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These are the best design event speakers who can cover such topics as graphic design, interior design, advertising design, urban design, environmental design, fashion design, industrial design, architecture, and more.
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Thom Filicia
Thom Filicia is a renowned interior designer.
His clients include celebrities and organizations in media, sports, fashion, finance and hospitality.
Filicia works under the banner of his interior designing firm, Thom Filicia, Inc., which he launched in 1998.
He has designed interiors for Jennifer Lopez, Tina Fey, Delta Airlines, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, and many others.
His work has received much acclaim due to its nature of being contemporary yet classic and reflecting the nature of his clients.
The lifestyle magazine Elle Décor has called him an A-List Designer.
As a design conference speaker, he is passionate about sharing his insights on the future of design and how it shapes our world.
Tim Allen
Tim Allen is the president and CEO of the international creative consultancy firm Wolff Olins.
Allen defines the firm’s strategic vision and ensures that its deliverables remain creative and impactful, whether it’s brand creation or product and service design.
Allen’s firm has worked with notable corporations such as The Met, Zocdoc, and Google.
With extensive experience in product and service design, Allen offers a unique perspective to his clients.
He is also a frequent design guest speaker on the subject of innovation in design at distinguished schools in the country.
Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid is one of the most popular and impactful industrial and cultural designers active today.
He has undertaken several thousand designs during his career and has been rewarded with numerous accolades for excellence in designing.
Rashid has designed for notable individuals and corporations in over 30 countries around the world.
His work is recognized for its innovation, progressiveness, and relevance.
Rashid’s designs for products, fashion, furniture and more tend to be trend-setters in the design community.
As a design keynote speaker, he travels around to major design conferences sharing his insights on the latest trends in the industry.
Charles Montgomery
An accomplished journalist, Charles Montgomery also consults in urban designing.
For many years, he extensively researched on the correlation between happiness and design.
His work is heavily focused on how to build happier cities that have positive effects on the way people think and feel.
Montgomery’s consultancy firm works to transform cityscapes to emanate positivity.
His published work, Happy City, is a stimulating exploration of the reality of cityscapes and raises issues that many tend to ignore. It encourages readers to consider whether their neighborhoods make them happy.
As a design event speaker, he is committed to exploring topics that relate to urban design and how communities are developed.
William McDonough
William McDonough is a famous architect and an expert in sustainable development.
His architectural work has achieved international renown, primarily for its environmental focus.
McDonough has been awarded with three presidential awards for contributions to architecture.
Recipient of the National Design Award, the Green Chemistry Challenge Award, and the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, McDonough presents practical designs that benefit the environment. Time magazines calls him a Hero for the Planet and a Hero of the Environment.
George Aye
George Aye is a designer and an assistant professor. A founding partner and design director of the Greater Good Studio, Aye translates design ideas into final products.
His design projects include software interfaces, printed materials, and various other user-focused experiences.
Aye also teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the institute.
He also heads the institute’s Professional Partnerships program in collaboration with Samsung Design Korea and IBM. His design projects are spread over various sectors.
AnnMarie Thomas
AnnMarie Thomas is an expert in engineering and sustainable design.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas, where she is a faculty member of the Opus College of Business and the School of Engineering.
Professor Thomas holds a doctorate from Caltech in mechanical engineering.
Professor Thomas founded and directs the Playful Learning Lab.
Her design institute focuses on encouraging children to learn practical engineering skills through playful activities.
She explores the importance of developing practical interests in children in her book, Making Makers.
Mitchell Joachim
Mitchell Joachim is an architect and an expert in urban design.
His research explores shortcomings in our current urban environments and how they can be overcome to enhance the way we live.
He encourages a reassessment of what it means to live together in the modern world.
Joachim amuses his audiences through a mix of ideas and predictions of what the future might look like.
He shares his idea of a future where architecture and biology coincide to form more natural urban environments. He then shares practical developments to turn these ideas into reality.
Monica Pedersen
Monica Pederson is a celebrity designer, lifestyle coach, and television personality.
She is the host of both ‘Bang for Your Buck’ and ‘Designed to Sell’ lifestyle shows on the television network HGTV. Pederson gets her passion of design from her parents.
She was a fashion model early in her career. The New York Times calls her an energetic mistress of ceremonies.
Her passion and excitement for interior design emanate from everything she does.
Pederson’s ideas have been published in notable national publications such as the Washington Post.
Casey Hyun
Casey Hyun is a decorated automotive designer, technological analyst and a forecaster of future trends.
Hyun’s work in automotive designing is vast and spans many countries.
He has had extensive technological exposure in several countries. Due to this, he finds himself perfectly equipped to understand environmental and technological issues in diverse political landscapes.
Hyun currently consults on the self-driving car project as well as on the production of hydrogen fuel cells and electrical automotive equipment.
Rachel Armstrong
Rachel Armstrong is a scientist, a designer and one of the leading minds in sustainability innovation.
Her work is focused on limiting the harmful effects of urban living such as its impact on the climate.
She researches on designs that act as solutions to prevailing environmental issues.
Her research particularly explores what has now come to be known as living architecture. This involves the use of building materials and architectural designs that mimic living systems.
Armstrong manages various discussions platforms to explore such practices and find ways to incorporate them in designs.
David McCandless
David McCandless is an author, an information designer, and a data journalist.
His work spans a variety of online, printed, and aired media including web, television, and advertising.
His work has been published in several local and international publications such as Wired and The Guardian.
McCandless is an avid promoter of current and innovative practices in design and journalism. He advocates the use of visualized data representations and infographics for the exploration of new avenues in data interpretation. His also discusses this in his book, Information Is Beautiful.
Tory Burch
Tory Burch is a designer and CCO of the popular fashion brand, Tory Burch.
A businesswoman and a philanthropist, she was included by Forbes in its 2015 list of the world’s hundred most powerful women.
Tory Burch has also been awarded the Best Accessory Designer of the Year award by the CFDA.
Opening her first retail outlet in Manhattan in 2004, Burch saw rapid fame due to her original designs.
The store generated hundred thousand dollars in revenue in one day. The store’s success was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, which attracted millions of potential customers to her store.
Scott Dadich
Scott Dadich is a celebrated editor, designer and filmmaker.
He was the Creative Director of the technology publication WIRED for four years, after which he served as its Editor-in-Chief until 2016.
Dadich is credited with several projects including an interview with Edward Snowden.
He is famous for attracting the public’s attention on critical social and environmental issues through digital storytelling.
To this end, he has collaborated with some of the best directors in Hollywood such as J.J. Abrams and Christopher Nolan.
TeLisa Daughtry
TeLisa Daughtry is an entrepreneur, a technologist, a developer, and a designer.
Her work as an advocate of diversity and women’s rights has received tremendous attention.
She has received several awards for business achievements as well as accomplishments in technology.
Daughtry manages various welfare initiatives. Her mobile app, FlyTechnista, is a platform for girls and women to explore and avail educational and employment opportunities in technology. The initiative was launched in partnership with The White House.
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