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Sunday

Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic

Sunday, March 11th @ 11:30 am

Bryan Veloso  Avalonstar
Jeff Croft   Web Designer,   World Online
Veerle Pieters   CEO/Graphic/Web Designer,   Duoh! nv
Kelsey Ruger   Dir Tech & Creative Svcs,   The Moleskin 

http://designworkflows.campfirenow.com/70269 – session chat (?)

Anatomy of a web design
no formula for this
designers have diverse set of skillsets that help you work

Have to have fun at what you do and have a life outside of what you do!

Typical day:
Most need music playing when doing design
Different environments to work – depends on you.

What influenced how you work and get through the day?
Veerle: previously print designer so internet changed everything

GTD – Getting Things Done – must stick to it for task management

Use basecamp to manage projects and set milestones sketchbooks

When working at home pretend like they don’t work at home (get dressed go to “work”)

Veerle: Culture comes into play – americans are better about feedback – warmer. Time difference makes it harder.

People Influence
Anyone around you influences design
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Left Session Early

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Sunday

Game Perverts: A Robot, a DS and a Dot Matrix Printer Menage a Trois

Sunday, March 11th @ 10:00 am

Rodney Gibbs  Amaze Entertainment (acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment)
Rich LeGrand   Pres,   Charmed Labs
Bob Sabiston   Pres,   Flat Black Films
Paul Slocum  Tree Wave 

Le Grand – Charmed Labs Robotics
Hacking the gameboy
Why? Wanted to build a robot, needed cheap computer to run it (motors controls etc.)
Nobody would make a computer for <$100
GBA fit the bill

Created the Xport to get info out of the GBA
The Xport took reverse engineering of the game port.
Possible issues in selling the device (patents, copyright, etc.)

Contracted with botball.org – nonprofit robotics competition for high school students

Slocum – 3Wave (band)
Uses old computer equipment and video game equipment (atari, printers, commodore) from the 80’s to make music
Epson from 1985 reprogrammed firmware, sound generated from print head hitting the paper

Atari 2600 used to make sound/video (game: Combat)

Sabiston
Nintendo DS Homebrew App
Paint animation software for DS.
Can save drawings/animations straight to website w/DS wifi
Use DS mic for recording audio for animations

Uses app to make large prints of pixel images

GBAdev.orgDSdev.org