Public Works Speaker Night #3

AIGA Chicago is committed to stimulating thinking about design and
actively seeks opportunities with the Chicago design community through
professional and public programming, community outreach, education and
partnerships with local designers and artists.

Public Works is a series of shows and events that features artists who've spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities.

Join us at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery, with the Public Works show as
a backdrop, for a lecture series involving prominent personalities in
the independent arts community.

The Public Works Speaker Series seeks to create a real, live
knowledge base for those making a life in the independent arts. We're
bringing in internationally recognized artists and creative
entrepreneurs to speak to what we know to be true: when art makes work
and work makes art, everyone benefits.

Our guests will discuss the creation and continued success of their
endeavor, introduce their work, share stories relating to the work and
their processes. Each speaker will talk for an hour followed by a
question and answer period. The night is meant to educate and inspire,
and to answer the basic questions What do you do?, How do you manage to do this?, and What does this bring to the community at large?

Harper Reed - Threadless
Harper Reed is the amazing CTO for the awesome Threadless.com. He is
responsible (along with a cadre of amazing engineers) for bringing
Threadless.com from the mean streets of startupville to the gold paved
streets of enterprise city. Harper oversees the architecture, execution
and maintenance of skinnyCorp's community websites. He is waiting for
the singularity. When not causing problems with technology, Harper can
be found yoyoing, juggling and hacking random internet appliances. You
can read his blog at nata2.org.

Dawn Hancock - Firebelly Design
Dawn Hancock calls the shots. As creative director and owner of Firebelly, she cultivates the studio's design culture and inspires the best work with vision, compassion and an infallible gut instinct. The Firebelly Family is a tight knit collective of strategists, designers, writers and programmers working hard to connect authentic companies with real people in socially responsible ways. When she's not designing for world change, Dawn mentors the next generation of rabble-rousing problem solvers through job shadowing, studio tours and portfolio reviews. She also spends time lecturing at design schools and conferences as far away as Doha, Qatar in addition to teaching workshops on sustainable design. A few of her other endeavors include: the annual Firebelly Design Grant, Camp Firebelly, her nonprofit the Firebelly Foundation and its first program, Reason to Give.

This is a free event.
This event is co-sponsored by Someoddpilot, Andrew Rafacz Gallery and AIGA Chicago.

Printing donated by Dupli-Graphic.