2008 Thinking Creatively Conference Schedule
All main stage presentations and sessions are in the University Center Little Theatre
(first floor) and conference rooms (second floor and third floor) unless otherwise noted.
FRIDAY, April 4
WELCOME & REGISTRATION
9:00am – 10:00am
Kean University Center / Atrium
Sign-in; refreshments provided
Mini-Exhibition: Images that Shook the World
MORNING MAIN STAGE
10:00am – 10:50am
Moira Cullen, Design Director, Coca-Cola North America
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (select one of three)
11:00am – 11:50pm
Brad Jakeman, Former Managing Director, Global Marketing, Citigroup, Inc.
Allan Haley, Director of Words & Letters at Monotype Imaging
Stephanie Travis, Architect and Interior designer
QUICK BREAK (refreshments provided)
MID-DAY MAIN STAGE
12:10pm — 1:00pm
Richard Ting, VP, Creative Director of Emerging Media, R/GA
LUNCH
(Bring your own, or select from the University Center cafeteria, UC café, or local eateries. A box-lunch is available if pre-paid.)
1:15pm – 2:30pm
SPECIAL LUNCH TIME
CREATIVITY & TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS
(Select one of three. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Please arrive promptly)
1:15pm – 2:30pm
Debra Rizzi, Rizco Design, Preserve the Environment by Turning Over a New Leaf
Kathy Evans, Essex Computers, CS3 Illustrator Tips and Techniques
Stephanie Travis, Architect and Interior Designer, Hands-on Drawing in the Computer Age
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (select one of three)
2:40pm – 3:30pm
Shashi Caan, Principal, Shashi Caan Collective
Martha Seidner, Vice President, Smith Design
Tom Clark, SVP Creative Director, Copy, Trio
3:40pm – 4:30pm
Terri Edelman, President, The Edelman Group
Peter Leeds, Global Head of Creative Services, Reuters
James Montalbano, Typographer & Designer, Principal, Terminal Design
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING HOUR
Sponsored by Smith Design
Kean Hall, room 127
Enjoy refreshments and conversation with conference speakers and attendees. Smith
Design’s James Smith, Laraine Blauvelt, Martha Seidner,and Jenna Smith welcome
you during this informal hour of socializing and networking. Please join us for a drink.
KEAN UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
NETWORKING HOUR
Kean Hall, reception atrium
You are invited to attend a Kean University Alumni Association networking reception
that is designed
to help our alums establish and nurture professional connections.
Come meet and network with fellow
visual communications alumni who are working
for a range of well-known companies and firms, or who
have started their own highly
successful agencies.
Many of our alumni design or direct the creation and production of promotional design,
advertising,
typography, animation, new media, publications, photography, illustration or
broadcast media locally
and overseas. In recognition of their creative achievements many
of them have received prestigious
awards.You can find out more information about the
Kean Career Network at www.keanalumni.org/career.
All are invited to the main-stage presentation following the networking break.
MAIN STAGE
Kean Hall, room 127
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Richard Wilde
The Guru of Graphic Design Thinking
SATURDAY, April 5th
WELCOME & REGISTRATION
9:00am – 10:00am
Kean University Center / Atrium
Mini-Exhibition: Images that Shook the World
BREAKFAST NETWORKING HOUR
9:00 am – 10am
Sponsored by The Design Center at Kean University
Special Louise Fili book giveaway to the first 20 attendees to arrive!
University Center
ADCNJ EDUCATION COUNCIL FACULTY FORUM
8:30am – 10:am
University Center
MORNING MAIN STAGE
University Center Little Theatre
10:00am – 10:50am
Louise Fili, President, Louise Fili Ltd
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (select one of three)
11:00am – 11:50pm
Roger Whitehouse, Partner, Whitehouse & Company
Barbara Pagano, Senior Vice President, HealthEd Interactive
Margaret Cusack, Illustrator, Designer, and Folk Artist
QUICK BREAK (refreshments provided)
MID-DAY MAIN STAGES (select one of two)
12:10pm — 1:00pm
Steven Heller, Co-chair, MFA Designer as Author Program & Co-founder,
MFA in Design Criticism at the School of Visual Arts
Mirko Ilic´, Mirko Ilic´ Corp.
OR
Dr. Michael Searson, Executive Director,
Center for External Education and Development
LUNCH
1:00pm – 2:30pm
(Bring your own, or select from the University Center cafeteria, UC café, or local eateries. A box-lunch is available if pre-paid.)
SPECIAL LUNCH TIME
CREATIVITY & TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS (select one of three)
(Select one of three. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Please arrive promptly.)
1:15pm – 2:30pm
Mike Tubbert, Delmar Cengage Learning, Photoshop Workshop
Alan Robbins, Writer and Designer, How Images Shake the World
Tom McVey, CEO, CMYK Printing, Green Printing
BREAKOUT SESSIONS (select one of three)
2:40pm – 3:30pm
Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding, Scorsone/Drueding, aka: sdposters.com
Brian Ganton Jr., Principal, Brian J. Ganton & Associates (BGA)
Ray Cruz / Janet Slowik, Typeface Designer / Senior Art Director, Pearson Education
ENDNOTE MAIN STAGE ENDNOTE
3:40pm – 4:30pm
The Creative Revolution
Kevin Swanepoel, President, The One Club
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!