Mar
12
2009
10:06pm posted by: larissa
This will be my fourth year in a row for the South by South West Interactive Festival (SXSW). (I’m almost a veteran!)
A nice group of the AgencyNet crew will be attending so if you see us, be sure to say hello!
A few of the events I will be attending are:
- When: Saturday, 14th of March, 6pm to 8pm
- What: The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) will host an evening of conversation and drinks
- Where: The Gingerman - 304 W 4th St, Austin, TX 78701
This is a great opportunity to meet current and prospective SoDA members as well as discuss the current market and trends in the digital space. We will be giving away drink tickets and an iPod touch!
- When: Sunday, March 15th. Come and go from 2 pm to 5 pm
- What: Hosted by SoDA. Walk in/out of a roundtable-like discussion with industry peers
- Where: SXSW Mezzanine Room 7
This year’s theme: “The Inflection Point — How the recent changes in technology, culture
and economics are changing the game.” Join us in a casual setting and lend your thoughts
and opinions to these important discussions.
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Sep
16
2008
12:26pm posted by: larissa
Finding a reputable web designer or programmer can be a mind boggling process for those who don’t work in the digital space. When I get emails asking if I know any good web designers, I usually direct people to the same list of job boards.
Finding a good fit for your needs is a challenge but it all starts with the right job platform. The best interactive job boards are a niche industry and well-known within the interactive community.
Below, I’ve compiled a list of the most reputable job boards that target high-end talent and offer a variety of opportunities. Job post duration is 30 days unless otherwise noted and most are free for applicants with a few exceptions. Cost is on a per job post basis.
*(Alex Rank as of 9/15/08 & the Craigslist rank is based on the root URL not the job section.)
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| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
1. Jobs on the Wall
This board is fairly new, thus few jobs are listed as of today but it is hosted by a popular web resource. |
Freelance - $50
Fulltime - $75
(30 Days) |
80,800 |
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| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 2. Smashing Jobs
Hosted by one of the most popular resources in the interactive industry. |
Freelance - $100
Fulltime - $200
(30 Days) |
11,687 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 3. Krop
Krop has a prestigious reputation for high quality talent. |
$199 (30 Days) |
74,060 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 4. Freelance Switch Jobs
Freelance Switch is for freelance jobs only and it costs applicants $7 a month to apply to jobs. |
FREE* (30 days) |
123,552 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 5. FWA Job Board
FWA is well known for attracting some of the best Adobe Flash designers and developers. |
Approx $105.14
£58.75 (GBP)
(30 days) |
64,753 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 6. 37 Signals Job Board
The 37 Signals board attracts the cream of the crop because it’s featured prominently on three industry-leading sites. |
$300 (30 Days) |
78,242 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 7. Crunch Board
Leading companies, such as Facebook, MySpace, CNET, Yahoo, Microsoft, Digg and others that have posted jobs with CrunchBoard. |
$ 200 (30 Days) |
70,352 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
8. Wired Jobs
Wired offers a discount for the more jobs posted and features an extremely high Alexa rank. |
$50 (30 Days)
($10 add’l cats) |
877 |
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| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 9. Authentic Jobs
This board is a targeted destination for standards-aware designers and developers and the companies seeking to hire them. They also offer a money back guarentee. |
Full time - $250
Freelance - $75
(30 days) |
64,096 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 10. Post a Position
This is powered by advertising so posting jobs is free. However, it doesn’t have the quantity of posts and traffic that other job boards offer. |
FREE (30 days) |
2,376,937 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 11. Craigslist
Craigslist is more popular than the “big dog” employment sites but tends to attract a poorer quality of skill-sets. |
Varies by City
($0-$75)
(30 days) |
37*
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 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 12. Boxes + Arrows Job Board
This board has 20,000 unique visitors a week, a newsletter reach of 6,500 good addresses, and over 17,000 rss subscribers. |
$250 (30 Days) |
66,606 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 13. Coroflot
