Steve Silberman’s book, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, won Britain’s prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction writing last year. The book, a sweeping history of autism in both science and society, contains some powerful implications about designing for human cognition and what “normal” really means.
By anyone’s standards, the work of Don Meeker—activist and information designer—has touched the lives of more people than any other in his era. Don Meeker is SEGD's 2015 Fellow.
Austin Frith is excited to provide the SEGD DFW Chapter with leadership that will help grow the local chapter membership while providing networking and education events that benefit local SEGD members.
Steve Lahood is Director of Signage and Wayfinding and Product Design at HDR.
Steve Lahood is a longtime Omahan and a man of many hats at HDR. His involvement in design goes back as far as he can remember. With his dad's position as Director of Public Relations at Union Pacific Railroad, he remembers going to the headquarters building and hanging out with the graphic designers and creatives there.
With almost 40 years of design experience, Jeff Waggoner has been involved in a wide range of experiential graphics projects. Jeff has worked with design firms nationwide including the GNU Group in the San Francisco Bay Area, and directed Environmental Graphic Design at FRCH Design Worldwide in Cincinnati. As a director at FRCH for over 12 years, Jeff was responsible for design direction, project management and production coordination.
Eric Shelton is a designer at Poulin + Morris Inc. responsible for project design, management, and coordination. His current work includes comprehensive environmental graphics and wayfinding sign programs for Cornell University’s Department of Communication, Hudson Square Connection, and the new MGM National Harbor Resort and Casino.
Eric Shelton graduated from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design.