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Sean Adams, an ex officio member of the board and president emeritus, is a partner at AdamsMorioka, Inc., in Beverly Hills. Since AdamsMorioka’s founding in 1994, Adams has been globally recognized by every major competition and publication including: Communication Arts, AIGA, Graphis, the Type Directors Club, British Art Directors Club and the New York Art Directors Club. In 2000, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibited AdamsMorioka in a solo retrospective. Adams holds the honor of being named to the “I.D. 40,” citing him as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally. Adams is a Fellow of the International Design Conference at Aspen. In 2006, Adams was named as an AIGA Fellow.
Adams is a past national board member of AIGA, past president of AIGA Los Angeles and chair of the AIGA Creative Leadership Campaign. He currently teaches at California Institute of the Arts. Adams is a frequent lecturer and competition judge internationally. He is the co-author of the best selling Logo Design Workbook and Color Workbook. AdamsMorioka’s clients include ABC, Adobe, Barton Myers Associates, Gap, Old Navy, Frank Gehry Associates, Nickelodeon, USC, Sundance and The Walt Disney Company.
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Julie Beeler is co-founder and studio director of Second Story, a distinguished creator of informative and entertaining interactive experiences, including media-rich storytelling presentations and interpretive installations. With a background in visual design, art history and the liberal arts, she leads the studio in shaping unique, innovative, interactive experiences that peak curiosity, spur discovery and inspire audiences. Beeler has defined and sustained an approach to interactive media design that focuses on reaching diverse audiences while pushing the limits of technological innovation. From concept through completion, she interacts with various industry disciplines, guiding the studio to realize holistic approaches to successful projects.
Since 1994, Second Story has been recognized as a leader in both online and on-site interactive media design. Beeler has collaborated with many of the world’s outstanding cultural institutions, such as the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and National Geographic, to create compelling projects that have been featured in the popular press and in dozens of books. The studio’s pioneering work blending interactive art, entertainment, and education has garnered many of the industry’s top interactive design awards, including recognition in the National Design Awards. Beeler is a frequent speaker at various conferences and schools across the country on topics ranging from interactive design methodologies to usability and the marriage of rich content and technology.
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Shelley Evenson is an associate professor teaching interaction design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is also the director of graduate studies. Evenson teaches courses in designing conceptual models, interaction and service design, and collaborates with colleagues from the Tepper School of Business and the Human Computer Interaction Institute. Her most recent efforts are focused on bringing her expertise in product and interaction design to designing for services. Recent projects include collaborating with GM, Intel, Microsoft and Motorola. Evenson worked with her students to develop Carnegie Mellon’s Emergence conference and co-chaired the 2007 Art and Science of Service conference held at Carnegie Mellon University.
Before joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon, Evenson worked for more than 25 years in multidisciplinary consulting practices. As a co-founder of seeSpace, an experience strategy firm; VP at Fitch; and chief experience strategist for Scient, she has worked with clients such as Apple, Bank of Montreal, Kodak, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Williamsburg Institute and Xerox on a wide variety of design and development projects. Evenson was also the 1997–1998 Nierenberg Chair of Design, a visiting professorship offered to an outstanding individual who has achieved national or international prominence in design.
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Stanley Hainsworth grew up in a small town in Western Kentucky, right between Possum Trot and Monkey’s Eyebrow, which taught him an appreciation for multiple retail options. After pursuing an acting career for some years, he spent several years at Nike as a creative director, where he worked on everything from hangtags to annual reports to the Olympics. He then decided to embark on an adventure in Denmark at the Lego Company as its global creative director. After a total visual overhaul of the Lego brand from top to bottom, including packaging, the web, retail and brand stores, he heeded the call to return to the states where he thought it would be fun to work for a company named after the first mate in Moby Dick—Starbucks. And there he now resides, in the upper left hand corner of the United States, as their global creative director, learning more about the mighty coffee bean than he ever thought possible. Hainsworth has spoken worldwide on brand design and has received many awards including Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., Print, AIGA, The Library of Congress, Type Directors Club, HOW International, NW Design Awards, Retail Interiors and MAPIC.
