Schools of Thoughts : 3

Biographies

Main Stage Participants
jump to... Allan Chochinov ... William Drenttel ... Jens Gehlhaar ...
Jessica Helfand ... Somi Kim ... Peter Lunenfeld ...
Peter Turchi

Panel Moderators
jump to... Anne Burdick ... Lance Carlson ... Meredith Davis ...
Hugh Dubberly ... Kenneth Fitzgerald ... Nik Hafermaas ...
N Silas Munro ... Kali Nikitas ... Terry Lee Stone ...
Alice Twemlow ... Lydia Varmazis ... Christopher Vice ...
Lorraine Wild ... David Womack ...
Susan Yelavich

Conference Organizers
Denise Gonzales Crisp, Louise Sandhaus, Petrula Vrontikis

Visual Identity Designers
Lauren Broelis, Ryan Cook, Denise Gonzales Crisp

Anne Burdick

Chair, Graduate Media Design Program
Art Center College of Design

In addition to her role at Art Center, Anne Burdick is Design Editor of Electronic Book Review (electronicbookreview.com). In her practice, Anne collaborates with texts and writers to produce new modes of reading and writing. Despite winning the prestigious Leipzig Award for the “Most Beautiful Book in the World,” Anne does not call her practice book design. Rather, she designs spaces for writing in diverse media and environments, which sometimes includes books. Her projects are wide-ranging: poetry installations for the Getty Research Institute, unique approaches to lexicography with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, experimental fiction at the Walker Art Center’s Gallery 9, and books of literary/media criticism by authors such as Marshall McLuhan and N. Katherine Hayles. 

Panel: How Is Curriculum Anticipating Emerging Practices

Lance Carlson

President & CEO
Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD)

Lance Carlson has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CalArts, Art Center College of Design, and other colleges, universities, and art & design programs; he holds graduate degrees in both cultural studies/sociology and design. His work as an artist is in select collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian, among others. For the last fifteen years, he has published art criticism and cultural commentary, including attention to the rapid changes in design thinking. His interest is in the redefinition of design and creative process as fields of inquiry and practice, especially with regard to how art and design institutions can embrace and animate a definition of design having more to do with human systems (especially as applied to business, organizations, and communities) than aesthetically-rooted theory and practice.

Panel: Models for Cross-, Trans-, Multi- Disciplinary Practice

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Allan Chochinov is a partner at Core77, a New York-based design network which supports the global design community through both online and offline initiatives. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, one of the most widely read design websites in the world, and as strategist for Coroflot.com (design jobs and portfolios) and DesignDirectory.com (design firm database).

Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Johnson & Johnson, Herman Miller, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) He is associate professor at New York's Pratt Institute, where he teaches two courses in the Graduate Industrial Design Department. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club.

He received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

Professor, Graphic Design Department
College of Design, North Carolina State University

Meredith Davis is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Graphic Design at NC State University. She is also Director of the College of Design PhD in Design and teaches graduate courses in design and cognition. Meredith holds degrees in design and education from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Penn State University respectively. She taught for 13 years at Virginia Commonwealth University and has been at NC State for 16 years, where she served 10 years as department chair. Meredith currently teaches graduate courses in design and cognition and undergraduate courses in typography and design theory.

Meredith was principal in the graphic design firm Communication Design from 1979-1989. She is the recipient of more than 50 national and international design awards and her work appeared in Graphis, ID Magazine, Print, Graphic Design USA, ACD 100, Creativity, Typography, and other publications.

Meredith is a former president of the American Center for Design and the Graphic Design Education Association. She served on the national board of directors of the AIGA and as a frequent member of its various committees. She is currently the AIGA representative to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and a member of its accreditation commission. In this position, Meredith has led the authoring of six briefing papers on graphic design education. Meredith consults with colleges and universities on curriculum development and assessment and has provided nearly 50 external reviews of faculty for tenure and promotion.

Meredith’s research explores the use of design in achieving the goals of educational reform in K-12 schools. She has served as a member of the development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts and on the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership for the US Department of Education. She has taught for the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served as a consultant to the departments of education in Wisconsin and Michigan. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has also served as consultant to the Smithsonian Office of Education and Museum Studies and reviews professional development proposals for the US Department of Education. Her work has been funded by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science; Kenan Institute for the Arts; Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise; National Endowment for the Arts; and several state arts and humanities commissions. She is currently a member of a National Science Foundation sponsored team exploring the Science of Teaching Science in K-12 schools.

