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"Designing New Roles" will bring together graphic designers who integrate disciplines that extend beyond their traditional specialties into their professions. This panel of speakers includes young designers who are also passionate photographers, illustrators, and typographers. They will share their stories and work, while shedding light on how they turned their labors of love into into work opportunities. Short presentations will be given by each panel member and will be followed by a discussion moderated by Steve Ryan.

Panel of Speakers

Chris Eichenseer is a photographer, designer and musician. He has spent most of his life attending band practice, and this not only taught him how to be an entrepreneur, but determined the nature of his work. Chris founded Someoddpilot in 1999 and since then has built an internationally recognized body of work, including branding and designing the Pitchfork website, photographing musical luminaries such as RJD2 and Steve Albini, designing dozens of record covers for Consumers Research, Chocolate Industries, and Mush, and designing industry websites for Drag City, Windish Agency, Fat Possum, Mad Decent and many more. Someoddpilot calls Chicago home with an office located in the crook of the Ravenswood industrial strip on the city's North Side. 

Alex Fuller is a founding member of the studio/blog/gallery, The Post Family, a founding member of Ogilvy Chicago's first brand design group, 485, and co-founder of Chicago's first illustration agency, Illustration Corporation. Alex has helped build these networks all within the past 3 years with the vision of an interrelated design and art community of diverse strengths working towards greater opportunities for all. The next step is a good stretch and a nap.

Jana Kinsman is currently a graphic designer at Crate and Barrel's corporate headquarters in Northbrook, IL. Though she is a designer through and through, a good part of her heart belongs to illustration. She draws inspiration from the city around her and the people she sees, as well as anything bike-related. She attended the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago where she stood out as a designer who often integrated her illustration skills in with her design-heavy projects. Now, part of her job includes designing and illustrating dinnerware surface patterns for Crate and Barrel's younger, more modern brand, CB2. When she's not working you might find her riding one of her 3 bikes, watching  VHS copies of bad movies, or doodling on napkins.