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Kenna Kay is the vice president/creative director at TV Land, a division of MTV Networks. She directs a team of in-house designers and animators, as well as out-of-house studios and freelancers, to produce print, three-dimensional items, multimedia and motion graphics. Previously, she was art director at Nickelodeon. Kay has received numerous broadcast design awards, including recognition from Promax, Print, Communication Arts, HOW, Art Directors Club and D&AD. She has spoken on design issues for AIGA, the HOW Conference, the University of Kansas and the Art Director’s Club, and in such far-reaching places as Caracas, Venezuela. She has also judged for American Illustration 16 and the Minnesota Design Show “Design Excellence 2006.” From 2003 to 2005, Kay served on the board of directors as vice president of the AIGA New York chapter, and organized the “MOVE: Design for Film and Television” conference. She currently teaches “Beyond Editorial” in the illustration department at Parsons the New School For Design.
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Zia Khan is the founder and principal of Lucid Partners, a communication design firm in Atlanta. Founded in 1994, his firm has served clients such as AT&T, Coca-Cola, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Home Depot and Mohawk Industries, on engagements ranging from brand identity to stakeholder communication. In his 20-plus years as a designer Khan’s work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Black Book AR100, HOW and Graphic Design USA, and received several awards, including the prestigious Mohawk Show Award of Excellence.
Born and raised in Bangalore, India, his nontraditional route to the design profession included undergraduate studies in physics and geology; later on, he graduated from the Portfolio Center, in Atlanta. In recent years, Khan has developed a deep interest in issues at the intersection of business and design. One notable achievement during his two terms on the AIGA Atlanta chapter’s board as the business outreach chair was the creation of the Brand Academy program—an executive course produced in partnership with the Emory University Business School. He has also served as adjunct professor at the Atlanta College of Art and currently teaches at the Portfolio Center.
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Jamie Koval is a principal and president of VSA Partners, a strategic design and brand consultancy with offices in Chicago, New York and Minneapolis. Since 1990, he has been instrumental in shaping VSA’s multidisciplinary approach to brand and business communications, including work in identity, corporate reputation, interiors and web. VSA’s clients include BP, Harley-Davidson, IBM, GE, Mohawk Fine Papers and Nike. Some of Koval’s most notable achievements have been leading the visual identity for the Dalai Lama’s visit to Millennium Park, the 2016 Chicago Olympic bid and the symbol “Jack” for Cingular Wireless.
Koval’s work has been internationally recognized by more than 50 competitions and designations including ACD, AIGA, AR100, British Design Annual, Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., the Los Angeles and New York Art Directors Clubs and the Type Directors Club. In addition, his work is in the permanent collection in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. He is a frequent lecturer and has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In addition, Koval has donated his time to several not-for-profit organizations including Anderson Ranch Art Center, Dance Aspen and the Northern Suburban Special Education District.
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Vernon Lockhart is the founder and principal of Art on the Loose, Inc., a Chicago-based multidisciplinary firm specializes in corporate identities, exhibition and environmental design, and multimedia design. With Art on the Loose, Lockhart has provided art direction for many significant projects in the Chicago area and has served an impressive lists of clients, including: Northwestern University, University of Illinois Laboratory Schools, Hyatt Regency, Nike, Whirlpool, DuSable Museum of African American History, Museum of Science and Industry, Bronzeville Children’s Museum and Namasté. Lockhart is the recipient of awards and praise from Print, Communications Arts, Graphic Design USA and Graphis. Lockhart served on the AIGA Chicago Board as Community Outreach Chair, managing the Poetry In Motion program and student contest. He also participated as a rider with Team AIGA/Roll Over Aids during his tenure.
After serving nine years as chair of the Chicago chapter of the Organization of Black Designers, Lockhart helped co-found Project Osmosis, a not-for-profit arts based education and mentoring initiative. The organization has helped over 300 inner city students gain access and knowledge about career opportunities in design. Throughout his work and career, Lockhart has helped to nurture creativity amongst professionals and students alike.
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Debbie Millman has been in the design business for 23 years fulfilling her dream of working in branding and furthering the meaning, purpose and stature of brands in our culture. Millman is a managing partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, the largest independent brand consultancy in the country. She has been there for 11 years where she has led long-term partnerships with global clients including Gillette, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell’s, Johnson & Johnson, Glaxo-Smithkline, Pfizer and Unilever.
