2006 DITFL SPEAKERS
Keynote Speaker: Michael Osborne
Michael Osborne is President and Creative Director of the San Francisco-based graphic design firm, MOD/Michael Osborne Design, Inc. Established in 1981, the firm's work in corporate/brand identity, package design, and print collateral has been recognized by many competitions for outstanding design, including the West Coast Show, American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Clios. MOD's work is on display in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and the National Poster Museum in Washington, D.C. MOD's work has also been featured in Graphis, Communication Arts, The Society of Typographic Arts, American Institute of Graphic Arts, HOW Magazine, Print, and Step Inside Design Magazine. Michael also designed the 2002 and 2004 Love Stamps for the USPS.
Name: Broc Sears
Assistant Managing Editor/ Design & Graphics
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Broc Sears has been involved with publications for over 30 years. He currently supervises a creative team of over 45 editors, designers and artists who are responsible for the daily visual report of the Star-Telegram newspaper and several niche publications. He is an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University and has also taught at UTA and SMU. He was art director of the Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News and University of North Texas Public Information Office. He began his career as a designer at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, Missouri after graduating with a B.F.A. in graphic design from Kansas State University
Mark Hoffer
Illustrator/Sr. Design Editor
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Mark Hoffer is an illustrator and Senior Design Editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He began doing freelance work in 1992 and has been on staff at the paper since 1999. His work has evolved from using traditional media, to combing it with digital applications (One of his happiest days was when he finally started using a graphics tablet for digital illustrations instead of trying to use a mouse). Mark also helps to lead a group of designers in his department, assisting them in art direction, photo styling, and page layout. He has won SND and Katie awards for illustration and design, and continues to freelance book illustration.
Steve Wilson
Sr. News Artist
Company: Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Wilson is a Mac/Computer Geek and Senior Artist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He has been working at the Star-Telegram since 1984, a couple of years before the “desktop publishing” revolution came to newspapers.
Steve does most of his illustrations on Macintosh computers and has won awards for his illustrations and graphics from The Dallas Society of Illustrators, The Dallas Press Club, The Society of Newspaper Design and The Associated Press. Awards include eight Dallas Press Club Katie Awards (five state award for excellence in Communication and Journalism) for Website Graphics, Illustrations and Informational Graphics.
Name: Phyllis McConnell
Director —SWINGSHIFT Southwest, LLC
McConnell brings 30 years of experience in the corporate arena. With quality matching and productive relationships as a primary goal, McConnell actively recruits top-level talent, communicates with clients to understand their evolving needs and provides specialists that will best fit each client’s environment to successfully complete the projects at hand. Before SWINGSHIFT, McConnell lent her organization skills and expertise to Sabre Holding where she worked with clients such as Motorola, Morgan Stanley and Citibank. Prior to Sabre, McConnell held many roles with American Airlines where she developed her talents in recruiting and training qualified management employees. Her management positions include sales promotion and advertising, direct marketing, publications and training. McConnell is associated with the DSVC, area professional organization and are Chamber of Commerce
McConnell’s academic credentials include a BS in psychology and English and graduate studies in speech pathology from the University of North Texas.
Douglas Timmermeyer
Savage Design Group, Inc
Dylan Moore
Principle
Dylan Moore Marketing Design
Since 1997, Dylan Moore has been the Principal and Creative Director of
Dylan Moore Marketing Design, a graphic design and strategic marketing firm.
His approach to design, and the business thereof, is an eclectic combination
of education, intuition, experience, ability and experimentation, drawing
inspiration from sources ranging from classic to vernacular, from the
Bauhaus to "Bewitched" to the Beastie Boys.
Since its founding, the firm has built successful relationships with a
variety of clients, producing award winning work for such groups as Royal
Dutch/ Shell, GE Energy, The University of Houston and The Boy Scouts of
America.
Along the way, Dylan has been a founding Board Member and President of AIGA
Houston, and served as Adjunct Faculty in The University of Houston's
Graphic Design program.
