Name: Up.front 58
Start: 2015-06-09T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-06-09T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Co-Up

And we're back with up.front 58! This edition will teach you how to create SVG icons, and we’ll discuss how technology influences our design process and, in the best case, helps to extend our visual vocabulary and solve the problems we face in our work.

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Andrey Kuzmin: Creating Bulletproof SVG Icons

Any website may face the problem of how to prepare and effectively deliver icons to the user. At Zalando, we have been using CSS sprites and icon fonts. Neither solution is perfect, but both get the job done to a reasonable degree. In my talk I will try to evaluate existing solutions, decide upon using SVG, and then introduce building tools and a fallback for old browsers.

Andrey has been alternating between front- and back-end worlds, doing full stack web development throughout his career. Yet, when he noticed that the back-end was gradually turning into a database with API access, he decided to settle for the front-end once and for all. Now he is working as a front-end developer at Zalando with a focus on building well structured and maintainable code. With every new project, he challenges himself to learn something new and be more productive. Andrey has contributed to open source dev tooling, most notably with his gulp-svgstore and gulp-postcss projects.

@unsoundscapes (https://twitter.com/unsoundscapes) | unsoundscapes.com (http://unsoundscapes.com/)

Giacomo Vergnano: Randomness – How Open Source and Machines Help a Lazy Designer

Nowadays collective knowledge, open-source programming tools and connected community are widely spread and easily reachable. In this talk Giacomo will tell the story on how all of these resources helped him, a “lazy” designer, to create many experimental graphics and generative typographic visuals. He will show how it’s possible to create astonishing and complex compositions with few lines of code and random() values, And how experimenting with accidental compositions can help the creative process.
Software used: NodeBox and Processing

Giacomo is a Berlin based visual and web designer. He is the Head of Design of remerge.io (https://www.remerge.io/), founder of givedesign.net (http://www.givedesign.net/) and member of thype.it (http://www.thype.it/) Always experimenting with typography, visual design and coding.

@GiVeDesign (https://twitter.com/GiVeDesign)

Valentina Montagna: Coding As A Design Tool

Designers need to know the shocking truth: they should include code in their design toolbox. Valentina will show how designers benefit from a change of mindset, and how engineers can make things easier for designers to get on board.

Valentina is a full stack designer with ten years of experience in the field. She work as an independent product designer, building websites and web apps from static mock-ups to their implementation. She believes in design as a problem-solving process, where creativity is the ability to find simple answers to complex issues.

@ScintillaLuz (https://twitter.com/ScintillaLuz)

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Up.front is a free event, and you do not have to register anywhere. However it gets packed sometimes. Doors open 7:30pm, talks start 8pm. Come early to make sure you get a seat! After the talks there’s time for conversations with tasty drinks or snacks at Kremanski (http://www.kremanski.de/), a cosy coffeeshop and bistro just around the corner from our venue.

Volunteers: We always need volunteers who help us to prepare the venue (and build it back after the meetups). This takes ca. 15 minutes and is fun – arrive at 7pm if you want to help us <3

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