Archive for 'Upcoming Guests'
BUD RODECKER + JOHN POBOJEWSKI OF 3ST
November 10th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Chats, Upcoming Guests. 1 Comment.
Bud Rodecker and John Pobojewski of the Chicago design group 3st will join us tonight, Wednesday Nov 10th, at 8pmCST to give us the inside scoop on what’s going on inside their candy-coated walls. Click HERE to go to the chat.
Senior designer John Pobojewski creates meaningful visual and aural communication by creating connections, focusing on elegance, and aiming to express the human touch. At Thirst, he has served clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Herman Miller, Wright Auctions, and Janet Echelman among others.
Bud Rodecker studied Graphic Design at the University of Minnesota Duluth where he learned the true meaning of cold. It was there he took on the role of president of the Student Design Organization (SDO) from 2005 to 2007. Following graduation in May 2007, Bud came to Chicago for an internship at Thirst. At the end of the summer, he was invited to stay on as a full-time designer.
Here are some of their very tasty visual treats:
Bleepin’ Golden Tee
IIT Fall 2009 Lecture Series Poster
Riverse
RicharDaily
Gather Give Grow
The Enemy is Apathy
Dust
Thirst’s Top Five Love Songs – Marvin Gaye
Thirst’s Top Five Love Songs – Prince
2010/11 LOEB Fellowship Recipients
DC GUEST – ARMIN VIT
September 6th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Announcement, Design News, Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. 1 Comment.
Wednesday, September 8th at 9pm CST — This week’s conversation is supplemented by the thoughts and opinions of our guest, Armin Vit — one half of the dynamic-duo known to most as UnderConsideration (Armin Vit + wife and co-conspirator, Bryony Gomez-Palacio). We have him about a week before his talk at AIGA Chicago’s Design Thinking II, and we hope to search his head a bit, figuring out what makes him such an effective proponent for good design.
Armin Vit’s career has brought him from his original home in Mexico City, to Chicago, and then to New York (working with Michael Bierut at Pentagram). Today he runs projects through UnderConsideration’s Department of Design in Austin, Texas, and does his best to enjoy time spent with his young family.
Vit has written articles for many of the industry’s leading publications like HOW, STEP, and Eye. He’s also created content for Emigre and the UK-based design publication, Creative Review. As if that wasn’t enough, he continues to oversee the creation of several microblogs and design critique sites while touring the world as a welcomed speaker, talking about what else… our favorite topics… design, branding and typography.
There’s a lot more to Vit then we’ve got here, so check out the links at the end of this post and…
Join us, and Armin Vit, this Wednesday September 8th at 9pm CST, here at
http://designchat.info/chat for a live video and text chat.
It will be great to talk with him and we hope to see you there too.
SPECIAL NOTICE:
The live show is at 9PM CST.
That’s one hour later than usual! Don’t miss it.
Learn more about our guest, Armin Vit, at the following links.
Link Round-Up:
DesignChat Live Wednesday Sept 8th, 9PM CST
Armin Vit and UnderConsideration on Twitter
Armin Vit Profile on UnderConsideration
Veer Interview with Armin Vit
Unmatched Style Interview with Vit
Print Magazine Interviews Armin Vit & Wife Bryony Gomez-Palaci
firstand20.com Gets Vit to Show Us his iPhone Homescreen
idsgn.org talks Flaunt
Flaunt:
UnderConsideration.com
Brand New
FPO For Print Only
Quipsologies
Speak Up Archive
Word It Archive
Archive of The Design Encyclopedia
AIGA Chicago “Design Thinking II” with Armin Vit September 16th.
DC GUEST – QUITE STRONG
August 30th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
This week DesignChat welcomes the design collective Quite Strong to the conversation. They’re made up of 5 strong-minded women in Chicago who have combined forces to rule the design world. I’m not sure how this conversation is going to go between myself and five freaking guests, but its sure to be a little nuts. There was some talk about doing this game-show style, but who knows. The ladies assured me they have ‘visuals’ to present on Wednesday night, so if you’re alive and have an internet connection, you pretty much don’t have any excuse to miss this.