Meredith is currently under contract to Thames and Hudson/UK for a series of college-level textbooks on graphic design, including an undergraduate introduction to design theory. She is a member of the editorial boards of Design Issues and Design Studies Review and reads manuscripts for MIT Press, Visible Language, and Design Studies Journal. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She is a frequent contributor to journals on design and design education and wrote the description of the discipline for high school students for the College Board.

Panel: Research, Research Practice, Practice

William Drenttel works in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse, a studio focusing on publishing, new media and cultural institutions. Drenttel is a founding editor of Design Observer, the largest weblog of design and cultural criticism; a co-editor of Below the Fold:, a journal of visual culture published by Winterhouse; and the co-founder of the AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism, a $5000 yearly prize. In 2006, Drenttel launched the Polling Place Photo Project, a national initiative to photograph the voting process in America.

Drenttel is president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He is a co-editor of four volumes of Looking Closer anthologies, the widely taught series of writings on graphic design. He is a former board member of Lingua Franca and Poetry Society of America, and has lectured at the Library of Congress, Walker Art Center, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Cranbrook Academy, and two national AIGA conferences, among many others.

Drenttel received a B.A. in Film and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University.

Principal, Dubberly Design Office

Dubberly Design Office is a San Francisco-based consultancy that focuses on making software easier to use through interaction design and information design. At Apple Computer in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Dubberly managed cross-functional design teams and later managed creative services for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a technology-forecast film called "Knowledge Navigator," that presaged the appearance of the Internet and interaction via a mobile device. At Netscape, he became vice president of design and managed groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape's web portal. In 2000, he co-founded DDO. In addition to his practice, Dubberly also teaches. While at Apple, he served at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as the first and founding chairman of the computer graphics department. He has also taught classes in the Graphic Design Department at California State University, San Jose, at the Institute of Design at IIT, and in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Panel: Designing Systems for Designing

Kenneth teaches in the undergraduate Studio Art and graduate Visual Studies programs Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. His writings on design can be found in Emigre, Eye, Idea, and Redaction magazines; the books Graphic Design and Reading, The Education of a Graphic Designer volume 2, and the upcoming Looking Closer 5; plus the online journals Voice: AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Observer, and Speak Up. He’s also contributed forewards for monographs by Robert Appleton, Elliott Earls, and Stefan Sagmeister. As producer, he created The News of the Whirled, a 4-issue limited-edition magazine that received awards from the American Center for Design and AIGA. As “collator,” he organized and toured "Adversary: an exhibition (of) contesting graphic design," from 2001-2004.

Online Panel: Field Trip

After leading his own print design studio in Germany for six years, Jens Gehlhaar enrolled at the graphic design program at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with an MFA in 1997. His graduate thesis was The CIA Compendium, an encyclopedic typeface system.

For the next three years, he worked as a freelance art director, graphic and type designer for Wieden+Kennedy, ReVerb, Imaginary Forces, Razorfish, Mike Mills, David Carson, Dreamworks and ESPN. His most prominent projects included the design of the launch print campaign for Microsoft Windows 98, the 1998–2001 network graphics package for ESPN X Games, as well as exclusive typeface designs for the Steven Spielberg movie “Minority Report”, for David Carson’s “Metropolis” magazine design, and for the IBM e-business Centers.

From 1998–2001, he taught upper level typography, type design and motion typography at California Institute of the Arts and Art Center College of Design.

In 2001, he joined bicoastal Brand New School as Creative Director, where he has co-directed campaigns for Volkswagen, Apple, Toyota, Vodafone and Budweiser. He has been responsible for the network identities of VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF; as well as the typography of campaigns such as UPS, AT&T and American Express; and packaging for MTV Sunday Stew and MTV2 Sic’em Friday. He has also written and directed dozens of live action station identifiers for VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF, as well as a music video for the British band Muse.

Among other awards, he has received a Sports Emmy for television graphics, an ADC Gold Medal for live action direction, a TDC award for type design and an MVPA award for Special Effects.

Chair, Graphic Design
Art Center College of Design

Nik Hafermaas has been the department chair of Graphic Design at Art Center College of Design (www.artcenter.edu/gpk) since August 2004, where he has created a new Graphic Design curriculum and co-hosted studio abroad programs in Berlin, Copenhagen and, most recently, in Tokyo. His current large-scale environmental work PowerPLANTs – a major public work awarded by the City of Pasadena – made its debut before a professional audience at the Art Center Design Conference in March 2006 at the Wind Tunnel in Pasadena.

