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Academy Award winner Brian Van't Hul is a Visual Effects Supervisor at LAIKA and has had the opportunity to work for Industrial Light and Magic, Sony Imageworks, Weta Digital (Peter Jackson's visual effects company) and Disney. He has worked in a wide range of roles, including: miniature, live-action and digital lighting, location plate photography, 2nd unit directing, and visual effects supervising. Brian has worked on Nightmare Before Christmas, Forrest Gump, all three Lord of the Rings films, Master and Commander, I Robot and King Kong - for which he received a Bafta and also an Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2006. At present Brian is working in Portland on LAIKA's first stop-motion feature being shot in 3D, directed by Henry Selick. As part of his talk, Brian will show some clips from Coraline, based on the book by Neil Gaiman and featuring the voices of Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher and Ian McShane. |
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Jelly Helm, Wieden+Kennedy |
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Jelly Helm is the former executive creative director of Wieden+Kennedy, and the founder of W+K 12, an in-house advertising school, licensed by the Oregon Department of Education and described in its charter as "an experiment disguised as a school disguised as an agency." Jelly has spent 20 years working in advertising as a teacher, writer, art director, critic and activist. |
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Jen Modarelli, White Horse (interactive) |
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Jennifer Modarelli-DeVoe is the owner and principal of White Horse, the largest privately held, woman-owned interactive marketing agency in the Pacific Northwest. Modarelli-DeVoe joined White Horse in 1998 as its general manager and acquired the company as a principal owner in 2000. Since then, she has built White Horse into a nationally recognized full-service interactive agency with a client roster featuring many distinctive global brands, including Microsoft Corporation, Cisco Systems, Celestial Seasonings, Wells Fargo, Nautilus Inc., Columbia Sportswear, Tektronix, Providence Health System, and Papa Murphy’s. In 2007 the company showed a 79% increase in revenue. In this session, Modarelli will share the essentials of interactive design success—vision, inspiration, players, and spirit. She will examine emerging trends and technologies that are changing the bounds of design. |
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Jay Meschter has worked as an industrial designer for the past 18 years, spending the first part of his career with the Apple Design Group, and the latter half with Nike. Jay is currently a director in the Nike Innovation Kitchen, an experimental group within Nike that focuses exclusively on innovation. His discussion will center on the creation of the ultra lightweight Flywire technology that debuted at the Olympics in Beijing, and has set a new course in methods of footwear and soft-goods construction. |
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damali ayo, Founder and Designer, CROW clothing |
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damali ayo is an author, speaker, designer, artist, and performer. Her work has been featured in over 100 publications world-wide including Harpers, the Village Voice, Salon.com, the Washington Post, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, CSPAN2's Book TV. With an MFA in visual arts and a finely tuned eye for all things visual and energetic, damali recently combined her talents by creating CROW Clothing. This twenty-first century e-commerce business model challenges all the rules by offering customers clothing at a sliding-scale price. Using eco-friendly fabrics, production, and packaging, its mission is to make sustainability, social change, health, and community a stylish part of our everyday lives. Read more about damali. |
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Michael Curry, Michael Curry Design |
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Michael Curry is one of the world’s leading production designers. He works widely in both conceptual and technical development with the foremost entertainment companies such as Cirque du Soleil, the Metropolitan Opera, London’s Royal National Theatre, Disney Theatrical Productions, LA Opera, and Universal Pictures. He collaborates regularly with directors such as Robert Lepage, Nicholas Hytner, Julie Taymor and William Friedken. Michael has been the recipient of many prestigious awards for his continuing innovations in the fields of visual effects and puppetry design. He owns and operates Michael Curry Design Inc., which designs and creates live-performance oriented dimensional characters and productions, such as those seen by world-wide audiences in the 1996 and 2002 Olympics opening and closing ceremonies, Superbowl 2000, and New York City’s epoch 2000 millennium event. |
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Portland's On Your Feet will be priming the creative juices pump for our conference attendees at the opening and closing of the event. The OYF mission is to explore how improvisation impacts communication, leadership, idea generation, brand building, and anything else their clients and audiences are willing to try. In workshops and seminars, OYF consultants have been seen pulling executives to their feet, creating novel situations to which they must react, encouraging them to move their bodies, jump, say wild things, clap or sing or dance, play with toys, sit on desks, crawl on the floor and generally provide crazy-seeming new points of view. |
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Adam Gallardo, Dark Horse Comics |
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Adam Gallardo is a writer for Dark Horse Comics. With more than a decade of experience in all aspects of publishing — from production to editorial, Adam is best known for writing Star Wars: Infinities — Return of the Jedi, (Dark Horse Comics), as well as two creator-owned projects: Gear School, (which Adam once described as Degrassi High meets Mobile Suit Gundam) and the 100 Girls series from Simon and Schuster, which according to comic aficionados has been “Certified Cool.” You can read about his adventures in trying to be a comic-writer-stay-at-home-dad at adamgallardo.blogspot.com |
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