Allows designers to post their own portfolios. And they offer discounts for bulk listings. Postings stay live for 90 days. |
$265 (90 days) |
15,580 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 14. Read Write Web Jobs
Read Write Web is a premium tech weblog, thus the jobs tend to focus on technology and programming more than design. |
$99 (30 Days) |
39,066 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 15. Open Source Flash Jobs
This board offers a discount for bulk postings and targets Flash designers and developers. |
$100/post |
$25 add’l cats
(30 days) |
53,888 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 16. AIGA Design Job Board
Employers can view portfolios and attract some high quality designers through AIGA’s prominent reputation in the design community. |
Members - $95
Non Members - $195
(30 days) |
310,264 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 17. Sitepoint MarketPlace (looking to hire)
Sitepoint is a popular publisher and online resource for the interactive industry. |
$10 - $50 (30 Days)
(Cost varies by options) |
4,077 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 18. Slash Dot Jobs
The tagline is “Jobs for Nerds”. Need it say more? There are discounts on bulk postings. |
$400 (30 Days) |
6,238 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 19. Fresh Web Jobs
This board is featured on several popular web sites such as Smashing Magazine, Freelance Switch, Logopond and CSS Remix. |
$75 (30 Days) |
256,123 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 20. Programmer, Meet Designer
This is a site for programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and writers to find each other and work together to create websites that look and function great. |
FREE (30 Days) |
239,532 |
 |
| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 21. Indeed
One Search. All Jobs. This isn’t a job board but it’s a good place to do some research because it scours the web for all Jobs. |
N/A (30 days) |
949 |
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| Title + Description |
Cost |
Alexa Rank |
| 23. Just Tech Jobs
This board tends to attract developers and programmers not designers. |
$279 (30 Days) |
217,964 |
If you want to start your own job board you can get open source software here.
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Jul
30
2008
03:10pm posted by: larissa
I’m a sucker for bringing art to the web. Especially when it’s hand made and not 100% computer generated. There is something really refreshing about the good old-fashioned paper, clay, glue and popsicle stick kind of stuff - visuals that are not created solely in 3D software or Photoshop.
In researching this topic, I discovered that the use of mixed media in interactive sites is pretty rare. When done well, mixed-media can make for a very unique interactive experience. Most often, mixed-media sites result in miniature sets or environments. Below are some examples of interactive sites and inspiring mixed media artists.
Pencil Rebel
Pencil Rebel
FWA’s site of the day, from July 20th, is a great example that brings tangibility to the web. Pencil Rebel is an experimental site that uses mixed media and flash to create a unique interactive experience. It is full of little puzzles and activities that might challenge you.
My (subjective) opinion doesn’t love the execution or style 100% , but I do love the interactive treasure hunt concept. There are some usability issues when it comes to interacting with things such as a lack of obvious hover states and interaction lag times. But overall, it’s a pretty fun concept.
Lipton Clear Green (NL)
Lipton Clear Green (NL)
Lipton Clear Green says that Lipton Clear Green Tea makes life’s difficult situations more bearable. It features a lot claymation, found objects and paper cut-outs. I wish it had more interaction within the scenes, however. This project was done by the Dutch agency CCCP, located in Amsterdam.
Adi’s Workshop for Adidas
Adi's Workshop for Adidas
Adi’s Workshop was painstakingly constructed in stop-motion. This film starts at the very beginning, with company co-founder Adi Dassler at his desk in a humble workshop. The narrator begins to speak of Dassler’s achievements, from ensuring the German football team was properly shod in the 1954 World Cup final to providing Ilie Nastase footwear for his tantrums. This is a beautiful example using history, mixed-media and the web to create an emotional connection with a well-known brand.
Get The Glass
Get The Glass
If you haven’t heard of Get The Glass by now, I’m pretty sure you might be living under a rock. Basically, it is a 3D board game for Got Milk. The object of the game is to get the Adachi family around the board and into Fort Fridge so that they can “Get the Glass”.
Get The Glass was first concepted in a 3D rendering, which Fantasy Interactive used as a guide to build the real-life miniature model. Check out some of the behind the scenes photos here.