Prior to Art Center, Mr. Hafermaas was a Professor of Integrated Design and Temporary Architecture at the University of Arts, Bremen and curator of the Berlin-based network Young Creative Industries. His clients included the Bertelsmann Media Group, World Expo 2000, Audi, Deutsche Telecom AG, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Zurich Financial Services, Expo.02.

Mr. Hafermaas is also the former co-owner and chief creative officer of the design company Triad Berlin, where he and his two partners formed an integrated professional team of over 50 employees, shaping it into one of Germany’s leading design firms specialized in the field between industry and the arts, technological innovations, new media and contemporary culture. Most recently, he founded the design company UeBERSEE, specializing in narrative spaces.

Mr. Hafermaas was recipient of the IF Design Award in 1999 and 2004, the German Design Club Award in 2000 and 2002 and the Art Directors Club Design Award in 2002. He studied Visual Communications and Architecture at the University of Arts, Berlin.

Panel: Off the Page: Graphic Design Beyond Print and Screen

Allan Chochinov

Allan Chochinov is a partner at Core77, a New York-based design network which supports the global design community through both online and offline initiatives. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, one of the most widely read design websites in the world, and as strategist for Coroflot.com (design jobs and portfolios) and DesignDirectory.com (design firm database).

Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Johnson & Johnson, Herman Miller, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) He is associate professor at New York's Pratt Institute, where he teaches two courses in the Graduate Industrial Design Department. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents, and has received awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club and The One Club.

He received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Toronto, and a Masters of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute.

Meredith Davis

Professor, Graphic Design Department
College of Design, North Carolina State University

Meredith Davis is Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Graphic Design at NC State University. She is also Director of the College of Design PhD in Design and teaches graduate courses in design and cognition. Meredith holds degrees in design and education from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Penn State University respectively. She taught for 13 years at Virginia Commonwealth University and has been at NC State for 16 years, where she served 10 years as department chair. Meredith currently teaches graduate courses in design and cognition and undergraduate courses in typography and design theory.

Meredith was principal in the graphic design firm Communication Design from 1979-1989. She is the recipient of more than 50 national and international design awards and her work appeared in Graphis, ID Magazine, Print, Graphic Design USA, ACD 100, Creativity, Typography, and other publications.

Meredith is a former president of the American Center for Design and the Graphic Design Education Association. She served on the national board of directors of the AIGA and as a frequent member of its various committees. She is currently the AIGA representative to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design and a member of its accreditation commission. In this position, Meredith has led the authoring of six briefing papers on graphic design education. Meredith consults with colleges and universities on curriculum development and assessment and has provided nearly 50 external reviews of faculty for tenure and promotion.

Meredith’s research explores the use of design in achieving the goals of educational reform in K-12 schools. She has served as a member of the development team for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts and on the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership for the US Department of Education. She has taught for the Harvard Graduate School of Education and served as a consultant to the departments of education in Wisconsin and Michigan. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She has also served as consultant to the Smithsonian Office of Education and Museum Studies and reviews professional development proposals for the US Department of Education. Her work has been funded by the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science; Kenan Institute for the Arts; Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise; National Endowment for the Arts; and several state arts and humanities commissions. She is currently a member of a National Science Foundation sponsored team exploring the Science of Teaching Science in K-12 schools.

Meredith is currently under contract to Thames and Hudson/UK for a series of college-level textbooks on graphic design, including an undergraduate introduction to design theory. She is a member of the editorial boards of Design Issues and Design Studies Review and reads manuscripts for MIT Press, Visible Language, and Design Studies Journal. Meredith authored the study of design in K-12 education for the National Endowment for the Arts, titled Design as a Catalyst for Learning; the book received the 1999 CHOICE award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. She is a frequent contributor to journals on design and design education and wrote the description of the discipline for high school students for the College Board.

Panel: Research, Research Practice, Practice

William Drenttel

William Drenttel works in partnership with Jessica Helfand at Winterhouse, a studio focusing on publishing, new media and cultural institutions. Drenttel is a founding editor of Design Observer, the largest weblog of design and cultural criticism; a co-editor of Below the Fold:, a journal of visual culture published by Winterhouse; and the co-founder of the AIGA Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism, a $5000 yearly prize. In 2006, Drenttel launched the Polling Place Photo Project, a national initiative to photograph the voting process in America.

Drenttel is president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU and a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He is a co-editor of four volumes of Looking Closer anthologies, the widely taught series of writings on graphic design. He is a former board member of Lingua Franca and Poetry Society of America, and has lectured at the Library of Congress, Walker Art Center, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Cranbrook Academy, and two national AIGA conferences, among many others.

Drenttel received a B.A. in Film and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University.

