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Member News for May 2013, including:

• Linda Feinberg
• Arrowstreet
• BrandCulture
• GKD Metal Fabrics
• Harbinger
• Nordquist Sign Company and Lawrence Sign
• Pentagram

Pentagram Partner’s work bridges media, discipline, and culture

SAN FRANCISCO - Pentagram partner Natasha Jen, whose graphic design work is noted for crossing the boundaries of media, discipline, and culture, will be a featured speaker at the 2013 SEGD Conference, Above the Fog, June 6-8 in San Francisco.

May 2013 Member news, including:

• Beth Singer Design
• Fiberoptic Lighting
• Gallagher & Associates
• Hunt Design
• Michael Courtney Design
• Perkins+Will
• Poulin + Morris
• Signs of Success
• Solid Light
• W&Co.

Member News from Alexander Isley, Base Design, BHDP Architecture, Blueraven Creative, Flagraphics, GKD-USA, Mayer/Reed, Skyline Design, and YESCO

(April 12, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO - Public art has the power to enliven even the most mundane of urban spaces. And it can be especially powerful when it's sensitive to, and interacts with, the architecture around it. Artists like Christian Moeller, Nik Hafermaas, and Ben Davis have harnessed it to energize spaces ranging from airport terminals to libraries and historic bridges, using media as wide-ranging as water bottles, LEDs, and real-time traffic data.

Legendary graphic designer Lance Wyman, FSEGD, has created a limited-edition commemorative poster celebrating SEGD's 40th anniversary. Thirty-nine signed and numbered posters are available for purchase and the 1/40 poster will be auctioned off during the 2013 SEGD Conference in San Francisco.
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Legendary graphic designer Lance Wyman, FSEGD, has created a limited-edition commemorative poster celebrating SEGD's 40th anniversary. Thirty-nine signed and numbered posters are available for purchase and the 1/40 poster will be auctioned off during the 2013 SEGD Conference in San Francisco.
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(April 2, 2013) Multidisciplinary design community focuses on physical and digital experiences that "connect people to place"

Member News for April 2013 from:

Blueraven Creative

Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants

Frost*

LEDCONN Corp.

(March 18, 2013) Whether we are planning, designing, or building wayfinding and signage systems, exhibition graphics, branded environments, or digital applications, SEGD practitioners have a common goal: creating experiences that connect people to place.

March 2013 Member News

(March 5, 2013) -- Tim Kobe's company Eight Inc. translated Apple's design zeitgeist into a game-changing retail format. John Bielenberg founded rapid ingenuity firm Future and Project M, the platform for creatives inspired to contribute to the greater good.

Both have shown how design thinking, fearless creativity, and empathy can be used to make the world a better place. And both will share their experiences and perspectives at Above the Fog, the 2013 SEGD Conference June 6-8 in San Francisco.

(February 21, 2013) -- How can environmental graphics, public art, and new digital experiences connect people to place and enrich the urban landscape? How can designers improve the world by using their empathy as well as their creative talents? And what does "global design" look like these days?

Designers, thinkers, educators, and makers will tackle those questions and more June 6-8 when they converge Above the Fog for the 2013 SEGD Conference in San Francisco.

Member News for February 2013

(February 15, 2013) SEGD is soliciting submissions for the 5th Annual SEGD Academic Summit to be held Thursday, June 6, during the 2013 SEGD Conference in San Francisco. The deadline for submissions is March 22, 2013.

(February 5, 2013) SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, announced the appointment of six new members to its international Board of Directors, including its first board member from Australia.

New board members include:

• Richard Bencivengo, Lexington Design + Fabrication (Pacoima, Calif.)
• Cynthia Hall, Studio SC (Seattle)
• J. Graham Hanson, Graham Hanson Design (New York)
• Alan Jacobson, ex;it (Philadelphia)
• Bryan Meszaros, OpenEye (South Amboy, N.J.)
• Stephen Minning, BrandCulture Communications (Sydney)

(February 1, 2013) SEGD representatives testified at the International Code Council A117.1 Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., in January. The committee is working on the 2015 edition of the ANSI A117.1 model code on accessibility; proposed changes approved may eventually appear in state and local building codes or in a future update to the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design (SAD).

