- Sol Sende, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
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Sol Sender led the creative development of the Obama ’08 campaign logo. He is a Strategist at VSA Partners , is the owner of Sender LLC, and is an adjunct faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received his BA from Bowdoin College, and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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- Kathryn Moore, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK)
www.Design-Conference.com - Immediate Past President of the Landscape Institute, at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (UK), Professor Kathryn Moore has lectured and published extensively design quality, theory and education. Her teaching and research, set within landscape architecture has clear implications for architecture, urban design and other art and design disciplines, in addition to philosophy, aesthetics and education more generally. Recent consultancy projects include membership of the team for Martha Schwartz Inc, Living Landmarks Big Lottery Fund project, for Birmingham City Council and creating an urban vision for the Black Country with Lovejoys, Birmingham which evolved into a study of regeneration catalysts. She is currently writing a book partly funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, proposing a radical reappraisal of the relationship between the senses and intelligence. A trustee for CBAT, the arts regeneration agency in Cardiff, she is a member of the steering committee for the international City Park Design Competition, Birmingham City Council.
From Priya Ganapati at Wired:
As books make the leap from cellulose and ink to electronic pages, some editors worry that too much is being lost in translation. Typography, layout, illustrations and carefully thought-out covers are all being reduced to a uniform, black-on-gray template that looks the same whether you’re reading Pride and Prejudice, Twilight or the Federalist Papers.
“There’s a dearth of typographic expression in e-books today,” says Pablo Defendini, digital producer for Tor.com, the online arm of science fiction and fantasy publisher Tor Books. “Right now it’s just about taking a digital file and pushing it on to a e-book reader without much consideration for layout and flow of text.”
With the popularity of the Kindle and other e-book readers, electronic book sales in the United States have doubled every quarter. Though still a very small percentage of the overall book industry, sales of e-books touched $15.5 million in the first quarter of the year, up from $3.2 million the same quarter a year ago. By contrast, the printed book market sales in North America alone was nearly $14 billion in 2008. More…
Bill Lucas
Bill Lucas investigates, informs, and advances the practice of experience design at MAYA Design (Pittsburgh, USA), building on a foundation in holistic, human-centered design.
He has designed experiential systems for a wide range of companies and government institutions, including Corning, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Whirlpool, the United States Postal Service, and DARPA. He has designed corporate identity standards, trade show exhibits, signage systems, and graphical user interfaces for Web sites, software applications, and physical devices.
After serving as Director of MAYA’s Visual Design Group from 1996-2001, Bill became the inaugural member of MAYA’s Professional Practice Fellowship Program. More…
13 - 15 February 2010
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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Design Principles and Practices Conference
Design Principles and Practices Journal