Carly Ayres
Google Design
Carly Ayres is a writer and creative director using words to engage people in new and interesting ways. She was previously a partner at HAWRAF, an interactive design and technology design studio based in New York. Prior to HAWRAF, Carly worked humanizing AI and evolving the Google logo in Google's Creative Lab. She's given voices to Fortune 500 companies and chatbots alike and writes on design for publications like Communication Arts, Wallpaper*, and Core77. She's the founder of 100sUnder100, a community of hundreds of creative people under a hundred years of age. It manifests in the form of a Slack group (run, in part, by a wonderful group of admins), as well as through various in-person events and happenings.
Google Design
Carly Ayres is a writer and creative director using words to engage people in new and interesting ways. She was previously a partner at HAWRAF, an interactive design and technology design studio based in New York. Prior to HAWRAF, Carly worked humanizing AI and evolving the Google logo in Google's Creative Lab. She's given voices to Fortune 500 companies and chatbots alike and writes on design for publications like Communication Arts, Wallpaper*, and Core77. She's the founder of 100sUnder100, a community of hundreds of creative people under a hundred years of age. It manifests in the form of a Slack group (run, in part, by a wonderful group of admins), as well as through various in-person events and happenings.
Bobby C. Martin, Jr.
Champions Design
Bobby C. Martin Jr. is a founding partner of Champions Design, a branding and design agency named one of the 30 Most Important Companies in Design by Fast Company. Martin sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the agency he founded, with Jennifer Kinon in 2010. He has partnered clients such as Dartmouth, Girl Scouts, MTV, the NBA and more to ensure their brand's goals. He has lectured about brand identity around the world and has been a special guest on Design Matters, Design Observer and Studio 360. Martin served as a board member of AIGA/NY from 2006-08, and most recently the Type Directors Club where he launched the first scholarship for people of color in Typography. Bobby Martin has won numerous international awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, D&AD, and the TDC, among others. He is a proud graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts where he currently serves on the faculty.
Champions Design
Bobby C. Martin Jr. is a founding partner of Champions Design, a branding and design agency named one of the 30 Most Important Companies in Design by Fast Company. Martin sets the relentless standard of design and vision for the agency he founded, with Jennifer Kinon in 2010. He has partnered clients such as Dartmouth, Girl Scouts, MTV, the NBA and more to ensure their brand's goals. He has lectured about brand identity around the world and has been a special guest on Design Matters, Design Observer and Studio 360. Martin served as a board member of AIGA/NY from 2006-08, and most recently the Type Directors Club where he launched the first scholarship for people of color in Typography. Bobby Martin has won numerous international awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, D&AD, and the TDC, among others. He is a proud graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts where he currently serves on the faculty.
Andrew Twigg
Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew is Assistant Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, where he teaches interaction for digital systems, design fundamentals, visual communication, prototyping, and design systems. He is also an independent designer focused on design and organizational strategy; UX and UI; branding, and communication. He started his career in Chicago at startups and agencies, working on established and emerging consumer and business-to-business brands.. Andrew is former AIGA board Treasurer and former Presidents Council Chair; former President and currently advisor of AIGA Pittsburgh; serves on the board of FULLTIME, a local creative entrepreneurship organization; and is board member emeritus for DesignInquiry, a conference-alternative topical design research organization Andrew is pursuing a PhD in Transition Design centered on collaboration, and on care: how it manifests in contexts large and small; how it can be measured and increased; and the role of design and care for long-term, large-scale social issues.
Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew is Assistant Teaching Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, where he teaches interaction for digital systems, design fundamentals, visual communication, prototyping, and design systems. He is also an independent designer focused on design and organizational strategy; UX and UI; branding, and communication. He started his career in Chicago at startups and agencies, working on established and emerging consumer and business-to-business brands.. Andrew is former AIGA board Treasurer and former Presidents Council Chair; former President and currently advisor of AIGA Pittsburgh; serves on the board of FULLTIME, a local creative entrepreneurship organization; and is board member emeritus for DesignInquiry, a conference-alternative topical design research organization Andrew is pursuing a PhD in Transition Design centered on collaboration, and on care: how it manifests in contexts large and small; how it can be measured and increased; and the role of design and care for long-term, large-scale social issues.
Miranda Massie
Climate Museum
Miranda Massie is the Director of NYC’s Climate Museum, which has the mission to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions.
In 2014, Miranda left a career in social justice law to lay the groundwork for the Museum, which in 2018 had its breakout year of public programming, with three exhibitions including a NYC-wide art installation. 2019 programming included youth climate arts and a five-month action-focused exhibition. Planned 2020 programming included a traveling show on climate solutions, a public art commission for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, and more. These programs have been adapted for online presentation, and the Museum has also developed new series of online workshops and conversations to provide constituencies with space for connection during the pandemic.
