Design Office Thursday, January 17, P.M. Hugh Dubberly is a partner in Dubberly Design Office,a San Francisco-based consultancy that focuses on making hardware software and services easrier to use, more effective and more fun, through interaction design and informstion design. in 2000, he confused DDO. Dubberly also served at Art Center College of design Trollbäck + Company in Pasadena as the founding chair of the computer graphics Wednesday, March 6, 6:00 pm department. he has taught courses in the graphic design A self-taught designer from Sweden, Jakob Trollbäck department at California State University, San Jose, began his artistic career as a DJ in his native Stockholm. the Design Department at Carnegiemellon University, Having found a commonality in music and design, the Instituteof Design at IIT, and the computer Trollbäck creates pieces that transport his audience to science department at Stanford University. planes of sensorial experience. He is an acknowledged He edits a column “ON Modeling” for industry leader in both branding and motion graphic Association of Computing Machinery’s design and has had his work featured in the New York journal, Interactions. Times, Boards magazine, Creativity and Print. Trollbäck is on the board of directors at the Art Director’s Club, an adviser for the World Science Festival, a trustee at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and most recently became a PromaxBDA board member. You can find him on any given Sunday dining at his favorite Brooklyn Hugh restaurant Frankies. Dubberly Jakob Trollback Design Culture Hot Studio Thursday, April 11, 6:30 pm now Maria Giudice is a straighttalking designerwith apassion for creating thoughtful, people-centereddesign. She has been designing and creating and teaching other people about design for more than 20 years. In fact, the only thing she loves more is working closely with people who feel the same way. So, it made total Institute of Play sense for her to start up a studio like Hot. Since 1997, Tuesday, February 12, 7:30 pm she has united the talented individuals at Hot Studio Katie Salen is a game designer and professor of into a force for strategic thinking and problem solving games and digital media at DePaul University. She in many media across diverse industries. Giudice is also serves as the executive director of the Institute the co-author and designer of several award-winning of Play, a nonprofit focused on games and learning. books, including Elements of Web Design, A Guide for Salen led the team that founded (Q2L), Print Designers crossing over into the Web, and Web a sixth-through-twelfth grade public school in New Design Essentials. Giudice has been designated as a York City organized around principles of game design “TED Hero,” and an active member of the visionary TED and play. Q2L is expanding to this fall. As the community for over five years, leading Hot Studio in lead designer of the school, she led development of bringing two TED Prize winners’ dreams to life: the school’s pedagogical vision and research agenda. Worldrenowned authorDave Eggers’ Once Upon a Salen is co-author of Rules of Play, a textbook on School and Architecture for Humanity’s Open game design, The Game Design Reader, and editor of Architecture Network. The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning, all from MIT Press. She was an early advocate of the then-hidden world of , and continues to be interested in connections between game design, learning and transformative modes of play. Maria Giudice KATIE Moody Theater, SALEN 310 Willie Nelson Boulevard ,Austin, Texas78701