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- Contat: Guy Kawasaki
- 488 Cowper Street
- Palo Alto, CA 94301
- AppleLink: KAWASAKI2
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- UCSB Macintosh Summit Conference
-
- UC Santa Barbara and I are conducting a Macintosh conference in August. This is
- document explains the conference.
-
- Target Audience
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- The target audience for this conference is Macintosh high-end and power-users
- to expand their knowledge of key application and hardware areas. The following
- types of people should attend:
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- • Macintosh decision-makers and coordinators
- • In-house and professional desktop publishing, graphics, and art personnel
- • In-house and professional presentation designers
- • In-house and professional industrial designers and CAD users
- • In-house and professional HyperCard engineers
- • Consultants, VARs, and developers seeking to increase product expertise
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- Cost
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- The cost of the conference including syllabus, three breakfasts, three lunches,
- and BBQ dinner is $680.30.
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- Topics
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- Desktop Publishing
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- Covers the process of making you to desktop publishing a raging, inexorable
- thunder lizard of a desktop publisher. Topics include: style sheets, file
- formats, working with imagesetters, keyboard shortcuts, workgroup publishing,
- database publishing, desktop publishing utilities, and building a system for
- desktop publishing. Primary applications: PageMaker, FreeHand, Word, and
- PostScript. Session leaders: Steve Roth and Olav Kvern.
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- Steve Roth and Olav Kvern are the co-authors of Real World PageMaker 4 (Bantam
- Computer Books). Between them, they’ve produced several stories of published
- pages. Olav Kvern, senior documentation designer at Aldus, is arguably the
- world’s best and most knowledgeable PageMaker user. He has won more than a
- dozen publication design awards and has personally produced thousands of pages
- with PageMaker.
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- Steve is the former editor of Personal Publishing magazine. He is a
- contributing editor for Macworld, and has been a regular contributor to
- MacUser, PC World, WordPerfect Magazine, ITC Desktop, Publishers Weekly, and
- Small Press. He has worked on dozens of books (developing, editing, authoring,
- co-authoring, and producing), including Real World PostScript, ScanJet
- Unlimited, and Real World PageMaker 4.
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- Macintosh Pre-Press and Printing
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- Covers the topic of Macintosh pre-press and printing techniques. This session
- answers the question, “Ok, this looks great on my screen, how do I get it to
- print?” Topics include PostScript imagesetters and recorders, getting the most
- from graphics software such as Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker, and Quark
- Xpress; tips and techniques for proofing, retouching, preparing files for
- printing with special attention to chokes, traps, and spreads; and, for the
- power users, connecting to Scitex workstations. Primary applications:
- Illustrator and PhotoShop. Session leader: Russell Brown.
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- Russell Brown is the senior art director of Adobe Systems Incorporated. He won
- the 1988 award for typographic excellence from the New York Art Director’s Club
- and the 1989 Print Industries of America Graphic Awards Competition. His
- expertise covers a wide spectrum from computer illustration, publication
- design, and exhibit design. Most recently he has focused on digital
- photographic technology and was a member of the Photoshop development team. His
- work has appeared in Print Magazine, GA Magazine, Creativity, and Graphis.
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- Object-Oriented Graphics
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- Covers the effective use of object-oriented graphics applications. The session
- will demonstrate in step-by-step fashion the far-reaching potential of
- rendering professional graphics and illustrations on a Macintosh. Topics
- include drawing techniques, typography, color, layout, electronic free-lancing,
- and archiving. Primary application: MacDraw II. Session leader: George Rorick.
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- George Rorick is director of The Knight-Ridder/Chicago Tribune Graphics Network
- (KRTN). KRTN produces news graphics and advance graphic projects on Macintosh
- computers and transmits them via satellite and network communications software
- to newspapers world wide.
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- George was part of the original design and graphics team that developed the
- early prototypes of USA TODAY. Get this: George has won two Gold, four Silver,
- and ten Awards of Distinction from The Society of Newspaper Design for art
- direction, the TIME Magazine award for the best use of maps for three
- consecutive years, and three Outstanding Achievement awards from the American
- Cartographic Association.
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- He is a frequent instructor at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies and an
- assistant to Nigel Holmes (TIME Magazine) at The Rhode Island School of Design
- Informational Graphics Workshop. He also does free-lance computer graphics for
- National Geographic, USIA and other publications.
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- Interactive Media
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- Covers the use of Macintosh as an interactive media tool. Using successful and
- unsuccessful examples of interactive media in everyday life, this session will
- establish a logical framework for designing interactive media. Projects created
- by various designers will be discussed in terms of graphics, usability, and
- programming improvements. A system for avoiding the pitfalls of bad Macintosh
- interactive projects will be suggested. Primary applications: MacroMind
- Director and HyperCard. Session leader: Marney Morris
-
- Marney Morris is the founder and president of Animatrix, Inc. Animatrix is a
- Palo Alto-based company specializing in creating interactive communications for
- marketing, training and graphical information systems. For example, the Guided
- Tours that ship with every Macintosh computer and the rollout point-of-purchase
- animations for products such as Adobe Illustrator, Aldus Persuasion, and the
- Hewlett Packard Deskwriter Printer are Animatrix creations. Animatrix’s
- clients include Adobe, Aldus, Domino's Pizza, Farallon, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus,
- Microsoft, Seiko Instruments, and SuperMac Technology.
