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March 22–24 in New York City. Register today @ nyc.snd.org!

9:00am EDT

John Maeda: Design in Tech

Speakers

John Maeda

Computational Design and Inclusion, Automattic

John Maeda is an American executive spearheading a new convergence across the design + technology industries. He joined Automattic in 2016 as Global Head of Computational Design + Inclusion and previously served as Design Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a world-leading... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

10:00am EDT

Candy Chan: Demystifying Subway Stations

This is a sharing session on the story behind Project Subway NYC. The presentation is about the inspirations of the project, the process of creating 3D subway drawings, the importance of spatial awareness, and NYC's unique subway culture.

Speakers

Candy Chan

ARCHITECT, PROJECT SUBWAY NYC

Candy Chan is an architect and urban designer based in New York City. She is the creator of Project Subway NYC, a project about the city's subway system, which consists of 3D models and intricate visualizations of the stations, with an ongoing collection of trivia, sketches, photographs, and more... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

10:10am EDT

How can you have no ads, no branded content, no subscribers and still thrive?

Ernst-Jan Pfauth, cofounder and CEO of The Correspondent, will talk about membership and the merits of having members instead of subscribers and advertisers. It not just improves your business, but also your journalism (hint: your readers know more than your journalists). He'll also talk about why it's important that The Correspondent was not just founded by journalists, but also by a designer and a developer.

Speakers

Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Co-Founder and CEO, The Correspondent

Working on an international campaign for independent ad-free and inclusive journalism. Want to help? Let me know!

Friday March 23, 2018 10:10am - 10:45am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

10:50am EDT

Better Blocks, Half a Plan, and Other Lessons from Urbanism

In urban planning, every contingent has its own agenda — and its own narrative. So increasingly, city-building means finding new ways to inform and engage people in the process. Shared here are dynamic approaches to community building relevant to how we might think about creating and delivering news to diverse and different communities today.

Speakers

Allison Arieff

Editorial Director, SPUR

Allison Arieff is SPUR's editorial director. A contributing columnist to The New York Times since 2006, Allison writes about architecture, design and cities for numerous publications including California Sunday, the MIT Technology Review, Dialogue and CityLab.

Friday March 23, 2018 10:50am - 11:20am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

11:20am EDT

Leading with Critical Thinking

Critical thinking is more relevant than ever in our current news environment. We need it to fight ignorance, and we need it to thrive as successful businesses. Companies all over the world today find themselves at the junction where creativity meets critical thinking. The current digital business orthodoxy assumes that we'll find creativity with post-its and critical thinking through A/B tests. But to what extent do these ceremonies work? Are they enough? And crucially, what more can we do?

Tobias uses his background at Minecraft, GitHub, and Spotify to showcase how design leaders can encourage critical thinking in a fast-moving and creative environment.

Speakers

Tobias Ahlin

Experience Design Director, Minecraft

Tobias Ahlin is the Experience Design Director at Mojang, where he directs the design and the creative processes behind the second most popular video game of all time; Minecraft. He’s worked as a Product Designer at Spotify and GitHub, he is a judge for the Swedish Design Awards... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 11:20am - 11:50am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

11:50am EDT

Kevin Quealy

Speakers

Kevin Quealy

The Upshot, The New York Times

Kevin Quealy is a deputy editor of the New York Times' Upshot section and a member of the New York Times Graphics Department. He has been at the New York Times since 2008. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa from 2004 to 2006. Kevin is from Minnesota.

Friday March 23, 2018 11:50am - 12:00pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

1:30pm EDT

More than Mocks: Achieving “Effortless” Design when Creating Bulletin, from Google

Bulletin, from Google, is a new app for capturing and sharing media rich stories about what is happening in local communities. Core to the product vision, and design challenge, was crafting an effortless experience for content creators. James and Alex will discuss the design approach and lessons learned taking Bulletin from concept to launch.

Speakers

James Morehead

Product Manager, Google

James Morehead joined Google in April 2014. In his current role as the product manager for Bulletin, James is focused on helping people effortlessly capture and publicly share cool, hyperlocal stories in their communities.James earned a B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto.James has presented at a host of key... Read More →

Alex Valdivia

Interaction Design Lead, Google

Alex Valdivia is an interaction designer at Google, illustrator and musician. Some of his contributions include Bulletin, Blogger, Google Contacts and About Me. Prior to Google, he worked for companies such as RingCentral, Promethean and Gannett. Alex is currently developing a principled... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

2:00pm EDT

Jennifer Maravillas

Speakers

Jennifer Maravillas

Artist

Jennifer Maravillas is a visual artist, cartographer, and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. Her longest term works are a series of ongoing maps of the five boroughs of New York City for which she is walking throughout each while collecting pieces of litter to represent the block... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 2:00pm - 2:10pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

2:15pm EDT

Allison McCann

Friday March 23, 2018 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

2:45pm EDT

Money Money Money

A San Francisco tech company, a designer, and a newspaper man walk into a bar. Two of them are already drunk from all the free beer at work and the third, well he's also drunk but he had to pay for it out of pocket. That’s it. That’s what my talk will be about.

Speakers

Jennifer Daniel

Creative Director, Google

Jennifer Daniel is an illustrator, graphic designer, author, mother of twin toddlers, and regular contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker. As a Creative Director at Google and former graphics editor at the New York Times she explores both verbal and written language as a means of personal... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 2:45pm - 3:15pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

3:15pm EDT

Greg Lamarche: Process and Progress

Life as a graffiti writer/artist and the transition/evolution into a career in fine art and design.

