SLOCAMA: San Luis Obispo's Creative & Marketing Alliance

The October SLOCAMA meeting will be held October 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 212, Building 26 on Cal Poly Campus. Social half hour from 5:30 – 6 p.m. Tour and talk 6:00 – 7:00ish

Brian Lawler, a graphic arts teacher at Cal Poly will speak and lead a tour of the Shakespeare Press Museum. Light refreshments will be served.

Lawler teaches color management, digital printing, and typography at Cal Poly. He is a graphic arts and photographic expert with more than 30 years of experience in photography, typography and prepress. His specialty is color management and the integration of color systems in prepress work flows. He has also taught a humanities course, Values and Technology, for several years.

Prior to his career in academia, Lawler worked for as a consultant Kodak, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe Systems, Epson and Nikon. He founded Tintype Graphic Arts, later a subsidiary of Blake Printery, and ran it as its president for more than 18 years.

There is currently no membership requirement SLOCAMA events, but attendees are asked to contribute $5 at each meeting they attend to support future events and programming.

For more information, contact:

Lynne Biddinger
20-20 Creative Group
805.542.0707 phone
lynne@2020creativegroup.com

More info about Brian.

Educator of the Year press release, 2010.

Getting to the Graphic Arts Building, Bldg 26 on Cal Poly Campus. 

Shakespeare Press Map

Easiest and happiest, ride your bike or walk!

Driving: Carpooling is recommended.

Parking: Park in the Parking structure on Grand Avenue. Purchase a parking permit at the kiosk at the main entrance or at a vending machine located near the elevators in the parking structure.

Take the bus!

 

… the much-anticipated Bonding Bonfire! Join SLOCAMA on Tuesday, August 16th at Olde Port Beach in Avila for a celebration of summer.

It’s B.Y.O.E. (bring your own everything) so grab your chair, your blanket, your friends and your favorite refreshments and head down to the beach for some warm times by the fire. (Oh, you could bring firewood, too, if you have some!)

The fun starts at 6pm. And who knows, it may never end.

Ghost Hunt at Cal Poly Integrates Liberal Arts and Engineering

On June 21st join SLOCAMA as we host a discussion with Dr. David Gillette about the Poly Ghost Project. The Poly Ghost Project is a wide ranging, interdisciplinary, mixed-media narrative technology project that that takes actual Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo history from the 1890s-1940s and converts it into a large-scale, multi-player interactive digital ghost story that can be played and experienced on every part of the Cal Poly campus and all across the city of San Luis Obispo.

The project makes extensive use of hundreds of period images, texts and audio recordings cataloged in the Cal Poly Kennedy Library and San Luis Obispo city archives. These historical materials are collected, digitized and creatively refashioned for this project into a series of ghost-inhabited images, sounds and personal texts that are delivered to users of the Poly Ghost system through a type of competitive, ghost-centered treasure hunt.

The Poly Ghost Project is built around a two-year-long development cycle that combines students and faculty from the colleges of Engineering and Liberal Arts, with specific design, development and testing contributions from the Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies faculty and students, and with faculty and students from the departments of Theater and Dance, Art and Design, Graphic Arts and Communication, Journalism, English, Computer Science and Architecture.

Dr. David Gillette is the Director of the Liberal Arts & Engineering Studies program, an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts program that combines, in equal portions, upper-level courses from the colleges of engineering and the liberal arts.

Networking begins at 5:30pm and the program begins at 6pm. Meetings are held at Big Images, 767 Francis Ave., San Luis Obispo.

There is currently no membership requirement, but attendees are asked to contribute $5 at each meeting they attend to support future events and programming.

For more information, contact:

Lynne Biddinger
20-20 Creative Group
805.542.0707 phone
lynne@2020creativegroup.com

Join SLOCAMA Tuesday, April 19th as we explore marketing trends. We have three great speakers lined up (bios below).

Is there ever enough time to keep up on all the marketing-related info we want to follow? Thank goodness SLOCAMA has found these great local resources for a panel discussion on trends!

Kevin Rice from Hathway will discuss interactive marketing campaigns.

Kerrie LeBourveau from Studio Good will discuss social media and digital trends and how to talk to your audience.

Dave Dawson from Data Based Marketing will discuss the continually changing market.
Networking begins at 5:30pm and the program begins at 6pm. Meetings are held at Big Images, 767 Francis Ave., San Luis Obispo.

There is currently no membership requirement, but attendees are asked to contribute $5 at each meeting they attend to support future events and programming.

For more information, contact

Speaker Bios:

Learn about the people you’ll meet! Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks to all who attended the Feb. 15th meeting. Great turnout!

Thanks again to Randy Scovil for his presentation. If you forgot to ask for a copy of his slides, you can stop kicking yourself. Your friends at SLOCAMA have it covered.

Also, remember to register in the SLOCAMA Community. It’s a great way to stay in touch between meetings. (Hot tip: click on the “notify” button for any forum to get an e-mail when a new topic is started!)

Love apps and want to get in on the action? Learn about what the app development process involves and key mobile technologies. We’ll also look into using apps as a marketing tool and how creative folk can stake a claim in this space.

SLOCAMA invites you to join us Tuesday, February 15th for a presentation by Randy Scovil.

Randy Scovil has taught computer science at Cuesta College and Cal Poly for over ten years.  He is an active mobile developer for both the iOS and Android platforms and taught some of the first college courses in mobile development in the country.   He developed the iOS and Android apps for Cuesta College, among the first in the nation by a community college.  He has an extensive media and marketing background, having worked in broadcasting for over 25 years, primarily as a program and marketing director for large-market radio stations.  He was the play-by-play voice of Cal Poly Athletics for ten years and is the co-creator of the Cuesta TV project.  He served on the Softec Board of Directors for eight years..  He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Cal Poly and a B.A. in Telecommunications and Film from San Diego State University.

Networking begins at 5:30pm and the program begins at 6pm. Meetings are held at Big Images, 767 Francis Ave., San Luis Obispo.

There is currently no membership requirement, but attendees are asked to contribute $5 at each meeting they attend to support future events and programming.

For more information, contact