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SENIOR VISUAL DESIGNER

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:28:16 +0200

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Senior Visual Designer - Bellevue, WA

Qualifying for this position relies on real world appliedexperience and therefore you must provide an online portfolio that demonstrates;

* Define the visual design aesthetics, principles and language fora new search based product line.

* Help manage external contractors for a series of new visualdesigns.

* Identify other visual user interface requirements and definedesign approach.

* Create conceptual designs and suggest product direction based onfield research and visual requirements.

* Create guidelines and design language for communications thatexpress a new brand.

* Develop visual design prototypes ranging from comps tointeractive mock-ups.

* Develop visual interface specifications.

* Work with interaction designers to integrate visual andinteraction design.

* Work with usability leads to design and observe usabilitystudies.

* Work closely with interaction designers, marketing and engineersin an Agile (scrum) development process to deliver products.Required Skills, Education & Experience:

* 5+ years of web visual design experience, with 3 or more of thosespent on product user interfaces.

* Bachelors or Master's degree in Graphic Design, IndustrialDesign, Communication Arts, Fine Art or related field.

* Self-starter that is able to work both independently as well ascollaboratively with cross-functional teams.

* A strong portfolio of work with a mix of online interfaces,websites, and online branding.

* Commanding knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks,InDesign among others

* Fluent proficiency in Flash- proficiency in Action Scripting abig plus

* Working knowledge of Silverlight a big plus.

* Knowledge of capabilities and limitations of Web technologiessuch as HTML, XML, JavaScript, Flash, CSS, etc.

* Experience in conceptualizing promotional creative

* Strong layout, typography, color theory, and interaction designskills

For more information or to apply for this vacancy please contactAntonia Novak on 425.635.0300 or email

Antonia.Novak@greythorninc.com

Greythorn is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmation Action Employer. Toview our Equal Opportunity Employment Policy please

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Up to funny business

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:27:55 +0200

Like many actors, Butler and Hope know all too well about working odd jobs to pay the bills. Although Don Angel's entrepreneurialspirit is exaggerated to the point of near madness, Butlerremembers similarly wild schemes from their post-student days.

"When Wayne was starting out as an actor, he taught himself graphicdesign," says Butler. "There's a little bit of Don Angel in theturning the dollar aspect. Wayne did a lot of catalogue work."

Says Hope: "The first couple of years out of university was aboutstraddling that world where you couldn't get much acting work. "Itwas a very earnest and poor phase of my life. I was pedallingfairly fast and I just gave myself a title. I just said, 'Yeah, I'ma graphic designer'. And of course I wasn't. I had a Mac withPagemaker. And so there's a lot of that in Don. He just says he'sall these people and says it with conviction and there's a lot ofdelight in that."

Where Hope pretended to be a graphic designer to earn a buck, Donreally believes his own lies.

"I love the complication of someone who believes in himselfabsolutely," says Hope. "Don's blind to corruption. He thinkseveryone's out to get everyone and it's who wins in the end ...He's not passive aggressive, he's overt. We're playing with thenotion of denial - in which degree can a person live with heavydenial? We think there's great comedy to be had out of not knowing.It's a facade. He's a true believer that he helps carry theeconomy. He really thinks he has made it big."

The theme of the disenfranchised modern male is one to which bothHope and Gyngell can relate.

"It's easy to identify yourself solely through work," says Hope."It's easy to say it's about putting food on the table but it'squite a shallow pursuit, really, defining oneself through one's joband I think that male dislocation as society's shifting to havingan emotional life as well, for a lot of men, is completely foreign.It's far easier to operate in a more simple mode: I'm growing abusiness, I've got a plan."

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Local News & Events

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:27:35 +0200

TechRx provides computer-based technology to small and medium-sizedbusinesses..

Full Steam Marketing wins three awards

Salinas-based Full Steam Marketing & Design has been honored withthree professional awards for its graphic design work with ChiquitaBrands LLC.

The international produce grower and marketer chose Full Steam tocreate point-of-purchase signage for Chiquita's Fruit Bites line ofpackaged fruit and vegetable snacks.

