DesignNation7 Conference
OBD Weekly Meeting
Come Join Us for Income Opportunities,
Presentations,
and Lively Discussion about the State of the Black Designer.
Help plan events and programs to meet our goals.
Every Wednesday at 6:45pm
Washington Design Center
300 D Street, SW
(corner of 4th & D Streets, SW)
Lower Level Conference Room
202-489-4822
Applications for membership will be accepted
at the weekly meeting.
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Events & Conferences
October 28-31, 2010
DesigNation7: Design2Play
The Organization of Black Designers(OBD) is bringing its seventh national design conference: DesigNation7: Design2Play to Detroit. OBD/DesigNation has over 10,000 members and affiliates nationally and internationally. The conference attendees include some of the preeminent Product, Automotive, Architectural, Interior, Graphic and Apparel designers, plus a large contingent of design students and design educators.
DesigNation7: Design2Play will bring together the world's top designers and manufacturers of sports and recreational products, games, equipment, vehicles and apparel. Companies like Nike, Oakley, JetSki, Reebok, and a host of other manufacturers from the entire spectrum of the sports and recreational industry -- from skiing to soccer -- from video games to biking -- will explore the design process that gives us so many exciting and innovative products, environments, and apparel for fun, fitness and recreation. DN7 will also take a look at the visual marketing, advertising, promotion and packaging essentials to each project's success.
OBD acknowledges the Detroit region’s Creative Economy Initiative and sees having its DesigNation conference in Detroit as a way of supporting that effort and a way to focus attention on the creative-economy assets of the region.
Michigan is the present and legendary home of some of the world's greatest design assets, from the automotive design studios to world renown design schools like the College for Creative Studies(CCS), Cranbrook Academy of the Arts, Lawrence Technological University, Kendall College of Design, Wayne State University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
DesigNation™ is the United Nations of Design Conferences.
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DesigNation is the first one of a kind multicultural,
multidiscipline design conference in the world. Produced by the
Organization of Black Designers, DesigNation has become the
United Nations (UN) of design conferences bringing together
graphic, industrial, fashion, interior, architectural, product,
advertising, broadcast and multi-media designers from all over
the globe.
Started in October 1994, the
first conference entitled Dogon to Digital revolutionized the
design industries by recognizing the emergence and
cross-pollination of disparate design disciplines. Designers of
color gathered in Chicago to discuss future trends, the African
American design aesthetic, issues of visibility and
invisibility, as well as provided a platform to showcase
designers work, to acknowledge historical accomplishments of
pioneering designers of color and to ultimately engage the
entire design community to explore more diversity in practice,
scholarly pursuits and recognition.
Corporate sponsors, allied
industry partners, educational institutions and others seeking
to connect with high caliber design professionals recognize
DesigNation as the only design conference to sponsor and attend.
Major Fortune 500 companies including but not limited to Ford
Motor Company, Steelcase, General Motors, Nike, Hallmark Cards,
and Disney have exhibited and/or sponsored employees, human
resource professionals and key executive staff to hire, partner
and/or solicit new business from conference attendees. One of
the most successful features of the DN conference series is the
Portfolio Review open to professionals and students alike. This
celebrated event brings together attendees of immeasurable
talent and companies looking to hire top creative individuals.
Previous DesigNation Conferences
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