Hugh Dubberly

Principal, Dubberly Design Office

Dubberly Design Office is a San Francisco-based consultancy that focuses on making software easier to use through interaction design and information design. At Apple Computer in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Dubberly managed cross-functional design teams and later managed creative services for the entire company. While at Apple, he co-created a technology-forecast film called "Knowledge Navigator," that presaged the appearance of the Internet and interaction via a mobile device. At Netscape, he became vice president of design and managed groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape's web portal. In 2000, he co-founded DDO. In addition to his practice, Dubberly also teaches. While at Apple, he served at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as the first and founding chairman of the computer graphics department. He has also taught classes in the Graphic Design Department at California State University, San Jose, at the Institute of Design at IIT, and in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Panel: Designing Systems for Designing

Kenneth Fitzgerald

Kenneth teaches in the undergraduate Studio Art and graduate Visual Studies programs Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. His writings on design can be found in Emigre, Eye, Idea, and Redaction magazines; the books Graphic Design and Reading, The Education of a Graphic Designer volume 2, and the upcoming Looking Closer 5; plus the online journals Voice: AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Design Observer, and Speak Up. He’s also contributed forewards for monographs by Robert Appleton, Elliott Earls, and Stefan Sagmeister. As producer, he created The News of the Whirled, a 4-issue limited-edition magazine that received awards from the American Center for Design and AIGA. As “collator,” he organized and toured "Adversary: an exhibition (of) contesting graphic design," from 2001-2004.

Online Panel: Field Trip

Jens Gehlhaar

After leading his own print design studio in Germany for six years, Jens Gehlhaar enrolled at the graphic design program at California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with an MFA in 1997. His graduate thesis was The CIA Compendium, an encyclopedic typeface system.

For the next three years, he worked as a freelance art director, graphic and type designer for Wieden+Kennedy, ReVerb, Imaginary Forces, Razorfish, Mike Mills, David Carson, Dreamworks and ESPN. His most prominent projects included the design of the launch print campaign for Microsoft Windows 98, the 1998–2001 network graphics package for ESPN X Games, as well as exclusive typeface designs for the Steven Spielberg movie “Minority Report”, for David Carson’s “Metropolis” magazine design, and for the IBM e-business Centers.

From 1998–2001, he taught upper level typography, type design and motion typography at California Institute of the Arts and Art Center College of Design.

In 2001, he joined bicoastal Brand New School as Creative Director, where he has co-directed campaigns for Volkswagen, Apple, Toyota, Vodafone and Budweiser. He has been responsible for the network identities of VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF; as well as the typography of campaigns such as UPS, AT&T and American Express; and packaging for MTV Sunday Stew and MTV2 Sic’em Friday. He has also written and directed dozens of live action station identifiers for VH1 Classic, Fox Fuel and IMF, as well as a music video for the British band Muse.

Among other awards, he has received a Sports Emmy for television graphics, an ADC Gold Medal for live action direction, a TDC award for type design and an MVPA award for Special Effects.

Nikolaus Hafermaas

Chair, Graphic Design
Art Center College of Design

Nik Hafermaas has been the department chair of Graphic Design at Art Center College of Design (www.artcenter.edu/gpk) since August 2004, where he has created a new Graphic Design curriculum and co-hosted studio abroad programs in Berlin, Copenhagen and, most recently, in Tokyo. His current large-scale environmental work PowerPLANTs – a major public work awarded by the City of Pasadena – made its debut before a professional audience at the Art Center Design Conference in March 2006 at the Wind Tunnel in Pasadena.

Prior to Art Center, Mr. Hafermaas was a Professor of Integrated Design and Temporary Architecture at the University of Arts, Bremen and curator of the Berlin-based network Young Creative Industries. His clients included the Bertelsmann Media Group, World Expo 2000, Audi, Deutsche Telecom AG, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen and Zurich Financial Services, Expo.02.

Mr. Hafermaas is also the former co-owner and chief creative officer of the design company Triad Berlin, where he and his two partners formed an integrated professional team of over 50 employees, shaping it into one of Germany’s leading design firms specialized in the field between industry and the arts, technological innovations, new media and contemporary culture. Most recently, he founded the design company UeBERSEE, specializing in narrative spaces.

Mr. Hafermaas was recipient of the IF Design Award in 1999 and 2004, the German Design Club Award in 2000 and 2002 and the Art Directors Club Design Award in 2002. He studied Visual Communications and Architecture at the University of Arts, Berlin.

Panel: Off the Page: Graphic Design Beyond Print and Screen