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Michael Jager - Keynote Revolutionary
Director and President, Jager Di Paola Kemp Design
Killing Curiosity?
Whether amplified or under attack, curiosity is undergoing uncertain transformation. As creators, the choice is ours to destroy, defend, or set in motion a movement that catapults curiosity to a brave new level. Fear not, for we must always find joy on the precipice of the unknown!
“Careful how you move, Mac, you dig me in me back
03/05/2009
An’ I’m so pilled up that I rattle
I have got the sharpest knife, so I cut the biggest slice
I’ve got no time to do battle”
-The Clash, “Revolution Rock”
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Robin Bowman - Photo Journalist
Robin Bowman has trained her lens on some of the world’s most troubled places, including Africa, Bosnia, and Israel. Her work, published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Life, Time, and Newsweek, has documented social and political ills from child abuse in America to life after genocide in Rwanda.Bowman’s latest project was a five-year, 21,731-mile road trip across the US, photographing and interviewing more than 400 teenagers from many backgrounds and regions, including NY gang members, Amish sisters from Missouri and a Kentucky coal miner. The resulting book, It’s Complicated: The American Teenager, won the Gold Medal in the Photography category of the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Join us for this unique perspective on American youth culture.
02/26/2009
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Martin Keen - Building, Branding and Launching an Idea
As head of Keen Design Studio, an industrial design firm based in Rhode Island, Martin Keen found himself frustrated and unfulfilled working with footwear brands that placed a premium on disposable fashion and quick profit over function and sustainability. This led Keen to develop a new brand known instead for practicality, utility, integrity and leadership in its social and environmental commitments.The initial concept was a union of his passion for sailing, simple functional design and ergonomic comfort. Seeking to improve his performance while sailing competitively, Keen developed an innovative “hybrid” sandal that offered greater foot protection, traction and comfort. In 2003 he patented the concept and launched Keen® Footwear.
02/19/2009
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Dori Tunstall - Redesigning America’s Future
Design Policy and the Industrial Design CommunityFrom ballot boxes to the iPod, everyone knows how the objects of design help improve America’s democracy and economy. But the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative is about how design thinking can be infused into American economic competitiveness and democratic governance. As organizer of the Initiative, Dr. Dori Tunstall will demonstrate some of the potential results of bringing design thinking and making into public policy. In particular, she will address how the industrial design community can scale its efforts to drive innovation, support entrepreneurship, and revolutionize government through a national design policy.
02/12/2009
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Scott Smith - Futurist
Scott Smith - Founder and Lead Futurist at Changeist.Designers have a greater opportunity to than most anyone else to bring shape to the future—literally. In good times, their creativity is defined by open opportunity space, but in serious times, a greater focus and mission is needed to make the right future happen. Scott will talk about how designers can become, with their minds and hands, the insurgents of this necessary future.
01/28/2009
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Jim Hassberger
01/27/2009
The union of human thinking and machine intelligence as a source of new inspiration.
The capability to innovate is essential for succeeding in today’s crowded marketplace. and creativity is a key factor for innovation. As vice president of business development and customer relations of solidThinking, Inc., Jim Hassberger will be speaking about the union of human thinking and machine intelligence and demonstrating with practical examples how this can bring to a source of new inspiration to product designers. Come and join us during this special lunch time presentation on Saturday at 12:15pm.
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Wes Pack - painter Sensei
Wes Pack is one one of our “Bootcamp” presentations.Many of the world’s foremost illustrators, automotive concept designers, industrial designers, architects and graphic designers use Corel Painter to vividly capture their creative visions and handcraft distinctive designs, illustrations and concepts for their clients.
Learn more about the powerful creative features of Painter 11 at the Painter training seminar, hosted by Wes Pack. Wes is a highly skilled graphics professional with over 20 years of experience in design and digital illustrations; specializing in both vector and bitmap illustrations. Wes has worked close with numerous entertainment and designer studios around the world and will be sharing helpful insights on Corel’s latest version of Painter 11. more »
01/26/2009
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Matt Harris - Alias Sensei
Matt will kick the door in on old school methods of CAD by highlighting what’s new from Autodesk. Conceptual digital sketching, freeform surface modeling, hardcore engineering and real time photorealistic rendering all from one source… Are you serious?Autodesk, a long time leader in the world of CAD has the vision and resources necessary to pull together all disciplines throughout the product development cycle, give them the tools they need, and allow them to communicate. The lines between us are now blurred and walk the walk with Matt to see what the future holds.
01/26/2009
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Brian James - rhino Sensei
Brian James is one our Friday ”Bootcamp” presenters. Brian, who is from Robert McNeel & Associates, will be hosting two workshop sessions featuring Rhinoceros.The first session will cover the full suite of universal deformation tools in Rhino 4. Learn how to cage edit, twist, bend, flow and splop your way to some amazingly organic forms. The second session will provide an introduction to the new rendering plugin Brazil for Rhino. Learn how to use techniques like image based lighting and global illumination to create photo-realistic renderings of your Rhino models.01/26/2009
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Mark Kokavec - illustrator Sensei
Mark Kokavec is one of our friday “Bootcamp” presenters.Mark will be hosting two Workshop Sessions featuring Adobe Illustrator. He will take you through his product creation process starting with a footwear design sketch and building it from the ground up using intermediate and advanced Illustrator techniques. Some advanced rendering techniques will also be demonstrated.
01/21/2009
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Michael DiTullo - sketch Sensei
Michael DiTullo will be one of our “Bootcamp” presenters.Michael will demo some simple sketch techniques from his core77.com videos in this rapid visualization session. Suggestions from the crowd and sketching along will both be welcome.
01/20/2009
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Andrew Brown - modo Sensei
Andrew Brown from Luxology will be one of our “Bootcamp” presenters on Friday.Andy will host two Workshop Sessions on modeling and visualizing designs with advanced rendering techniques using the modo(r) software from Luxology. Come see how subdivision surface models are well suited for the conceptual design of hard and softbody consumer product goods.
more » 01/19/2009
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Stay Tuned!
The revolution is coming!
Check back for more details as this situation develops…
11/30/2008
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