Announcements: May 2007
Michael Niggel
Our May meeting will be held at 6:30 on Tuesday, May 29, at Jordan
Silverman Photography: 266 Pine Street, Burlington, VT 05401
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=44.471475,-73.215069
MAY MEETING
Color Management (Julie Ogletree, Sappi Fine Paper)
This presentation highlights Sappi's latest publication: "The Standard
II." The presentation starts with a segment about Color Theory
(compression), then the focus shifts to the 3 sections in the book:
Four Color Plus (techniques to augment 4-color process), Apples to
Apples (color calibration), and Expanded Vision (techniques to expand
the color gamut).
GET MORE FROM VDP: PLEASE RESPOND!
We've received a number of messages suggesting improvements we could
make in serving the design community, and we're listening. We'd like
to know how we can better serve the community as a whole. Please help
us by responding to a few questions. Your feedback is very important.
* Attending the monthly meetings can be challenging. What would most
encourange you to attend?
- Alternate locations for meetings? Alternate times? Day of the week?
- Additional networking opportunities? What might you suggest?
- More interesting/relevant discussion or presentation topics? What
would you be interested in?
- Something else?
* In order to have a variety of topics and speakers, we need your help
in contacting interested professionals.
- Would you be interested in giving a presentation or leading a
discussion?
- Do you have any connections for interesting presenters?
- Would you be willing to help make connections and schedule
presenters, discussions and/or events?
* VDP can make better use of its website, designvermont.org.
- What content and materials relative to our design community would
you like to see posted?
- If support materials for the meetings were posted on the site,
would you refer to them?
- If the montly sessions were recorded and posted as an audio
"podcast", would you listen to it?
- Any additional features you would like to see?
* Vermont Design Professionals operates without formal membership,
making it free and open to all. This means that we also have no budget
and really need your help in order to be successful. By participating,
we can bring recognition of our work to the community, improve our
skills, expand our networks, and further our professional goals. By
encouraging others to participate, we are all brought more
opportunity.
- Is anything holding you back from encouraging other to subscribe to
the announcement list, or passing along the announcements to others?
You can reply directly to michael...@gmail.com . Feel free to
include any other thoughts, ideas, or observations that were not
specifically mentioned.
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 26: Variable Data Printing (John Monson, Springfield Printing)
You may have heard of variable data printing, but what is it, exactly?
John Monson of Springfield Printing explains what it is, and more
importantly, how to use it. In addition, this presentation will cover
other 1 to 1 marketing topics such as personalized URL's. To learn
more about the equipment involved before the presentation, visit HP's
website and search for the Indigo 5000 Digital Press. (http://
search.hp.com/query.html?qt=%22indigo+5000%22)
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Michael Niggel
Membership Chair, AIGA: NH/VT
Web Designer
Paul Kaza Associates
http://www.paulkaza.com/