In 2005, Dylan also founded Tupelo Grease Co., a designer and manufacturer
or what he refers to as "retro-fit and remanufactured fashion."
www.dmmdesign.com
Bo Bothe
Brand Extract
Bo Bothe is a principal in BrandExtract, a brand development and
management firm in Houston, Texas. Bo recently completed his MBA
journey at Rice University in 2005 to complement his 1992
undergraduate degree in Design Communications from Texas Tech
University. Combining a creative approach with solid business
reasoning, Bo acts as a Brand Strategist and Creative Director. His
responsibilities include brand development and strategy for the firm
along with his responsibilities for design direction.
Bo is involved with many business and graphic design related
organizations such as the Rice Alliance for Entrepreneurship and
Technology, the Jones Partners, AIGA Houston and various other
organizations. He currently serves on the board of AIGA Houston as
Past President and heads its advisory council. Prior to the merger
with Fisher Creative, he owned and operated his own firm, Kern Design,
working on corporate, investor and consumer Branding initiatives and
is a former equity partner in Savage Design Group, Inc. His other
stops included CMA Design for Packaged Goods and Michael Strickland
Design Group.
Bo’s work has consistently earned recognition from local and
national competitions and publications, including the Art
Director’s Club of Houston, Graphis, Communication Arts, Print
Magazine, and The Black Book AR 100. He has judged various awards
shows and spoken nationally to both professional groups and students.
Limbert Fabian & Branden Oldenberg
Reel FX
Limbert Fabian
Executive Creative Director/commercial and shorts
Michael Chabon: Summerland. Conceptual design for William Joyce/Reel
FX’s Man In The Moon. Disney Theme Parks: Lights, Camera,
Animation! Cover and interior work for Elmore Leonard’s A
Coyote’s in the House. Saving Jessica Lynch NBC Studios , Pixel
Perfect Disney Channel, Paramount: GI Joe: Spy Troops, Valor vs.
Venom. Art director digital effects Spy Kids 2 Troublemaker Studios
and Miramax. Conceptual Art for Big Idea’s 3-2-1 Pinguins.
Director Deep Ellum Film Festival opening show packaging, American
Express OPEN Business (animated section), Phil Vassar Last day of My
life music video.
Brandon Oldenburg
Vice President/Creative Director
Michael Chabon: Summerland Elmore Leonard: A Coyote’s in the
House Harper Collins: Silly Lit, The Lost Wonders of Art Aimesworth
William Joyce: Man in the Moon Disney Theme Parks: Lights, Camera,
Animation! Disney Channel: Pixel Perfect NBC Studios: Saving Jessica
Lynch Miramax: Spy Kids 2 Pixar: Humpty Troubles Showtime: Show
Women’s network branding Paramount: GI Joe: Spy Troops, Valor
vs. Venom
Together with Brandon Oldenburg and Dale Carmen he has built the
creative backbone of what Reel FX creative studios is. The culture of
tackling projects with new eyes and curious fervor is a trait that the
team tries to instill in their artist.
Bo Parker
Bo Co. Design
Bo Parker is principal of Bo Co. Design, a Fort Worth-based firm
specializing in design process/brand strategy and integrated
interactive/kinetic media branding. A graduate of TCU, Bo began his
career at The Forbes Group (now part of Brann Worldwide) moving to
Tracy Locke Partnership working on such accounts as Pizza Hut, Frito
Lay and Pepsi. With a background in both account planning and
creative, Bo began RMC in December of 1999 to address the need for
integrated communication between all facets of conceptual execution
including account planning, marketing, advertising design and
interactive. RMC recently evolved into Bo Co. Design as the evolution
of design has moved from design as a commodity to design as
intelligence.
Bo's work can be seen in numerous publications and has won awards in
varying industry shows. Bo has been a speaker conferences nationwide
and has judged various competitions for new media and interactive
development.
Bo spends his free time with his wife of 6 years, his daughter and
enjoys running as a means of relieving stress.
