Skillet Gilmore

Skillet Gilmore

Skillet Gilmore is an artist, musician, former member of the Raleigh-based alternative country band, Whiskeytown, and production design supervisor at INDY Week. He began creating posters and other merchandise for his band, formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2000, which is how he discovered his knack for design. His posters aimed to catch the reader's attention with graphics, text, and hand-crafted artistry that showed off the nature of his music. As the production design supervisor of INDY Week, Gilmore creates covers, illustrations, and other various graphics for the publication. He has noted the flexibility he deals with during the design process, like how a final design is something completely different from the starting point....
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Brittain Storck

Brittain Storck

Brittain Storck is a professional landscape architect with a background in natural resource-based recreation projects, greenway and trail design, and active community design and planning. She's Alta's regional landscape architecture studio director and the board director of North Carolina Rail Trails. Storck has managed projects across the nation and cultivated an understanding of the complexities associated with design of open spaces. She considers the essence of her work to be connections, which designers must cultivate using "an awareness and consideration of our environment, culture, health, economy, and aesthetic while creating a variety of solutions for the human experience." Through these connections Storck aims to identify a balance between where we live and how we live....
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Cecilia Mouat Croxatto

Cecilia Mouat Croxatto

Cecilia Mouat is Assistant Professor and Director of the Graduate Program of Art+Design.  Her background includes a PhD in Design, a Master in filmmaking and a professional degree in architecture. She is originally from Chile, where she worked for 25 years as an architect and visual artist. Mouat’s visual work includes experimental and documentary films, photography, digital collage, and acrylic painting. Her research is multidisciplinary and explores design as discourse, from academic communities, to film representations and fashion....
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Terry Irwin

Terry Irwin

  Terry Irwin is the Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She was also one of the founders of the international design firm MetaDesign, which has worked with such brands as Apple, Nike and Nissan. She has been a practicing designer for more than 40 years and has taught courses at numerous places on ecological design thinking and design process to designers and non-designers alike. This experience in particular convinced her that complex issues can only be solved by collaborating with others from many different fields, and that design plays a major role in this collaboration. Additionally, Irwin teaches the newly launched study of "Transition Design", which she defines as a "speculative, experimental form of design practice and design research dedicated to conceiving long-term models for sustainable lifestyles." Her goal for Transition Design is to teach designers how to design effective solutions for complex problems within social and environmental systems by thinking in terms of the future and sustainability. She emphasizes four...
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