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Designing Digitally, Inc. on Second LifeDesigning Digitally, Inc. to host the first ever Assocation of Virtual Worlds Meet Up in Second Life
Posted on Wed, 09/29/2010 - 22:46
Our President (Andrew Hughes) at Designing Digitally, Inc. has been appointed the Director of The Assocation of Virtual Worlds Meet Up's to help expose new and existing users to different efforts being conducted within the virtual worlds today.
The first official Meet Up is on October 1st 2010 at 4:00 EST / 1:00 PST! This meet up is completely FREE to all members of the association! This service is to help learn about virtual worlds and to touch upon what other people are doing. We will be holding the first virtual world meet up on Designing Digitally, Inc.’s conference space in Second Life located at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Designing%20Digitally/187/38/40. Our first meet up will consist of the following presenters and topics:
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Pooky Amsterdam
PookyMedia / CEO
Pooky will be speaking about how Virtual Worlds afford dynamic real time interaction which can be used as media platforms for entertainment. Branding and sponsorship are afforded through cost-effective opportunities for original programming. Viewer log in participation is the true future of Social TV and she will discuss how using Virtual Worlds enable this high degree of audience value. Virtual Worlds also present wonderful environments for storytelling and film. Pooky will speak on how machinima as a new medium is the greatest ambassador Virtual Worlds can have in the video – centric atmosphere of today.
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Melissa will be speaking on how virtual worlds can be used to enhance education, and provide specific examples of things that were explored at Air Force Advanced Research Lab’s Tec^Edge during Summer 2010 and were presented to DARPA, as well as NSF. Both DARPA and NSF are excited about the possibilities of virtual worlds, and AFRL will continue to research them as avenues for CS-STEM education.
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Marilyn Zamarripa
Consultant for SAIC
CEO of Desktop Computing Solutions
Marilyn will be speaking on the Mobility-Impaired in Virtual Worlds, a research topic she just finished in Second Life. People with mobility impairments are often isolated from society. This may be due to the nature or limitations of their disability or it may be because the general public does not know how to approach or interact with a person with a disability. The consequences of isolation can be depression, lack of information, and lack of social contact. The Internet and Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has helped those with mobility impairments gain access to information and social contact through email, blogs, and social networks. However, Virtual Worlds can add a new three-dimensional experience. In a Virtual World the mobility-impaired are able to feel control over their environment, to participate in new experiences, to learn new skills, and to meet new people, resulting in feeling less isolated. This presentation will look at this new form of electronic communication and how it can give voice to an entire population that often goes unheard.
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AVW Meet up is: October 1st 2010 at 4:00 EST / 1:00 PST at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Designing%20Digitally/187/38/40
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KK Motorcycle Catalog On Press!
Posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 01:36
Designing Digitally Inc. has just completed a large scale catalog development for KK Motorcycle! The catalog totals over 1675 pages that were developed through our extensive design process. How did we tackle this catalog beast? We used our weapons; Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Microsoft Excel. Our team worked very close with the Vice President of KK Motorcycle to ensure the most up to date information and application charts were used. This was a large obstacle. No standardized format of data existed throughout the multiple vendors. After some dedicated hours of brainstorming within our creative team, we were able to setup an extensive system that allows for a streamlined process to develop the catalog and organize the data correctly and efficiently.
This catalog is more oriented to the customer, giving them an easy "flip through" experience of an excessive amount of products. Branding for the vendors was added to the tops of the catalog pages to make it easier for the customer to search for their favorite vendor along with cover pages for larger vendor product lines. Each section focuses on making sure each vendor's product line stands out from one another while providing detailed application data for the user to reference to. The style of the databases was created with the appropriate colors and styled with each section of the catalog in mind. By completing this well organized and visually appealing catalog, KK Motors will most definitely be obtaining more attention from their customers, as well as their competition this year.
Below is an image of the Goggles and Sunglasses section of the catalog. The catalog will also be up on KK Motorcycle's website COMING SOON!
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