Event Description
Learn what 2012 holds in store for design businesses and how to make the most of the year ahead.

Panel topics will be far ranging from how design businesses should react as the global economy still wrestles with recession to how will we fill the innovation gap left by Steve Jobs.

Moderator by Eduardo A. Braniff, CEO of Imagination <http://www.imagination.com/>  The Americas.

Panelists
Juan Rosenfeldt, Creative Director/Director of Creative Services at nuvo TV - FreeRange <http://www.behance.net/freerange>
Chris Do, President and Executive Creative Director - BL:ND <http://www.blind.com/>
Bryan Neff, Senior Creative Strategist - Innovation Protocol <http://www.innovationprotocol.com/>
Scott Meisse, Project & Operations Director - Ferroconcrete <http://www.ferro-concrete.com/>
Wendy Thai, Design Manager + Art Director - Ferroconcrete <http://www.ferro-concrete.com/>

Tickets
AIGA Member: $10
AIGA Student Member: $10
A+D Member: $10
Non-Member: $25
Student Non-Member: $25
RSVP via Eventbrite <http://profseries.eventbrite.com/> .

AIGA Members: Remember to bring your AIGA Membership ID card to the event. You'll receive a lanyard for your AIGA ID at the AIGA Members-Only check-in table. This will be your name tag for the event.

Addition Event Information
The Professional Series is a program of conversations about today's business of design. Professionals and entrepreneurs from a range of design enterprises will gather to discuss how each are growing their businesses through financial modeling, business development, recruitment and retention, innovation practices and, above all, great design.

Venue provided by A+D Museum.

Parking
In addition to metered street parking (please read the signs carefully: vehicles in violation will be towed), there are three large parking lots located within two blocks of A+D.

Metro service to or near the A&D Museum: Metro Local line 20, Metro Rapid line 720, and Metro Rail's Purple Line (Wilshire/Western station).

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