture Recap

August 26, 2009 CDIA was fortunate enough to have veteran creative director Keith Lane give a presentation and it proved to be quite an interesting evening. "There's nobody I enjoy working with more," said Rob Van Petten of Keith, and it was clear that he meant it. Much of the evening proved to be a frenetic game of musical microphones between Keith and Rob talking about how the industry used to be, how it's changed, and where it's going in the future. Read On...

Web Development

Ethan Marcotte: Comps vs. Coders - Recap

June 25, 2009 For anyone that wasn't able to attend Ethan Marcotte's dazzling presentation that pits Comps vs. Coders, you missed out on an entertaining information session.   Ethan has graced CDIA twice in as many years, and has shown that he really knows how to simplify the complex nature of design and development to current students, alumni, and faculty of CDIA. Through his hands-on experience with sites including the Sundance Film Festival, New York Read On...

Photography

Michel Tcherevkoff Lecture Recap

April 27, 2009 An extraordinary event happened over the last couple days in Studio C of CDIA's Waltham campus.  About 100 students and faculty were treated on Wednesday night to an entertaining and inspiring talk by the renowned photographer/artist Michel Tcherevkoff.  For three-plus hours, Michel, as he encourages his new CDIA friends to call him, took us on a visual journey of his career's work.  To start, he showed us interesting composites an Read On...

Photography

Skip Cohen Marketing Talk at CDIA

January 28, 2009 There were 50-60 people at last night's event, which sadly is a good turnout for a marketing program.  Based on the number of photographers who simply don't pay enough attention to marketing and self-promotion, a lot more of you should have made it! However, to those "brave souls" who joined us – you were terrific. Just the fact that you made it to a program on marketing, says that in the next year you're going to be far ahe Read On...