Lee Renyolds
Clampitt Paper Company
Carol Glover
The Balcom Agency
Carol Glover leads a team of nationally recognized creative professionals at the Balcom Agency in Fort Worth. They all share a passion for creating breakthrough work that sings and sells – as well as a penchant for drinking uncommonly strong coffee. Prior to joining Balcom as creative director, Glover worked as a writer and creative director at Witherspoon in Fort Worth, and as a writer/designer at Palomar Properties in Arlington. She has won numerous awards for creative excellence, including more than 200 local and district Addy awards, several Best of Show Addy awards, Dallas Press Club Katie awards, Dallas Topps and Medical Marketing & Media honors. A member of the Fort Worth Ad Club board of directors, Glover also teaches Advertising and Public Relations Copy and Production at her alma mater, Texas Christian University, where she earned a bachelor of science in journalism, as well as a master of arts in English.
Michael R Gibson
Associate Professor, Communication Design
The University of North Texas
School of Visual Arts
Pursuing a career in graphic design is like pursuing a career in law,
medicine, social work or politics in that what you do shapes a huge part
of your identity from the moment you begin taking courses in a college
degree program until the moment you retire or die, whichever comes
first. Selling customizable IT software or repairing photocopiers don't
define and contextualize why you are who you are nearly as much as
living the life of someone who directly affects the daily lives of
others. What graphic designers do determines whether or not businesses
large and small succeed or fail, and the decisions we make inform people
from all walks of life about how to vote and who to vote for, what
possessions and activities signify admiration or contempt, which music
and clothing accessories are in style "right now," or simply how to
properly brown pine nuts. The somewhat-famous last words of Peter
Parker's (Spiderman's) beloved Uncle Ben apply to us perhaps even
more than they did to the crime-fighting web-slinger: "with great power
comes great responsibility."
This session is not being facilitated to help entry-level
graphic designers (and those who soon will be) "survive their first
agency job," or "put together more competitive portfolios," or "ask and
answer interview questions more effectively." There will be lots of
opportunities to get this kind of advice between now and the time they
enter the job market or advance within it for the first time. What
attendees of this session will gain is very straightforward, forthright
information about how to plan and maintain a career as a graphic
designer that lasts longer than the time it took for them to earn their
college degree. Strategies for balancing the day-to-day, real-life
demands of working in an agency or consultancy while simultaneously
maintaining meaningful personal relationships will be presented, along
with ways and means to successfully maintain your physical and mental
health and your personal finances while juggling client, vendor and
co-designer demands. Practical approaches for developing and maintaining
an identity for yourself that isn't completely defined by how many
design awards you win in a given year, or your ability to "simply make
stuff look cool," will also be covered during this learning experience.
Rebecca Kelly
Rebecca Davis-Kelly was a former graduate student at the University of North Texas and is currently an assistant professor of graphic design at Mississippi State University and partners in a small graphic design studio working on such as clients as Frito-Lay, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Campbell’s, Hasbro Toys and Southwest Airlines.
Her research agenda involves advocating for the ethics and responsibilities of graphic designers, and is also concerned with the level of corporate involvement in our everyday lives. With all of those agendas combined, (and quoting one of her favorite professors) it is her mission to prove to the world that graphic designers can do more than sell toothpaste.
Meta Newhouse
How to land a dream job.
This breakout session will illuminate students on how to get face-to-face
interviews, how to prepare for an interview (once they have landed one), and
actual interview do's and don'ts.
Meta Newhouse is a principal at Newhouse Design and has over eighteen years of professional design experience. She graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Fine Arts. Currently working toward a MFA degree in Communication Design Education, Meta plans to eventually teach at the University level, full-time. If you can't find her in the classroom, she is probably out making film documentaries. The most current film she is working on is about the venerable graphic designer and AIGA Medalist George Tscherny.
She has also taught 11 semesters of the Senior Portfolio Class (both art direction and graphic design) at the University of North Texas. Through that experience, and her many years as a Creative Director, she believes she has seen roughly just over 1,200 student portfolios to date.