Full Steam earned a first place Apogee Award, platinum HermesCreative Award and silver Communicator Award for the design of thepoint-of-purchase system.

Full Steam's graphic design team incorporated Chiquita'sestablished branding elements into an original design concept formerchandising displays.

LOCAL NEWS & EVENTS

appears daily in Business. We welcome information and photosregarding people, events and other aspects of Salinas-areabusiness, including housing, careers and personal finance. Send ina timely manner in care of LOCAL BUSINESS: by fax to 754-4293; bye-mail to newsroom@Salinas. gannett.com; or by mail or in person toThe Salinas Californian, P.O. Box 81091, Salinas, CA 93912.Questions: 754-4260.

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Creative Agency Takes the Spoon + Fork O...

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:27:13 +0200

New York, NY, August 27, 2008 (PR.com) Spoon+Fork, a New York City based boutique creative agencyoffers a special recipe of growth-driven solutions. Rika Koreeda,Pritsana Kootint and Chez Bryan Ong founded the up-and-coming shop,and from inception, the innovative visionaries have been dedicatedto feeding those hungry for fresh insight alongside a healthyportion of delicious design.

Spoon+Fork offers the arts, advertising, consumer brand andnon-profit worlds a complete range of creative services--Design:art direction, book design, corporate identity, editorial design,event design, package design, print design, retail creativeservices, and web design; Development: brand development, naming,product development; and Creative Consulting: creative direction,product scouting, project management and talent scouting.

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Battle Creek Unlimited Supports Web Deve...

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:52 +0200

Battle Creek Unlimited Supports Web Development Group 'corePHP'

Battle Creek Unlimited (BCU) has added another business to itsgrowing Fort Custer Industrial Park complex. The new tenant is'corePHP', a full service website development, graphic design andprinting services company. 'corePHP' provides expertise inweb-based programming and content management systems for both smallbusinesses and Fortune 500 companies. Battle Creek Unlimited is theeconomic development organization that works with the City ofBattle Creek to transform and diversify the Battle Creek economy,in part through developing Fort Custer Industrial Park.

Battle Creek, Mich. PRWEB

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A flair for the theatrical, the tiki loo...

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:31 +0200

But at the spring Macy's flower show at Union Square in SanFrancisco, the mannequins, by London manufacturer Adel Rootstein of Display Mannequins Limited, had faces that depicted realpeople. And since the faces were of Spaniards, think chiseledhauteur. Alongside Spanish-themed table settings, the dummiesappeared in toreador and flamenco dancer costumes.

An equal amount of stylish theater can be expected at Macy's 26thannual Passport fashion show next month, an AIDS fundraiser andhomage to the gifted, exuberant artist

Keith Haring, who died of the disease in 1990.

Macy's representative Puja Sabharwal says the reception area at Fort Mason Center's Festival Pavilionwill be festooned with reproductions of Haring's artwork. Thefestival's designers, directed by Lynne Winslow, will replicate a New York City subway station where Haringperformed a conceptual piece in which he painted himself "into awall."

A video of the performance will be projected in a party spacedesigned by Winslow. Through either coincidence or synchronicity,Tuesday night's pre-party at the Clift Hotel for the Passportevents Sept. 17 and 18 was at the hotel's Spanish Suite.General-admission tickets for Passport are $85. Other tickets forthe fundraiser, including Thursday's gala, range from $200 to$1,000. Details:

links.sfgate.com/ZEQE

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Drawing from experience

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:11 +0200

A graphic design class at Masconomet continues to help studentsgain real world experience while creating a relationship with localnon-profit organizations. Beginning this year, a sister programwill follow the same charitable process to show students howit’s done online.

The graphic design classes, taught by Stacy Mannheim, introducecomputer design to students and eventually offer them a glimpseinto the life of a professional graphic designer. Ever since theclass began, students have been working with local non-profits,such as the Tri-Town Council and the Boxford Athletic Association,to create posters and advertisements for events and programs.

“It give the kids a great experience…and satisfies theneeds of a client,” Mannheim said.

Mannheim said the class is important because it shows students“what a real design project entails.”