Here is how they describe themselves on their site:
Quite Strong is a collaborative made up of five female Chicago-based creatives. Professionally we are designers, art directors, web developers and illustrators. Personally, we are dreamers, crafters, lovers, bikers, nerds and wanna-be foodies. We love Chicago, we relish creativity, and we want to share what we’re into with you.
222 is the Quite Strong studio located in Logan Square. It serves as a collaborative space for us and for those that want to join us in creative endeavors.
THE QUITE STRONG GIRLS:
THE WORK OF QUITE STRONG:
A collaboration between Jennifer Sisson & Elaine Chernov for Eco Plumbing Co. — An eco friendly plumbing service.
Fast from the hog y’all, Mixed media on Canvas by Elaine Chernov.
The following are Illustrations by Jana Kinsman:
Winter at the Whistler, Window display by Jana Kinsman
A collaboration with Katherine Walker for Out For Justice: Identity and Website designed for organization that provides support, visibility, and awareness surrounding crimes against the LGBTQIA community. Chicago Pride Parade June 2010:
Brain Milk Media, Identity system by Victoria Pater:
A UI collaboration between Victoria Pater and Elaine Chernov. Read more about it here:
So if you’d like to meet all the women responsible for all of this fantastic work, you can! On Wednesday, September 1st, go to the CHAT page and log in! You can ask text questions or live video questions. See you there!
DC GUEST – SAMATAMASON -UPDATED
August 16th, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Announcement, Events, Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
UPDATE: SamataMason just changed their name today, August 17th, the day before the show to smbolic. I can’t wait to talk about this!
This week on DesignChat we’re speaking to 2 of the partners from SamataMason, a heavily decorated design firm in West Dundee Illinois. If that name sounds familiar, its because I say it every week on the show. SamataMason is where I broadcast from, and they have been great supporters of DesignChat and what we are trying to accomplish. Dave Mason and Kevin Krueger are going to take us through the history of their shop, and also what motivated them to start one of the most intriguing design conferences today, Cusp. I was lucky enough to attend and do a live show from Cusp last year, and I’m excited to say that I’ve been asked back! Follow me on Twitter to hear more announcements about who I’ll be interviewing.
Dave Mason was born in England and raised in Canada, where he formed his own design firm in 1984. He and co-founders Greg and Pat Samata formed Chicago/Vancouver-based SamataMason Inc. in 1995. His strategy and design work for clients such as Sesame Workshop, Swiss Army Brands, TRW, Broderbund Software and QLT has been honored in hundreds of national and international competitions and publications. He has served as a guest speaker at design industry functions and schools and has served as a juror for design competitions across North America and in Asia. Dave has also co-founded a number of successful business ventures including OpinionLab, Inc., the leader in web-based VoC (voice of customer) intelligence systems, Cusp Conference LLC, which produces an annual conference about “the design of everything,” and documentary producer NoisemakerFilms.
Dave Mason was recently awarded FGDC status as a Fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada—GDC’s highest honour.
An Ohio University graduate, Kevin was a designer at Herman Miller before joining SamataMason in 1996. Kevin’s worked for a diverse range of clients such as the PGA Tour, Whirlpool, Devon Energy, International Truck, and Motorola. His print and interactive work has been honored internationally in numerous competitions and publications including AIGA Communication Graphics, The Art Directors Club, The Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, International ARC Awards, Graphis and How Magazine. A former Chicago Chapter board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), he is a frequent lecturer at design schools and organizations, and has served as a juror for numerous design competitions. Kevin is also a co-founder of Cusp Conference LLC, which produces an annual conference about “the design of everything”.
