Recent News
Web Accessibility courses: Ottawa, Boston, New York, San Franciso, Toronto, Winnipeg
Everyone’s talking about the new Standard on Web Accessibility and WCAG 2.0 for people with disabilities and difficulties. We’ve got the first course (and manual) that completely covers the new standard… learn easy steps to meet the deadlines, expand your audience, and do the right thing. More about accessibility course
Venue: Ottawa Convention Centre, a T-Base event. Coming soon: Boston, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Winnipeg!
Keynoting at 4ttu 2011, Guinness – Dublin, Nov 17
TerminalFour chose David to keynote at their 2011 t44u Global User Summit, at the Guinness Storehouse brewery in Dublin, Ireland. The 2011 theme was “extending your reach”, and David spoke on the role of Web developers and designers in creating a more sustainable, accessible online world … and raised a few pints!
The new Standard On Web Accessibility | Nov 30, 2011
Everyone’s talking about the new Standard on Web Accessibility and WCAG2. We’ve got the first course (and manual) that completely covers the new standard… learn easy steps to meet the deadlines. David’s pretty passionate about this: unforgettable.
Sponsors: Tbase, RGD Ontario.
Venue for Nov 30: Adobe Ottawa.
More on accessibility courses
Biotechnology Day, 2011 IDA Congress
The IDA Congress in Taipei, Taiwan brought together three global bodies of designers to Taipei for the largest global design conference ever. David moderates on Biotechnology Day. As Sustainability Chair, he also presented the global sustainability standard at Icograda’s General Assembly.
Designing With A Purpose – Norway Design Council
At the invitation of The Norwegian Design Council in cooperation with GRAFILL and KHIO, David will be in Oslo, Norway on September 22, 2011 delivering the seminar Developing Your Sustainable Project Strategy: Quadruple-Bottom Line Design Thinking.
Vint Cerf on Do Good Design
Vint Cerf, Vice President at Google (and father of the Internet) sent David an email on April 18th in which he told him: “I found great resonance with your ideas. I’ve sent copies of Do Good Design to a number of friends.” (Photo by Charles Haynes)
David appointed to Pool Magazine editorial board
David has been appointed to the editorial board of Pool Magazine, Designindia’s new publication for the design community.
David’s Do Good Indonesia tour
The Do Good Indonesia starts in Jakarta May 27 2011 with a speech on social responsibility and branding, then moves on to Yogyakarta and Bali through June 5.
Libeskind selects Berman for refugee monument
World-reknowned architect Studio Daniel Libeskind selected us for the graphic design and typography for his Wheel Of Conscience monument in memory of the passengers of the M.S. St. Louis (Jan. 20 2011 unveiling, Pier 21, Halifax). More
Develop your Web & print strategy | March 30
Join David March 30, 2011 to start where every Web and print project should: not graphic design sketches, sharp writing or new technologies, but rather by investing time to decide what you want to achieve, how you’ll get there, and how you’ll know when you’ve succeeded. More | Register
Plan or Be planned | February 18, 2011
Plan for this life-changing seminar… ever wondered how David chooses what’s most important, then gets it all done? Learn his secrets Feb 18, 2011.
David keynotes at edUi in Virginia | Nov 8
Beyond Green: Sustainable design, goes beyond the environment. Join David as he launches an inspiring presentation to open the 2010 edUi Conference located in historic Charlottesville, VA. The conference theme is taking professional web development skills to the next level. David provides innovative thinking and provokes us to ask the big questions about our worldly contributions. By the end of this decade most humans will be online. What will we choose to share with them: our style addictions … or ideas the world really needs to share? We can change the world.
50,000th person downloads TimeTo
TimeTo’s now in Download.com’s top 30 PIMs. Registrants from 47 countries say it’s the world’s best (and scariest-looking!) to do list software… it could make you 20% more productive… and proceeds go to save tigers. Take 15 minutes: try TimeTo now.
David Paddles To Kingston & Toronto | Sep 28-29
David’s in Kingston, Ontario Sept 28, 2010 for the RGD Creative Business Summit. Following David’s keynote speech “Designing With a Purpose” there, he paddles on to University of Toronto for an encore presentation September 29. But why is he wearing a life jacket?
Resources for participants:
Toronto/Kingston 2-page pdf learning guide
Aug 10 webinar | Making The Planet Your Client | David Berman, R.G.D. Ontario
In this webinar, David Berman R.G.D. presents a broad and courageous definition of sustainable design. As David says, “Sustainable design: it goes beyond the environment. 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today, and so it’s up to us to decide what our profession will be about. We live in a time of great fragility, yet there has never more hope, and designers have never had so much power. For the majority of humanity the Internet remains a rumour, but by the end of this decade most humans will be online. What will we choose to share with them: our style addictions or ideas the world really needs to share? We can change the world. Let me share my passion: let me tell you how. Don’t just do good design, do good! Register
segdDESIGN reviews Do Good Design
Sue Gould’s review of Do Good Design is featured in the latest issue of segdDESIGN Magazine. In it, she writes: “His selected visual examples are brilliant, many are funny, and they go way beyond they usual indictments of sexism to address the selling of cigarettes, beer, wine, clothes …” (local copy
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David headlines at HOW Conference June 7 | Denver
David headlines June 7, 2010, 9 am at the HOW Design Conference in Denver, Colorado …immediately followed by book signing of Do Good Design at the My Design Shop bookstore. (Contact us if you’d need a speaker registration discount.)
Berman Speaks At Bauhaus | TYPO Berlin
David’s presentation at the “Designing Ecologies” Lecture Series at the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany was a great success. On his way home, David dropped in at the TYPOBerlin Conference and Erik Spiekermann spontaneously suggested David speak! David said yes, so come hear him on The Stage Saturday, May 22 at 2pm.
Do Good Design wins place in “Design At Work” show opening May 10 in Ottawa
Do Good Design just won a spot in RGD Ontario’s “Design At Work” show, which will be on display at 350 Albert Street in Ottawa May 9-22, 2010, official opening May 10 at 6 pm. The annual “Design At Work” exhibition travels across Ontario throughout the year. Great news for the book whose story began in David’s hometown of Ottawa and whose journey continues globally! (Korean and Russian editions coming soon!)
David joins Good 50×70 jury
David has agreed to jury the
2010 Good 50X70 competition. Good 50×70 is an Italian non-profit group by designers for designers to create, submit and donate posters. The posters are made available for charities to use.
Review by influential Designboom blog
Do Good Design has been
rated by the influential Designboom blog as “excellent, recommended” and described as “provocative and dramatically-illustrated.”