Speakers

Greg Lamarche

Born and raised in Queens, NY, Greg Lamarche started making collages and writing graffiti in the early 1980s. From 1992 -95 he published the seminal graffiti magazine Skills while living outside of Boston. Since 1999 he has been working as a fine artist and graphic designer / illustrator... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 3:15pm - 3:25pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

4:00pm EDT

Scott Stowell

Speakers

Scott Stowell

Proprietor, Open

Since 1998, designer Scott Stowell has been doing business as Open. According to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, he “embraces an open notion of the term ‘office,’ inviting different participants to every project he pursues.” Scott has taught at Cooper Union, the School of Visual Arts, and Yale University; lectured in Amsterdam... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

4:30pm EDT

LONGFORM LIVE!!! In Conversation with Paul Ford

Aaron Lammer is a person of many platforms—the co-founder of the reading platform Longform and also a noted musician (Francis and the Lights) and podcaster. He last interviewed the writer/programmer Paul Ford in 2012. Now they'll sit down to discuss all the things that have changed since—especially Paul's awkward and sometimes humiliating transformation from confused occasional essayist to National Magazine Award-winning author of “What Is Code?” for Bloomberg Businessweek and co-founder/leader of a 44-person software company Postlight.

Speakers

Paul Ford

Postlight

Paul Ford is co-founder of Postlight and a writer, product strategist, educator, programmer, and software consultant. He has consulted on and managed digital and editorial strategies for organizations as diverse as Harper’s Magazine, where he was an editor for five years, Condé Nast, Credit Suisse, Bloomberg, Thomson... Read More →

Aaron Lammer

Co-founder, Longform

Aaron Lammer is the co-founder of Longform.org. He hosts three show; Longform Podcast (interviews with non-fiction writers), Stoner (creative people discuss their relationship with weed), and Coin Talk (the entertaining side of Bitcoin and crypto.) He has been writing songs with Francis and the Lights since he was in college and has recently shared songwriting credits with Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper, Drake, and Kanye West... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

9:30am EDT

Design for Deception

Quartz design reporter and forgery fanatic Anne Quito, "The Encyclopedia of Misinformation" author Rex Sorgatz and celebrated interactive designer Kelli Anderson dive into the history and nitty-gritty of faking the news. Expect Hoaxes! Counterfeits! Impostors! Guns! and the recipe for making a perfectly counterfeited edition of "The New York Times."

Speakers

Kelli Anderson

Kelli Anderson is an interactive designer who explores how design can tap into invisible forces in the world to make seemingly magical—and often subversive—things happen. She is known for her design, animation, and illustration work for NPR, “The New Yorker,” “Wired... Read More →

Anne Quito

Design Reporter, Quartz

Anne Quito covers design and architecture for Quartz. She holds a master's degree in visual culture from Georgetown University and an MFA in design criticism from the School of Visual Arts. Her MFA thesis on the nation branding of the world’s newest country, South Sudan, has been... Read More →

Rex Sorgatz

Partner, Kinda Sorta Media

Rex Sorgatz is a writer and creative technologist based in New York. His consulting agency, Kinda Sorta Media, has advised a wide array of media properties and incubated several startups. His recent book, The “Encyclopedia of Misinformation,” is a compendium of deceptions, fakes, conspiracies, and self-delusions through history. He has degrees in philosophy, psychology, and literature; he clearly liked college too much... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 9:30am - 10:10am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

10:15am EDT

Designing News for the Future

You’ve designed a gorgeous data visualization or an amazing interactive news piece or a fantastic animation. Will readers be able to view it twenty years from now? How about two years from now? In this session, we will talk about how to future-proof the news. You’ll learn simple strategies you can use to ensure that your beautifully-designed work becomes part of the official historical record.

Speakers

Meredith Broussard

Assistant Professor, NYU

Meredith Broussard is an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her current research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. Her forthcoming book is "Artificial Unintelligence... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 10:15am - 10:55am EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

11:30am EDT

Design, journalism and how to get great work done: What I've learned in 10 years at The Washington Post

This month, I'm celebrating ten years at The Washington Post. My approach to design and journalism has grown and evolved enormously in that time, and so has the company. I'll share the experiences I've had -- and lessons I've learned -- as I created and edited work in different roles in the organization, moving from digital to print to AR to product, and from a maker to a leader, as the Post has undergone an incredible transformation. Expect to see some really old projects that show just how far we've all come.

Speakers

Kat Downs Mulder

Director of Graphics, The Washington Post

Kat is the Graphics Director at The Washington Post. She leads a team of designers, developers, reporters and illustrators that create visual stories, including graphics, databases and multimedia projects.

Saturday March 24, 2018 11:30am - 12:10pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School

12:15pm EDT

The Idea Habit

Where ideas come from, why they are important, and how to get them into the world.

Speakers

Alicia DeSantis

Deputy Editor, Culture, The New York Times

Alicia DeSantis is a Deputy Editor at the New York Times. She writes, produces, edits, art directs, designs and illustrates pieces for print, for web and for video. She is the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award, and has earned portfolio medals from both the Malofiej Society and... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 12:15pm - 1:00pm EDT
Tishman Auditorium, The New School