Keep the submissions coming!

Hey everyone~

Wow, quite many brilliant designs have been coming into my mailboxes.  Logos, posters, and invitations~

Everyone’s welcome to design!

Keep coming~!

- nicky

Reminder: Logo/Invitation/Poster Draft Submission

Hey everyone,

Just a friendly reminder that the logo, invitation, and poster designs for our Industry Night are due tomorrow night 23:00pm. We have few submissions already, but the more people submit, the more choices we can pick from on Thursday’s meeting @ 1pm. Please feel free to email Julia, Cruz, or me for submission. ^^

Last week, we have decided the name of our Industry Night = Pixel8, and the tag line now is set to “Anything but squares“. Meeting minute is here.

Currently, Melody and Sam have already submitted their work, and I know Julia and Cruz are working on one as well.

A short message today~ hope to see you all on Thursday!

-nicky

General Meeting Minute Aug 21, 2008

Suggestion for logo: Assign colors for each section and to the logo, 3 colors and one for each program

Sponsors can come to the industry night and present the gift to the winner

Final name:

- Pixel8

Next meeting’s time:

Thursday @ 1pm

Vote on logo and theme

General Update Aug 15

Hey everyone,

First of all, thanks to the people who came to the meetings this week! =)

Sholeh and couple other students from New Media Group are doing a promotional video piece to be presented in the Industry Night. Every student has 5-10 seconds to talk, we strongly encourage everyone in all 3 programs to take this chance to showcase your work and skills. If you want to be in part of the video, please let Nicky or Sholeh know by Tuesday August19th.

If you want to attend this year’s Industry Night, please notify your program rep by September 01 (New Meida: Nicky; Animation: Roman; Design Essential: Michelle and Sharon). Nicky will ask every rep for updates.

Theme Suggestions are urgently needed, please submit your suggestions online or email them to Nicky or your program reps by Tuesday Aug 19.

6 committees have their first meeting already, and the meeting summaries are listed below. (Detailed information please click and go to each post, thanks.) Next committee meetings will be posted later

Thanks for your time, and if you have any question or concern, comments or suggestion, please go to Industry Night Planning Blog, or email me directly at nickyhmtu@gmail.com.

Michelle, Sharon, and Roman, please forward this email to the students in your programs. Thanks.

- nicky (detail inside)

General Meeting Minute Aug 12

Hi all,

Thanks for coming out to the meeting today!  ^^ Quite happy to see so many people at the meeting.

Below is the summary for today’s meeting. =)

Venue: Radical Entertainment, Judy will send the floorplan to Layout committee
- Set up time is about 3 hours before the event
- 2 people per table

BCIT will provide:
- 30 tables, cable to the table, no chair, big screens available

Themes: need to come up with at least 3 choices of themes before next meeting

Committees’ first meetings:
- Decide the chair for each
- Website would be up before sending out print invitation
- Karin and Paul will help out in Marketing Committee (Thanks to them ^^)
- BCIT will host the website, detailed needed for later
- Paul will send Print specs to Print Committee
- Paul will talk to Apple and Adobe for sponsorship

Forgot to talk about: catering

Thanks.

- nicky

Email/Invitation Committee Meeting Minute Aug 14

Attendance:
Lisa, Jocelyn, Sharon, Mona, Rosa, Nicky

Need email list from Terri or Judy

Reminder:

- Send out 2 reminders, 2 weeks, 3 days

Setup BCIT email account

Standard version of the reminder emails

Video record contact Sholeh before Tuesday.

