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Gail Anderson
10:10-11:10 AM
Gail Anderson is a senior art director at SpotCo, a design and ad agency specializing in work for Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. From 1987 to 2002 she was Senior Art Director at Rolling Stone. Her work has received awards from the Society of Publication Designers, the Type Directors Club, AIGA, Graphis, Communication Arts and Print. She is co-author, with Steven Heller, of Graphic Wit, The Savage Mirror, American Typeplay and Astounding Photoshop Effects. Gail teaches in the School of Visual Arts' MFA program. |
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David C. Baker - Forget Business Embracing Design: Let's Start with Design Embracing Business
10:10 – 11:00 AM
What does business want? What do designers want? Can the existing relationship move beyond reluctant acceptance, or will both continue to only see the other as a necessary evil? David Baker is a management consultant who advises the advertising, design and public relations community. He helps with systems, positioning, staffing, management, finance – anything necessary for a firm to succeed. He speaks and writes widely and has spoken several hundred times to creatives like you, making sense most of the time. He has oodles of graduate training and recognition from national publications. |
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Dimitri
Jeurissen
12:00 – 12:50 PM
Dimitri Jeurissen is a partner at Base, a design studio with offices in Brussels, Barcelona, New York and Madrid. The studio specializes in creative direction and brand development. With a clientele that spans the corporate, cultural and institutional sectors, Base has worked on a broad range of projects, from creating small art pieces to designing brand identities and campaigns for major corporations such as Puma and Wrangler. In addition, the agency produces its own products, including BEople – a magazine about Belgian culture. |
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Chip
Kidd
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer. His book designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have spawned a revolution in the art of book packaging. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time and The New York Times. Chip has also written about design and culture for Vogue, The New York Times, ID and Print. A comprehensive monograph of his work is set for publication in October. The Cheese Monkeys, his first novel was a national bestseller. Chip is currently working on a new novel, tentatively titled The Learners. |
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Anita
Kunz
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Illustrator Anita Kunz’ clients include Rolling Stone, GQ, The New York Times, Sony Music and Random House. She has produced cover illustrations for The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Time and Newsweek. She has also illustrated more than 50 book covers. Anita frequently lectures including at the Smithsonian and, in 2001 and 2004, at ideacity. Her works are in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Musée Militaire de France and Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Several of her Time covers are in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. Anita was recently named one of the 50 most influential women in Canada by The National Post. |
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Harry Rich- Proof: The Evidence that Design Drives Business Growth
1:00 – 1:50 PM
Business will give design its due when it is convinced of design’s contribution to the bottom line. Deputy Chief Executive of the British Design Council, Harry Rich presents research data and real company stories that clearly link business growth with the way that companies understand and use design. Harry directs the work of the Design Council’s Design Solutions Group, which widens access to high quality design methods and knowledge to support UK business and public services. Harry joined the Design Council as a director in 1999 after a business career in industrial distribution, retailing and publishing. |
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Jason McCann
Jason McCann is the Associate Creative Director of Design
and Interactive at TAXI.
Whether through pixels or print ads, Jason engages audiences
by always finding a way to weave key insights into an
entertaining message. He has been working in design and
interactive for nearly 10 years and created everything
from CD ROMs to flash-based microsites. In the last two
years Jason has contributed to TAXI’s design and
interactive portfolio with a host of award winning work,
including a project for MINI that earned Canada’s
only Gold Cyber Lion from Cannes in 2005. His clients
at TAXI include MINI, Nike, Molson and TELUS Mobility.
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Lisa
Strausfeld
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Lisa Strausfeld is a partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram. Her work lies at the intersection of physical and virtual space: where information structures and physical structures meet, and where navigation of information and navigation of buildings are joined in a single experience. Her projects include a 200-foot-long media wall for Pennsylvania Station; signage and media installations for Pelli’s Bloomberg LP headquarters and interpretive displays at New York Botanical Garden’s Visitor Centre. Lisa received master’s degrees in architecture at Harvard and in media arts and sciences at MIT. At MIT she served as a research assistant in the Visible Language Workshop of the Media Lab where she researched and developed new models for displaying and interacting with complex information.
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Prof. Ken Wong - Competing Against Giants: How Smaller Firms Can Prosper
12:00 – 12:50 PM
In an era where mergers are creating scale-advantaged giants in almost every industry, some smaller firms have found a way to prosper. Learn how to capitalize on the disadvantages that size brings, how to leverage the unique qualities of small-scale operations and how to use organizational arrangements to reap many of the benefits of large size without sacrificing the positive aspects of being a smaller enterprise. Ken Wong is a faculty member at Queen’s School of Business. He was a principal architect of the first full-time degree program in Canada to operate outside of government subsidy: which earned him the cover of Canadian Business. He is co-author of Basic Marketing, one of the leading marketing textbooks in Canada. His clients have included 3M, Bell Canada, TD-Canada Trust, Microsoft and Starbucks. Ken is a frequent speaker and has a regular column in Marketing. |
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