Events
Check Out the Webby Award Winners!
While we were celebrating our 2nd Anniversary yesterday, the World Wide Web was also celebrating its anniversary (20 years to be exact), and our friends the Webbys were announcing their 2013 Webby winners, People’s Voice winners, and the other nominees.
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Vote to Give Your Favorite Site a Webby!
It’s that time once again for the Webby Awards, and for YOU to vote for your favorite site, video, and app to receive a People’s Voice Award.
Unencumbered by an Electoral College or annoying clinging chads, the People’s Voice process guarantees winners will not be duking it out in Florida to determine who’s really number one.
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The UX Conference You Want in Your Hometown
If you didn’t get a chance to attend our UX Thursday event in Chicago this past January, we’ve put together this nice little recap to show you what all the fuss was about. (And there was quite a bit of fuss about this sold-out conference.)
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Get in on our SXSW Sweepstakes!
We’re ready to help you fuel your South by Southwest Interactive experience!
If you’re at SXSWi be sure to stop by and see us (at booth #115). Not just for the show’s best swag, surprises, and all the latest info on the interactive job market - but to join in our faboo sweepstakes!
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11 Must-See Sessions at SXSW Interactive
We thought we’d give you our list of 10 must see sessions. And, believe us, choosing from among 1,000 events was no easy feat. (It’s probably the second most-asked question, right behind, “When is SXSW, anyway?” and “Are there still hotel rooms available?”)
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Get In On the SXSW Action!
It’s coming up faster than you think: South by Southwest is merely four weeks away! Speaking of which, here’s a brief rundown of this year’s spectacular keynote speakers.
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Learn from Chicago’s Leaders at UX Thursday
We’re proud announce our partnership with Jared Spool and UIE to present USER EXPERIENCE THURSDAY in Chicago in January. What a way to start the year!
Rub shoulders (or elbows or other HR-approved parts) with Jared, Stephen Anderson and many other Chicago UX luminaries.
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SXSW 2013: March is closer than you think!
If you’re planning on attending SXSW (that’s “South by Southwest” for the uninitiated), but you haven’t done anything about it yet, you’d better kick it into high gear. Even though the interactive, music, and film communities won’t be making the long trek to Austin until March, hotel rooms are already booking up.
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Internet Week Europe (IWE 2012) is Coming!
This year we’re proud once again to sponsor Internet Week Europe in London on the 12 -16 of November. We’re also ecstatic to be hosting a Portfolio Review Day at our London Vitamin T office from 1 to 5pm on 13 November. It’s free!
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Design-A-Wix-A-Thon Winners
Last Tuesday 50 NYC designers competed for one short hour to see who could build the best site on the Wix website building platform and walk away with some sweet prizes.
Our fearless agent Molly Maymar was on hand to help select the winners.
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Speaker Lineups for An Event Apart 2013 Announced
Now that An Event Apart has opened all eight of their 2013 conferences for registration (that’s right, EIGHT cities this year!) To get the ball rolling, they’ve given a sneak peek at just who we’ll be seeing next year at their first four shows.
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Free Portfolio Review at Social Media Week [LONDON]
If you’re in London for Social Media Week, you should absolutely book an appointment for our Portfolio Review at Chinwag’s Career Day.
Then you can get a one-to-one session with a senior creative and/or an Aquent | Vitamin T agent. What a great way to find out what kind of pieces they really want to see in a portfolio.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 8]
Today we finish up the last of our interviews with the UK’s brightest creative stars at this year’s sold out Career Day at London’s Digital Shoreditch.
So sit back and soak up some great inspiration from Detica's Senior Art Director, Stuart Neale.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 7]
Meet Kate Tarling, Lead UX Consultant from London's largest design and build agency in the UK, Detica!
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Holy Cow! Vitamin T Celebrates Cow Appreciation Day
You don’t have to become a vegetarian, vegan, or even a pescatarian to take part in Cow Appreciation Day. (Though the cows would probably feel a lot less nervous if you were.)
