Flashforward Conference and Film Festival...Inspiration and Creativity with Adobe Flash

Need inspiration? Need samples of creativity? Need to show your students some of the AMAZING examples of Adobe Flash that is available on the Web?

Then you need to go to the FlashForward 2007 website.

Boston will host Flashforward 2007 September 19-21, 2007 . 3 days of "intensive education, inspiration, community, and networking. Live, breathe, eat, and sleep Flash®, Flex, ActionScript and Apollo. Learn how Flash integrates with other Adobe® applications to create Flash video, rich Internet applications in and out of the browser, animation, audio, games, data visualization, database integration, mashups, and much more." Flashforward is produced by lynda.com and sponsored by Adobe Systems.

I attended this conference in San Francisco in 2005 and it was absolutely amazing! The quality of presenters and conference was top notch!

The FlashForward Film Festival features 16 categories that Flash designers can compete in:

1. Art / 2. Cartoon / 3. Commerce / 4. Experience / 5. Game / 6. Instructional / 7. Motion Graphics / 8. Narrative / 9. Navigation / 10. Online Application / 11. Original Sound / 12. Technical Merit / 13. 3D / 14. Typography / 15. Video / 16. People's Choice Award (people were able to log onto the website and vote for their favourite from the above categories)

View the categories and the top 4 Flash websites for each category that are up for awards. You can also see past winners in the archive website.