And this year, the art department will be merging with instructorsin computer management to launch an all new Web design class, wherestudents will learn Internet programming, such as HTML, as well asskills and practices needed to create graphic designs for Webpages.

Both Mannheim and Art Department Chairman Terry Meinelt are hopingthey can offer the same type of professional experience provided inthe graphic design class, by working with local non-profit groupsthat are in need of Web design.

As the graphic design program has been with Masconomet for manyyears, so has the creation of partnerships with the community.

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StockLayouts Offers Subscriptions to Its...

uebdd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:25:50 +0200

Subscribers pay an upfront fee for convenient access to the entireStockLayouts template library, enabling them to create printedmarketing materials for more than 21 business categories. TemplateLibrary Subscriptions are available for 3-Month ($299), 1-Year($799) and 2-Year ($1,299) terms and include full download accessto the growing template library. The ready-to-print templates areavailable as fully editable files formatted for Quark Press, AdobeInDesign, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Microsoft Publisher,Microsoft Word and Apple iWork Pages.

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Low-energy, long-lasting LED lights beco...

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:08:50 +0200

The future is looking brighter forLEDs, the next generation of energy-efficientlighting

Prices are dropping for LEDs, orlight-emitting diodes, although they still cost much more thanincandescent or compact fluorescent bulbs. Rising energy pricesalso have helped raise public awareness of the miserly LEDs, whichare available in an increasing variety of lightingproducts.

This month lighting designer John Caleopened Green Light, a store that specializes in LEDs, in downtownOverland Park. In addition to building custom lighting pieces, Calecan retrofit any existing light fixture to use LEDs, starting at$30 plus parts. Green Light also sells LEDbulbs.

“LEDs are great for accentlighting, task lighting and indirect lighting,” saysCale, who has worked as a lighting designer at several localstores, including Western Chandelier and the Light Shop;They don’t have the heat issue ofincandescents and they don’t have the mercury issue ofcompact fluorescents, which makes it challenging to dispose ofCFLs.

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Merck KGaA aims to be 'among market lead...

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:08:31 +0200

FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) -

Merck

KGaA aims to take a leading position in the future market fororganic light emitting diodes (OLED), which may become the newtechnology for displays in mobile phones, computers and TVs, chiefexecutive Karl-Ludwig Kley told Financial Times Deutschland.

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White LED Bulb consumes 3.3 W.

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:08:10 +0200

Press Release

Release date: August 15, 2008

High-Power White LED MR16/GU10 Bulb Consumes 3.3 Watts

TORRANCE, CA - August 15, 2008 - LEDtronics?introduces an additionto its line of drop-in replacement MR16-styled/GU10-based LED bulbs: High-powered 3.3-Watt LED lamps. Two major advantagesdistinguish this new bulb over other GMR16 LED lamps. First, it isengineered to handle the variations in voltages that may accompany"noisy" or "dirty" AC (but not DC) power supplies, eliminatingpotential burnout from incoming voltage that is higher than thelamp's capacity. Second, the new 3.3-Watt MR16/GU10 bulb eliminatesthe need to stock a variety of LED MR16/GU10 bulbs to coordinatewith different voltages that power sources of 80-260 volts AC maypresent, simplifying procurement and inventory procedures.

High-powered 3.3-watt LED MR16/GU10 bulbs (Series Number GMR16-5W)have the following characteristics: Bi-pin bases just like standardincandescent MR16/GU10-based bulbs, and light outputs of 123 lumensusing only 3.3 watts with input voltage range of 80-260VAC. Thebulb features three High-Power LEDs and is offered in Warm White(3000 Kelvin) color temperature and in 20?spotlight beam angle.With factory approval, MR16/GU10 3.3W bulbs may be ordered in otherLED colors, voltages and beam angles. They carry a three-yearlimited warranty. Unlike halogen MR16 lamps that create potentiallydamaging heat and have caused fires when accidentally coming incontact with other objects, LED-sourced MR16/GU10 bulbs generateless heat while operating, and pose no threat to the objects theyare illuminating or to their surroundings.

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Surface-Mount LEDs have thin, low-power...