This week our Los Angeles, Portland, and Austin offices joined in the bovine bacchanalia by throwing luaus to appreciate our very own cow, Vera Twang.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 5]
We continue with our interviews with the UK’s brightest creative stars at London’s Digital Shoreditch. We were lucky enough to spent some quality time with Jeremy Garner, Executive Creative Director at Weapon7.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 4]
Check in with Jonathan Lovatt-Young, UX Director from London's LBi in this segment from our Shoreditch Interviews.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 3]
We were lucky enough to spend some time interviewing the UK’s brightest creative stars at this year’s London’s Digital Shoreditch. Martin Bui has created award-winning digital work and dazzled his audience with user experience magic. With 16 years of experience under his belt, Martin has worked for leading global companies such as IBM, MTV, JWT, EuroRSCG, TBWA\Being.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 2]
We’re continuing our coverage of this year’s sold out Career Day at London’s Digital Shoreditch. Today we talk to Jason Cascarina,
Creative Director at Weapon7.
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An Event Apart - Boston Style
No, we’re not going to do a fake Boston accent (our Boston staff would kill us), but we’re ecstatic once again to be at An Event Apart (AEA) - Boston for yet another great sold-out event.
Mostly sold out. Tickets, as of this posting, are still available for the Luke Wroblewski’s stellar Designing for Mobile & Beyond one-day workshop.
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The Shoreditch Interviews: Get Inspired by London’s Top Creatives [Part 1]
This year’s Career Day at London’s Digital Shoreditch was hot hot hot - in more ways than one! As well as the agency contingency we invited and Career Fair in the Big Top, over 750 people came along, eager to get the skinny on the job market and sniff out new prospects.
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It’s Raining Admen (Adweek Brainstorm!)
These incredible photos, taken during NYC’s Creative Week, were captured in an impromptu photoshoot and featured in the May 14 issue on a lovely 6-page spread. The folks at Adweek invited a “a steady parade of thinkers and doers” up to their studio then had them quickly do a pose with one of their prop umbrellas.
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Internet Week New York Recap [VIDEO]
It’s almost summer (can’t you just hear the corn growing?), and it seems as if IWNY was the kickoff for a ton of searing hot interactive events. If only you could spend all your time attending events around the world... Wait! You’re in luck - WE do..!
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How To Watch the Webby Awards Live (Okay, or Later)
No, this is not really a How To blog post about the awards, which might look like: 1. Order pizza, 2. Find comfortable chair, 3. Grab a drink... But after spending a week at Internet Week NY, we’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you how you can catch the 16th annual Webby Awards streaming live tonight.
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Why 2012 Should Be Your Year (or Why You Need to Attend More Events)
We think that on your road to success should absolutely include time spent at events such as Internet Week New York (IWNY), An Event Apart, SXSW Interactive, and the User Interface Conference.
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Live from NY, It's Internet Week NY
Wish you were here (well, for those of you who aren’t).
It’s 65 degrees, the streets are still wet from the afternoon rain, the cafes in SoHo are full of patrons finishing their lattes, and we just got done listening to Pete Cashmore speaking with the Webbys' Executive Director David-Michel Davies on the future of the Internet.
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Turbo Boost Your Career at DS2012: LONDON
As one of the founding partners of London’s Digital Shoreditch, we’re here to push the envelope once again with a top-tier Portfolio Review for DS2012!
If you’re not familiar with the event, you’re about to thank us.
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We’re Nominated for a Webby!
It’s been a great first year for us at Vitamin T. Getting to work with incredible talent, clients, staff, attending amazing events with our partners, and now, to cap it all off, our site is nominated for a Webby Award!
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An Event Apart Video: Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First!
You already know (if you’re not entirely new to this site) what huge fans we are of An Event Apart. Such huge, nerdy fans, in fact, that we’re proudly sponsoring all seven events this year from Atlanta to San Francisco.
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Last Day for SXSW Interactive (But We’re Around All Week!)
Even though the interactive sessions are finishing up tonight, we’ll be continuing the SXSW trade show fun until Thursday (3/15) at booth #722.
Hey, we’ve never been the kind of people who leave a party early.
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Kicking It @ SXSW Interactive!
It’s been a busy weekend for the Vitamin T crew and the 20,000+ SWSW-goers in Austin.
It’s Day 4 and the fun, learning, and parties aren’t flagging, nor, it seems are the attendees. At least none that came to our party last night high atop our Austin office.
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SXSW is HERE (and Streaming Live!)
The Vitamin T team is on the ground in Austin and ready for action at SXSW Interactive.
If you’re at the event, be sure to look for (and ride in!) one of the mirthful, yet hopefully speedy Vitamin T branded pedicabs. Scan the QR code on the back and then go pick up a cool free t-shirt at our booth #722.
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Our Top Picks for SXSW Panels!
Okay, we won’t remind you again how many days are left before it’s time for SXSW.