January 2013 member News

(December 10, 2012) Washington, D.C. - SEGD has named Clive Roux, an industrial designer and former CEO of the Industrial Designers Society of America, as its new CEO effective December 3, 2012.

Roux brings significant experience in building and running global multi-disciplinary creative and business groups. Prior to serving as IDSA CEO from 2009 to 2012, he spent 15 years leading creative units for Philips Design, the product design arm of Royal Philips Electronics, The Netherlands.

Member News for December 2012

Clive Roux, an industrial designer and former CEO of the Industrial Designers Society of America, is SEGD’s new CEO effective December 3.

Roux brings significant experience in building and running global multi-disciplinary creative and business groups. Prior to serving as IDSA CEO from 2009 to 2012, he spent 15 years leading creative units for Philips Design, the product design arm of Royal Philips Electronics, The Netherlands.

eg magazine won FOLIO's Gold Award in the "Best Redesign" category November 14 at an awards ceremony in New York.

November 2012 Member News

(November 14, 2012) Joe Zenas, CEO and Principal of experiential design company Thinkwell Group, will chair the 2013 SEGD Global Design Awards jury.

Zenas has selected a multidisciplinary jury representing the wide swath of creative talent involved in environmental graphic design projects.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, has launched its 26th annual Global
Design Awards Program recognizing the best in visual communications for the built environment.

SEGD has released its "SEGD 2012 ADA White Paper Update: Signage Requirements in the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design."

October 2012 Member News

Can digital and physical environmental graphics co-exist beautifully?

Joshua Walton and James Tichenor, Co-Chiefs of Rockwell Group LAB, spend their days blurring the lines between the physical and virtual worlds, using digital technologies to embed interactive experiences in the physical environments Rockwell creates.

"We don't think of digital and physical environmental graphics as ‘either/or,'" says Walton. "We see them as 'both/and.'"

Walton and Tichenor will present a mash-up of digital and physical place-making when they join the conversation at Xlab 2012: Tech in Context November 8 in Austin.

Deborah Sussman, FSEGD, Founder and Principal of Sussman/Prejza and designer of some of the world's most iconic environmental graphics, will be inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame on Friday, October 5.

Member News for September 2012

Lee Skolnick, FAIA, synthesizes art, science, and architecture to create some of the most memorable and compelling visitor experiences on the planet. Through his New York-based firm, Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, Skolnick passionately pursues his philosophy of "design as interpretation," freely and intuitively crossing the borders of architecture and interior design, graphic design and media installations, and exhibition and experience design. 

His recent work includes award-winning projects for the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, the Queens Library Discovery Center, the Paley Center for Media, and the New York Hall of Science.

Skolnick is one of the key collaborators at The Art of Collaboration: SEGD Exhibition & Experience Design Symposium October 4-5 in Raleigh, N.C.

For program information and to register, click here.

Thank you to our sponsors: 1220 Exhibits (Lead Sponsor), Color-Ad Signs and Exhibits (Sponsor), and Electrosonic (Patron).  

Award-winning interactive studio Second Story has virtually written the history of interactive media. With projects ranging from the Vault of the Secret Formula experience at the World of Coca-Cola to the interactive entrance gallery to the Adler Planetarium and pioneering web-based projects, the studio brings a uniquely collaborative approach to creating interactive stories.

Second Story Co-Founder Julie Beeler is one of the key collaborators at The Art of Collaboration, SEGD's Exhibition & Experience Design Symposium October 4-5 in Raleigh, N.C.!

Join her and a multi-disciplinary roster of collaborators as they explore how the force of collaboration is impacting design experiences today.

For more information or to register, click here.

(Our special $99/night rate at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Raleigh expires Sept. 13, so book your room now!)

To enjoy our exclusive interview with Beeler, read on!

AUSTIN, Texas - How is the use of smartphones, tablets, and other personal technology changing the way we perceive the physical realm? How does the urban experience evolve in a world of augmented reality, social media, and sentient buildings?

And what does this mean for designers creating the next generation of immersive and engaging experiences in the "real" world?

