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Join us for an evening with Polish-American designer, SEGD Fellow and author, Jan Lorenc. Jan will take us on a journey from his early life in rural Poland to acclaimed designer, leading a thriving team of architects, graphic designers, sculptors, interior designers, and industrial designers in his Atlanta design firm, Lorenc+Yoo Design. The firm is responsible for award-winning museum spaces, trade show exhibits, sculptures, wayfinding and placemaking for renowned clients including Delta, the Mayo Clinic, Sony, Hyatt, Samsung, UPS, and many others.

Lorenc immigrated with his parents to the United States from rural Poland at age eight. He earned degrees in industrial design and visual design from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As a professor Jan has taught at the renowned Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Atlanta and has been an adviser to the School of Design at Georgia Tech. He is a frequent lecturer in the United States, China and Korea. Jan is also co-author of the definitive museum and exhibit design textbook — “What Is Exhibition Design?” — which has been translated and published in Chinese, Russian, Korean, and his native tongue Polish.

In 2017, Jan was named SEGD Fellow, sharing the organization's highest honor with the likes of Paula Scher, Massimo Vignelli, Lance Wyman, Deborah Sussman, Robert Venturi, Ivan Chermayeff, and David Gibson, among others.

Join us on Thursday, December 5th at 6:00pm at the Allsteel Showroom in the Maritime Plaza, SF. Light appetizers and beverages will be served.
6:00 – 6:30  Check-in and mingle
6:30 – 8:30  Keynote and Q&A

Tickets available here

SEGD SF's 7x7 event is back! We are bringing together experts across multiple industries and disciplines to explore how we design for the senses. We are dividing the speakers into sense categories — see, touch, sound, smell, taste — and in order to consider the combination of sensory experiences, we are adding “think” and “feel”. Through a PechaKucha style speaker series, each speaker will give a short presentation on how they create sensory experiences. The event will be hosted at 166 Maiden Lane in San Francisco at the Marketplace on Maiden Lane. Space is very limited. Get your tickets here! Speakers Tanya Holland, Brown Sugar Kitchen Pierre Germain, Meyer Sound Alisa Benfey, IROCOH Matthew Wasylciw, SOM Jessica Hannah, J. Hannah Co.