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Graphic Designers Creating Futures as More Industries Go Digital

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Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 27, 2012

CBT College, a leading college for graphic designers, released information today showing that there is an increase in demand for graphic designers in the workforce as more companies increase their output in the digital arena. Graphic designers are the individuals who are behind some of the most famous brands and marks known worldwide. Website design, movie production, video game design, commercial art, and 3D animation are some of the popular areas of work where a demand highly trained professionals are on the rise as businesses look for experts to help them stand apart from their competitors.

According to a recent survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly pay for a graphic designer is $ 23.15, which was higher than web designers and web interface designers. Some of the top graphic designers are earning over $ 103,000 annually. Between 2008 and 2018, the salary of a graphic designer is expected to increase 30% which is higher than the national average. You can see more detail statics by viewing the rise of graphic design infographic here.

Our graphic design curriculum emphasizes on learning the skills and techniques of computer graphics, digital imaging, and media production. Our faculty has extensive knowledge of their fields as they teach on the latest industry trends in their respective expertise. As we see the demand for graphic designers, we continue to focus on whats needed to provide our students the tools needed for achieving their dreams and build a great portfolio that will wow employers. said Fernando Larez, Director of Marketing for CBT College.

CBT College offers students a non-traditional graphic design curriculum covering web design, commercial art, and 3D animation condensed in a two year degree. This was intended to expose students to the most possible amount of content in an Associate of Science degree, and to give them a better chance to compete in a highly competitive job market. As more companies devote more resources to digitize their brand and message, graphic designers can see a bright future full of opportunities.







Unisource Engineered Solutions Centers Achieve ISTA Certification

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Norcross, GA (PRWEB) June 26, 2012

Unisource Worldwide, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States and a global provider of customer solutions, has announced that Unisource Engineered Solutions (UES) its packaging engineering and design group has achieved International Safe Transit Association (ISTA

“The $999 Home Studio” New PDF Guide From Disc Makers CD & DVD Manufacturing

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Pennsauken, NJ (PRWEB) June 25, 2012

Disc Makers has released the newest edition of their Home Studio Series in which they tackle the topic of building with a budget in mind. The $ 999 Home Studio Guide, The essential gear to get your studio off the ground is the third in a series of free, downloadable guides, set to include seven titles spanning topics such as building a professional home recording studio, choosing the right microphones, and making great mixes at home.

The $ 999 Home Studio Guide looks at the basics in the recording chain, while also offering insights into the function and price ranges of essential recording gear for your home studio, including cables, preamps, studio monitors, headphones, headphone amps, mic stands, and more.

The first installments in this series focused on the process of constructing and controlling the acoustics in a home recording studio, says Andre Calilhanna, the guide’s author. “Now we’re looking at some of the studio basics and touching on the differences in the recording chain, things a professional engineer knows by trade but that someone new to recording might not. There are also necessary items the new studio owner might overlook, so this guide will help keep them focused on the things they may not be considering when outfitting their studio.”

Disc Makers, the nations leading independent disc manufacturer, maintains Echoes, a DIY music blog, and has published over a dozen guides aimed at helping musicians sustain their own careers. This series of guides is their first to tackle the topic of home recording.

Volumes I & II in the series, Building a Professional Home Studio: A no-skimping guide to turning your living room into an A-Room and Creating a Home Project Studio, How to get optimal results from your space and budget are available for free download. Coming titles in the Home Studio Series will include The Home Studio Microphone Guide, Using Compressors, Delays, and Reverb, and Getting Great Tones in Your Home Studio.

“Each new volume will touch on a different topic related to home recording,” explains Calilhanna. “By the end, we’ll have a rich, well-rounded resource filled with nuggets of wisdom from folks who have plenty of recording experience and lots to share on the subject.”

