Tonight, RGD hosted Future By Design, a free live screening and interactive discussion of ‘The Future Designer’, hosted by George Brown College.
The design industry is constantly shifting to leverage advances in technology, accommodate demographic & ethnographic trends and adopt new and innovative ways of thinking. As new opportunities for creative work emerge, what skills will be required and how do we ensure future generations of designers have the skills necessary to maintain relevance for our industry? Join a discussion of the changing roles, opportunities and challenges facing the future designer.
The Moderator is Duane Bray, Partner and Global Head of Talent, IDEO NEW YORK. His biography is found below:
Duane Bray is a partner at IDEO and is the global head of talent for the firm, based in New York. He is passionate about areas such as workplace innovation, values and purpose, and how to align business needs with individual passions. Duane has a long history at IDEO, joining in 1995 to lead and develop the discipline of interaction design, now one of the firm’s most sought-after capabilities. For many years, he led the firm’s digital business, working in San Francisco and London, and developing relationships across consumer software, mobile and tablet, and web services. With a background in communication design and interaction design, Duane has led or contributed to scores of projects at IDEO, from digital products and services, to organizational strategies. His clients include American Express, BMW, Lincoln Center and United Airlines among many others.
And the panelists are as follows:
Margot Bloomstein, Principal at Appropriate, Inc.
Margot Bloomstein is the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. She partners with retailers, universities, and other organizations to create brand-appropriate user experiences that engage their target audiences and project key messages with consistency and clarity through both traditional and social media. Advertising and interactive agencies as well as large corporations turn to Margot to help grow their content strategy practices. Over the past decade, she’s had a hand in shaping corporate social responsibility efforts at Timberland, content for alumni relations at Tufts University, and strategy for cultural tourism in the state of Nevada. The rogues’ gallery also includes Sallie Mae, Scholastic, ECCO Shoes, Fidelity, Liberty Mutual, Philips, Lindt and Sprüngli, Furman University, Harvard University, and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.A participant in the inaugural Content Strategy Consortium and featured speaker at SXSW, Margot is a popular speaker at conferences around the world. Recent engagements include CS Forum, Confab, and Web 2.0. She also produces BrandSort, a tool embraced by consultancies of all sizes to clarify communication goals. She is the author of Content Strategy at Work: Real-World Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Engagement and writes shorter missives on Twitter at @mbloomstein.
Matteo Bologna, founding partner and principal of Mucca Design
Matteo Bologna is the founding partner and principal of Mucca Design, where he also serves as Creative Director.Under his direction, the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful work for a wide variety of global companies like Sephora, Whole Foods, Victoria’s Secret, Barnes & Noble, Adobe Systems, Bacardi and Target. With his team he designed the identities for a variety of now classic New York City culinary destinations like Balthazar’s and Brooklyn Fare. The work produced by the Mucca Design team has also been widely recognized by industry publications, competitions and exhibitions, including AIGA, Communication Arts, Eye, Graphis, HOW, PRINT, the Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club. He is also the principal of the new Mucca Spin-off type foundry muccaTypo. Matteo is the Chairman of the Type Directors Club and former board member of AIGA/NY. He frequently lectures about branding and typography around the world.
YuJune Park, director of the BFA Communication Design program at Parsons School of Design at The New School.
YuJune Park is the director of the BFA Communication Design program at Parsons School of Design at The New School. She is the co-founder of Synoptic Office, a multidisciplinary design studio operating in the space between graphic, interaction, spatial and product design. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked for, freelanced and collaborated with several studios, including Base Design, Project Projects, Mother NY, Graphic Thought Facility, and Pentagram for a variety of clients including the Museum of Modern Art, Milk Studios, the Davis Museum, and the AIGA.
About Future By Design
Future By Design is a series of webcast discussions featuring experts sharing their thoughts on a variety of topics. As a virtual event, we invite cities across Canada to host local screening venues where members of the community can gather to watch panelists’ presentations, conduct their own group discussions and participate via webcam in the Q&A. Click here to view recaps of our past Future By Design events.
Richelle Sibolboro 