For 12 years, Millman also worked as the creative director for Emmis Broadcasting’s Hot 97, where she helped transform the image of the radio station from a dance music format to the vibrant, hip-hop station it currently is.
Millman is an author on the design blog Speak Up, which was included in the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial. She is also a regular contributor to Print magazine, and teaches Creative Leadership at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting the first live weekly radio talk show about graphic design on the internet. The show is titled “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,” and it is featured on the Voice America Business Network and as podcasts on iTunes. She frequently lectures on the virtues of brands and authenticity. She believes that the condition of brand reflects the condition of our culture and is bound and determined to further the causes of brand consultants everywhere.
In May 2006, Millman completed her term as secretary, treasurer and sponsorship chair of the New York board of AIGA, where she worked to raise money for the chapter, participated in many of the chapter’s events and served as a mentor at the High School of Art and Design. She attended the inaugural AIGA Harvard Business School program “Business Perspectives for Design Leaders” in 2003. She was on the board of the AIGA Center of Brand Experience from 1998–2002, and in 2005 she presented the Corporate Leadership Award at the AIGA Design Legends Gala.
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Elva Rubio is executive vice president and creative director at Bruce Mau Design and is a co-founder of Mau’s Chicago-based studio, Rubio Studios. Most recently, Rubio was design director for Gensler’s Chicago office. In that position, Rubio led the design of the Center on Halsted, which recently opened to widespread praise. Under her direction, the firm also won commissions for Chase Bank, the Chicago Transit Authority and the Hyatt Regency, the latter of which was featured in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s green architecture exhibition, “Sustainable Architecture in Chicago: Works In Progress.” Rubio’s work for Pond Studios won both Distinguished Building and Interior Architecture awards from the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1997. She has also received more than 20 AIA awards for work ranging in Urban Design, Architecture and Interiors.
Rubio serves on the board of the Chicago Architecture Club, is chairman of the Burnham Prize, and is co-founder of the Chicago Prize and Emerging Visions competition. Rubio’s work was featured in the “Ten Visions” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago and through the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, and showcased in the Art Institute’s “Women in Chicago Architecture” exhibit.
Rubio has complemented her professional practice with teaching engagements at the School of the Art Institute, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She currently is an associate professor at UIC’s School of Architecture, where she teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level studios.
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Louise Sandhaus is the former director of the Graphic Design Program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and current full-time faculty. Her small design office, LSD (Louise Sandhaus Design), is a multi-faceted, collaborative practice—including a mix of designing, teaching, writing and “instigating.” The studio’s projects range from experimental to practical, from speculative to real, and from mini to major. Her design work focuses on interpretive experiences for print, screen, or spaces (exhibition/environmental). Clients include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, International Center for Photography, Los Angeles International Airport among many others.
Sandhaus has organized or co-organized design education conferences including AIGA Schools of Thought I, II, and III. These events often consider the shifting relationship between technology, culture, and design. In the classroom, her projects often ask students to exceed the traditional boundaries of design. Most recently, her students’ project was chosen as one of 7 finalists for the INDEX: AIGA Aspen Design Challenge, “Designing Water’s Future.”
Sandhaus’s work and writing—and writing about her work—have appeared in numerous books and publications, including Women of Design, The Information Design Handbook and I.D. magazine. Her work has been widely recognized and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Sandhaus is an AIGA Los Angeles Fellow and serves on the chapter’s advisory board. She holds an MFA from CalArts and a post-graduate laureate from the Jan van Eyck Ackademie, The Netherlands.
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Angela Shen-Hsieh pursues forms of communication and information delivery that fascinate, inform and prompt people to think. Having graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991, she is inspired by her training in architecture and a vision for the way in which design can dramatically improve the quality of our lives. Through her company, Visual i|o, her work explodes the boundaries of how people interact with the increasingly overwhelming amounts of data now accessible. Visual i|o is a venture-backed data visualization software company founded in 2002. Visual i|o focuses on “the last 18 inches”—getting data from the computer screen into the human mind—bridging the divide between raw data and actionable meaning through an entirely new graphical language for navigating and interpreting data.
Before founding Visual i|o, Shen-Hsieh founded a women’s clothing company called Edits. Designing and developing the Edits line, Shen-Hsieh honed her business edge and combined it with the same passion for visual communication and innovative design.