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:43 +0200

Press Release

Release date: August 22, 2008

Kingbright Unveils 0.25mm Ultra-Thin 0603 SMD LEDs

Kingbright Corporation, a TS 16949, ISO 9001, ISO 14001 certifiedLED manufacturer unveils its latest innovation in developing one ofindustry's thinnest 0603 SMD LED with utmost reliability -Kingbright 0.25mm Ultra-Thin 0603 SMD LEDs (APG1608 package). Theelement's compact, ultra-thin design (1.6mm x 0.8mm x 0.25mm) withwide viewing angle of 120?extends significant advantages forbacklighting, indicators, membrane applications, further enhancingdesign versatility and maneuverability for design engineersdeveloping miniature electronic devices. Available in blue (470nm),green (525nm & 571nm), yellow (589nm), orange (605nm), and red(631nm), this vibrant and low power consumption device operatesunder current as low as 1mA and meets industrial temperatureratings of -40C to +85C. The distinctive package further provides aremarkable zener diode option (part number APG1608PBAZC-RV &APG1608VGAZC-RV) to withstand ESD voltage up to 8000V and providesuperior protection against ESD (ElectroStatic Discharge) damagesat the production line. The product is sp ecially designed forautomatic pick-and-place mounting process to reduce manufacturingcosts. For more information, please contact Kingbright Corporation;225 Brea Canyon Road, City of Industry, CA 91789; Tel: (909)468-0500; e-mail: sales@KingbrightUSA.com; Website:

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Kyosemi Introduces High Responsivity UV...

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:07:12 +0200

Kyosemi Corporation has been operating as an R&D-oriented companycommitted to assisting the progress of leading-edge customers withoptoelectronic technology for the past three decades. KyosemiCorporation designs, develops and manufactures a variety ofstandard and custom high-quality devices such as LEDs andphotodiodes for optical communication and optical measurement &control and also spherical micro solar cells (registered asSphelar(R)) for eco-friendly photovoltaic applications. Moreinformation is available at

http://www.kyosemi.co.jp

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OSRAM Achieves Quantum Leap in Brightnes...

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:06:51 +0200

Press Release

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH

Release date: July 21, 2008

OSRAM Achieves Quantum Leap in Brightness and Efficiency of White LEDs

Santa Clara, CA (July 21, 2008) - By improving all the technologiesinvolved in the manufacture of LEDs, OSRAM development engineershave achieved new records for the brightness and efficiency ofwhite LEDs in the laboratory. Under standard conditions with anoperating current of 350 mA, brightness peaked at a value of 155lm, and efficiency at 136 lm/W. In generating these results,researchers used white prototype LEDs with 1 mm-square chips. Thelight produced had a color temperature of 5000K, with colorcoordinates at 0.349/0.393 (cx/cy).

The key to OSRAM's success was the efficient interplay among allthe advances made in materials and technologies. A perfectlymatched system of optimized chip technology, a highly advanced andextremely efficient light converter, and a special high-performancepackage all combined to produce the world record performanceresults.

Potential applications for this high-performance LED technologyinclude general illumination, the automotive sector, and anyapplication that calls for large, high-power LEDs. Thesesemiconductor light sources are also suitable for high operatingcurrents. At 1.4 A, they can produce up to 500 lm of white light.This means that in the future the LEDs can also be used forprojection applications as blue and green chip versions.

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Nanosphere-coated LEDs emit white light

uebdd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:06:28 +0200

Anthony Choi and his team at the University of Hong Kong hasdeveloped a smart coating of green and orange-red fluorescentnanospheres, which emits white light when applied to blue(470 nm) LEDs. The dye-loaded polystyrene particlesself-assemble into an opal-like photonic structure that helps tochannel more light out of the solid-state devices and provides asmooth emission profile (Nanotechnology 19355203).

Typically, chip makers obtain white light by coating blue LEDs witha phosphor layer or by optically mixing red (R), green (G) and blue(B) emitters. The RGB approach is more efficient in terms of lightoutput, but combining the light in the right proportions to avoidcolour separation can present a challenge. Conversely, thephosphorous coating is much easier to use, but gives a reducedlight output due to the energy losses incurred during spectral downconversion.

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