Reminder email draft done couple weeks after the print

Verify contact info:

- Meeting Sept 4^th, confirmation to be done, 1-2pm

- NOT sending the info, but to verify the contact information

Layout / Marketing Committee Meeting Minute Aug 14

Attendance:
Rosa, Sholeh, Rachel, Jennifer, Sam, Nicky, Julia

Layout:

- Co-chair: Nicky and Michelle
- Arrange the time to and look at the venue (Radical Entertainment)
- Equipment needed by each group

· Lights

· Equipment going to provide

· Floor plan

- Group distribution
- Set up / Cleanup crew

- Send an email to Terri or Judy, floor plan, if not email Radical (sent out, have it ASAP, and meeting on Tuesday)

- What’s the budget for printing

- Decoration, signs

Marketing:

Chair: Sholeh

- Proposing letter ASAP, set up meetings with potential sponsorships to do presentation
- Come up with companies providing good/attractive/useful door prizes (will get update from Rosa and Sholeh)

- Connect with website/print to help in sponsorship promotion
- Contact print and web to leave space for sponsorship

- Tomorrow Rosa and Sholeh getting sponsors list done, choosing people/company

Some companies we can ask:

- Alliance of arts and culture

- Canadian society for graphic designer

- New media BC

- Canadian arts council

- Small business BC

- OPUS

- LOOMIS

- ABC Photography

- Vancouver Art Gallery

- Contemporary art gallery

- City of Vancouver (government) awards for academic excellence

GENERAL MEETING NEXT TUESDAY!! (requested already)

Every program:

- How many people attending?

Deadline for who will go to industry night: Sept 01

Next Tuesday is the deadline for the video

Web & Print Meeting Aug 14

Meeting time: 2pm
Attendance: Bryan, Matthew, Laurice, Julia, Cherl, Cruz, Melody, Nicky

Name and theme suggested: (see Here)

Print Committee co-chairs: Julia and Cruz

Web Committee co-chairs: Laurice and Matthew

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Print Progress Schedule:
- Final name: Friday Aug 22
- Design drafts: Friday Aug 29
- Printing: Friday Sept 5th

Web Progress Schedule:
- Final name: Friday Aug 22
- Website needs to be done before printing the invitation

Website production tasks: (members need to volunteer, or tasks will be assigned)
- Logo design
- Color scheme
- Design mock-up
- Function research
- Animation/flash
- Forms
- Content: portfolio pieces, student pictures/links, text
- Video creation: (Sholeh is doing this)
- SEO
- Programming/coding

Emails sent to everyone in the committees. =) Please check your mailbox. ^^

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(print spec from Paul, Thanks! ^^)

Here are the technical specifications for the industry night print committee.

• Assembly InDesign
• Images 300 ppi
• Size 9″ wide by 4″ tall, landscape orientation
• Bleeds to be 1/8″
• Front of invitation to contain imagery and text
• Back of invitation divided into half with a split at the 5″ point. The back right of the card should be left fully blank ie White
• BCIT logo MUST appear at the bottom right hand side of the invitation with a 3/8″ inset
• I will provide the BCIT logo in Illustrator format
• Final pdf file to be provided with all printers marks

When considering the design please ensure that any text is clearly readable. The invitations will have to have department approvals prior to printing.

Event Theme Discussion

Hi everyone,

This post is specially made for collecting the theme, name, and style of our Industry Night event.

Currently, I have collected a few from Web and Print committees, and more will come up later. =)

The deadline for submitting the design is next Tuesday. =)

Pixelicious: it’s our time
Shine: It’s our time

Meeting time Aug 14, 15, 16

Web&Print: Wedn 2-3
Email&Invitation: Thurs 1-2
Marketing & Layout: Thurs 5-6 (separate groups, but meet at the same time)

Web&Print: http://nickytubcitnewmediaindustrynightplanning.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/discussion-webprint/
Marketing:http://nickytubcitnewmediaindustrynightplanning.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/discussion-marketing/
Layout: http://nickytubcitnewmediaindustrynightplanning.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/discussion-layout/
Email&Invitation: http://nickytubcitnewmediaindustrynightplanning.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/discussion-emailinvitation/
Other issues: http://nickytubcitnewmediaindustrynightplanning.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/discussion-other-info/

Decided by the program reps, the submission deadline for the event theme is next Tuesday. Please bring up the topics in your committee meetings. =)

Thanks.

- nicky