Xlab 2012: Tech in Context-SEGD's design + technology event November 8 in Austin-will gather experts in design, technology, architecture, and usability to explore these questions and
provoke conversation about how designers are helping to shape technology- and content-rich environments.

SEGD's Pacific NW Chapter is contributing to the upcoming Seattle Design Festival with an environmental graphics system that showcases the important role that EGD plays in the cityscape.

Member News for August 2012

8.14.2012 RALEIGH – Multi-disciplinary collaboration is one of the major forces driving design experiences today, and an October 4-5 symposium on the campus of NC State University’s College of Design will explore its impact from the perspective of clients, designers, fabricators, and educators.

The Art of Collaboration is an initiative of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), the leading global organization dedicated to communication design in the built environment. The one-and-a-half-day symposium will gather exhibition and experience designers, media software developers, graphic artists, architects, fabricators, clients, educators, and students for a focused dialogue on how collaborations work, why they sometimes fail, and how members of design teams can best work together to create a successful outcome.

“The most inspired design is created by multi-disciplined, innovative co-conspirators working together toward a unified purpose: to elevate the user experience,” says Cybelle Jones, Principal and Studio Director for Gallagher & Associates and Chair of the symposium. “We’re using this event to gather those co-creators and compare best practices, understand effective processes—and even collaborative failures—to expand our views through honest dialogue.”

(July 17, 2012) SEGD members now have access to comprehensive health/vision/dental insurance plans with national networks at reasonable rates. For more information, email or call Lois Riccobono at 800.624.0062.

Member News for July 2012

(July 9, 2012) -- SEGD is seeking a visionary leader, strategic thinker, and enthusiastic community builder to serve as its new Executive Director.

Applicants are invited to submit their resume and a letter of qualifications to segdsearch@gmail.com. The deadline for applications is Friday, August 17, 2012.

POSITION

Executive Director, Society for Environmental Graphic Design

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Email your resume and a detailed cover letter expressing how your qualifications meet the profile below. Serious candidates only, please. The deadline for applications is Friday August 17, 2012.

Email applications to segdsearch@gmail.com

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Senior executive at a respected nonprofit membership organization, or alternatively, brings significant relevant experience developed though experience in the design field.

Download Executive Director Job Profile here.

(June 30, 2012) SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, has renamed and redesigned its
award-winning magazine that showcases the best in graphic design for the built environment.

June 2012 Member News

April 2012 Member News

Malcolm Garrett’s early work for musicians such as Buzzcocks, Duran Duran, Simple Minds, and Boy George made him one of the world’s best-known designers. His pioneering work in interactive media design—from early collaboration with Peter Gabriel to recent co-direction of the interactive gallery guide for New York’s MoMA—earned him the title Royal Designer for Industry in 2000.

Garrett, partner and creative director in the London-based communications design group 53K, will lead the “British Design” session—with fellow RDIs Kenneth Grange, Dinah Casson, Alex McDowell, and Mike Dempsey—at the 2012 SEGD Symposium: Design, Innovation, Collaboration April 27 at the V&A.

He spent a few minutes with SEGD recently to talk about music, technology, and how his perspective on innovation has changed over the years.

(New York) - High Line co-founder Robert Hammond, Pentagram Partner Michael Bierut, Culturematic author Grant McCracken, and Project Runway winner Anya Ayoung Chee will be among the featured presenters at the 2012 SEGD Conference: The Bridge, convening in Brooklyn and Manhattan June 7-9. 

March 2012 member News

Identify: Basic Principles of Identity Design in the Iconic Trademarks of Chermayeff & Geismar focuses on the transcendent work of Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar.

Building on 3M's collaborative work ethos, its technology innovations, and its leading scientists, THERE (Sydney) created an extensive environmental graphics program at the company's 8,000-sq.-meter Australian headquarters.

LONDON - Acclaimed architect David Adjaye and iconic British industrial designer Kenneth Grange will headline SEGD's 2012 International Symposium April 27 in London.

The 2012 SEGD International Symposium: Design, Innovation, Collaboration is being held in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum and coincides with its much-anticipated exhibition British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age. The symposium will explore how innovation and collaboration are radically changing design across many disciplines.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, an interactive LED sculpture by Danish architecture firm BIG is making hearts beat faster on Times Square.

