Kyle Richter is a Principal and the San Clemente Studio Director at RSM Design, a world-class multidisciplinary design studio focusing on creating experiential architecture, branding, signage, wayfinding, spatial and placemaking graphics. At RSM Design our core focus is to craft experiences that enrich the visitor’s sense of place and experience through the spaces to create memorable moments through placemaking that will enhance the visitors experience.
Alycia Griesi is a student web developer for UW-Milwaukee and specializes in graphic and front-end design. She has found unexpected but genuine interest in the behaviors of others surrounding digital technology and interactive media. She chose to study Art Technology to gain a breadth of cross-platform design experiences, studied Media Studies to understand how society forms narratives surrounding new media and technology, and Advertising to apply design practice with theory.
Romas Grazhees is passionate about graphic design, learning new things, marketing, and helping others. He received an associates degree from Southern Utah University in 2012, and will earn his BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Utah in 2015.
Melodee Dudley comes from a long line of illustrators and artists; it was only natural that her passions lay in the arts and design. She began studying fine arts at Portland Community College where she received an associates degree in Graphic Design in 2011. Melodee is currently enrolled in the Graphic Design program at Portland State University and expects to graduate with a Bachelors of Arts in Fall 2015.
Greg Ellis is a graphic designer located in Nashville, TN. He has an associates degree in graphic art and design and is working on a bachelors degree at Nossi College of Art. He is skilled in many areas of design including branding and identity, web design, social media design, print design, motion graphics, and much more.
Keli DiRosio is an adjunct instructor/student at Rochester Institute of Technology. She started her own graphic design company after working at an ad agency and freelancing for a wide variety of agencies and firms. She managed freelancers and multiple projects for a wide variety of clients. While running Alterna Design + Company, she branched out into video production. One Smart Cookie Productions creates educational DVDs for children, distributed throughout the US and Canada. She is also a licensed realtor.
Monica Criswell is an experienced designer and art educator and a graduate student at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her passion is designing and illustrating for education purposes. She enjoys telling a visual story through traditional or digital art, collaborating with others and creating effective communicative work.
Monica Criswell wants to use her skills on exhibit, displays, identity and wayfinding, and contribute to environmental design projects.
Software InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Audacity, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
Kim Baer, principal of Los Angeles-based design studio KBDA, is a strong believer in the power of design as a strategic tool. Her firm has created research-driven work for clients as diverse as the Getty, Amgen, Hyatt, Nike, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Inner-City Arts, the Skirball Cultural Center, and the LA Philharmonic.
KBDA specializes in helping organizations hone their positioning and messaging. Once that messaging has been crafted, KBDA is well known for its focus on audience experience, whether that is expressed online, in print, or in a 3D environment.
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.
Klaus Bjerager has worked with IA and wayfinding over the years in two different capacities: as an information architect (both in the "traditional" analog way and as defined by Morville and Rosenfield for the web) and as an educator.
