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Nancy Duarte
Natural born storytellers
We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, means our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. In this session you'll learn how to step away from your traditional content development process, fold in compelling stories and deliver presentations in your own uniquely human way.
Principal of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the niche of presentation development and design. One of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area, Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations. Nancy’s 20 years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s common causes. Among Nancy’s work is the presentation design for Bill McDonough’s keynote and for Al Gore’s slideshow in the acclaimed documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Her new book is slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations.
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Steff Geissbuhler
Steff Geissbuhler is among America’s most celebrated designers of integrated brand and corporate identity programs. As a principal of C&G Partners, he has created identity systems for Merck, Time Warner cable, Telemundo, NBC, Voice of America, Toledo Museum of Art, National Parks of New York Harbor, Crane & Co., and May Department Stores. He has designed architectural graphics for the IBM building in New York City; a complete sign system for the Universities of Pennsylvania and Connecticut; printed materials for the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Mobil, Philip Morris, Cummins Engines and Morgan Stanley. His work has been honoured with the AIGA Medal for his sustained contribution to design excellence and the development of the profession. He is also the recipient of the U.S. Federal Achievement Design Award, and several awards from the Art Directors Club and the International Poster Biennales. |
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Chris Hacker
Eco-sustainability: Why designers have to help!
Design is a problem-solving activity that requires choices as an integral part of the process. By understanding the environmental consequences of design decisions, one can inform great design with sustainability and environmentally friendly materials and processes. Chris will show that environmental responsibility and profit are not mutually exclusive.
Chris Hacker is a sustainability guru and Chief Design Officer at Johnson & Johnson. He works to make design a competitive advantage through strong brand identity and sustainable design practices and leads all creative processes for brand identity, packaging design and brand imagery. He previously served as Senior VP of Global Marketing and Design for Aveda™, responsible for the company’s product development, brand positioning, visual merchandising, store design and advertising. Under his leadership, Aveda was awarded the 2004 National Design Award for Corporate Achievement from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Chris is a recognized expert in package goods design and is a frequent national speaker on design, design sustainability and the creative process.
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Bob Isherwood
Bob is Worldwide Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi.
With an advertising career spanning more than three decades, Bob Isherwood’s work has been well documented in many books and endorsed by the industry’s most prestigious national and international award shows. Bob believes passionately in the power of ideas to change the world and, appropriately, he’s the driving force behind the Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas. The award attracts judges as distinguished as Buzz Aldrin, Edward De Bono, David Byrne, Brian Eno, Danny Hillis, Baz Luhrmann, John Maeda, Lou Reed, Oliviero Toscani and others. |
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Ji Lee
Bombing the matrix: Interventions on the obvious.
Why are things the way they are and why do we accept them as they are? Why is our reading system two-dimensional and linear? Why are our numbers composed of abstract symbols? We don't ask such questions because they are fundamental tools used by everyone, and we are too used to them. Ji challenges some of the tools of our communications system such as the alphabet, numbers and advertising. He offers alternate tools to communicate and encourages rethinking the current matrix, through individual thinking, imagination and fun.
Ji Lee is Creative Director for Google Creative Lab in New York. Previously he served as Branding Director for Droga5 and Senior Art Director for Saatchi & Saatchi. His Tap Project campaign to promote World Water Week for Unicef won a 2007 Cannes Titanium Lion. Ji is also the founder of the widely publicized The Bubble Project, where 50,000 blank speech bubble stickers were placed on top of ads on the streets of New York for passersby to fill in. Ji teaches at the School of Visual Arts. |
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Bettina von Stamm
Design and innovation. Ideal bedfellows?
Innovation. It has been on the agenda for quite some time now; money is being invested; processes are being put in place; roles are being created,. Yet many a CEO is disappointed with the results. Bettina explores why that might be, and why design and design thinking might be the needed secret weapon.
Bettina Von Stamm has developed an expertise in innovation, new product development and design. Her work, which spans research, teaching, consulting and speaking, has resulted in two books, The Innovation Wave and Managing Innovation, Design & Creativity. A further spin-off of her activities is the Innovation Wave™, a tool for the facilitated assessment and development of innovation capability in organizations. Other previous activities include developing and teaching a module on the ‘Design Process’ for of the MBA in Design Management at the University of Westminster, and a variety of consulting, research and training projects for clients such as the BBC, IDEO, Ford, SKF and Ernst & Young International. She has an MBA as well as a PhD from London Business School. |
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Philip Sunderland + Aaron Green
The philosophies behind Q's method of doing business have reaped rewards for Philip Sunderland's team and clients. But going against convention poses its own challenges, and Aaron Green will discuss Streamline's potential solutions for those looking to run their businesses differently.
Phillip Sunderland started the New-Zealand based agency Q after a few years serving big multinational agencies, with the aim of fostering a new kind of business, an agency that thinks/acts different – free of the restraint of politics, big headed directors and a healthy respect for the hours outside of 9 - 5pm. His vision has been rewarded by seeing Q and the team grow into an award-winning bundle of mates. Managing Director and Senior Software Architect for the Streamtime product, Aaron Green travels the world educating creative industry people on best practices and how to use Streamtime to get the most from their business. Born in New Zealand, Aaron attended the renowned Canterbury University before working around the globe for many Apple-related companies. His travels ended back in Christchurch where he took on the role of building a workflow system for Australasia's largest prepress house. That knowledge formed the foundation of what is Streamtime – the world's No.1 software choice for creative companies. |
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Masamichi Udagawa
Intervention - Interaction
Design is a form of intervention. Whenever a new artifact is introduced to our life - often inspired by new technology - design has to negotiate between people, the existing context and the new artifact. The essence of design is interaction. Interaction between people and artifacts, as well as interaction amongst people mediated by designed artifacts. Through his work, crossing the threshold between product and environment, public and private, physical and digital, Masamichi explains how design is an intervention that generates new interactions in society.