SAMATAMASON OFFICE
The BARREL ROOF of the SamataMason office has eight large skylights; glass walls divide working spaces. Gutters were removed and replaced by lanes in the center gallery of this renovated bowling alley.
SAMATAMASON WORK
Cambridge Solutions Ltd., client
Golin Harris, client
Evan’s Life Foundation, client
Stephen Wilkes Photography, client
Motorola, Inc., client
Sesame Workshop, client
An EVAN’S LIFE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT combined translucent paper with photos of grant recipients to portray the variety of children aided by the organization.
EVAN’S LIFE FOUNDATION’S “One Boy” campaign depicts a day-in-the-life account of a typical child the foundation supports.
CUSP CONFERENCE
Cusp is a conference about ‘the design of everything,’ bringing together thinkers, innovators, performers, skeptics, believers, visionaries and explorers from the arts, sciences, technology, business and design. Cusp Conference is for anyone who believes that the best way to predict the future is to design it.
Cusp Conference is a magnet for the design-centric, but a significant percentage of attendees do not describe themselves as ‘designers.’ They describe themselves as business people, entrepreneurs, educators, policy-makers, physicians, consultants, students and managers.
Cusp attendees have included people from the worlds of: advertising, architecture / planning, broadcasting, construction / tech- nical services, consumer electronics, consumer finance, corporate communications, education, equity management, filmmak- ing, furniture, graphic design, industrial design, international tax law, journalism / writing, learning technology, manufacturing, medicine, not-for-profit, technology, philanthropy, public relations, public transportation, publishing, printing, research, web devel- opment, web analytics, and a whole bunch of high school students.
Cusp Conference 2010 presenters and special guests to date include:
Sean Adams • Graphic designer / AdamsMorioka Designer
Natalia Allen • Design Futurist / member Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business
Sakchin Bessette • Multimedia designer / founder of Moment Factory
Maggie Breslin • Designer / SPARC Lab at Mayo Clinic Rap troubadour
Baba Brinkman • Rap troubadour
Josh Elder • Cartoonist / comics in the classroom advocate
Randy Fielding • Architect / FieldingNair / school design leader
Whitney Hopkins • Product designer / Smart Design, member of the Biomimicry Guild
Michelle Kaufmann • Architect / sustainable design leader
Noreen Morioka • Graphic designer / AdamsMorioka
Dr Jay Parkinson • Doctor / designer
Diana Rhoten • Education innovator / co-founder / STARTL
Amy Krouse Rosenthal • Author / filmmaker
Diego Stocco • Sound designer
Tim Will • Social entrepreneur / founder of Foothills Direct / winner of The Purpose Prize
Richard Saul Wurman • Author / designer / founder of TED Conferences
And more to come!
DC GUEST – ERIK SPIEKERMANN
August 7th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Announcement, Inspiration, Typography, Upcoming Guests. 5 Comments.
This Wednesday, August 11th, at 8PM CST, DesignChat welcomes the universally-respected creative director, typographer and design advocate, Erik Spiekermann to the conversation. Original designer of typefaces like ITC Officina, Unit, and even Meta— called one of the most successful humanist sans serif typefaces of the previous decade. (The Helvetica of the 90’s?).
Spiekermann has lead the industry with game-changing innovations like FontShop — the first independent digital font distributor — started in 1989 with Neville Brody and wife Joan Spiekermann.
He also founded Germany’s largest design firm MetaDesign in 1979, branching it to London, Berlin and San Francisco. His work there included way-finding projects for the Düsseldorf Airport as well as identity and brand-image projects for internationally-known companies like Audi, Volkswagen, Lexus and Heidelberg Printing. In 2001 he left MetaDesign and is now a partner in Edenspiekermann with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London and San Francisco.
On any given day you might find his likeness providing color commentary on fonts in movies like Helvetica…. or even advising the members of the European Union in matters of design. It’s a long way from “…redrawing old hot metal faces from the Berthold library, back in the 70s.” (Responsible for the original modernization of fonts LoType and Berliner Grotesk.)
