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Art Chantry’s work has been collected and exhibited by some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world: the Louvre, The Smithsonian, The Library of Congress and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, just to name a few. The Seattle Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art’s P.S.1 have both honored him with one-man retrospectives. In 2001, Chronicle Books published the monograph of his work, Some People Can’t Surf. Art has influenced an entire generation of young graphic designers in the northwest and across the county. To this day, his hard-edge scrappy look can be seen everywhere from punk rock record covers to corporate annual reports.

Date :: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Reception :: 6 p.m.
Meeting :: 7 p.m.
Location :: Cityplace : 2711 North Haskell Ave., Dallas, TX 75204
Members :: FREE
Non-members :: $20
Students :: $10 (with valid student ID)

Cutting-edge media buying agency, Koeppel Direct, is seeking an E-commerce/Flash Developer with strong design and development skills. Applicant must know Flash MX and ActionScript 2.0 and have experience building rich media Websites, shopping carts and interactive ads. Online streaming video experience is a plus.
Applicant must have 3 + years hands-on experience working in a fast-paced development environment. Knowledge of the following is strongly desired:
- Macromedia (Adobe) Flash MX and Macromedia (Adobe) Flash Object Models
- Macromedia (Adobe) Flash Server for video streaming
- HTML, DHTML, CSS, .NET, ASP, PHP
- JavaScript, SSI, XML
- Knowledgeable in SEO, SEM
- Web Analytics (Google, Urchin, etc),RSS feeds, Keyword Research
- Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat
- Shopping cart: MySQL databases
- Authorizenet and other payment gateways
- Unix/Linux Operating Systems, IIS
- FTP, SSL
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The DSVC Professional Show is one of the preeminent creative competitions in the country, showcasing the very best of the past year’s accomplishments in design, advertising, photography, and illustration.

DATE :: June 7, 2008
LOCATION :: Frontiers of Flight Museum
MEMBERS :: Individual $60, Table of Ten $600
NON-MEMBERS :: Individual $70, Table of Ten $700

A Decade of Hooks, Slices and Dreams
The Dallas Society of Visual Communications invites you to tee up for the 10th Annual D.C. Stipp Memorial Golf Tournament on Friday, May 2, 2008 at the Grand Oaks Golf Club in Grand Prairie. Your swings can help kids go very far – all the way to college, in fact. For the past several years, we’ve not only had a lot of fun, but we’ve been able to give increasingly valuable college scholarships to deserving local high school grads. To continue this fine tradition, we need your help. Even if you don’t know a chip shot from a zip file, it’s a great afternoon out with prizes and plenty of fun with your colleagues. Plus, it commemorates a great friend who’s gone and celebrates the bright future ahead of some promising kids. So mark your calendar and we’ll see you at the tee.

DATE: Friday May 2, 2008
LOCATION: Grand Oaks Golf Club, Grand Prairie
CHECK IN: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
LUNCH: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
TEE OFF: 1:00 pm
DINNER: After golf including Awards Presentation

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by Stan Richards from TalentZoo.com

Stan has been honored as one of The Wall Street Journal’s “Giants of Our Time,” an Inc. magazine “Entrepreneur of the Year,” and an Art Directors Hall of Fame inductee. The Richards Group was named America’s Best Creative Agency by the American Association of Advertising Agencies in 1997. In 2006, Graphic Design USA ranked it one of the six Most Influential Agencies in America.

First, the cliché: Creatives are restless. On good days, they have the attention span of a caffeinated finch.

Now, the problem: For too many people who hire creatives, the above rings true.

Ask anyone faced with building a team of terrific, committed creatives, and you’ll hear the same theme played back:
Attracting top talent is hard enough. But keeping it? Next to impossible. The siren song of higher profiles, newer challenges, and greater opportunities will have today’s star hire following her muse out the door tomorrow.

And yet, through decades of building a thriving agency, an amazing client roster, and several dozen feet of trophy shelving, what makes me proudest about The Richards Group is our unheard-of staff loyalty. The creative tenure here sets industry records; our 24 group heads have been here an average of 16 years. Better still? We’ve several young teams with growing profiles who have yet to be poached. And it isn’t for lack of trying. Read more