1. Home
2. Education
3. Adobe Design and Film School Connection

Design and film school events

Learn about upcoming conventions, training opportunities, festivals, online panel discussions, and other events that focus on film and design. Mark your calendar if you see an event that could help you in your work as a faculty member or student in a higher education design or film program. Be sure to check the list of all Adobe events under Resources at right.

Upcoming events

ICON6
July 14-17, 2010
Pasadena, California
Over 50 speakers will inform, enlighten, and entertain illustrators in a concentrated, fast-paced, high-energy program.

SIGGRAPH
July 25-29, 2010,
Los Angeles, California
Join an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents for the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Annual University Film & Video Association Conference
August 14 – 20, 2010
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
Join university film and video educators and professionals for screenings, papers and panels, script readings, New Media exhibitions, and workshops.

FITC San Francisco 2010
August 17-19
San Francisco, California
A design & technology festival, with more than 60 creative and technical presentations over three days.

TypeCon2010:Babel
August 17-22, 2010
Los Angeles, California
Join the Society of Typographic Aficionados to discuss typography, type design, font production, graphic design, new media, printing history, calligraphy and hand lettering, the book arts, advertising, type in motion, literacy, type sales and marketing, legal issues, type and design education, and other issues.

See OnDemand panel discussions by and for design and film educators

Introduction to Color Management

Howard Simkins of Sheridan Institute of Technology and Higher Learning and Tom Ashe of the School of Visual Arts discuss the fundamentals of color management.

Digital Print in Project-Based Design Education

Lorraine Donegan of California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and Michael Josefowicz of Parsons The New School for Design share how digital print facilitates project-based learning in their design courses.