With his book “Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works” in its second edition and a list of international associations and board memberships and too long to type, we know he’s one of the sharpest design-minds out there.
There’s so much to this guest that we feel inadequate to cover it completely; so, please…
Join us, and Erik Speikermann, this Wednesday at 8pm CST here at
http://designchat.info/chat for a live video and text chat.
We feel honored to have him and hope to see you there too.
Eurotaxi Interview
Additional Interview From the DVD version of Helvetica
Learn more about Erik Spiekermann.
Link Round-Up:
@espiekermann on Twitter
Spiekermann’s Blog
Prof. Dr. Erik Spiekermann’s xing profile
Twitpics from Spiekermann
ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) Talks about Spiekermann
FontShop designs by Spiekermann
Linked-In to Speikermann
design mind article
Spiekermann at Edenspiekermann
The Edenspiekermann Manifesto
DC GUEST – STEVE HARTMAN
August 1st, 2010 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
This Wednesday, August 4th, DesignChat welcomes Steve Hartman to the conversation. Hartman is Creative Director at Falk Harrison, a branding strategy and design firm where he utilizes the power of solid design thinking for corporate and brand communications. He is also a judge this year for Archive 10, an event put on by our friends at the STA.
Falk Harrison’s clients have a wide range of graphic design and branding needs beginning with brand identity development, communication collateral, books, magazines, employee communications, financial communications, event marketing, advertising, signage and online social media.
Steve Hartman designs for a variety of industries including biomedical, chemical, communications, education, entertainment & gaming, financial, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, textile, transportation, and non-profit.
Steve is a former national board member of AIGA, The Professional Association for Design. AIGA is the largest design association. Steve has taught design and visual communications at Washington University, Webster University, Maryville University and the University of Missouri St. Louis. He attended the premier session of AIGA Business Perspectives for Design Leaders at the Harvard Business School. His reputation has awarded him design accolades, international judging opportunities, and advisory panel roles through out the country.
Steve has consulted on branding for a wide range of clients over his 18 year career including The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Eastern Illinois University, The Market At Busch’s Grove, The Missouri Historical Society, University of Illinois Foundation, Arch Coal, AEP River Operations, Helzberg Diamonds, HBF Textiles, Dillards, Inc., Caterpillar and more.
Join us and Steve Hartman this Wednesday at 8pm CST here at
http://designchat.info/chat, for a live video and text chat!
UPDATE:
Come out and meet Steve and the rest of the Archive 10 judges on Aug. 26th at Landmark Grill. View event page here.
Here is a collection of work from Falk Harrison:
Arch Coal
Trinity Lutheran Ministries
Nevco
Maytag
SUPERVALU Pharmacies
First Clover Leaf Bank
Glen Carbon Centennial Library
Express Scripts
The Market at Busch’s Grove
Sprint
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Animal Protective Association of Missouri
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
Little Tikes
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Dollar General
Jenn-Air Attrezzi
Sigma-Aldrich
Chesterfield Montessori School
Helzberg Diamonds
Original Cast Lighting
Argosy Gaming Company
Graybar Electric Company
O’Reilly Automotive
DC GUEST — KATE BINGAMAN-BURT
July 24th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Announcement, Inspiration, Upcoming Guests. 2 Comments.
This Wednesday, July 28th, DesignChat welcomes Illustrator & Graphic Design Professional Kate Bingaman-Burt — Author of “Obsessive Consumption” and Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Portland State University.
Bingaman-Burt’s career continues to light-up the DIY, twee-style, & craftism movements with sometimes colorful, but always beautifully-simple, illustrations — illustrations that really capture the feelings behind each image, whether that be guilt, envy, greed or sometimes lust. Think school notebooks full of lovingly-drawn spontaneous sketches. It’s a movement captured by her pen and embodied by current cultural touchstones like “etsy.com“, “Renegade Craft fair” and “ReadyMade” magazine; a magazine for whom she’s created several headers and titles in her recognizable style.
