This event is part of AIGA Toledo’s Design Week
presented by Communica
We finish Toledo Design Week with a bang on Monday, September 28 with a talk from legendary strategist and designer Doug Powell. After more than two decades as an independent designer, educator, and community leader, Doug is now helping to lead a design-driven transformation at IBM, one of the largest technology companies in the world. In a wide-ranging discussion, Doug will explain how the role of the designer is changing in technology, business and society. As the past national president of AIGA and a leading force in the successful launch of Design for Good, Doug has been an outspoken thought leader and advocate to ignite, amplify, and accelerate design-driven social change. Join us at the Wolfe Center for the Arts on the BGSU Campus to hear his story.
Talk topic:
Design at Scale
After more than two decades as an independent designer, educator, and community leader, Doug Powell is now helping to lead a design-driven transformation at IBM, one of the largest technology companies in the world. How does change happen in a 100 year-old global organization? How is the role of the designer changing in technology, business and society? How does all of this sync with his personal commitment to social impact design? Join IBM Design Principal Doug Powell in this wide-ranging discussion.
Prior to joining IBM in 2013, Doug was an independent designer, strategist and entrepreneur leading successful projects for a wide range of clients and collaborative partners in health and nutrition, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Lifescan, and Pepsico. Doug recently served as consulting Creative Director for HealthSimple, working in close collaboration with the Johnson & Johnson Global Design team.
Doug is the past national president of AIGA, the professional association for design. With more than 22,000 members in 66 local chapters, AIGA is the largest and oldest design organization in the country. He has been a leading force in the successful launch of Design for Good, the AIGA initiative to ignite, amplify, and accelerate design-driven social change.
A 1988 graduate of the School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Doug is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues with more than 25 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines. A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Doug is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues, having presented at a variety of national conferences and forums including:
the 2015 Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, the 2015 Offset design conference in Dublin, Ireland, Bright Ideas on Minnesota Public Radio, the 2011 Mayo Clinic Transform Conference, and the 2012 TEDx ArtCenter.
Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and oldest design organization in the world. He is currently a Design Principal at IBM Design where he directs the award-winning design education program.
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