About Disc Makers

In business since 1946, Disc Makers is the nations leading independent CD & DVD manufacturer, offering a wide variety of products and services, including state-of-the-art automated printers and duplication systems as well as complete CD & DVD duplication, CD & DVD replication and custom disc packaging for independent musicians, filmmakers, and businesses. The companys state-of-the-art facilities are outfitted with the latest graphic, printing, and CD & DVD replication equipment and products, as well as in-house studios for mastering and post production, DVD and CD-ROM multimedia authoring, and award-winning graphic design. Disc Makers manufactures and distributes a large selection of disc duplication and printing systems, as well as a full line of recordable media and disc packaging supplies. The company also offers a variety of additional services including download cards, posters, and music distribution. Disc Makers main office and plant is located near Philadelphia in Pennsauken, NJ, and the company has regional offices in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Seattle, Nashville, Boston, Houston and Puerto Rico.

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DRS and Associates proud to announce Five Top Clients’ Building-Product Brands Win Prestigious GREEN GOOD DESIGN Award 2012: Museum of Architecture and Design

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Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2012

The Chicago Athenaeums Museum of Architecture and Design today announced the winners of their 2011-2012 GREEN GOOD Design Award, which recognizes the worlds leading sustainable design in products, technology and research. DRS and Associates is proud to be the agency of record for five winners: Caroma, Creative Systems Lighting (CSL), LAUFEN, Watermark Designs and Zephyr, and we are sending out this joint release on their behalf.

Presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards are an extension of the GOOD DESIGN Awards. GOOD DESIGN is the worlds oldest and most coveted international design award, bestowed only to the most important and influential industrial and graphic designers. Current and previous winners of GREEN GOOD DESIGN are world-class brands such as BMW, Electrolux, Bosch, Hansgrohe, Herman Miller, Cuisinart and Mercedes Benz. To stand with such recognizable brands is an honor that these manufacturers do not take for granted. “Having multiple clients once again be recipients of a world recognized award such as the Green GOOD DESIGN is quite an honor for my DRS team and me. It reinforces that our clients innovations tied together with our strategic brand building efforts are yielding wonderful returns,” stated David Schlocker, president of DRS and Associates. Each of these five brands stands on their own merits for their contribution to green design and we encourage you to take a look at them individually and as a whole.

Here are the winning brands and their respective products:

Caroma

GSA – PBS Heartland Region Selects ATI Systems for its Wireless Public Address System

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East Boston, MA (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

Acoustic Technology Inc. (ATI Systems) of East Boston, MA was awarded a half a million dollar contract for the design and installation of a state of the art wireless public address system for the GSA – PBS Heartland region, Kansas City, MO.

ATI was selected based on providing superior voice and tonal clarity. In addition, the new systems strength is that it allows for a variety of notification methods to be utilized such as text messages, telephone alerts, email and desktop alerts. The system interfaces easily to the existing internal analog phone system for activating from any phone. This system will provide real-time, dynamic information to everyone on the property and in the immediate vicinity during emergencies.

The new system features 14 of ATIs Indoor Speaker Units (ISU) with over 1000 2 watt ceiling speakers for indoor coverage and over 50 15 watt horn speakers for outdoor coverage and 2 control stations for activating, controlling and monitoring the entire system.

The two control stations will be used to activate, test and monitor the ISU alerting units. Through tone alerts, pre-recorded voice messages and live public address, everyone affected by an emergency are immediately notified how to respond. The key advantage to the ATI system is the companys proprietary acoustic modeling that ensures clear and precise sound audibility and voice intelligibility throughout the facility.

The central control stations are configured with ATI Systems proprietary MassAlert

Common Application Development Problems Now Solved Using Packts New Book and eBook on OGRE 3D

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Birmingham, UK (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

Packt is pleased to announce the release of its new book OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook. Written by Ilya Grinblat and Alex Peterson, a cookbook with over 50 recipes, that will help solve common problems users face while developing 3D graphics applications using OGRE 3D, with explained sample code and screenshots.

OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++ designed to make it easier and more intuitive for developers to produce applications utilising hardware-accelerated 3D graphics. The class library abstracts all the details of using the underlying system libraries like Direct3D and OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive classes.

OGRE 3D 1.7 Application Development Cookbook firstly covers creating various types of Windows applications available for the OGRE developer, creating plugins for customization, and OGRE resources management. Users will then learn to efficiently implement various input methods for OGRE applications followed by managing scenes and objects impressively. Lights, special effects, and materials that provide enhancing effects are covered further in the next few chapters.

The book also includes lessons to build character motions and collision detection followed by animations and multimedia, that add a professional look to the application. The book finally concludes with scene queries and views and helps users to deliver impressive results more quickly with greater ease.

This practical cookbook is apt for C++ programmers with basic knowledge of OGRE 3D and want to enhance their knowledge about it. The book is out now and available from Packt in print and popular eBook formats. To read more about it and download a sample chapter, please visit the Packt web-page.







Ecko Unlimited Releases New Batman T-Shirt Collection

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

The Batman t-shirt collection from Ecko Unltd. revives the classic comic logo wear with an infusion of Ecko attitude. Rather than the traditional minimalist Batman style that s been seen many times before, the line utilizes bright colors and boasts Ecko signature techniques including gel printing, carbon coating and 3D texturing.

Inspiration for the Batman T-Shirts Collection

This first release from the Batman collection features designs that help connect the feel of the classic Batman brand, the existing Ecko aesthetic and current trends in t-shirt design.

One design, the Ecko Wham t-shirt, helps clearly mix the classic comic vibe seen by Batman fans for decades, while making use of in your face graphics. The Vandal Signal t-shirt design features the well known bat signal, incorporated with the classic Ecko graffiti and rolled paint look.

The Blood Bath t-shirt design visits the twisted violence that Batman deals with on a daily basis. Its a plain white layout with Batmans face staring outward, surrounded by blood spatters and a blood soaked Ecko Unltd. logo. This design, alongside the Carbon Coated t-shirt, are made with the Dark Knight Rises movie in mind and reflect the films theme.

The next release of the Batman t-shirts, the Dark Series, depicts the darker side of Batman, his struggles, depression and feelings. Hes the only superhero that fights crime without the aid of a superpower, which is reflected in the look of this upcoming series.

Matt Black, Ecko lead designer, said: “The t-shirts mix current trends with the classic comic vibe showing a new side to the well known dark hero. The t-shirt designs stay in line with the theme of the new movie and the classic Batman feel; giving Batman fans the opportunity to get psyched about the line, the release of the latest film and Ecko’s involvement.”

The t-shirt collection is available here: http://unltd.is/MiNV31

About Ecko Unltd.

Ecko Unltd. continues to use the iconic rhino logo and graffiti, once a blemish on the urban landscape, as a legitimate art form. With an uninhibited pulse on emerging trends and talent, Ecko Unltd. is in a class of its own with original collaborations with Star Wars, Batman, street artists like Cope2, Pez and 123Klan, rapper Meek Mill, boxer Miguel Cotto and others. The ecommerce division of Ecko has continued to help elevate the brand in the digital space, recently mentioned in Mashable and New York Times for their innovations. From music videos and television programs to catwalks, action sports, and video games. Ecko s “World Famous Rhino Brand” has expanded to include graffiti t-shirts, polos, jeans, shorts, watches, and more.

CONTACT:

Brian Honigman

Marc Ecko Enterprises

brianh(at)ecko(dot)com







Meet Quality Trainer Webinar on June 28 Introduces Minitab’s Statistics E-Learning Course

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State College, Pa. (PRWEB) June 21, 2012

Statistics and data analysis play a central role in Six Sigma and other quality improvement methods in business and industry. But when organizations try to implement these methods, they frequently discover that not all employees understand statisticsand even those who have statistical training need to refresh their knowledge regularly.

