Today was the Day of Design! Our guest speakers included Aaris Sherin, Jennifer Aldrich, & Josh Bryant. I attended Sherin & Bryant's presentations.
Aaris Sherin
A New York-based designer, author, & educator, Aaris Sherin founded Fit to Thrive. She spoke to us today about sustainability and sustainable design. She defined sustainability, a environmental, economic, and social problem as "what is best for the environment plus future generations' abilities to survive and thrive." sustainable design as "design + ideas + resources."
An interesting fact she brought up is the today eco-design is now largely invisible, looking no different than design made of any other methods. She then went into case studies of designers from around the globe engaging in sustainable, fair trade, and other innovative designing.
Josh Bryant
Schooled in computer science and now a lead web developer at Journey Group, Josh Bryant began by describing designers & their need to be t-shaped. T-shaped means to have a broad familiarity or adjacent industries, a breadth, and a deep competency in your own field, a depth. Designers are not only concerned with the visual & graphic, they solve all problems to communicating a message.
Mr. Bryant then went on to describe several positions related to his field & our field, & described what would be considered quality in each.
At the end he answered questions from my peers about core tools, daily resources, and the inevitable job search. I did read recently that he did a presentation at Penn State about using InDesign to layout & mock-up websites. He didn't get to my question, but I thought that was really awesome the InDesign in finally being utilized for something that isn't print & being accepted by the design community even!
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