Design Writer
Alice Twemlow contributes to publications including Eye, Design Issues, I.D., Print, New York Magazine, and Architect’s Newspaper and her essays are included in books such as Elsewhere: Mapping (University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006) and Looking Closer 5 (Allworth Press, 2007). She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision, 2006).
Alice teaches critical thinking to MFA students at the School of Visual Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design, and is the chair of a new MFA in Design Criticism at SVA scheduled to open in 2008. Alice has also directed and co-directed several design conferences including “Voice: AIGA National Design Conference 2002,” “Looking Closer: AIGA Conference on Design History and Criticism” (while program director at AIGA) and “Being Here: Craft and Locality in Graphic Design” in 2004.
Alice received her MA in Design History from the program run by the V&A Museum and the Royal College of Art in London and she is currently working on her PhD about the politics of design criticism.
Lydia Varmazis is the Director of Emerging Markets and Technology at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this role, Lydia helps define the strategic roadmap and new business concepts for the next generation of Adobe’s design, illustration and Creative Suite family of products. Lydia manages a growing team of product managers and software developers that deploys web-hosted solutions (Web 2.0) that leverage the Adobe Engagement Platform. Prior to this, Lydia was Group Product Manger for Illustration and Mobile Technologies and held product management positions on Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF Technologies. During Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia, Lydia lead the team that defined the product integration features for future combined Adobe Creative Suite and the Macromedia Studio products.
Lydia holds a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Communications Management, from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada and a Masters in Business Administration from the Graziadio School of Business Management at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
