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Looking Back: DesignThinkers 2017 Branding with Rethink
Ian Grais RGD
Healthy Design: Creating Impact Through Design Where It's Needed Most with Dana Cho
Everything I Know by Cap Watkins
Can You Really?
Chip Kidd
Design It Forward or Because, Because, Because
Emily Oberman
Great Design = Design Skills + Human Skills
Min Lew
The Wrong Theory by Scott Dadich
Thinking Outside the Book by Craig Mod
Altitudes: Designing At Every Level by Alex Schleifer
Experience-led Design: Marrying Data with Creativity
Loni Stark
The Hidden Talents of Everyday Things by Kelli Anderson
Remaking the Making Company
Maria Giudice
In Conversation: Scott Dadich & Ralph Gilles
Panel: Chaos vs Calm with Diti Katona RGD, Rob Vargas, Christian Ervin, Laura Sellors
Diti Katona RGD
Let the power of self-loathing light the pathway to your success by Robert Vargas
Panel: Challenging Creativity
From Contrast with love! by Maria Doreuli + Ekaterina Kochkina
Rethinking the Role of Graphic Design in the 21st Century
Chris Do
What will we do with this opportunity for design? by Mike Rigby
From Insights to Executions: Creative Strategy & the Business of Design by Douglas Davis
Panel: Is Design an Unethical Industry
Douglas Davis, Jennifer Rittner, Jeff Greenspan, Laura Sellors
A Serious Role for Fun by Nigel Holmes
Field Notes from the Future: Designing Tomorrow’s Products + Services
Christian Ervin
Make What’s Important To You Important to Others by Jeff Greenspan
Mindfulness and Micro-Moments
Susan Weinschenk
Creative Coupling: Why design and desire need to be life partners by Jonathan Ford
The Art & Science of Brand Naming
Robin Honey RGD Emeritus
Panel: The Future is You
Robin Honey RGD Emeritus, Megan Oldfield RGD
No Rules. No Boundaries. No Regret.
Robert Smith RGD
Type Tasting by Sarah Hyndman
Building & Managing an Empowered Internal Creative Team
Stephen Gates
How to Travel Anywhere, Make Sense of the World and Make a Difference by Jan Chipchase
Design-Thinking: Interplanetary to Earth by Jessie Kawata
Panel: Building a Design-Driven Culture with Reena Merchant, Dewey Reid, Stephen Gates, Emily Cohen
Reena Merchant
A Modern Broadcasting Ecosystem by Dewey Reid
Non-Design Design
Building the Love
Emily Cohen
WHY by Paul Sahre
Designing the Invisible by Nicolas Roope
Now Do Something Weirder by Michael Johnson
Designing A New Reality: Chatbots, VR & Beyond by Val Head
Rebranding Atlanta’s Department of City Planning by Blake Howard
Celebrate your Truth
Mimi Valdes
In Conversation: Scott Dadich & Tinker Hatfield
Tinker Hatfield
WeirFoulds LLP is one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious law firms.
RGD Partner
Putting Passion to Work: Your Partners For Digital, Marketing & Creative Staffing
Linda Mackie Creative: Breathing Life Into Your Image