Adobe Design and Film School Connection

Adobe Education: Design and Film School Connection

If you're excited and serious about enhancing your work in a higher education design or film program, you're in the right place. The Adobe Design and Film School Connection is a site where students and faculty members can find free resources for using Adobe software products in coursework, projects, and career preparation; use tips and tutorials; receive and give helpful advice; and read about new trends and upcoming design events. It's all here.

New Adobe Creative Suite 4

Affordable and integrated tools for design, web, video, and mobile.

2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards winners have been announced. View the work of these talented students by visiting the ADAA Live gallery!

Events

Adobe Education at MAX 2008
November 16–19
San Francisco, California

Join us for Adobe MAX, our annual event for forward-thinking designers, developers, and decision-makers. This year, we've added education-specific sessions in which you can learn about teaching rich Internet application development, bridging designer and developer disciplines in higher education, and much more. And as educators, you can register with a special discount code.

Upcoming events

Read about upcoming conventions, training opportunities, festivals, and other events that focus on film and design work.

Tips and tutorials

Adobe Design Center

Find out how to use specific Adobe products through guides, tutorials, and tips and tricks. The Adobe Design Center has all the resources you need for continuing to develop your knowledge and skills.

Adobe TV

If you've never checked out Adobe TV, you're in for a treat. This is your online source for expert insight into Adobe products delivered on video, on demand. You'll find a full range of programs, from entertainment through instruction. Watch when and where you want.

Launching your career

Nowadays, potential employers expect that you’ve done your homework and learned about their organization. The Creative Group offers tactics to help you not only learn about an organization ahead of time, but also tie your skills and experience to what they need and value.

Highlights

Top ten Adobe Flex and AIR applications for students

Arteez Gangji, an Adobe intern from Carleton University, researched and discovered ten Adobe Flex® and AIR™ applications that can help students survive campus life, including assisting them with organizing notes, connecting with others, editing photos, taming their media, and sharing documents.

2008 Cannes Film Festival student shorts

In May, Adobe was a sponsor of the 2008 Reel Ideas Studio Student Filmmaking program in the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner. See the impressive work of these students in two different locations. For a selection of films, visit Adobe TV, which is featuring a new video each week, and click Video Professional. To view all of the films, go to Reel Ideas Studio and click At the Theater.

What impact will digital media have on graphic design education?

That's the topic educators and design professionals discussed at the Massaging Media 2 conference in Boston.

Flash is just a fancy comic book — Teaching Visual Thinkers to Code

See how Mark Badger teaches design students in the Computer Arts & New Media graduate program at Academy of Art University to overcome their aversion to code. He uses visual metaphors like the comic book to teach Adobe Flash® and ActionScript®.

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES

RIA

Rich Internet application (RIA) teaching resources

These resources provide a combination of online workshop modules for self-study, course projects to apply the skills learned, and book recommendations to put together a course on RIA design and development.