Board members
PRESIDENT:
Bill Klingensmith
president@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Bill is Principal and Creative Optimist for the small design studio, "MYDARNDEST", in the South Wedge of Rochester, New York. He has also begun teaching a web design course at the University of Buffalo.
He earned a BFA from Youngstown State University (’95) and MFA from University North Carolina Greensboro (’98). During his formal art education, he taught himself graphic design and interactive technology.
Klingensmith taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology for five years (’02-’07), where he was an Assistant Professor of graphic design. He has also received national recognition for his series of online photo-mapping experiences, "Drive Project".
TREASURER :
Lori Reed
treasurer@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
With nearly two decades of professional experience acquired coast to coast, Lori recently relocated to Rochester where she combines her New York pace, San Francisco design sensibilities and New Orleans joie de vivre in the one woman design studio, Reed Creative, specializing in corporate collateral and editorial design.
Lori knows what it takes to solve creative problems on time, on budget and on target, collaborating with clients and fellow creatives throughout the entire design process-concept through completion. Throughout her career, Lori has worked for publications at Condé Nast’s House & Garden and SELF magazines, Mother Jones magazine, regional lifestyle publications in the Rockies, Tulane University and most recently at Zehno, where she redesigned alumni publications for ULM, Columbia Business School, Pacific University and Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College.
An active member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1992, Lori demonstrated her leadership abilities serving as secretary, treasurer and president for the New Orleans chapter, and was recently honored as an exemplary AIGA designer-leader in the Gulf South post-Katrina. Leading young minds hungry for design knowledge, Lori was also adjunct faculty at Tulane University and Southeastern Louisiana University, where she shared her creativity and extensive experience of the working design world with her students.
Lori’s award-winning work has been recognized by Print Magazine, PIA (Printing Industries of America), AIGA and American Corporate Identity.
MEMBERSHIP:
Chris Goldan
membership@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Chris is owner of Cg Design Studio LLC located Rochester’s High Falls District. He has gained national recognition for his expertise and innovation across a wide range of project types while collaborating with some of the country’s leading architects and institutions, artists, and entrepreneurs, writers, academics and businesses.
SECRETARY:
Marj Crum
events@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Marjorie Crum teaches typography and graphic design curriculum at Monroe Community College in Rochester New York, and has worked as a graphic designer for over 20 years. Crum is an award-winning designer whose work has appeared in national publications. Her clients range from small- and medium-sized local businesses to large national corporations such as Xerox, Johnson & Johnson, and Dell Computers.
Marj is the current Program Chair and a past President of AIGA Upstate New York chapter and the owner, head designer, and creative director of her own studio. Her first book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Graphic Design (Alpha Books, a division of Penguin) will be released in mid-October 2008.
ADVOCACY:
Audrey Bennett
sponsorship@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Audrey is an associate professor of graphics in the Department of Langauge, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer where conducts research in graphics. Her current research is on the development of an interactive aesthetics (IA) theory in graphics that explains the phenomenon of collaborative visual design. The underpinning of her hypothesis is that the use of interactive techniques, strategies, or technologies that facilitate collaboration between participants at various stages of the design process brings about effective cross-cultural graphics. Over the past three years she’s been developing IA on interdisciplinary design research projects in technical communication, social robotics, literacy, and ethnomathematics. She’s editor of “Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design” published by Princeton Architectural Press that chronicles historical and contemporary efforts of designers to broaden the scope of the profession of graphic design to include research. Her work is published in the Journal of Design Research, Visible Language, Design Issues, The Journal of Graphic Design, The Education of a Graphic Designer, The Education of a Typographer, and various international design research conference proceedings. From 2002-2004, she served as communications director for the board of directors of the Upstate New York Chapter of the AIGA.
COMMUNICATION :
Dennis Angelo
communication@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Dennis is principal of InHouse Graphic Design, Inc. in Waterloo, NY. Prior to co-founding In House Design with his wife Teresa in 1984, Dennis worked for Corporate Annual Reports in Manhattan and Salerno Graphic Design, Inc. in Rochester, NY designing and producing corporate literature for fortune 500 companies. He also did a brief but enlightening stint as a freelance artist at the advertising agency of Winterkorn-Lillis in Rochester, NY. In House Graphic Design, Inc. is a multi-disciplinary studio producing corporate identity, corporate literature, advertising design and website design for a wide range of clients in manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, tourism, hospitality and the arts. The logo design work of In House Graphic Design, Inc. is published in several volumes of American Corporate Identity as well as Bullet Proof Logos, Logos Go Digital and Logos of American Restaurants. In House Design has also received several awards for their work promoting tourism in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. Dennis has been a member of AIGA since 1991 and has served on the board of directors of the Upstate NY chapter since 1998. He has served as chair of education, the members show committee and is currently chair of communications.
WEB CHAIR:
Debi Bower
By day, Debi is the Web Designer & Publisher for Wegmans Food Markets, Inc, headquartered in Rochester, New York. By night she lives the glamorous life as wife, mother, graphic and web design freelancer, United Way Young Leader, Girl Scout Troop Leader and Public Relations Coordinator/Blogger for her Girl Scout Service Unit.
Debi earned her AAS, Visual Communications Technology: Graphic Arts and Printing from Monroe Community College in 2008, when she joined AIGA Upstate New York.
EDUCATION :
Ben Van Dyke
education@upstatenewyork.aiga.org
Ben van Dyke was born in Ft. Lauderdale Florida in 1976. He received his MFA from the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in 2006 and his BFA from Kendall College of Art & Design in 1999.
Between 1997 and 2003, Van Dyke worked in the advertising industry in Western Michigan. After a successful start to his career, he found that his vision far outweighed the agenda of his superiors. Since 2003, he has been involved in more than 30 exhibitions in North America, Europe, and Asia.
In 2006, Van Dyke was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to The Netherlands. During this time, he was an Artist-in-Residence at NLXL in The Hague and worked on design projects for clients such as the European Space Agency, DOK Architecten, Weiden + Kennedy Amsterdam, Sharp Inc., PTT, Holland NS, The Koorenhuis, KPN, and The Roderick Danstheater Internationale.
Following his work in The Netherlands, Van Dyke was invited to join the Visual Studies faculty at The State University of New York at Buffalo, where he currently teaches courses in Design History and Typography.