(Our hearts are beating faster because we'll be in New York June 7-9 for the 2012 SEGD Conference!)

Lee Skolnick, founding principal of Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership (New York), will receive Cooper Union's highest honor-the John Q. Hejduk Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Theory, Teaching, and Practice of Architecture.

The SEGD Board of Directors welcomes seven new members whose terms begin in January 2012. Amy Lukas, principal of Infinite Scale (Salt Lake City) and a board member since 2007, is the new board president, succeeding Wayne McCutcheon, principal of Entro Communications (Toronto).

SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, announced the appointment of seven new members to its international Board of Directors. Amy Lukas, principal of Infinite Scale (Salt Lake City)
and a board member since 2007, is the new board president, succeeding Wayne McCutcheon, principal of Entro Communications (Toronto).

SEGD, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, announced the appointment of seven new members to its international Board of Directors. Amy Lukas, principal of Infinite Scale (Salt Lake City)
and a board member since 2007, is the new board president, succeeding Wayne McCutcheon, principal of Entro Communications (Toronto).

Research consultant Ellen Taylor has been named SEGD's Director of Academic Development & Research, a new position focused on strengthening SEGD partnerships with higher education and fostering EGD-related research.

The new issue of segdDESIGN features a look into the minds and visions of Michael Arad and Frederic Schwartz, architects of the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center and the New Jersey 9/11 Memorial just across the Hudson River.

For the digital edition, click here.

Member News for December 2011

Member news for November 2011

(11.21.2011) Have a client or collaborator who needs an intro course in EGD? Need a good presentation to show a local design or civic group what SEGD is about? Or a relatively quick way to tell your mother what it is exactly that you do all day? Check out our new Intro to SEGD presentation here.

(11.16.2011) WASHINGTON, DC - In its 25th anniversary year, the SEGD Design Awards Program-the only international
competition recognizing excellence in communication design for the built environment-has a new name and
identity reflecting its increasingly global profile.

(11.14.2011) Salt Lake Design Week kicked off today, with environmental graphics and SEGD a big part of the week's events. Daily workshops at The Leonardo, Salt Lake City's new Sci+Tech+Art museum, will combine with fun events like tonight's Pixels of Fury design competition. Wednesday night, Nov. 16, SEGD Fellow Richard Poulin will be guest speaker at the first SEGD event ever in SLC.

(11.10.2011)  How do you make scent visible? What does smell sound like? Sephora and fragrance maker Firmenich asked The Department of the 4th Dimension to transform the emotional alchemy of scent into a physical experience. The Sensorium is a pop-up "scent museum" near Sephora's new New York flagship.

SEGD Member News for October 2011.

(10.14.2011) Spagnola & Associates (New York) faced a blank canvas when designing their new office space. To inspire creativity, they went back to basics: the humble pencil. They created a 20-ft.-wide dimensional wall using 2,804 pencils hammered into pre-drilled holes in the wall panels. The completed wall reads "good design lasts." Sounds simple, but like good design, the process was more complex than that.

ACRP Report 52, Wayfinding and Signage Guidelines for Airport Terminals and Landside, researched and written by SEGD member firm Gresham, Smith and Partners (Nashville), has been published.

New York Law School has been training lawyers since 1891. Its new 235,000-sq.-ft. academic building in lower Manhattan-part of a $190 million campus renovation--features a series of exhibitions that puts its legacy front and center. Environmental graphics by Poulin + Morris infuse the building with the school's history and honor distinguished alumni and faculty.

(9.20.2011) -- SEGD will introduce itself in Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, and London during the 2011 SEGD European Tour October 12-19. Following our successful Minding the Gap symposium in London last year, the tour is designed to expand SEGD's international community, increase awareness of SEGD, create alliances with European design organizations, and promote cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural exchange.

Queens Library's new Children's Discovery Center is as much museum as it is library, with interactive science, math, and technology exhibits leading the way to fun learning. When kids walk on the gigantic motion-activated floor map designed by Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, sound effects pinpoint borough hotspots: a jet takeoff at JFK International Airport, the crack of a baseball bat and roaring crowd at Citifield, and trains on the Long Island Railroad.