Which is hard for many of us, because it’s a bit like a kid waiting for Santa Claus. (A really-interesting-to-listen-to Santa with a bag full of swag, anyway.)
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Vitamin T ♥ Talent
You may not be aware that the patron saint of front-end developers, copywriters, UX designers, heck, all digital freelance creatives, is in fact St. Talentine.
Talentine was an expert craftsman who, in the middle ages, created beautiful artwork out of zeros and ones until he was stopped by a math-challenged king. (True. We wouldn’t make this stuff up.)
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SXSW Update #2
POP QUIZ: Remember when we told you last week that SXSW Interactive was a mere 8 weeks away. So guess how far away it is this week? (Yes it’s math, but it’s easy math.)
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SXSW is Rapidly Approaching!
Holy smokes, SXSW Interactive is a mere 8 weeks away!
Which means if you have tickets, the planning part of your brain should be kicking into high gear right about now (and if you don’t have tickets, it’s time to switch to panic mode).
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AEA San Francisco, Here We Come!
We love all the events we sponsor, but many of us are looking VERY forward to next month’s An Event Apart (AEA) in San Francisco.
In case you’ve been living under a rock (not that there’s anything wrong with that), there have been huge developments over the past week on the web standards front.
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Making Contrast with Details (FITC Toronto 2011 Video)
FITC Toronto videos from Vitamin T: the gift that keeps on giving.
We sponsored this series of FITC Toronto videos from the 2011 show, and we’re going to keep on sharing as each goes live.
Huzzah! It’s Christmas in... um... October.
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UI 16: The UX Conference You Don’t Want to Miss
Called a mecca for UX folks, if you’ve been dreaming about a thought-provoking, intimate (read: no wristbands or lines) and fluff-free conference on User Experience, look no further!
Here’s some reasons why we feel this UX conference is so important for you to attend and so vital for us to sponsor...
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Practice Makes Perfect, So What Are You Practicing? FITC Toronto 2011
Can’t get enough FITC? We can’t either! That’s why we sponsored this series of FITC Toronto videos from the 2011 show—so we can share these juicy bits of knowledge for you to enjoy all year long.
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An Event Apart DC: Three days of design, code, and content
We’re keen on sharing great learning experiences, and An Event Apart (AEA) is one of the best. Filled with gems of inspiration and knowledge, An Event Apart shows feature the leading minds in web design and development.
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The places to be at Internet Week New York
Internet Week New York is like a rock concert for Internet aficionados like us. Call us web groupies if you like but we are psyched for next week’s festivities! Where else do the interactive, business, political, and social worlds converge?
Headed to IWNY yourself? Here are not-to-be-missed happenings:
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FITC
FITC produces interactive events for developers and designers across 19 cities around the world, including Toronto, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Francisco, Chicago, Seoul, New York, Los Angeles, and more. From Flash to Motion Design, FLEX to AIR, and even mobile, each FITC event stands as a unique and exciting experience that inspires, educates, and challenges.
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SXSW Interactive Festival
The SXSW Interactive Festival challenges you to envision the future of innovative technology. Featuring five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging media and scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, SXSW Interactive offers an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, digital projects, wireless applications, video games, and startup ideas the community has to offer.
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The Webby Awards
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an executive 750-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and associate members who are former Webby Award winners and nominees and other Internet professionals.
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UIE Web App Masters Tour
The Web App Masters Tour offers two days full of inspiration aimed directly at designers of today’s web-based applications. In each city, you’ll hear nine web app masters share their wisdom and deliver powerful insights you’ll want to act on immediately. With a focus on user experience, one of the hottest skills in the interactive space today, and compelling presentations by Jared Spool, a renowned expert in the UX space, this is one conference you can't afford to miss.
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Internet Week New York
Internet Week New York is a festival of events across the city celebrating New York's thriving Internet industry and community. The result is a critical mass of web-focused events that raises the profile of NYC's Internet industry as well as the partners who participate. In addition, Internet Week New York HQ is both a place for attendees to meet, greet, and get a little work done, as well as host to various arts, technology, media and entertainment exhibitions and social events.
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An Event Apart
Join us at An Event Apart, the design conference for people who make websites. An Event Apart is an intense educational three-day learning session for passionate practitioners of web design and development. If you care about code, content, usability, or design, this is the conference you’ve been waiting for. Founded by web visionaries Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, An Event Apart brings together the leading minds in web design and development for three days of non-stop inspiration and enlightenment.
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