Susan Verba is an Associate Professor at UC Davis Department of Design in San Francisco.
Susan Verba is a designer and Associate Professor in the UC Davis Department of Design. Susan Verba is principal and co-founder of Studio/lab, where she leads research-based projects and advocates for the value of design in corporate, nonprofit, and government communications.
Victoria Baird is an interpretive designer with a focus on creating exhibits that make connections between communities and nature. She recently completed her MFA in Design at UC Davis, completing several temporary outdoor exhibitions about the Putah Creek Ecosystem. These exhibits weave together elements of prototyping, community design, scientific research and spectacle. She has also worked for the last 8 years as an Interpretive Park Ranger with the National Park Service and the East Bay Regional Park District.
Making the Invisible Visible was a project that surveyed recent examples of alternative exhibit spaces and methods that have been successfully utilized by parks, museums and event organizers. Making the Invisible Visible was a project that surveyed recent examples of alternative exhibit spaces and methods that have been successfully utilized by parks, museums and event organizers.
Spontaneous, rapid, gestural, impressionistic, fluid, preparatory, observational, documentary: these are just some of the words that describe why sketching for me is both a design tool and a form of personal expression.
SEGD’s San Francisco chapter hosted 27 students from the Department of Design at the University of California, Davis, for a full day of studio tours October 23. The goal was to give students the opportunity to experience the diversity of careers in environmental graphic design.
Nazgol Mojab is a recently graduate from UC Davis. After studying computer science, Nazgol Mojab decided to switch to design, something she enjoys.
Coming from another country, her engagement with different cultures has inspired in her in a wide range of artistic, cultural, and historical sources. She likes to collaborate in diverse projects. Nazgol Mojab has a forward-looking mindset and a passion for innovation.
Today, exhibition design is a convergent discipline that borrows elements from retail store design, interpretive wayfinding, storytelling, media, and interaction design. The creatives who develop immersive, compelling exhibition experiences are just as diverse, hailing from the experience design world as well as web development, technology, science, typography, and brand design.
Tim McNeil is a principal with Muniz/McNeil, a multi-disciplinary design and research practice in Los Angeles. Recent projects include the exhibition Home Lands: How Women Made the West at the Autry National Center, and augmented learning environments for the Huntington Library and Gardens in Los Angeles. Tim McNeil has more than 20 years of professional design experience and was previously a senior designer at the J. Paul Getty Museum, developing more than 70 exhibition, signage and interpretive environments.