Her work has been published in Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, eDesign Magazine, New Media Creative and other trade and design publications. In its June 2004 Design issue, Fast Company profiled her as one of four rising stars “charting the future” of business and design innovation. In 2006, she was chosen by BusinessWeek as one of 10 “cutting edge designers pushing the limits of design.”
Shen-Hsieh holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a BA from Barnard College of Columbia University. She sits on several not-for-profit boards, and lectures frequently on issues related to design, business and data visualization.
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Laura Shore is senior vice president of communications for Mohawk Fine Papers, where she leads a team responsible for strategy and execution of corporate branding, marketing communications and product support. In her 20 years with Mohawk, she has developed a seamless marketing environment where corporate identity, public relations, advertising, relationship marketing, product development, product promotion and the web are all intricately linked. Shore and her team have used the power of design to differentiate commodity products and have contributed to the evolution of Mohawk from niche player to the leading manufacturer of premium printing papers in North America. She has raised Mohawk’s profile by commissioning work from America’s best designers and printers and by linking Mohawk with people and ideas across multiple disciplines.
Mohawk’s work with designers has been recognized by leading publications and organizations in the U.S. and internationally such as Communication Arts, Print, D&AD, GD:USA, STEP, HOW, The One Show, IDSA, the Type Directors Club, AIGA, Inc. Magazine, Graphis and Eye.
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Brad Weed is the director of user experience design and research for the Windows and Windows Live product line at Microsoft. Prior to Windows he was the user experience manager for Microsoft Office. His contributing work on Office 2007 is widely recognized as one of the biggest paradigm shifts in the history of the industry. In 2003, Weed received the IDSA IDEA Gold Award; Microsoft’s first IDSA award for software design. With more than 16 years at Microsoft, he has been instrumental in shaping the role of design at Microsoft and in the industry. He has also been instrumental in advancing the software interaction design education in schools around the world, most recently as a Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, he worked as a user interface designer and engineer for Wavefront Technologies in Santa Barbara, combining his passion for information design, computer graphics and socio-behavioral geography.
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Lynda Weinman worked as a Hollywood animator and designer until she discovered computers in 1982. Inspired by the potential of the emerging graphics software industry, she shifted her focus from working with traditional media and analog cameras to using computers for imaging, motion graphics and interactive design. Self-taught, she started her own business out of her garage, and produced animation on early personal computers, working as an independent contractor for clients such as Disney and Apple. She started writing articles for magazines in 1985, and began speaking at conferences about how computer graphics were transforming the animation and design industries. Weinman became a full-time teacher and writer after becoming a mom in 1989, and went on to teach at Art Center College of Design, American Film Institute, San Francisco State University’s Multimedia Studies Program, UCLA Extension and the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging.
In 1995, Weinman wrote the first book on web design, called Designing Web Graphics (now in its fourth edition), which became a national and international bestseller. She became known for her easy-to-understand, approachable and generous teaching style. Weinman left her teaching posts to start the world’s first web design school with her husband and partner, Bruce Heavin. After the dot-com crash and 9/11, she took her lessons online and created a subscription service that hosts a library of courses. Today, her company—lynda.com, Inc.—publishes the work of more than 100 trainers on hundreds of software and design topics, and has created a library of more than 35,000 online video tutorials, available for an affordable price to anyone who wants to learn or improve software skills. With tens of thousands of loyal subscribers to its Online Training Library®, lynda.com has become a leading force in the software training industry. Headquartered in Ventura, California, lynda.com celebrated 10 years online in 2005.
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Pamela Williams is co-founder, creative director and partner of Williams and House, a strategic communications practice, which is best known nationally for its results-focused work in the graphic arts industry. The company is renowned for its expertise in strategic planning, media relations and relationship marketing and has developed, launched and managed brands as well as created and implemented dozens of seamless, multi-faceted marketing communications programs for leading brands and associations. Williams’s accumulated knowledge of the design and publishing industry, coupled with her experience of how to effectively market to it, is a unique combination that has been praised by clients.
Williams has been an AIGA member for more than a decade and has done a great deal to assist with programming both by managing and supporting dozens of AIGA events all around the country. She has authored articles in Communication Arts, STEP inside design, HOW, Graphis, Critique and Graphic Design: USA and has also published the book Breaking into Product Design, as well as authoring dozens of design-related case studies and stories.
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