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Debbie Millman
Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA, and a “Woman of Influence” by Success magazine, Debbie Millman is also an author, educator, designer, and podcast pioneer. Debbie is the host of the Webby and Signal award-winning podcast Design Matters, one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world; Chair of the first-ever Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, and the author of eight books. Debbie is the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and a Lifetime Achievement award from AIGA, the Professional Association for Design. She is currently a Harvard Business School Executive Fellow.
SATURDAY at 10 AM
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Changing Brands, Branding Change
Changing Brands, Branding Change is an entertaining sociological, scientific and anthropological overview of why humans mark, brand and change things.
This is what the presentation will cover:
--Why and how early humans began marking and making things
--How religions, nations, sneakers, pharmaceuticals and social movements utilize many of the identical rules of branding
--Why humans avoid change and conflict and mostly hate brand redesigns (at first)
--A brief history of technological innovation and how AI fits into the trajectory of change
Changing Brands, Branding Change takes a deep dive into the influence branding has on our everyday lives and provides an over- arching hypothesis of why, as a species, we continue to make and mark things, in every aspect of our lives.
SUNDAY at 10:10 AM
BREAKOUT SESSION : Visual Storytelling
Effective visual storytelling is a remarkable art form. In this one-day workshop, artist and writer Debbie Millman, will work with a group of students interested in exploring the art of telling a story through a unique combination of images and words. In this workshop, we will investigate the ability stories have to honor the diversity and commonality of our collective human experience.
In this workshop, we will do the following:
--Work to define and refine the basic narrative structure of a story
--Plot the visual arc of a story
--Create the visual language of the story
The workshop will result in the creation of a visual story for each participant.