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

(May 2, 2013) 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.

(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.

(April 2, 2013) Multidisciplinary design community focuses on physical and digital experiences that "connect people to place"

(March 21, 2013) SAN FRANCISCO -- Today, design transcends geography, language, culture, discipline, and even physical reality. Designers working across these boundaries have much to learn from one another, and the 2013 SEGD Conference June 6-8 in San Francisco will celebrate the boundless impact of design on a global scale.

(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.

(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)

(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.

(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.

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.

(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.

(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. 

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).

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.

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.