Re:Solutions Day Conference

Join AIGA Orlando for it's annual day conference on January 24th, 2009. This event will take place at the Orlando Museum of Art from 8:30am - 4pm. Re:solve to discover new solutions to the new year at Re:Solutions 2009 - where the discussions will be diverse and stimulating and the re:sults will be up to you. Its a day of discourse to challenge you to re:think your approach to creative problem solving, Changing the way you look at things-your job, your work, your clients, your business. Its a day that challenges you to discard your current perceptions about small budgets, tight deadlines and timesheets, challenges you to take a different route to work on Monday, stop shortcutting the design process and start pushing yourself. Re:solve to attend this re:warding event and dont forget to re:gister! With speakers like Debbie Millman, Dan Rubin, Wright Massey, Jeremy Kennedy and John Deeb you won't want to miss such a diverse group!

Register today and save $10!
Online prices are $30 for Members and $50 for non-members.

Schedule:
8:45am - 9:45am Registration
9:45am - 10:45am Debbie Millman
10:45am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Wright Massey
12:00pm -1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm -2:30pm Dan Rubin
2:30pm -2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 3:30pm Jeremy Kennedy
3:30pm - 3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 4:30pm Photographer John Deeb
 

Pricing Information:
$30 Members (Online) / $40 Members (Day Of)
$50 Non-Members (Online) / $60 Non-Members (Day Of)

Debbie Millman
Debbie Millman has worked in the design business for 25 years. She is a Partner and President of the Design division at Sterling Brands. She has been there for twelve years and in that time she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Gillette, Unilever, Colgate, Kimberly Clark, Nestle and Campbell's.

Debbie is currently on the National Board of the AlGA and worked as a mentor at the High School of Art & Design in New York City for the three years. She is an author on the design blog Speak Up, a contributor to Print Magazine and she teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2005 she began hosting the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. The show is titled "Design Matters with Debbie Millman" and it is featured on the Voice America Business Network.

She is the author of two books, "How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer,"(Allworth Press, 2007) and the forthcoming "Essential Principles of Graphic Design"(Rotovision,2008).

Wright Massey
Wright Massey, founder of Brand Architecture, has been building brands for over 30 years. As the Director of Design for The Disney Stores, Wright was responsible for managing the store roll out program in the US, Canada and Mexico. He was also responsible for the design of the prototype stores. As the VP of Development and VP of Creative Services for Starbucks Coffee Company, Wright hired and managed a team of 175 people.

He is credited for creating the Synergistic Rollout Program to build one store per day (from 200 per year to 350), which saved Starbucks $20M a year. He is also credited for creating the Creative Service Group with the design of Starbucks' brand identity and the image for the store design that launched a national and international brand.

After completing Starbucks in 1999, Wright realized that a business opportunity existed in offering the same services he learned while doing Starbucks and The Disney Store. Wright is a licensed, NCARB certified architect with more than 15 years as a lead designer for many of the world's foremost architectural firms. He has designed over thirty resorts worldwide for most of the major corporations in the hospitality industry.

Brand Architecture's full branding effort of Outback Steakhouse is beginning to rollout nationwide

Dan Rubin
Dan Rubin is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of web standards and usability, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and increase flexibility and accessibility.

His passion for all things creative and artistic isn't a solely selfish endeavor either—you'll frequently find him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony, interface design, usability, web standards, typography, and graphic design in general.

In addition to his contributions to sites including Blogger, the CSS Zen Garden, Yahoo! Small Business and Microsoft's ASP.net portal, Dan is a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (2nd Edition, friends of ED, 2003), a technical reviewer for Beginning CSS Web Development (Apress, 2006) and The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint, 2007), expert reviewer for Sexy Web Design (SitePoint, 2009), coauthor of Pro CSS Techniques, and Web Standards Creativity, writes about web standards, design and life in general on his blog, SuperfluousBanter.org, and spends his professional time on a variety of online and offline projects for Sidebar Creative, Webgraph and Black Seagull.

Jeremy Kennedy
Jeremy Kennedy graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design in 2003 with a degree in Graphic and Interactive Communication and minor in photography. While at Ringling, his design and packaging work was a part of the Best of Ringling shows in 2001, 2003. In 2002, his work was included in the Graphis New Talent Design Annual and he was featured on Adobe's Partners by Design website. His personal website KENEDIK (pronounced kinetic) has been featured on  CSS Remix, Design:Related, Design You Trust™, notcot.org, Website Gallery, and in 2007 was featured as one of the 33 top artistic sites on webdesignerwall.com. His work as Senior Art Director for RELEVANT magazine was profiled in HOW magazine's December 2007 issue in a feature called "Putting a Fresh Face on Faith." In May 2008, Jeremy's shoe design and customization was featured in the book Custom Kicks. And as of the Fall of 2008, Jeremy has designed and/or contributed to over 45 books and more than 40 different issues of various national and international publications.

John Deeb
John Deeb is a Photographer/Director based out Orlando, Florida. He primarily shoots for many local ad agencies, and occasionally for the music industry. He owns and operates DEEB, a full-service production company. Most notably he and his team produced the Valencia Community College "Fashion Show" campaign with the agency Knight. John was also selected to represent the USA in the 2007 Young Creative Cannes advertising competition. You can view his work at www.johndeeb.com.