To help people involved in quality improvement initiatives get up to speed with statistics quickly, Minitab, the leading provider of software for quality improvement, introduced Quality Trainer, an e-learning course focused on statistics for Six Sigma and data analysis with Minitab Statistical Software. Its been enthusiastically adopted by companies including Caterpillar, Cummins, Baxter Healthcare, the U.S. Postal Service and many more.

Organizations looking to increase the level of statistical skills among their employees can find out more in a free webinar, Meet Quality Trainer, on June 28, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. EDT (GMT -4:00).

Participants will see how Quality Trainer can help them easily learn statistics and how to analyze their data using Minitab. Space is limited. Registration is free at http://www.minitab.com/training/web-events/.

Quality Trainers engaging, Web-based design makes difficult statistical concepts easy to grasp and gives professionals convenient access to an ongoing resource for their projects. Anyone can benefit from this opportunity to boost their statistical know-how and learn at their own pace, says Michelle Paret, product marketing manager at Minitab. And with subscriptions starting at just $ 30 US per month, it’s an extremely affordable way to develop your skills.

Using narration, animation and other multimedia, Quality Trainer teaches subscribers how to apply statistics and make the most effective use of their data.

The course’s nine chapters cover basic graphical analysis and statistical inference, as well as more advanced techniques like process capability, analysis of variance and design of experiments.

For more information about Minitabs quality improvement solutions, visit http://www.minitab.com.

About Minitab Inc.

Minitab Inc. delivers software and services for quality improvement and statistics education.

Minitab Statistical Software is the preferred data analysis tool for businesses of all sizes and is used in more than 100 countries by thousands of distinguished companies, including Toshiba, DuPont, Boeing, Royal Bank of Scotland, Nestl

Innovative Concepts in Website Design Ushered in by Ellie Design

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Greenwich SQ, Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) June 21, 2012

Ellie design, with a far thinking team of graphic designers specialize in website design. Based in Virginia, USA their team works very close to their clients discussing with them and helping to understand their vision before translating them into a tangible and customized design for an effective website. They spare no efforts in suggesting new possibilities that the client could not even have imagined possible. The company has several website designs accounts to its credit like: Fish Conservation, Lean Solutions Inc, Elite Finance, Click 2 Marketing, Washington Suburban Press Network, Traveled and JW law, P.C., to name just a few.

Ellie design always realizes that a good graphic design is the cornerstone of an effective website. The site must have easy navigational features, a logical site layout and a web copy of high quality. Since, time is money; they offer photo optimization, which facilitates quick web page loading. They have an excellent team of web designers and web developers, who make sure that the design that you see on the website is both attractive and functional. The technicians at Ellie design are aware that the success or failure of website design depends largely on the speed of navigation that the website can marshal. They strive to use this feature to greatest effect, because the modern web surfers are an intolerant bunch, who will leave the site, the moment they encounter problems in navigation, probably never to return again.

Color is as important to a website, as are graphics and content. Ellie design strives to produce a uniquely classic and customized website design from a combination of shapes, lines, textures and colors for an aesthetic look. Ellie Design does not depend on website design templates. They use specialized in SEO techniques to improve the clients search engine ranking, overall. Their strategy is to convert even the most unimaginative visitors to eager clients. The website designs from Ellie Design, engage and inspire not only the existing clientele of the website, but proliferate into several new leads, expanding client visibility and bringing in more profits, which are indispensable in the uncertain times that we live in.

The advantage of going with Ellie Design is that they are highly committed and will stay the course with their clients, from creating a website, designing and registering a domain name for the customer and stand solidly behind them until all goals are achieved. They can also lend their expertise in online marketing strategy under one package. Ellie Design offers marketing alongside website promotion, strictly following the white SEO method of the search engine webmaster rules for marketing promotion.

Ellie Design takes website design to a totally new level of competence. They offer customized service for creating a new website or redesigning an old one. They guarantee customer satisfaction and strive to bring greatest exposure to their customer’s business by adequate representation in social media sites like, Twitter and Facebook. They also make sure to produce professional website designs for social media sites that create a large following in the shortest time span.