Miranda’s prior honors as a civil rights impact litigator include Fletcher Foundation, W.E.B. Dubois Institute. and Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowships, as well as a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School.
Her Climate Museum guest teaching engagements include the Masters programs in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts, in Museum Studies at NYU, in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at RISD, and in Climate and Society at Columbia University.
Miranda is active within several emergent coalitions focused on climate-oriented work within the museum community and recently served on the jury for the international design competition "Reimagining Museums for Climate Action."
Climate Museum
Miranda Massie is the Director of NYC’s Climate Museum, which has the mission to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions.
In 2014, Miranda left a career in social justice law to lay the groundwork for the Museum, which in 2018 had its breakout year of public programming, with three exhibitions including a NYC-wide art installation. 2019 programming included youth climate arts and a five-month action-focused exhibition. Planned 2020 programming included a traveling show on climate solutions, a public art commission for the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, and more. These programs have been adapted for online presentation, and the Museum has also developed new series of online workshops and conversations to provide constituencies with space for connection during the pandemic.
Miranda’s prior honors as a civil rights impact litigator include Fletcher Foundation, W.E.B. Dubois Institute. and Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowships, as well as a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School.
Her Climate Museum guest teaching engagements include the Masters programs in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts, in Museum Studies at NYU, in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at RISD, and in Climate and Society at Columbia University.
Miranda is active within several emergent coalitions focused on climate-oriented work within the museum community and recently served on the jury for the international design competition "Reimagining Museums for Climate Action."
Sean Adams
Host of Command X
Sean Adams is the Chair of the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs at ArtCenter, founder of The Office of Sean Adams, the online publication Burning Settlers Cabin, author of several best selling books and on-screen author for lynda.com/LinkedIn. He currently is on the editorial board and writes for Design Observer. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in AIGA’s 100-year history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the profession.
Adams is an AIGA Fellow and Aspen Design Fellow. He has been recognized by every major competition and publication including; How, Print, Communication Arts, Graphis, AIGA, The Type Directors Club, The British Art Director’s Club, and the Art Director’s Club. Adams has been exhibited often, including a solo exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally, and one of the top ten influential designers in the United States.
His clients have included The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Disney, Mohawk Fine Papers, The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Richard Meier & Partners, Sundance, and the University of Southern California. Previously, Adams was a founding partner at AdamsMorioka.
Host of Command X
Sean Adams is the Chair of the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs at ArtCenter, founder of The Office of Sean Adams, the online publication Burning Settlers Cabin, author of several best selling books and on-screen author for lynda.com/LinkedIn. He currently is on the editorial board and writes for Design Observer. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in AIGA’s 100-year history. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the profession.
Adams is an AIGA Fellow and Aspen Design Fellow. He has been recognized by every major competition and publication including; How, Print, Communication Arts, Graphis, AIGA, The Type Directors Club, The British Art Director’s Club, and the Art Director’s Club. Adams has been exhibited often, including a solo exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally, and one of the top ten influential designers in the United States.
His clients have included The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Disney, Mohawk Fine Papers, The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Richard Meier & Partners, Sundance, and the University of Southern California. Previously, Adams was a founding partner at AdamsMorioka.
Bonnie Siegler
Creator of Command X
Bonnie Siegler is founder of the multi-disciplinary design studio Eight and a Half, previously co-founder of Number 17. Her clients include HBO, StoryCorps, National Archives and Records Administration, The Criterion Collection, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Warner Bros. Television. She also served as creative director of “Newsweek,” overseeing its redesign.
Siegler was chairman of the 2013 AIGA Design Conference, creator and producer of six seasons of Command X, and served on the national and New York boards of AIGA. She also writes an advice column for designers on “Design Observer.” Siegler’s work has been recognized by AIGA, ADC, Type Directors Club, the Society of Publication Designers, The Webby Awards, and the Broadcast Design Association.
Creator of Command X
Bonnie Siegler is founder of the multi-disciplinary design studio Eight and a Half, previously co-founder of Number 17. Her clients include HBO, StoryCorps, National Archives and Records Administration, The Criterion Collection, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and Warner Bros. Television. She also served as creative director of “Newsweek,” overseeing its redesign.
Siegler was chairman of the 2013 AIGA Design Conference, creator and producer of six seasons of Command X, and served on the national and New York boards of AIGA. She also writes an advice column for designers on “Design Observer.” Siegler’s work has been recognized by AIGA, ADC, Type Directors Club, the Society of Publication Designers, The Webby Awards, and the Broadcast Design Association.