Her other works include illustrating the book “Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design” as well as promotional materials for the documentary of the same title.
She continues to teach Graphic Design as an Assistant Professor at Portland State University as she shows her work with artist representation. Her illustration and much of her Obsessive Consumption works are available through 20×200.com an endeavor that’s “making art available for everyone” — worth a look for affordable contemporary artwork you CAN afford.
Most importantly, Kate Bingaman-Burt seems to be living and documenting her life as a statement about consumerism. Not really preaching about it, but instead just observing her own consumerism and taking us along for the ride. Screen printing, education efforts, illustrations, zine workshops, and soon-to-be museum exhibits, all seem to hold a mirror up to society. Bingaman-Burt truly embodies the quote “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
Join us, and Kate Bingaman-Burt, this Wednesday at 7pm CST here at
http://designchat.info/chat, for a live video and text chat.
We’re already “obsessing” over what to talk about first.
Other places to learn about Kate Bingaman-Burt:
http://katebingamanburt.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kateconsumption/
http://twitter.com/kateconsumption
http://www.20×200.com/artists/kate-bingamanburt.html
http://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/03/obsessive-consumption.html
Limited editions of “Obsessive Consumption” that include an
original drawing are available via PayPal from her website for $35 here.
DC GUEST — ROBERT KIRAZ — VOKLE CEO
July 20th, 2010 by Shampton. Published under Announcement, Upcoming Guests. No Comments.
This Wednesday, July 21st, we welcome Robert Kiraz, head of VOKLE, entrepreneur and CEO. Join us as we learn about the experiences of “an entrepreneur launching during the worst recession in known history” and his VOKLE video & text chat platform — The one we use on our show!
Kiraz leads a team that “…wants to give everyone a custom video conference,” according to this article on a site called The Next Web Apps. If the platform DesignChat’s been testing out is any indication of things to come, it will be, and already is a great new tool for bloggers, journalists and social media discussion leaders.
The VOKLE team, that includes Robert’s brother Shant (reachable via their active twitter handle @vokle ), have included a few distinguishing features for those who wish to create their own live broadcasts. These include the ability to take questions from the audience via video or text message, as well as the ability to include a support staff of screeners and editors, making for a professional and seamless experience.
The video above is from Kiraz’s VATOR.TV entry.
Where VOKLE was a finalist in their “Vator Splash Competition”
It’s speculation on our part, but we think Robert’s education from the University of Southern California focusing on the Cinematic Arts has really helped him and his team craft a system that feels… well… cinematic. We also think this background in cinema helps him easily grasp the video aspect of social media that’s only just begun to blossom.
Kiraz understands that it’s the audience interaction that makes content greater.
“…the Internet is nothing but a giant pastrami sandwich. If content is the deli meat, our voices and opinions are the delicious french bread that blankets it. Communication —word-of-mouth, takes said content to a higher level..” (as stated on his personal tumblr page).
It’s that thought combined with “why doesn’t someone create a proper video communication platform already, so we don’t need to sit here and read pages of punchlines and actually speak to one another?” that really got VOKLE going.
On Wednesday July 21, we hope to talk to him about all this and more. We’ll do our best to explore the work he’s done in the past, his collaboration with creative minds like Illustrator Erick Oh (see this video created for VOKLE called either “communicate” or “hello”) and where Kiraz sees this “…pastrami sandwich…” going in the near and distant future.
So much to hear about Wednesday evening. So please join us at http://designchat.info/chat at 8PM CST.
Learn more about VOKLE and Robert Kiraz here:
http://vokle.com/
http://blog.vokle.com/
http://vimeo.com/user877121/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vokle/
http://www.robertkiraz.tumblr.com/
http://twitter.com/robertkiraz/
http://twitter.com/vokle/