Join us to hear a panel of four super-talented Threadless artists explain their creative process and how they learned to love the bomb (dropping their work on the world and waiting for the reaction, aka the explosion). Threadless founder Jake Nickell leads the discussion, which delves into the nerve-racking trials and awesome thrills of being a young graphic designer in today's market. Visual examples of each artist's work will be shown. Panelists include Ross Zietz, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Aled Lewis, and Enkel Dika.

Learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial CSS3 techniques to put to use in your web pages. With browsers now beginning to support many pieces of CSS3, websites are now popping up with rounded corners, drop shadows, and unique embedded fonts. But CSS3 can do more than just add visual richness to your sites. Powerful new selectors and image-free visual effects can streamline sites and improve speed, and media queries can make sites more adaptable and usable on today's variety of browsers and user agents. See all the features of CSS3 in this session.

Learn how to take your skills in visual design for print and the web into the exciting and rapidly growing field of designing for user experiences. Get an understanding of this multidisciplinary field and see how interaction designers provide solutions to complex design challenges and define new and evolving interactive products and services.

Join us for a preview of where we're taking the Adobe Acrobat franchise: the realm of Acrobat Dynamic PDF. Acrobat Dynamic PDF enables you to connect, interact, and engage in powerful new ways. Learn how to streamline your workflow, collaborate more easily, and create high-impact communications. Do it all with the reliability, visual fidelity, and control you expect from Acrobat today.

Join Richard Weinberg of the USC School of Cinematic Arts to explore high-resolution motion picture optical microscopy. Weinberg developed a system for shooting movies with a RED One camera through a microscope and created a ten-minute movie, "MicrOrganisms," in 4K resolution that premiered in December 2009 at the CineGrid conference. This session reviews the image capture, editing, and visual effects process and how Weinberg used this system to stream live HD microscopy from Los Angeles to Yokohama, Japan, for an interactive presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia.

Discover how to make your vector art stand out. In this session, you'll learn about the variety of output options within Adobe Illustrator that can be used to create dynamic designs and illustrations. Artist Greg Geisler, one of the creators of the Illustrator how-to guides on Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/howto/), will walk you through his process for creating visually rich artwork. He'll show techniques using various tools in Illustrator, discuss integration between Illustrator and Flash Professional, and explore going beyond Illustrator with additional techniques such as laser cutting. Join this session and get more out of Illustrator.

Whether you're helping corporate clients communicate through images, expressing your vision in fine art, or capturing life's moments at weddings, in portraits, or for news media, you're driven by the art of your craft. That's why professional photographers have long relied on Adobe Photoshop software for the ultimate in creative control and image quality. New Photoshop CS5 helps you achieve the visual and emotional effects you’re after with re-engineered features for reducing and adding grain, performing post-crop vignetting, and sharpening. CS5 reinvents HDR imaging with Exposure Merge, which makes it easy to preserve the full tonal range of a scene—or go from photorealistic to wildly surrealistic—and automatically remove ghost artifacts. It delivers new black-and-white conversion features and a GPU-enabled crop experience. It accelerates your workflow with powerful new selection technology, integrated Adobe Mini Bridge for faster file browsing, and cross-platform 64-bit support for faster performance.

Synchronous Objects reveals the interlocking systems of organization in the choreography of William Forsythe's dance, One Flat Thing, reproduced. Users can explore choreographic structures, discover patterns and re-imagine what they might look like through streaming video, animation, information graphics and interactive creative tools. Concept, analysis, tools and visual representations are created by The Ohio State University's Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Department of Dance and William Forsythe. Website interface and application architecture designed and developed by tracermedia.

Join Ethan Eismann to see a variety of tutorials and examples that visually explain innovative ways for you to map, plan, and organize your RIA or Adobe AIR application.

Get an inside look at the design and development of a scrappy little photo scrapbooking tool for kids. The Postcards development team will dig deep into challenges Adobe AIR developers face, including building a visually rich and animated application.

Learn from the professionals how to turn whiteboard ideas into hand-held experiences. Ali Ivmark, a member of the Adobe XD team, and Christian Robertson, visual design director from Punchcut, will take you through the overall design process.

Join Anuja Dharkar as she speaks about resources available to help prepare students for RIA design and development trends that are impacting interactivity and visual design while connecting designers and developers more closely.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to turn an image into an impressionist work of art in part one of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 8 to create an impressionist artwork PDF slideshow in part two of this tutorial showcasing the student project in the Impressionist Artwork lesson plan, available at www.adobe.com/go/crosscurricular.

Join Aaron Pedersen and James Polan as they show us how to use familiar design tools in Adobe Creative Suite to integrate visually rich interfaces with unique, custom components created by Flex Builder developers.

Join Serge Jespers as he shows us how to integrate the expressive design capabilities in Flash CS4 Professional with Flex development to create visually compelling rich Internet applications.