http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:01 EST Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:01 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Pro 4.33-en 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2010/02/free_flash_training.html Our friends over at the Rich Media Institute are in feeling in a generous mood these days and are offering two free online Flash courses this months to any and all takers.Through Feb. 15th, R. Blank's Comprehensive ActionScript 3 will... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:33:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2010:/aquentblog//11.2278 Tim Donnelly Career Flash Interactive Design Local Networking Events Practice: Interactive Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/12/5_things_on_papervision3d_to_know_before_you_start.html Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:32:45 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2239 Joe Rinaldi Design Digital Flash Interactive Design Practice: Interactive Design Web Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/09/flashapaloozastock_iv.html Yes, there's still time to register for the Aquent-sponsored Flashapaloozastock IV, in Venice this Saturday.Just hit the FITC site and register.Flash and Flex presentations. Street party. Workshops.All for free!If you're going, we'll see you Saturday!... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:45:45 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2197 Tim Donnelly Aquent Aquent News Events Flash Networking Practice: Interactive Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/are_web_talent_sitting_pretty.html Aquent partnered with Monster to uncover the key to "attracting, keeping and developing Web talent in an uncertain economy" and we presented our findings in an AMA webcast today (I've embedded the slides below for your viewing convenience). It would... Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:18:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/thetalentblog//5.1954 Matthew Grant Careering Design Management Flash Freelancing Interactive Design Job Search Market Research Trends Web Analytics http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/getting_horizontal_web-wise.html @iamkhayyam turned me on to this inspiredology post featuring intriguing examples of "horizontal" web design (i.e., sites that scroll from right to left instead of up and down). Checking them out made me realize a) that I don't see this... Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:28:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/thetalentblog//5.1941 Matthew Grant Agencies Careering Design Flash Interactive Design Job Search http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/interactive_design_is_a_team_sport.html I wrote a post here advocating greater transparency in the staffing business and someone left the following comment: "Graphic design is a tough business. That being said, seeing positions posted for a web designer that knows Flash, web design, and... Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:19:15 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/thetalentblog//5.1927 Matthew Grant Design Design Management Flash Interactive Design Marketing Management Project Management Web Analytics http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/attract_without_distracting_the_challenge_of_interactive_design.html Talent Spotlight Jon Billett is a designer represented by Aquent's Philadelphia office who has spent the last several years making the transition from print to web. Of the work he's done that you may have seen are a set of... Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:55:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/thetalentblog//5.1923 Matthew Grant Careering Creativity Design Flash Interactive Design Talent Talent Spotlight http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/mike_slone_captains_aquentnike_dream_team.html This post was written by Aquent's Alex Weaver. This is a picture of him. Athletes from the local T-ball team to the NBA rely on Nike to outfit them with stylish uniforms. To make that process easier and more reliable,... Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:21:18 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/thetalentblog//5.1912 Flash Interactive Design New vs Old Media Talent Talent Spotlight http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/semi-overwhelming_list_of_resources_for_designers.html Thanks to a "re-tweet" by DamienBasile of something ur-tweeted by adellecharles, I present you with this super-extensive and semi-overwhelming list of design resources compiled by a young designer in Hawaii. Some of this stuff I'd heard of, some not. Still,... Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:13:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/thetalentblog//5.1668 Matthew Grant Blogging Creativity Design Flash Interactive Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/the_promise_and_peril_of_3d_in.html Back in the days when Second Life was being hyped as the future of the web, Clay Shirky quipped that "3D is a crappy way to search." I totally agree, in part because I've often had the experience of looking... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:11:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/thetalentblog//5.344 Matthew Grant Agencies Content and Content Management Design Flash Interactive Design Trends http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/what_do_web_designers_want.html Greg Kuchmek, who is represented by Aquent's DC office, has been working on the web since 1994. That's when he was hired to help produce a webzine, Stim, started by Prodigy. [Editor's Note: For an interesting flashback to 1996, read... Thu, 15 May 2008 02:29:43 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/thetalentblog//5.324 Matthew Grant Aquent Careering Flash Interactive Design Interviewing Talent Talent Spotlight Trends http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/aquentcom_wishes_you_happy_hal.html Aquent held a contest a few weeks back inviting designers to create a Halloween-themed logo treatment on our homepage. We got about 40 responses and the winning entry, created by Kevin Bonixe, a native of Massachusetts but currently a resident... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:51:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.259 Matthew Grant Aquent Creativity Flash Talent http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/flash_fixation_and_flushing.html Because I don't live in New York, and have thus not yet seen the giant two-storied rears smiling down on passers-by from high above Times Square, I had to discover the Washlet via AdCritic Interactive. Of course, after that... Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:30:36 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.217 Matthew Grant Advertising Flash Viral Marketing http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/actionscript_php_music_cool.html OK, W+K's new site was an interesting though kind of messy and, dare I say, "ugly," use of Actionscript and database-driven dynamism. By contrast check out this site created by burst Labs. Burst is a company that produces/composes/records/licenses music for... Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:07:35 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.211 Matthew Grant Creativity Flash Interactive Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/art_from_error_actionscript_2.html Here's a strange but cool use of Actionscript. It's called glich-gen and, as the name would suggest, uses glitches in image files to generate very curious patterns accompanied by unsettling ambient noises. (Thanks to the folks at turbulence.org for... Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:19:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.207 Matthew Grant Design Flash Interactive Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/5_things_about_wieden_kennedy.html 1. I checked out their "new" website (launched in April) the other day and was struck by the Yugo Nakamura-esque look and feel of it all. (I was trying to find out if he had anything to do with... Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:44:27 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.204 Matthew Grant Advertising Agencies Flash Interactive Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/time_machine_created_in_flash.html Attention Flash wizards and wannabes! The BBC brings us this interactive timeline of British History. It's a cool and slickly designed use of Flash, Check it out. You just might learn something! (For instance: Did you know that Bishop... Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:53:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/thetalentblog//5.201 Matthew Grant Flash History Interactive Design