Little People - A Tiny Street Art Project
Little People - A Tiny Street Art Project
Little People - A Tiny Street Art Project is all about little hand painted people left in London, to tend for themselves. Need I say more? This is just amazingly innovative. Just imagine stumbling upon one of these little miniature scenes. What would you do, leave it alone or take it home?
Thomas Doyle
Artist - Thomas Doyle
This is an artist’s portfolio of some mind-blowing work. Imagine how cool Doyle’s art would look in a digital interactive environment. Doyle’s work mines the debris of memory through the creation of intricate worlds sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller. Often sealed under glass, the works depict the remnants of things past—whether major, transformational experiences, or the quieter moments that resonate loudly throughout a life. In much the way the mind recalls events through the fog of time, the works distort reality through a warped and dreamlike lens.
Lori Nix Photography
Lori Nix Photography
Lori Nix is an artist who bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas—a place that seems to attract disasters like no other. In her series titled Accidentally Kansas Nix creates scenes of floods, tornadoes, snow storms, lightning strikes, and insect infestations, all epic and defining events recalled from her formative years in rural Kansas.
Look at Book
Week 9 by artist: Duke Riley
This site, Look at Book, is about a sketch book which was shared between 4 different artists for 36 weeks - two in Brooklyn and two in Belfast. Each artists had 5 days to complete a spread inspired by the one which preceded it where a small part of each entry was shared with the next page.
Collage books are a big trend in the art and craft world. They often include found objects, paint and embedding photos/ images in the paint. I have one myself which I have been adding to over the last 3 years and it’s a great way to make some art when you have limited time. For collage inspiration check out the altered book group on flickr.
City Shrinker
City Shrinker
Fooled ya, didn’t it? City Shrinker is not comprised of miniature towns but photography by Ben Thomas from Melbourne, Australia. He manipulates his photography making what’s real, look like toys.
Why Mixed Media?
The web is full of computer generated design. By creating something with your hands you make it your own and viewers will stop to ponder weather your hand-made creation was a digital master-piece or a piece of reality. Getting your hands dirty is fun.
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Mar
1
2008
12:59pm posted by: larissa
With FOWA this weekend twitter has picked up steam and was very busy with people commenting live from the event. It was really cool to follow along. I assume we will see Twitter jamming again with SXSW less than a week away. This year looks to be bigger and better than last year. SXSW is an excellent conference to get a handle on current trends in the digital landscape.
You can also follow me on twitter, if you like. Twitter has come a really long way from last year and added a lot of new features.
I’m bummed that my panel is in the same slot which my favorite blogger is on: Dooce - “Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program (Margaret Mason)”. I will be missing out on that one but here’s a short list of some panels that I might try to attend. *Mental Overload*
- 10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment (Bryan Mason)
- Scope Creep and Other Villains (James Archer)
- Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce (Tony Hsieh)
- Worst Website Ever: That’s So Crazy, It Just Might Work (Andy Baio)
- FM 2.0: The Future of Internet Radio (David Hyman)
- A General Theory of Creative Relativity (Jim Coudal)
- A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe? (Corey Chandler)
- Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts (Michael Lopp)
- Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs (Peter Kirn)
- Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design (Jennifer Fraser)
- Social Design Strategies (Emily Chang)
- Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users (Kathy Sierra)
- A Conversation with Michael Eisner
- Hollywood and Design and Literature: Just Who is Inspiring Who? (Evan Hirsch)
- Video Production for the Web & Mobile Devices (Hank Blumenthal)
- What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones (Anastasia Goodstein)
- What User Generated Video Means to Word of Mouth Advertising (Daphne Kwon)
- How Many Clicks to the Center of…? (Conleth O’Connell)
- A Critical Look At OpenID (Jason Levitt)
- The Science of Designing Interactions (Andreas Weigend)
- AJAX and Flash Mistakes (Jonathan Boutelle)
- Content Management System Roundup (George DeMet)
- Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)
- Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting! (Annalee Newitz)
- The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives (Derek Powazek)
And yes… There are LOTS more.
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