Visit Web site: http://www.ellie-design.com/webdesign.html







Free People Debuts an All New Yoga Collection: FP Movement

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Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

On July 2nd, Free People will launch FP Movement, an all new yoga line, to complement the lifestyle brands fashion apparel. The premiere collection is designed in collaboration with the California-based brand, Solow, with all styles exclusive to Free People. FP Movement is a fitting extension for the bohemian chic lifestyle brand whose core values promote healthy living in all aspects: mind, body, and soul.

On July 1st, 2012, at 10am Free People will kick off the launch with free outdoor yoga events taking place simultaneously on both the East and West coasts. Yoga instructor, Lisa Langer, will lead the class in New York City at Central Park, and in Los Angeles, Tracee Stanley will teach at Silver Lake Reservoir. The hour long Vinyasa yoga classes will be free and open to the public, and the first 10 fans to arrive to the event will receive a complimentary sports bra from the FP Movement collection. For more information and to RSVP, check out the West coast and East coast Facebook events.

The debut collection of 10 styles includes sports bras, tanks, pullovers, cropped leggings, hot yoga shorts, and workout pants. In true Free People fashion, each item has an added design element including ruffles, criss-cross back detailing, and contrast stitching making each style truly unique. The line comes in both solid and tie-dye with a range of colorways including peach, aqua, and charcoal an exclusive color palette created specifically for the FP Movement line. The collection will be mixed and matched with Free Peoples branded product for a fun, fashionable yoga look.

The Solow collection for FP Movement is not only fashionable, but also functional and sustainable. Three of the styles are made with Eclon, a Solow branded, top performance, and eco-friendly fabric. The wicking fabric is flattering with its snug fit, and is also Blue Sign approved. Such approval guarantees, as stated on the Blue Sign website, that along the entire production chain, components and processes are harmless to people and the environment. All pieces made with Eclon fabric come with a hangtag certification.

Free People encompasses a world where health, energy, and vitality play an important part in everyday life, says Kristal Hill, Fashion Director for Free People. With this in mind, we’ve extended our reach into FP Movement, where the functionality of yoga apparel meets the feminine, cool, and casual style of the Free People brand. I imagine our girl mixing her FP Movement yoga wear with her Free People graphics and prints. The label complement each other perfectly.

Additionally, to support the new line, Free Peoples BLDG 25 Blog has enlisted Solow brand ambassador, Briohny Smyth, to act as a contributor throughout the month of July. An accomplished yoga instructor from Los Angeles, CA, Briohny embodies the spirit of the collection and has expert knowledge in the field.

We have built the foundation of our company on the highest of morals and ethics, says Solow President, Mike Bastegian. We are really excited for the opportunity to partner with a great company such as Free People, who shares our same values, and we couldnt be more excited to get some of our outstanding brand ambassadors on board for the launch.

FP Movement will launch exclusively on FreePeople.com beginning July 2nd with prices ranging from $ 35 for shorts to $ 110 for pullovers. All products are proudly made in the USA.

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About Free People

Styling everything from summer dresses to gladiator sandals, Free People is a specialty clothing brand that features the latest trends and vintage collections for women who live free through fashion, art, music, and travel. Quality womens clothing, shoes, and accessories invoke attributes of femininity, spirit, and creativity with a bohemian design. The brand is a part of Urban Outfitters, Inc., an innovative specialty retail company which offers a variety of lifestyle merchandise to highly defined customer niches.

About Solow

SOLOW is an expression of simplicity and style. A collection that is casual and timeless. Silhouettes for day, night, travel and beyond. The attention to detail and softness of the fabrics sets SOLOW apart. SOLOW makes getting dressed easy. We are tailor made for the contemporary woman- basics mixed with a modern twist. The SOLOW woman creates her own look- mixing trends, color and prints- finding a balance that is elegant and feminine but always comfortable.







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