A co-founder of Antenna Design, Masamichi explores the relationship between new technology and its meaning in society, where new technology alters our environment and perception. Among Antenna’s projects are the design of New York City subway cars and ticket vending machines, JetBlue check-in kiosks, and an installation in the windows of Bloomingdale’s activated by passersby. Prior to founding Antenna in 1997, Masamichi worked with Ideo, Emilio Ambasz Design Group and Apple. Masamichi is the recipient of numerous awards including IDEA Gold Awards, ID Magazine’s Best-of-Category and First Prize in Japan’s Good Design Award. In 2006, he received the Design Management Institute’s Muriel Cooper Prize for advancing design, technology and communications. |
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Tucker Viemeister
Bad behaviour
Although designing “experiences” is better than simply designing a brochure or a potato peeler, creating stuff that actually improves peoples’ behaviour is more relevant in today’s changing environment. Horace Mann said, “Be ashamed to die until you’ve won some victory for humanity!” Luckily, we’ve still got some time.
Tucker Viemeister is President of Springtime-USA, a global strategic consultancy delivering conceptual industrial design, 3D engineering, prototyping and production supervision. Springtime’s clients include Heineken, Nike, Toyota and PTTPost (the Dutch postal service) and also Coca-Cola with the Rockwellgroup. Tucker founded several ground-breaking design organizations including frogdesign NY, Razorfish and Smart Design (where he helped design the widely-acclaimed Oxo "GoodGrips" universal kitchen tools). His work has won many awards, and is featured in museum collections. He has written many articles, organized national conferences for the ACD and IDSA, and produced (and designed) the book Elements of Design. Tucker is Vice President of the Architectural League of New York, and is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America.
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Véronique Vienne
Citizen Designer: The next paradigm
Véronique assesses how much we’ve learned about sustainability in the last five years and how it’s transformed the way graphic designers think about their environmental, economic and social responsibility. Though it can be argued that graphic designers are dangerous undercover polluters, they can also be influential opinion leaders. From mere “communicators,” can graphic designers recast themselves as defenders of a new ethic of sustainability? Véronique will compare two approaches: Anglo-Saxon pragmatism and European radicalism.
Véronique Vienne has written extensively on lifestyle trends, design ethics, and business practices and has edited, art-directed and written essays for a number of design publications. The author of a critical essay on book cover designer Chip Kidd, she is the editor of Citizen Designer, The Education of an Art Director, Fresh Dialogue Three and Fresh Dialogue Four. She also wrote Something to be Desired, a collection of essays on design, and the best selling guidebook The Art of Doing Nothing. Véronique teaches a graduate course in design criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York. |
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Massimo Vignelli
Design is one
If you can design something, you can design everything. From graphics to products, from furniture to interiors, from packaging to signage, Massimo’s 50 years of work demonstrates how designers can transcend every field of design. Massimo shows how the Vignelli Associates philosophy of “if you can’t find it, design it” has been at the root of their curiosity and passion, inspiring new ideas and applications.
A celebrated designer, Massimo Vignelli is responsible for such icons as the 1966 Stendig Calendar, the1972 New York City subway map and signage, and the corporate identity program for American Airlines. His works is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, and the Die Neue Sammlung. His many accolades include a Visionary Award from the Museum of Art and Design, a Brooklyn Museum Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, induction into the Interior Design Hall of Fame, a New York State Governor’s Award for Excellence, and an AIGA Gold Medal. |
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Jenn + Ken Visocky O'Grady
Information Design Dissected
In a complex world, clear and accessible communication, across a broad range of media, has become essential. While designers need not become psychologists, knowledge of the principles framing cognition and communication, in addition to aesthetics, provides illumination for our craft. This presentation explores the connections and convergences between human perception, thinking and learning; how we transmit knowledge, share concepts and process information through language; and how structure and legibility affect the visualization of messaging. We know you can design amazing info graphics, this session will help you explain why they work.
Jenn + Ken Visocky O’Grady are partners in business and life. The couple co-founded Enspace, a creative think tank where designers, writers, marketers and even the occasional historian collaborate to enhance communication. They also promote the value of design in the classroom – Jenn as an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University, and Ken as an Assistant Professor at Kent State University. Their first book, A Designer’s Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What They Really Need is suggested preparatory text for a portion of the R.G.D. Qualification Examination. Their second, The Information Design Handbook, will be released in September 2008. |
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Brett Wickens
From cult to corporate: How album covers helped sell software
Punk rock disrupted the music scene in the 1970s, creating a unique challenge for emerging designers like Neville Brody, Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville to establish new design lexicons. During his partnership with Peter Saville, Brett Wickens realized how the power of instinctive design could sell products. Today, Brett has brought these instincts to bear by designing and leading a successful and award-winning program to help Adobe Systems emotionally reconnect with its biggest audience, creative professionals.
Brett’s expertise in design technology led him to LA in 1993 to pursue his interest in the convergence of entertainment, information and technology for clients including Nike, and interactive products such as the United Nations CD-ROM, the SpokenWorld channel for Microsoft Network, and entertainment and music marketing initiatives for Apple. He has been Vice President and Creative Director at MetaDesign and at Frankfurt Balkind Partners, and was an associate partner for Pentagram Design in London. He is currently a Partner at Ammunition Group in San Francisco. |
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