Dawn Mann
Rick Miranda & Lesia Yancey
Rick Miranda is an Art Director in Fossil's Luxury Brands division. He's
been with the company for seven and a half years, and loves every minute of
it. He oversees the design and production of everything from catalogs to
photography to packaging for such brands as adidas, Burberry, Emporio
Armani, DKNY, DIESEL, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Michele Watches and Zodiac.
Lesia Yancey is a Senior Designer in the Mass Market division of Fossil. She began working for them about seven years abo as a designer in the Characters group, working with Mattel, Disney and Warner Brothers. Her current work involves creating packaging and collateral for the mass level retailers such as Wal=Mart and Target. An avid researcher, she looks for new inspiration in a variety of unlikely sources. Her design muses? Music, art, fashion and interior design.
Nicolle Mueller
Nicolle Mueller is a Senior Art Director in charge of online creative and development for all licensing and luxury brands that Fossil manages. She has been with the company for almost eight years, and has served in various design roles and capacities. Nicolle has also taught web processes and design at local colleges and encourages the marriage of brand, marketing, development and usability in all facets on the web.
Jennifer Sharp, Shannon Catlett & KL Hellenbach
Jennifer Sharp graduated from Texas A&M – Commerce in May 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Art Direction. During her college career, Jennifer interned with Creative Support, a small design studio in Richardson, and The Dallas Arboretum’s in-house art department. She spent her last year before graduation as an art direction intern at Slingshot, an advertising agency. After graduation, Jennifer took a couple of months off. She married Jeremy Sharp, a Dallas photographer; traveled to Europe; and accepted a position as an art director at Slingshot.
Shannon Catlett graduated from Wake Forest University in the Spring of 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. After a short stint as a waitress in London, she headed to new York City for the Master’s program in Communication Design at Pratt Institute. After graduating with honors in May 2003, she returned to here hometown of Callas, Texas, and accepted a job with Fossils’ in-house design team. In January 2006, Shannon made the move to Neiman Marcus’ in-house advertising group, where she is currently a senior graphic designer work on Neiman Marcus’ largest catalog, the book.
KL Hellenbach graduated from UT Arlington in May 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in graphics. She switched career early I her education going from medicine to design. KL interned at a small design firm, Nucleus Design in Houston. After graduation, she accepted a position as a graphic designer working in-house at David Sutherland, Inc. in the design district.
Emily Buxkemper and Bethany Sutter
Emily Buxkemper graduated from Texas Tech University in the Spring of 2005 with a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design. While in school, she interned at The Matchbox Studio in Dallas, Texas. She also worked as a designer at an advertising agency in Lubbock, Texas. Upon graduation, Emily accepted a position with Fossil’s in-house design team, where she is currently working in the Relic art department.
Bethany Sutter graduated from Texas Christian University in December of 2003 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Art degree in graphic design. Upon graduation, she accepted a designer position with Fossil in the Relic art department. She is currently still with Fossil and has worked on brands such as Arizona, Columbia, Relic, and Zou Zou to name a few. In her spare time she enjoys working on freelance design projects.
Kristen Baxter
Preparing your Portfolio to Get the Job You Want
Kristin Baxter is principal of OneFish Design Co., a Plano, Tx based design firm specializing in corporate branding, design strategy and conceptual development. As a pinch-hitter for many agencies in town, Kristin has the know-how to understand a client’s needs and create unique design solutions that work. A graduate of TCU, Kristin has worked with clients such as Disney, Continental Airlines, Nokia, Hilton Hotels, The Mohawk Group, and AT Kearney.
During her years working in various agencies in Dallas, Kristin has worked with a number of students, helping to develop their portfolios to achieve their job-hunting goals. When she’s not working, you can find Kristin trying to keep up with her very active son, Mason.
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This event has been made possible in part through generous contributions or support made by the following individuals and organizations:
Robert Milnes, Dean
The University of North Texas School of Visual Arts
Dr. Berri O'Neal
Interim Director
Universities Center at Dallas
Don Clampitt
Clampitt Paper Company
Silver Sponsor
Kim Wright
Appleton Coated Paper
Event Partner
Carol Ott
Curious Paper
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