Summer Internship Opportunity

BookGlutton.com (located in downtown Urbana) has a few internship opportunities available. Their our main product is an online reading platform that allows people to chat and share annotations inside books. It’s a great opportunity for students to learn about web design and development for static and social networking areas of web design, as well as learn a bit about the cutting edge of publishing. There are 3 positions available (12-16 hours a week): (1) PRODUCTION DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation, and HTML editing. We’ll be producing some books in XHTML/EPUB (also known as Adobe Digital Editions format) so this is an opportunity to see how publishing’s new format is structured and manipulated. Activities: edit and create online books by tweaking xhtml and css, some graphics production, site editing and management of the social network. Skills: xml/html, familiarity with PHP preferred but not required. (2) DIGITAL BOOK DESIGNER/GRAPHIC DESIGNER: An opportunity to design elements for an unusual aspect of web design: ebooks. Beyond designing digital book elements  students also have exposure to processes for web development, including exposure to project management, image cropping and manipulation. Some ad design or print collateral may be possible depending on student interests. Activities: design elements of online books, particularly dropcaps and header treatments and work on digital book layout. Lend a hand designing ads for clients or HTML newsletters as needed. Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator and familiarity with web design standards. InDesign experience preferred but not required. (3) CSS/FRONTEND DEVELOPER: An opportunity to learn about production processes for web development, including exposure to project management, site migration and internal code management; also an opportunity to work on a social networking site and get involved in new feature development. Studentswill get a chance  to be a key figure in the deployment ofbookglutton’s mobile site: a good chance to get iphone and gphone experience. Activities: make regular site updates and bug fixes as needed, and play a big role in testing and deploying the mobile versions of the site. If you’ve got facebook experience or are interested we would consider assigning some of the FB app development to you. Skills: must be extremely good with CSS and HTML, somewhat familiar with javascript. To apply for these internship, contact: Travis Alber <travis.alber@gmail.com>. To receive credit at Parkland for the internship, contact Paul Young <pyoung@parkland.edu>

Empty Bowls Poster

Volunteer opportunity for a graphic design student to design a poster for a fund-raising event. Parkland students, the C-U Potter’s Club & local ceramic artists are joining together to raise money for a local food pantry with an Empty Bowls fundraiser. The actual event is April 28th. The posters need to be printed by April 21st. Please contact Susan Garner <susangarner1@hotmail.com> for more info.

2009 Student Show Entry Deadline is April 28

Each year, the Parkland Art Gallery hosts the annual graphic design student exhibition. This year, the show will be titled the “Media Arts Student Exhibition” to reflect emerging trends in the industry. This juried exhibition is open to all graphic design students at Parkland. There are over $800 in cash awards for outstanding work. There are no entry fees and you can enter as many pieces as you like (the more you enter, the better chance of getting an award). For entry rules, important dates and other information, go to gds.parkland.edu/show

Student Ad Agency Opportunity

In fall 2009, graphic design students will have the opportunity to participate in a student-run ad agency called Studio 292. Students will work in small creative teams solving marketing communication problems for real clients while building creative portfolio samples. You will also gain practical experience in professional business practices. If interested, please register for GDS 292-940, then contact either John Havlik <havlik@uiuc.edu> or Paul Young <pyoung@parkland.edu> for a portfolio review. If you are accepted into this special internship class, you will be moved to a special section of GDS 292. Prerequisites: sophomore standing in Graphic Design, 3.0 program GPA, portfolio review required. More info: gds.parkland.edu/gds/292

CUDO Call for Entries

CUDO is putting together a show at Cakes on Walnut for the Boneyard Arts Festival, and we’d like you to be a part of it! The more designers participate, the more energetic, fun, and diverse this show will be. The theme of the show is Cupcakes & Cocktails, based on the offerings at Cakes on Walnut. You can work with conceptual or visual connections to the subject, wordplay, typographic design, photography, etc. Anything goes! Each piece in the exhibition will be available for sale for  $10 with proceeds going toward future CUDO programming. We invite you to contribute a design and represent our community at Boneyard. No entry fees. Deadline: April 10 at 6pm. For more information and inspiration, visit thecudo.org/boneyard.

Open Field Trips

Everyone is welcome to join GDS 131 on the following field trips: Surface 51 on Friday, April 10 and Human Kinetics on Friday, April 17. No advanced notice required, just show up!

Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Every year, Adobe honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education. First-place winning entries will receive $3,000, a trip to attend the awards ceremony in Beijing, valuable Adobe software products, and other prizes. Parkland students should consider entering (entry is free!). Deadline is June 5, 2009. More info: http://adaaentry.com/

Images Magazine Opportunities

IMAGES is Parkland’s Art and Literary magazine. The focus is to highlight student work. IMAGES provides a valuable, hands-on experience with the various responsibilities of magazine design and production. The magazine is published annually, and needs people to design, publish, organize, and distribute copies that feature the talents of Parkland students. To express your interest in helping and for more information, please contact John Eby at jeby@parkland.edu or Mark Shirley at mshirley@parkland.edu.

Learn to silkscreen

Weiskamp is offering poster silkscreening workshops. You bring the art (on paper or on a Flash drive), we teach you how to print posters from your art using our production equipment. The cost is $25 which includes ink and paper. The schedule for this semester is: Sunday March 1, Saturday March 14, Saturday April 11 (10 am-4 pm). Info: Carol Blumthal <email@weiskamp.com>

Student ADDYs

The AAF Student ADDY Awards Competition is a unique national awards program designed specially for college students majoring in advertising or graphic design. The student competition mirrors the three-tiers of the professional competition, although it has its own set of categories. The student competition is being held in conjunction with the professional ADDY awards being hosted by AAF Central Illinois competition. The awards ceremony will be held on February 27 at CityView Room – Illinois Terminal, 45 E. Univeristy, Champaign, IL. Deadline for entries is February 12, 2009. For more information, download this PDF.