Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.

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Let's Gather Great Minds
Let's Share All Of Our Knowledge
Let's All Grow And Learn
Let's Promote Local Talent
Let's Be More Than We Think Can Be
Let's Make Our Cities Better
February Event

Join us on Monday February 2nd for the next Refresh event. Please RSVP on Facebook or email us at refresh at refreshphilly[dot]org.

Johnny Bilotta, Creative Director
Dioscuri: Relationships between Designers and Developers at IndyHall Labs

Like Castor and Pollux, designers and developers complement each other in mythical ways. Getting some of the talent from both in the same room can make wonderful debate and produce incredibly engaging projects. Indy Hall Labs provides the perfect incubator for these relationships to blossom into killer products.

This discussion is intended to become a Rosetta Stone for both camps. Focus will be on how this relationship is cultivated. Designers will gain insight on interface and branding, communication, and limits of the medium. Developers will get a glimpse into the mind of a visual artist and how, with a bit of art direction, their app can look like a streamlined butterfly!

Howard Blumenthal, CEO, MiND TV
New Ideas for an Old Medium

Public television has a big problem — each generation finds it less relevant than the one that came before it. In this presentation, Howard Blumenthal will discuss the recent transformation of WYBE, an 18-year-old independent public television station in Philadelphia, into MiND TV, a multi-platform learning channel featuring community-generated content. MiND strives to reduce the public television generation gap by encouraging and empowering anyone to produce digital video programs that will air regularly to a diverse audience on regional broadcast and cable television, as well as online at mindtv.org and other media-sharing sites. Blumenthal will also discuss the the impact of new technologies on the television industry, and the unique role small innovators often play to lead the way for positive change in any industry.

Refresh Philly February
Monday February 2nd
The Comcast Center, 17th & JFK
6:00 to 8:30pm

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