Justin Molloy

OpenEye Global's Coffee Talk Podcast Episode 1

In the inaugural episode of OpenEye Global's Coffee Talk podcast, their team is joined by SEGD's Director of Education, Justin Molloy.

Experiences in the Era of Disruption: 2017 SEGD Xlab Coming to NYC, Nov. 2–3

NEW YORK—SEGD’s Xlab returns this November to New York as the final event of New York Digital Signage Week.This year’s theme, “Experience Design in the Era of Disruption,” will showcase how disruption in all businesses and industry verticals is impacting experiential graphic design and the way people are using and interacting with places and spaces.

2018 SEGD Call for Speakers

For the first time SEGD is launching a call for speakers to expand our speaker outreach for the 2018 event calendar.

Branded Environments 2017 Tour T-Mobile Arena

SEGD's 2017 Branded Environments Knocked it out of the Ballpark!

This year’s decision to bring the topic of Branded Environments to DSE was made to strategically expose as wide an audience as possible to the value that brand integration brings to environments, spaces, communities and places. That clearly resonated with attendees with an increase of over 300% in registrations.

Click to access the 2017 Professional Development and Skills Survey Report

Professional Training Survey Results

In February SEGD asked the profession about their training needs. The input will be used ensure that the SEGD education program is better tuned to the needs of the profession. The results are in and reveal some interesting observations about how the profession looks at training.

2017 Call for Papers for Communication+Place, Academic Summit

For the third year, Communication+Place has featured the latest peer-reviewed experiential design research innovation coming from leading global academic institutions.

Xlab 2016 in Summary

Xlab, SEGD’s technology and innovation conference for the experiential graphic design community, was held two weeks ago on October 27 and 28.

SEGD DesignX at DSE 2015, March 15-16, Las Vegas

Heads-Up and Hands-On at DesignX at DSE 2016

Attendees at DesignX—SEGD’s design-focused event at Digital Signage Expo 2016—will get a double-value experience: Heads (filled) up during a full-day workshop on planning and designing digital user experiences, and hands-on during a guided morning tour of the DSE 2016 show floor, where they’ll get to see, touch and feel the latest digital technology products, platforms and applications.

You should be there March 15-16 in Las Vegas! Make yours a double!

Be Trends Breakout Sessions

SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's 4-6 events a year. Starting from 2014, these videos are available for viewing for members for free. If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources.

State of Be + Be(ing) a City Dialogue

2015 Xplorer West Dialogue

2015 Xplorer East Dialogue

The Next Generation - Q&A

Architectural Integration- Best Practices

Nurturing Your Soul

I have to admit I have a travel bug. Just as soon as I've returned from a trip, I look forward to the next journey, the next experience, and the next batch of information I can add to my human database of knowledge. So maybe my bug is the experience bug. Connecting with our members, the Experiential Graphic Design community, is extremely rewarding. And making those connections in person at our events... priceless. Our community is on fire right now. People are so busy they just can't get out of the office. Sure it's great for business and great for your career.

Panel: Managing Expectations while Fostering Innovation

Bridging EGD: Introducing Communities to the Potentials of Environmental Graphic Design

Justin Molloy
The University of Oklahoma

ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the potential for environmental graphic design (EGD) in emergent and small communities where both EGD and the value of design are unknown. When designers arrive in a community for the first time, they tend to notice things other people do not. Things like how information and experiences are integrated into a cityscape or neighborhood, or how a vision of a community shapes the delivery of their identity or message. When I arrived in Oklahoma nearly a year ago, I was told that there were huge opportunities for design to make an impact. Designers in Oklahoma are aware of what could be possible, but “the bridge” to make design a community focus had to date not been completed. Leaders in these communities have not been connected to the full potential that design offers. Without this knowledge base, the users of these communities do not understand what design is. A common misunderstanding that complicates matters is that design is equated as marketing. Design is mistakenly understood as the way to “dress things up” or make something “eye catching.” The incomplete part of “the bridge” is the notion that design can be a transformative mechanism that goes beyond the surface, and has the capacity to change the way we experience our present moment and envision our future.

An Evolutionary, Experiential Journey: SEGD Xlab 2014

By Justin Molloy

In case you haven’t noticed, the digital world has changed dramatically in the last three years. When the first Xlab hit the streets of New York in 2011, we were living in a mobile-centric world where Steve Jobs had just departed our planet, Siri was launched, and everyone was consumed with the latest apps. In 2012, Xlab headed to Austin and we began to see that digital in spaces was going to be far more powerful than just devices.

Justin Molloy

Director of Education and Creative Director
[email protected] | 202.638.5555

Justin leads the education activities of SEGD, steering the content toward a more enriching experience for the members. He is responsible for the content of the SEGD Conference, Workshops, and Webinars.