Color Director Marc Aguilera is featured in a new instructional DVD video by Blue Crane Digital titled “Nikon D300 & D700″ Volume 2: Advanced Topics. This guide takes you through Nikon’s advanced features explaining how they perform in real-world situations. Follow local photographer Tim Mantoani shooting at a sporting event. Then go behind the scenes with our very own color specialist addressing the issue of maintaining authentic color throughout the workflow, from choosing a color space, through post processing on the monitor, all the way to the printed output. The DVD is available through photographic retails stores and Amazon.com.

I am slightly behind cutting edge. I don’t have an iPhone yet because we are still on contract with tmobile until November (and yes I know there is a hack). We will get iPhone’s in the near future. In the mean time I will enjoy this new iPod Touch and it’s Wordpress application to post to our blog. So far it has worked pretty well.

I am off to Calgary to speak about color theory and the world of ICC to the smart technologists at Xerox. The last time I passed through Canadian customs I had to explain the functionality of my X-Rite i1 spectrophotometer. I wonder what fun I will run into this time.

encompus has recently been certified as a G7 Master Proofer. G7 is a revolutionary color management process that allows for a precision proof to press match by targeting gray balance instead of density. Developed by the IDEAlliance and the GRACoL Committee, G7 technology paves the way for one standard, making the communication between creative agency and commercial printer seamless and more efficient.

encompus has been honored with three distinguished interactive awards presented by the American Design Awards. The June 2008 entries yielded 867 entries from all over the world. Through a rigorous point system the juried competition closed with 36 winners. We received 2 Gold and 1 Silver Awards. A Gold for our newly re-designed website encompus.com and Gold for the Los Angeles Foundation on Aging website givelafa.org, followed by a Silver for Soul Shine’s website soulshine.com.

The American Design Awards are founded on ethical design practices for graphic and web designers and reward their work based on creativity, marketability, and effectiveness, as well as practicality and general design abilities.

Phil’s B.B.Q. a local San Diego favorite restaurant, has officially gone World Wide. encompus launched a uniquely designed Flash website providing visitors with the true flavor of this award winning restaurant in Point Loma. The site offers up hot visuals, a simple navigation system, down-loadable menu, and a fun filled experience. You can almost smell it. Yum.