REMINDER: AIGA | PhillyCHI Mtg - Nathan Shedroff: Sustainable Design Strategy

AIGA | PhillyCHI Joint Meeting - Nathan Shedroff: Sustainable Design
Strategy, Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Please join AIGA Philadelphia and PhillyCHI in welcoming Nathan Shedroff
to Philadelphia. Nathan will help kick off DesignPhiladelphia by
presenting a discussion of design, business, and sustainability, and the
connections between them, in a clear and easy way that will inspire you
to integrate these perspectives, techniques, and tools into your
practice. This event is free and open to the public.

Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Time: 6:00PM - 8:00PM (Social time from 6:00-6:30PM)
Location: Tyler School of Art, Room B004
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Public transportation: Tyler is conveniently located a few blocks from
both the Temple University SEPTA station and the Susquehanna-Dauphin
subway stop
Parking & Parking Map: http://www.temple.edu/parking/main.html and
http://www.temple.edu/parking/pdfdocuments/2007%20Main%20Campus%20Map.pd\
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RSVP: [email protected]


About the Presentation
Sustainable Design Strategy
The worlds of design (and design thinking), business (and strategy), and
sustainability are drawing ever more tightly together. To approach
either perspectives without the others is becoming less possible and
more important. Nathan Shedroff will make these domains, and the
connections between them, clear and easy to follow and inspire you to
integrate these perspectives, techniques, and tools into your practice.


About the Presenter
Nathan Shedroff is one of the pioneers in Experience Design, an approach
to design that encompasses multiple senses and requirements and explores
common characteristics in all media that make experiences successful, as
well as related fields, Interaction Design and Information Design. He
speaks and teaches internationally and has written extensively on design
and business issues, including, "Experience Design 1" and
"Making Meaning." Nathan is a serial entrepreneur, works in
several media, and consults strategically for companies to build better,
more meaningful experiences for their customers. His latest book,
"Design is the Problem" from Rosenfeld Media, is an exhaustive
primer on sustainable design.

Lately, Nathan has spent a lot of time building strategies for start-ups
and established firms using a variety of online technologies to deliver
new solutions that enhance and evolve their online brand, develop new
offerings, and enhance their customer relationships. He also consults on
corporate strategies for sustainability since earning his MBA in
Sustainable Management.

You can learn more about Nathan at: http://www.nathan.com/.


About Our Sponsors
Graphic and Interactive Design Program at Tyler School of Art
GAID at Tyler School of Art is known for the quality and rigor of its
BFA and MFA programs. GAID's mission is to educate designers who
aspire to practice design for communication at the most creative levels
of the profession. Tyler's graduates are working in all areas of the
design industry.

The GAID facilities in Tyler's new home on Temple's main campus
are spacious and state-of-the art. Tyler students have ready access to a
rich array of academic courses. The proximity to students from
Temple's many programs in academics and the arts offers the breadth
of experience that is essential to the designer's education. To
learn more about GAID, visit: http://www.temple.edu/tyler/gaid.html.


BresslerGroup
Bresslergroup develops innovative product solutions via integrated user
research, interaction and industrial design and production engineering.
Since its founding in 1970, Bresslergroup has won more than 80 major
design awards including IDEA, MDEA, iF Hanover and Appliance Design.
Bresslergroup has also authored more than 120 patents. For more
information, please visit: http://bresslergroup.com/.


About AIGA Philadelphia
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the premier place for
design—to discover it, discuss it, understand it, appreciate it, be
inspired by it.

AIGA's mission is to advance designing as a professional craft,
strategic tool and vital cultural force. AIGA stimulates thinking about
design through journals, conferences, competitions and exhibitions;
demonstrates the value of design to business, the public and government
officials; and empowers the success of designers at each stage of their
careers by providing invaluable educational and social resources.

Founded in 1914, AIGA remains the oldest and largest professional
membership organization for design. AIGA now represents more than 22,000
design professionals, educators and students through national activities
and local programs developed by 64 chapters and 240 student groups. AIGA
is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) educational institution.


About PhillyCHI
PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region's chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an
interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in
Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Usability, and other
related disciplines. PhillyCHI holds monthly meetings and socials to
network and discuss current topics in HCI. Learn more at
http://phillychi.acm.org.



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