Ashley Hebler

Helen Klein Ross has worked in the advertising industry for years. Now Ross plays a wife of an advertising superhero from the the fictional show Mad Men…on Twitter. Some Mad Men Background: Mad Men, which airs on AMC, is a show by Matthew Weiner set back in the 60’s era. The storyline follows the life […]

In this panel, David Weinstock, Jim Beiderman,Tony Mennuto discuss the art of using humor in advertisements and the best practices for doing so. Tony Mennuto kicked of the panel with a discussion of radio advertisements and keeping listeners engaged with humor. Mennuto is the creative director of Radioface which specializes in the field. He noted that today you have to, “create […]

What Students Can Do To Stay Ahead of the Game In a panel discussion on the current state of CSS and the direction of CSS in the future, panelists discuss issues with web standards and cross browser compatibility. Also with the emergence of mobile devices and tablets, grid layouts are becoming the trend for more […]

Preview: White Space: Shaping Nothing for Clean Design

David Kadavy, author of Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty, will discuss the art of using white space for clean design in his panel at SXSWi entitled, White Space: Shaping Nothing for Clean Design. The term clean design is often thrown around in the web design field, but no one seems to focus on the tactics […]

SXSWi Jessica Ivins

Designing Experiences for Women Assignment: Design a website for a female demographic. Typical Solution: background-color: pink; img src: url(flowerprint.jpg) Well, Jessica Ivins is here to tell you that’s not always the right solution in her discussion, Designing Experiences for Women. Jessica Ivins is an experience designer for Happy Cog, a website development company which handles […]