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- Slidemaking
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- Covers the creation of effective slides and overheads including the use of
- graphics, color, and typefaces. Topics include: How do I get started? What
- medium should I use? How do I make my presentations looks great? This session
- will take you through the steps of creating excellent presentations, so you’ll
- never have to wonder, “Did they get my point?” Primary applications: Persuasion
- and PowerPoint. Session leader: Cynthia Kondratieff.
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- Cynthia Kondratieff is the president of Dolphin Multi-Media. Dolphin has won
- the Apple Hero Award, the Award for Technical Innovation from PhotoMethods,
- gold and silver medals from the Best in the West Fest, and gold medals from the
- Association for Multi-Image. Dolphin’s projects include the Plough national
- sales meeting, various Apple sales meetings, the Pacific Bell Network 90s
- presentation, and the Novell Netware product introduction. Addtional clients
- include Northern Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, and Silicon Graphics.
-
- Design and Modeling
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- Covers the use of Macintosh as a tool in design of products and industrial
- engineering. Real world examples from one-person design or architectural shops
- to thousand-person Fortune 500 engineering companies will be presented. The
- session includes instruction in “hot links” to FileMaker to provide new
- capabilities in design, cost estimation, facilities management, and GIS.
- Primary application: Claris CAD. Session leaders: Kyle Mashima and Craig Young.
-
- Craig Young is the president of CASE, the developer of Claris CAD. He has over
- 10 years of experience in CAD after a career in design engineering and
- engineering management at RCA and Magnavox. He delivered his first Macintosh
- product 1985 and entered a development contract with Claris to produce Claris
- CAD in 1988. Craig has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from the
- University of Wisconsin.
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- Kyle Mashima, project leader for CASE, is in charge of user interface design
- for all CASE products. Kyle spent six years as a mechanical designer and has a
- broad design background that includes accelerator design in high-energy physics
- applications and industrial design of computer products such as modems. He
- spent 4 years with Apple and Claris Corporation in charge of application
- software such as MacDraw, MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacProject. Kyle has a BS in
- Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Stanford University. He was also Guy’s
- best man.
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- Macintosh Hardware Configuration
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- Covers the wide-range of hardware configuration issues that challenge the
- entry-level to high-speed network manager Macintosh user. Topics include:
- acquiring the most productive system on a limited budget; choosing the right
- cpu, monitor, and disk drive; selecting the right amount of RAM; implementing
- the right back up strategy; installing a cost-effective network; and deciding
- whether to wait for the latest technology or buy now. Session leader: Charles
- McConathy.
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- Charles McConathy is president of MicroNet Technology, Inc., a vendor of
- high-performance storage systems for Macintosh. His past experience includes
- management of engineering and technical support departments, hardware and
- software consulting, and the international marketing of data storage devices.
- He’s also a CompuServe hacker, and he is well known for his online support of
- MicroNet products.
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- System 7.0
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- Covers the latest update on the status and features of System 7.0 and new
- 7.0-based applications. Includes a demo of new System 7 features for power
- users; how to prepare your Macintoshes for upgrading to System 7.0; what to
- expect in new 7.0 applications; how to get the most out of virtual memory and
- outline fonts. This is your chance to learn about System 7.0 straight from the
- horse’s mouth. Primary application: System 7.0. Session leader: Chris Espinosa.
-
- Chris Espinosa is a lifer at Apple (he’s employee #7). Originally hired to
- write demo programs for the Apple II in 1977, Chris joined the Macintosh team
- in 1981 and managed the group that wrote the original Macintosh manuals and
- Inside Macintosh. Since then, he has been the product manager for HyperCard and
- A/UX, and the marketing manager for OASIS and System 7.0. He and his mother,
- Sue Espinosa, are the only mother-son team at Apple today.
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- HyperCard
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- Covers user interface issues and the process of stack development. Provides
- examples of effective use of new features in the latest release of HyperCard
- and the impact of these features on stack design. Interface issues include user
- input, navigation, user feedback, and the visual development of illustrations,
- typography and icons. The session will also cover guidelines for editorial
- style, naming conventions, and international considerations. Primary
- application: HyperCard. Session leader: Robin Shank and Jerome Domurat.
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- Robin Shank joined the HyperCard Development team in early 1987. Currently, she
- is the principal stack engineer on the HyperCard team, and is coordinating the
- authoring and design of the example stacks in the newest version of HyperCard.
- She was a key contributor to Dan Winkler's Cooking with HyperTalk (Bantam
- Books) and HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines (Addison Wesley). Additional
- stack projects she has completed include the Apple Product Catalog stack and
- the information kiosk stacks for the Apple Library and the Apple Company Store.
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- Jerome Domurat came to Apple Computer in 1986 with a background in designing
- electronic tools and interfaces for video games and educational software. His
- areas of expertise include interface, graphic design, and animation for the
- tours and on-line help for Apple’s hardware and software products. Past
- projects have included the Apple CD-ROM Explorer disc, tours of the Macintosh
- CPU’s, and HyperCard Stack Design Guidelines (Addison-Wesley).
-
- Host
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- Guy Kawasaki is the former president of ACIUS, Inc., the publisher of 4th
- Dimension. Before ACIUS, Guy was director of software product management at
- Apple Computer, Inc. where he was responsible for the relationship of Apple
- with its developers and the Apple-labeled software. Guy is also the author of
- The Macintosh Way. Guy has a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford and a Masters of
- Business Administration from UCLA. Today he is unemployed.
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- Enrollment
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- To enroll, please call the UCSB Extension Department at 805-961-4143.
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