Abbott Miller :: Keynote Address
Abbott Miller was born in Indiana and studied design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. In 1989 he founded the multidisciplinary studio Design/Writing/Research where, in collaboration with Ellen Lupton, he pioneered the concept of “designer as author” undertaking projects in which content and form are developed in a symbiotic relationship. He joined Pentagram’s New York office as a partner in June 1999. Abbott’s projects are often concerned with the cultural role of design and the public life of the written word. At Pentagram he leads a team designing books, magazines, catalogs, identities, exhibitions, and creating editorial projects.

Abbott has received numerous design honors, including medals from the Society for Publication Designers and three nominations for National Magazine Awards. In 1994 Abbott—together with Ellen Lupton—was awarded the first annual Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SEGD) and of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). He teaches in the Graphic Design Department of the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His work and critical writing has appeared in Eye, Print, I.D. and other publications, and he is the co-author of four books, including the classic Design/Writing/Research: Writing on Graphic Design.

Amy Brusselback :: Closing Speaker
Amy Brusselback, Global Design Director for P&G Female Beauty, leads a design team of diverse disciplines from graphic to industrial, environmental to fashion. Her team is responsible for the worldwide visual identities and product design on such brands as Olay, Venus, Max Factor, Cover Girl, Secret, Camay and Safeguard.

Amy comes from a family of artists and craftsmen, however it took her a stint on the account side at a design firm before embracing design as a career. In her 15 years with Procter & Gamble, she has worked on a variety of businesses beyond her current scope including Always, Tampax, Folgers, Jif, and Pringles. Amy piloted the role of Identity Director for P&G, and is best known for creating branding tools to ensure holistic brand application across media.

Amy studied psychology at Cornell University and received her graphic design degree from Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Greg Cangialosi :: Session Topic - Thinking Outside the Inbox
Greg Cangialosi is the President and CEO of Blue Sky Factory, Inc. As an ambassador of email marketing and new media, Greg Cangialosi has built a reputation as a pioneer in today's online landscape. He is a seasoned e-mail marketing veteran, developing and executing successful strategies for a wide and diverse client base. His organization supports the email marketing for brands of national and international scope, from leading Fortune 500 companies to performing artists such as U2 and Justin Timberlake. In addition to a focus in email marketing, he has also pioneered new media initiatives for companies including Verizon Wireless, GM/Pontiac, and Disney. Greg is a seasoned lecturer on the topic of email marketing and social media, and is also the lead author of "The Business Podcasting Book," a primer on new media for marketers. Web - www.blueskyfactory.com  / Blog – blog.blueskyfactory.com

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Ellen Lupton :: Session Topic - Type Out Loud
Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at MICA in Baltimore. She has produced numerous exhibitions, including the National Design Triennial series and Skin: Surface, Substance + Design. Her book Thinking with Type (2004) is a basic guide to typography directed at everyone who works with words. She has produced a series of publications with her graduate students at MICA, including D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself (2006), Indie Publishing (2008), and Graphic Design: The New Basics (2008). Ellen has contributed to various design magazines, including Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis. She is a 2007 recipient of the AIGA Gold Medal. A frequent lecturer around the U.S. and the world, Lupton will speak about design to anyone who will listen.

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Keith Bowman :: Session Topic - What I Didn't Learn in Design School
Keith Bowman is the Interactive Creative Director at Tierney in Philadelphia. Tierney is an Advertising and PR agency that builds brands and created work for TD Bank, Peco, McDonald’s, Bayer Environmental Science, Independence Blue Cross, Pennsylvania Tourism and Sun Life Financial among others.
 
Before Tierney, Keith did tours of duty as Art Director at Digitas, Red Tetttemer, TMX and Blue Diesel. Select clients he enjoyed creating and maintaining brand stewardship for were Ska Brewery and Justice (Limited Too) and American Airlines. He also spent four years teaching upper level design classes at Montgomery County Community College. His work has been published in various design publications including HOW, Design Graphics, Super 7 and numerous design books, the most recent being featured in 100 Habits of Successful Freelance Designers published by Rockport Press.
 
In his spare time, Keith serves as the principle designer at The Design Bureau of Amerika, which includes the screen-printing studio, Amerikan Made Prints. Keith and his lovely wife Jenn also run The Ink Initiative Project which designs and screen prints posters and donates all profits to charity. Keith continues to be part of many great projects, but the one he’s most proud of is his infant son, Miles Parker.

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Jill Tanenbaum :: Session Topic - Networking for the Anti-Social Creative
Jill Tanenbaum is the President and Creative Director of Jill Tanenbaum Graphic Design & Advertising Inc. (JTGD&A), an award-winning full-service marketing, advertising, and graphic design company located in Bethesda, Maryland since 1982. JTGD&A specializes in strategic marketing and branding, print and broadcast advertising, e-marketing, public relations, print collateral, direct mail, exhibit design, multimedia, and website design.
 
Jill is a seasoned marketing professional with experience in product and brand management. Her experiences include working with government, association, education, and non-profit and private markets. Her firm has been listed as one of the top graphic design firms in the prestigious Washington Business Journal Book of Lists since 2002. In 2007 and 2009, DiversityBusiness.com awarded her firm one of the top woman-owned, multi-cultural earners in the state of Maryland. Jill teaches a graduate course called Branding and Advertising at Johns Hopkins University. Work her firm designed can be seen in design books worldwide.  She is also a studio glass artist at the Art Glass Center in Glen Echo, Maryland and shows her works at galleries in and around Washington, DC. Jill has an MA in Publications Design from the University of Baltimore.

