A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
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Hackers, modders, DIYers and makers of all kinds are influencing how product designers approach their craft. Come learn first hand how 4 top designers are embracing this new ethos, the implications it holds for their profession, and how maker culture is impacting the very nature of what it means to design.
Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and Chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Priot, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical, and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. 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 serves on the boards of the AIGA, Designers Accord, Design Ignites Change, and DesigNYC. He has taught at the undergraduate and graduate level since 1995.
Carla Diana enjoys living as close to the near future as possible. In her studio and at the award-winning product innovation firm Smart Design, she works on future-specting projects in areas such as domestic robots, mobile devices and sentient kitchen appliances, combining experience in industrial and interaction design to create solutions that bridge the gap between the physical and the digital. She is a big believer in continuous tinkering and 2011 she founded the Smart Interaction Lab, an initiative focused on design explorations in the form of hacking and hands-on experimentation around topics such as expressive objects, digital making, and presence and awareness. In 2010 she took her studio on the road as one of MAD Museum's Open Studio Artists in Residence where her creations were open for public viewing. This spring, Carla will launch SVA's first ever "Smart Objects" course as part of the newly founded Products of Design and Interaction Design programs.
Gadi Amit is a San Francisco based designer behind some of the most innovative and lasting products produced over the last decade. Named a ‘Master of Design’ by Fast Company in 2010, Gadi works from the inside out in search of true Architecture, crafting delightful and workable solutions for real people. This focus on Product/Information Architecture and commitment to creating designs that last through cultural shifts, business dynamics and across technological advancements has helped him and his firm, NewDealDesign, win over 100 design awards. Working with diverse clientele, from fortune 500 businesses such as Netgear, Logitech & Fujitsu, to innovative start-ups like Better Place, Sling Media, FitBit & Lytro, he believes great projects start with passion. Gadi regularly speaks at conferences, contributes his design insights to top publications and keeps a blog with Fast Company.
Jared Ficklin is a Senior Principal Design Technologist at frog, where he builds user experiences for clients, playing with interactions including touch and multi-touch, and applying physics to enhance the user experience. A passion for music and making things introduced him to the hobby of sound visualization, which has led him on occasion to play with fire. (As Flash on the Beach puts it, "Jared Ficklin’s sonic experiments stood out for their individuality, drama and casual disregard for health and safety.") Every March in Austin, Texas, Ficklin organizes the frog party, a collective social experiment for a few thousand people attending SXSW Interactive. It's a form of playful R&D for social technology. And he has spent 10 years helping fund, design and build quality free public skateparks for Austin as part of the Austin Public Skatepark Action Committee.
Tad is the Creative Director of TEAGUE's Seattle-based Design Studio. Prior to joining TEAGUE, Tad worked at Lunar Design, Motorola's Advanced Concepts Group and Samsung's LA LAB. He was also a founding member of designRAW, a San Francisco-based design collective. In 1996 and 1997 Tad conducted independent research as a Fulbright Scholar in Italy. During that time he was affiliated with the Politecnico in Milan, and the American Academy in Rome. Tad is a frequent speaker at universities, conferences and design symposiums. His work has received numerous awards of distinction and has appeared in publications across the globe. He's also a featured columnist for the design resource Core77. In 2011, Tad was named chairman of the IDSA's International Conference and was appointed to the advisory board of SVA's masters in fine arts program in products of design. Raised in Manhattan, Tad earned his masters degree in industrial design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He has a bachelors degree in English Literature and Studio Art from Wesleyan University, Connecticut.
