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Design is important to attract and engage. We all know that! But what we don’t know is how best to design spaces and places that pique interest and encourage exploration online.

So when creating a workshop about design, who could tell us how to do it using cases and samples to show how to do it best? We turned to Adobe. More than 90% of creative professionals have Adobe Photoshop® software on their desktops. Adobe has been a part of much of the great designs by giving the creatives the tools to let their imaginations run wild.

In a workshop lead by Marcel Boucher, a senior technical marketing manager with Adobe, he will explore how brands can leverage the power of design and creativity to drive their businesses. Marcel will be our guide to show us what we could potentially look forward to as well as to share ideas on what we can do next.

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Marcel Boucher (Adobe)

A mesh13 media workshop

Videos are a tricky medium. When they are well executed, they resonate and can help to tell a great story. But with tools making it easier for anyone to create a video, it is still challenging for just anyone to create great video content.

It is for this reason that we are taking on video at mesh13. The gang over at Switch Video–specifically its CEO, Andrew Angus and Heather McKibbon, Switch’s VP Business Development. This talented duo work with their team to produce compelling videos for clients including Microsoft, American Express, IBM and HP.

Switch Video has produced hundreds of simple explainer videos that “explain what you do”. From SME and startups to large corporations, Andrew and Heather will help you understand why video is such a powerful medium. In this interactive session, they will help you learn how you can make your message count.

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Andrew Angus
Heather McKibbon

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When we plan for your arrival to mesh, we spend a lot of time locked in a room talking about what’s next on the web and in the digital space. We are always looking for the tool or device that can change the game. With this in mind, a conversation about the crazy cool and just plain crazy stuff that is going on in printing.

We talked a world where you can print guns, limbs and even food. Once we were over the novelties, we talked about the maker economy and what a three-dimensional printer could change what we create. We talked about what a 3D printer does for prototype development and innovation. Basically, we just couldn’t stop talking about this one topic.

If us newbies could talk about this for as long as we did, we knew that those who were actually doing it could tell us what is happening with the technology, how it can aid innovation and what it means to the creation of products.

The experts that we turned to to tell this story was Panda Robotics, specifically two of their co-founders, Felix Tang and Liav Koren. Their creation, the PandaBot, makes 3D printing simple and accessible. They’ve built a robust, reliable tool to make designs real. They saw the possibilities and challenges of 3D printing and realized that no one was really focusing on the creatives and the researchers. Architects, artists, designers and crafters are critical to the transition of 3D printing from prediction to reality. Felix and Liav started working to create a technology that could help. These users need tools to make their lives easier, that work with existing workflows and can cut down the barriers from concept to physical object. Liav and Felix will help us all understand the true potential of this process in design and development as well as help us see what’s on the horizon.

In case you can’t tell, we are stoked about hosting this session at mesh13.

Learn more about our workshop presenters…
Liav Koren
Felix Tang