Showtime in Sydney – ADAPT; Open Publish & Visual Impact Image Expo

The inaugural Australian Digital Art & Photo Technology Exhibition (ADAPT) kicks off today (Thursday 21 July) at Fox Studios, More Park. Focused on the ground swell of professionals and amateurs making use of digital imaging to produce decorative art, it’s being labelled the wide format art show.

Populated heavily by such exhibitors as Epson, DES and HP it demonstrates the way the reproduction of works of art has been transformed by the introduction of digital technology. A must see for anyone running a consumer-oriented print shop, ADAPT has a healthy series of seminars lined up with international speakers featuring strongly.
Check it out at www.adaptshow.com.au

Open Publish Asia Pacific – July 27 - 29

Easily the most cerebral event for the publishing and graphic arts industry, this is the 5th Annual Conference for Standards in Publishing. A star-studded line-up of over 40 local and international speakers will explore ideas and best practices in XML publishing, web content management, perspectives on open source technologies, electronic forms and much more.

XML is out there and it’s coming your way and unless you want to join the ranks of the change-challenged media and repro executives, you better be able to get your head around it. Want to do a content management audit, or better yet, buy a content management system? Then this is the place for you.

Check it out: www.openpublish.com.au

Visual Impact Expo – September 1 –3

The sign, screen and related industries are on a roll. Entranced like everyone else by the siren call of digital imaging, the once low-tech sector is piling up the gigabytes in sophisticated equipment.

The annual Sydney show at Darling Harbour has a strong supporting series of business workshops, Directions. Featuring such luminaries as Trevor Canty from ColoRite who has forgotten more about colour management than most of us will ever learn, Michael Stoddart, the Adobe guru who is overseeing the creative market, and Marcus Adler, the mastermind of large format manufacturer, DG Roland in Australia, the three days of workshops present an opportunity to learn something about every aspect of the fast growing sector.

It’s all here: www.visualindustryseminars.org.au

So, don’t sit there fiddling around the internet looking for information – get out into the real world and learn.