Sarah Thearle is a Lead Designer at Poyant Signs in Providence, RI. 

Sarah Thearle joined Poyant in 2005 and is now an award winning senior designer within their fast paced and exciting in-house design group. Sarah’s education, including her Bachelor of Fine Arts and minor in Literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as her 10+ years of experience, have given her a strong understanding of environmental, branding and marketing design. She is always continuing to learn and is a member of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design.

Gillian Brunning is a student at The Academy of Design at RCC Institute of Technology. She is scheduled to receive a Bachelor of Interior Design in 2017. Gillian previously eared a Project Management Certificate and a degree in Journalism, Print and Broadcast from Humber College. She is also a corporate communicator and construction project coordinator at St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto.

Deborah Beardslee is a designer, artist and associate professor in the School of Design at RIT. Her teaching focuses on design process and methodology, verbal and visual concept development, systems thinking, experiential graphic design and cross-disciplinary problem solving and collaboration. Professor Beardslee taught at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Communication Arts and Design for two years prior to joining the faculty at RIT. Across her career she has worked and/or studied with Ben Day, Rob Carter, Meredith Davis, Phil Meggs, John DeMao and Victor Papanek.