2012 Dates coming soon!

We invite visual communicators everywhere to assemble in Toronto this fall for the Association of Registered Graphic Designers' 12th annual DesignThinkers Conference, as we discuss the unique insight and problem-solving processes of the designer.

Speakers

Deborah Adler
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Motivated by a desire to make lives easier and safer, Deborah Adler delivers new directions in products, packaging, identity and information systems.
David C. Baker
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David C. Baker, author of Managing (Right) for the First Time and Financial Management of a Marketing Firm, is a leading management consultant for the creative services field.
Jason Bruges
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Jason Bruges is the founder of Jason Bruges Studio, which creates surfaces, spaces and large-scale interventions that exist between the worlds of architecture, installation art and interaction design.
Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar and Sagi Haviv
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Ivan Chermayeff, a prolific designer, illustrator and artist, has created memorable, iconic images for hundreds of clients. As a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar, he has played a significant role in establishing the firm’s worldwide reputation.
Brian Collins and Leland Maschmeyer
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Brian Collins is Chief Creative Officer of COLLINS, a design company dedicated to inventing brand experiences and communications that shape companies and people for the better.
Steve Edge
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As a result of his severe dyslexia, Steve Edge’s love of the arts grew to become his life's main focus from a young age. In particular, he contracted a raging case of advertising and brand fever.
Rob Giampietro
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Rob Giampietro is a principal at Project Projects, a design studio in New York focusing on identity, print, interactive, and environmental work...
Stanley Hainsworth
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Stanley Hainsworth is Chairman, Chief Creative Officer of Tether, a group of friends who are passionate about one thing: telling stories that matter.
Allan Haley
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Allan Haley is Director of Words & Letters at Monotype Imaging where he is responsible for strategic planning and creative implementation of just about everything related to typeface designs.
Jessica Hische
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Jessica Hische is a typographer and illustrator. While working at Louise Fili Ltd, she freelanced for such clients as Tiffany & Co., Chronicle Books and The New York Times.
Rei Inamoto
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Named in Creativity Magazine's annual “Creativity 50,” Rei Inamoto is one of the most influential individuals in the marketing and creative industry today.
Chip Kidd
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Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer whose book jacket designs have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging.
George Lois
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George Lois is renowned for dozens of marketing miracles that triggered innovative and populist changes in American culture.
David MacKay
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An expert in the Web analytics, David MacKay, country manager, Omniture, Adobe Systems has 15 years of experience in agencies and enterprises helping clients deliver measurable results and deploy resources strategically to meet their business objectives and to demonstrate ROI.
Bobby Martin & Jennifer Kinon
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Bobby C. Martin Jr. and Jennifer Kinon are founding partners of The Original Champions of Design (OCD), a branding and design agency based in New York.
Craig Mod
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Craig Mod is a writer, designer, publisher, and developer concerned with the future of publishing and storytelling. He is co-author and designer of Art Space Tokyo, an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world.
Richard Morrison
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In a career spanning 30 years, Richard Morrison has created over 150 feature film title sequences for the industry’s most respected film directors and producers.
Christoph Niemann
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Christoph Niemann’s illustrations have appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Newsweek, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and American Illustration.
Eddie Opara
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Eddie Opara joined Pentagram’s New York office as a partner in 2010. His projects have included the design of brand identity, publications, packaging, environments, exhibitions, interactive installations, websites, user interfaces and software.
William Poundstone
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William Poundstone is the author of 12 books, including Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It).
Robert Priest & Grace Lee
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Robert Priest and Grace Lee are founding partners of Priest+Grace, a design company in New York. Their clients have included O, The Oprah Magazine, Bloomberg Markets, The Fiscal Times, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative, and The Ladders.
Eric Ryan
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At age 27, Eric Ryan founded method, a San Francisco based consumer goods company that has reinvented homecare products with an innovative branding and product design approach.
Christian Schwartz
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Christian Schwartz is a partner in the type foundry Commercial Type. Christian first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, where he developed typefaces for Volkswagen.
Aaris Sherin
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Aaris Sherin is an educator, writer and designer. She is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at St. John’s University and is author of SustainAble: A handbook of materials and applications for graphic designers and their clients.
Todd Simmons
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Based in New York, Todd heads up all creative for Wolff Olins, bringing years of broad, multidisciplinary experience to his team.
Robert Wong
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Robert was born Chinese, grew up Dutch, was Canadian, and is now American. While practicing accounting in Toronto, Robert woke up one day, flew to New York, and became a graphic designer instead.
Connections - Advertising
Make valuable connections and discuss the unique issues facing those in advertising in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with advertising legend George Lois.
Connections - Illustration
Make valuable connections and discuss the world of illustration in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with Christoph Niemann and Jessica Hische.
Connections - In-house
Make valuable connections and discuss the issues facing designers who work with corporations, government and non-profits in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with Stanley Hainsworth and
Bobby Martin.
Connections - Business Owners
Make valuable connections and discuss the issues and challenges facing business owners in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with David C. Baker and Deborah Adler.
Connections - Typography
Make valuable connections and discuss the world of font-making in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with Allan Haley, Jessica Hische and Christian Schwartz.
Connections - Designers for Change
Make valuable connections and discuss the role of designers in finding solutions to global challenges in this intimate session limited to 30. This session will be an opportunity to chat one-on-one with Aaris Sherin.

Blog

“The death of print is at hand.”
So declared John Furneaux R.G.D., Managing Partner of Ove Design, at RGD Ontario’s Future by Design panel discussion at the Design Exchange on January 31, 2012. This first in a series of events on the...

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