Putting together Design Week has been a huge undertaking with lots of bumps along the road and more recently, a lot of progress.
The fact that so many people are involved in putting this together is truly inspiring. Because of all the hard work of the organizers, our volunteers, and the AIGA, we’re able to make some pretty big announcements today, all solidifying Design Week as the premier event to attend if you’re a designer in Phoenix.
First, we have several venues secured: There will be exhibits of print and interactive design at places like Terralever, Santy, and The Clarendon Hotel. The weekend conference is going to be held at the Phoenix Convention Center.
We’re also extremely excited to announce that Debbie Millman will be a keynote speaker at Design Week
Debbie Millman has been in the design business for 23 years fulfilling her dream of working in branding and furthering the meaning, purpose and stature of brands in our culture. Millman is a managing partner and president of the design division at Sterling Brands, the largest independent brand consultancy in the country. She has been there for 11 years where she has led long-term partnerships with global clients including Gillette, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell’s, Johnson & Johnson, Glaxo-Smithkline, Pfizer and Unilever.
Millman is an author on the design blog Speak Up, a regular contributor to Print magazine, and teaches Creative Leadership at the School of Visual Arts. In 2005, she began hosting the first live weekly radio talk show about graphic design on the internet. The show is titled “Design Matters with Debbie Millman,”
A complete bio is available at the AIGA website
In addition to all of this news, we’ve opened registration on the newly redesigned Phoenix Design Week website.
More announcements in the coming weeks, stay tuned!
I believe the words “awesomely badass” apply to this news.