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Aaron Moore :: Session Topic - The Client is Always Right
Founder and principal of Orange Element Design, Moore has over fourteen years of experience as a graphic communications specialist. He has created identity systems, corporate collateral, POS materials, advertising and direct mail campaigns and recruitment materials for such clients as Amnesty International, Comcast, Kodak, T. Rowe Price, the University of Maryland and The Peace Corps.
 
Previous to starting Orange Element, Aaron was a Senior Art Director with an Interactive Agency at which he was responsible for information architecture, user interface design and digital brand positioning. He draws on his experiences from this position to develop larger integrated branding systems—with multiple components including program implementation, ad sales, sponsorship and promotional opportunities, and social responsibility programs. Aaron is a member of the Baltimore AAF and AIGA chapters. He has taught a small business course at the SBRC on the importance of brand recognition and often teaches an annual flex studio class at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Moore holds a B.F.A. in Communication Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Trish Witkowski :: Session Topic - Folded Inspiration
Trish Witkowski is Chief Folding Fanatic at the online community foldfactory.com. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design and a master of science degree in Graphic Arts Publishing from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Printing Management and Sciences. An award-winning designer, she held the position of creative director for a Baltimore-based agency for several years, and has taught design and desktop publishing at the college level. Trish has a specialized expertise in the area of folding and is the creator of the FOLDRite™ system, a 2004 GATF InterTech™ Technology Award winner. Trish frequently writes and blogs on the topic of folding and finishing and hosts a popular weekly e-video, the “60-second Super-cool FOLD of the WEEK.” She is in demand as a guest speaker for both design and print industry functions, and has presented for the HOW Conference, GraphExpo, Print New Zealand  Conference, AIGA events, and many others. Current publications include: A Field Guide to Folding, Folding for the Graphic Arts: A Teacher’s Handbook, and FOLD: The Professional's Guide to Folding.

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Greg Eckler :: Session Topic - Play: Creative Brainstorming for Design
Greg Eckler is Ringmaster of The Vicious Circus, a one man show specializing in graphic design, illustration, type design and custom lettering. With over ten years of experience in the field Greg has been accused at times of having done it all. Obsessed with learning it all he has worked everything from prepress in a small print shop, studio artist for a top advertising agency, web designer for a non-profit, etc. His obsession with learning has also earned him three college degrees including his BFA in graphic design from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA in graphic design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. During his graduate studies he began studying the links between creativity and the act of play which lead to his publication of Play and The Discovery of New Ideas (2009). He is now approaching education from the other side, as a professor of graphic design and advertising at the Art Institute of Washington.

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Andy Stratton :: Session Topic - Trendsetting: Web Design and Beyond
Andy Stratton is a entrepreneur and freelance web developer focusing on WordPress, HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery, and custom PHP/MySQL web applications. He has been building websites for more than 15 years and loves making the web a better place for users. For a developer, Andy has a background in business management, design and search marketing. He is a lover of animals, nature, art, music, film and German automobiles...he also does a pretty mean robot.

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Ida Cheinman :: Session Topic - Green is the New Black
Ida Cheinman is founding principal and creative director of Substance151. Substance151 is a strategic brand communications firm for organizations on the edge of evolution – whether that evolution is inspired by growth, changing conditions, stronger competition, new customers, products and services, or a desire for a stronger, more relevant brand.

Ida has 15 years of design and management experience with a primary focus on brand strategy and design across print and interactive media. With clients including Alliance to Save Energy, U.S. Green Building Council Maryland, TerraLogos eco architecture, The Green Building Institute, IBM/TriTek, Johns Hopkins University and many others, her work has earned multiple design awards and industry recognition and appears consistently in national and international design publications.

When founding Substance151, Ida made a commitment to advance sustainable values through the firm’s design practice, education and community involvement. Under her leadership, Substance151 has built a solid reputation for its stellar strategy and design work and its passion for advocating environmentally and socially responsible business practices. In 2010, Ida has been named an EcoCEO by Baltimore SmartCEO.

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Brian Miller :: Session Topic - The Creative Business: Behind the Scenes
Brian Miller is the owner and design director of the Brian Miller Design Group, an award winning design studio that specializes in branding for the Web and print. His clients include NBC Universal, Delta Airlines, GE, A&E Television and Rockstar Games. In addition to managing the Brian Miller Design Group, he is the author of a book on Web design titled Above the Fold, he teaches design at the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design, and is a member of the board of directors for the Type Directors Club. Brian has an MPS in design management from Pratt Institute and a BFA in graphic design from the Hartford Art School. He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with his wife Bridgette, daughter Sarah, and dog Shick.

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Tammy Schneider :: Session Topic - Get Protection: Do You Practice Safe Tax?
Tammy Schneider is a Director and Senior Manager with Glass Jacobson in Owings Mills. As a CPA, she has extensive public accounting experience with a focus on business management, accounting, tax preparation and planning. She works directly with business owners to help them accomplish their business, as well as personal, financial goals.

Her experience and proactive approach has helped clients not only survive in these tough economic times, but grow their businesses and has set her apart as a trusted advisor.

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