Your Company After You

What does your company’s future look like? Will it survive beyond you? Ownership/leadership transition is a hot topic in design today, and in the EGD/XGD community, many owners  are planning their legacies—or should be. Legacy and transition are major themes at SEGD’s Business of Design Summit Feb. 19 in Denver, featuring innovators like Henry Beer (CommArts/Stantec) and Mark VanderKlipp (Corbin Design)!

2015 Awards Launch with Two New Digital Experience Categories

The SEGD Global Design Awards, since 1987 the standard of excellence for environmental and experiential graphic design, have launched for 2015 with two new entry categories reflecting the shifts that digital technology is creating in design for public spaces.

Daniel Meyers is a creative director and architect. Traci Sym is an experience design director and performer. They’re a dynamic duo at Second Story, the Portland, Ore.-based interactive studio (part of SapientNitro) that merges digital technology with spatial architecture and narrative storytelling. Join them at Xlab 2014 Nov. 6 in New York!

Tell us a little about Second Story. What sets it apart from other studios? What is the “Second Story”?

Christian Marc Schmidt started his creative design and technology studio Schema in 2012 based on the belief that the information age calls for new interfaces that allow us to not only consume content, but to create it ourselves. He says wearables are the new frontier in experience design—and he’ll tell you why at Xlab 2014 November 6 in New York.

Innovating Customer Experience at Control Group

Paul McConnell is Director of Product Design for New York City-based Control Group, one of the design and technology firms leading digital experience development today. At Xlab 2014, he’ll talk about how new embedded interfaces are improving environments and brand experiences by making them more responsive—and less distracting—to natural human behavior.