Much has been said of the gushing inverted fountains on the exact footprints of the World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan. Meanwhile, across the Hudson River, the twin stainless steel walls of the New Jersey 9/11 Memorial quietly honor the 744 New Jersey victims who lost their lives.

Some rare American signage icons will have a new home soon thanks to an anonymous $900,000 donation to the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati. The museum will move to its long-anticipated permanent home in early 2012.

Xlab, SEGD's new innovation event connecting design and technology, will premiere in New York City November 3 at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 West 21st Street. Registration opens today.

Xlab 2011: Design of Location will explore the location-based navigation technologies that are radically changing how people experience physical spaces. The one-day event will bring together technology, design, and interaction experts in a collaborative, provocative format that will include interactive games, a smartphone app, and short clips presentations as well as talks by designers and clients on the cutting edge of location-based technology.

In remote and mountainous northern Syria, more than 700 tiny towns and villages are home to the world's most impressive examples of Byzantine architecture. A new 87-mile circuit of hiking trails connects the Forgotten Cities and makes them more accessible to tourists and locals. 

The striped façade of 221 London, a recently refurbished office building in Canberra, Australia, is a distinct new feature in the city’s Central Business District. For developer Molonglo, Frost Design referenced the building design in a bold EGD program that employs a custom font and a supersized building address that seems to weave in and out of the stripes like a ribbon. 

At Rome’s new National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Zaha Hadid asks visitors to ponder the relationships between art and architecture, museum and contents. ma:design interpreted Hadid’s vision in ground-breaking environmental graphics that encourage visitors to explore MAXXI’s wandering ramps and sinuous curves.

Advance Corporation (Cottage Grove, Minn.) announced a new management/sales team led by Jennifer Holm, Kathy Wilson, and Linda Apfel.

Set on one of the prettiest pieces of real estate in Manhattan, The Rockefeller University is among the most respected research institutions in the world. Reflecting that research focus, Calori & Vanden-Eynden / Design Consultants created a signage and wayfinding program with arched forms informed by the soft curve of chromosome pairs.

Clifford Selbert and Robin Perkins, partners in Los Angeles-based Selbert Perkins Design Collaborative, have been named the 2011 SEGD Fellows, environmental graphic design’s highest professional
honor.

Projects ranging from a multi‐million dollar, high‐tech world exposition pavilion to a low budget supergraphics paint job at a middle school are top winners in the 2011 SEGD Design Awards, the annual program honoring the best in communication design for the built environment.

By Louis M. Brill

Using landmark spaces as digital canvas, projection mapping is trompe l'oeil on a gigantic, pulsating scale. Where will it take us next?

A multidisciplinary, international roster of speakers including Andreas Uebele, Ruedi Baur, David Gibson, Garth Walker, Michel Dallaire, and Sylvia Harris will keynote the 2011 SEGD Conference+Expo+Awards in Montreal June 1-4.

À l'occasion de son Congrès 2011, la Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) invite des spécialistes internationaux multidisciplinaires, dont Andreas Uebele, Ruedi Baur, David Gibson, Garth Walker, Michel Dallaire et Sylvia Harris, à prendre la parole à titre de principaux conférenciers dans le cadre de conférences, d'une exposition et d'une remise de prix qui se tiendront du 1^er au 4 juin prochain à Montréal.

SEGD will convene its 2011 Conference+Expo+Awards in diverse and design-centric Montreal, the only North American city designated a UNESCO City of Design.

SEGD has announced the appointment of two new members to its international Board of Directors. Steve Bayer, Special Projects Director for LED display manufacturer Daktronics Inc. (Brookings, S.D.) and Oscar Fernández, coordinator of the Digital Design Program at the University of Cincinnati School of Design, began their terms effective January 2011.

Archives of SEGD Press Releases from 2006 through 2010.

By Pat Matson Knapp

Our Timelines article in segdDESIGN No. 24 set us off on some fascinating explorations of the fourth dimension and how it can be represented graphically and spatially in museum and corporate exhibition environments.

The best 3D timelines, we concluded, are brief, visually compelling, deploy physical space and media dramatically, and whet viewers' appetites for the content to come. The trick, we're told, is to resist the cliched "line on the wall."