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Schedule
Thursday, October 12
8:00 a.m. Registration and check-in open
8:00 a.m. AIGA-DL Assessments begin (pre-scheduled)
10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Tours & Workshops
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. DEC LENS Symposium
2:00–5:00 p.m. Tours & Workshops
Friday, October 13
8:00–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Design Fair opens
8:30–9:15 a.m. Breakout Sessions
9:30–11:00 a.m. General Sessions
11:00–11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
12:30–2:00 p.m. Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00–2:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:00 p.m. General Session
4:00–4:45 p.m. Break
4:45–6:30 p.m. General Session
6:30–7:30 p.m. Happy Hour
8:00–9:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Design Fair opens
8:30–9:15 a.m. Breakout Sessions
9:30–11:00 a.m. General Sessions
11:00–11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
12:30–2:00 p.m. Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00–2:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:00 p.m. General Session
4:00–4:45 p.m. Break
4:45–6:30 p.m. General Session
All times US Eastern. Schedule subject to change.
October 14
Saturday,
Juan Carlos Pagan discusses his groundbreaking design work, entrepreneurial spirit, and design expertise with Debbie Millman. Juan Carlos Pagan is an artist, designer, and typographer from New York. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design, and completed his postgraduate studies in typeface design at Type@Cooper.
Debbie Millman sits down with budding Creative Director Amedea Tassinari to explore the career path that led her to designing the crest and brand identity for L.A.’s professional women’s soccer team, Angel City FC. Amedea Tassinari is the Creative Director for Angel City FC, Los Angeles’ professional women’s soccer.
Juan Carlos Pagan Designer, Typographer & Co-Founder, Sunday Afternoon Amedea Tassinari Creative Director, Angel City Football Club
Forest Young likens his career trajectory to a desire path. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where more deliberately constructed and prescriptive paths take a longer or more circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent. From Arctic ice to electric cars, Forest Young discusses significant career pivots.
Erika Lee, an independent creative director and consultant, melds research, strategy, visual storytelling, and interactions to design emotionally resonating experiences. Globally, she helps ambitious web3 startups build great products with WE3. Locally, she serves as Vice Chair at Ourspace, supporting Hawai’i’s creatives.
Forest Young Executive Design Leader & Educator Erika Lee Vice Chair, Ourspace
Ivy Ross
Rechung Fujihira brings 10+ years of experience and leadership to the development of creative communities and supportive, collaborative entrepreneurial spaces in Hawai’i. As the co-founder and treasurer of Our Space, an incubator and makerspace for individuals and small businesses, he strives to apply 21st century state-of-the-art tech-
Ivy Ross is the Vice President of Design for the Hardware organization at Google. Over the past six years, she and her team have launched 50+ products winning over 240 global design awards. This collection of hardware established a new Google design aesthetic that is tactile, colorful, and bold.
Rechung Fujihira Co-Founder, Ourspace
Making the most of persistence, patience and keeping things simple. Being a designer, building a team, raising a child, and juggling everything else along the way. The joys and surprises and unexpected benefits of working at one place for a long time.
Technologically, politically, socially, we live in an age of unprecedented change, experiencing extreme transformation and rapid shifts as never before. These ever-accelerating developments fundamentally affect the way we live, work, create, posing equally major challenges and extraordinary opportunities.
Alisa Wolfson EVP Head of Design, Leo Burnett Chicago Neville Brody Professor of Communication at Royal College of Art, Creative Director at Brody Associates
In 2013, Allison Connell from the brand studio Athletics along with Sasha Tochilovsky, the curator at the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, conceived, curated, and designed Image of the Studio, an exhibition and website of more than 75 current New York graphic design studios.
Cynthia Pratomo Director, Instagram Central Design Studio, Meta Cynthia Pratomo, director of brand design at Instagram, will showcase the Threads brand design story. Allison Connell Design Director, Athletics