2021 Fall
Thursday, September 2, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Fernando DelRosario
Concept Zombie
A seasoned advertising creative, with a heart of an artist, and a passion for teaching. Fernando bridges the world of marketing, design, art, and education. His agency roster consist of Y&R, Campbell-Ewald, Wunderman, David&Goliath, BBDO, Innocean World Wide and now as CEO/Creative Director of his own agency ConceptZombie LLC. His roster of brands are as diverse as his vision of creativity; from Hyundai to Hot Wheels, from Covered California to Carl鈥檚 Jr. and from Oakley to the Orange Catholic Foundation.
Fernando is also an educator, with a MA ED in Educational Leadership. He taught at the Art Institute of California-Orange County for 17 years; leading to opportunities to be a guest lecturer/speaker at Cal State Long Beach and Chapman University and now teaching at Cal State University Fullerton. Fernando has also found time to build an artist career. With over 40 gallery showings, 4 art gallery representations his REAL HEROES Collection continues to gain traction and expand beyond Southern California.
Thursday, September 9, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Jesus Galaz
Industrial Designer & Professor of Product Design & Advance Solidworks at Art Center and Mt. SAC
Visualize
At the intersection of Inspiration and Product Design, Jesus Galaz finds Photography. Informing him of the importance of composition, interfaces and of finding different points of view in observation.
As a native Angeleno, he鈥檚 seen this 鈥渕ovie set鈥 of a city in good and bad times, though never boring. Wanting to quell his natural inspiration with local car culture, he took a visit to the Art Center College in Pasadena. He鈥檚 been hooked on design and imagery ever since. Graduating from there years later, he鈥檚 gone on to design pro audio equipment, appliances, heightened experience rides, lifestyle products and more recently, racing airplanes and high end furniture for our four legged friends.
Growing up around such a confluence of people, murals and culture, he鈥檚 tried to capture it with his camera in hand. Long commutes turned into adventures in rediscovering the city he grew up in, and made friends along with the way with similar interests. Work turned to teaching, and students inquisitiveness turned to reaching back to just what is it that helps inspire design on a number of levels.
For Jesus, photography has definitely shown that when reaching for design inspiration, it can be a great resource at different stages in the process. From seeing, to a terraced approach to interfaces and materials, to finalizing renderings. Join him as he talks about his process and workflows.
Thursday, September 30, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Sean Kim
Interiors Studio Leader | Vice President - Corgan
Broadway to the Boardroom
From Broadway to the boardroom, Sean Kim brings a fresh and bold approach to solution based award-winning designs recognized by AIA, IIDA and Business Week/Architectural Record. As the Vice President and Interiors Studio Leader of Corgan Los Angeles, he is responsible for design leadership, stewarding client relationships, and business development.
What drives his creative process is his passion to help clients flourish. He helps clients to understand their vision through discovery and develop a brand strategy translated into design and brand experience. He brings a collaborative process deeply rooted in his experience working with the top theater professionals in NYC and his drive for creatively exploring the client story and enhancing the holistic experience through design.
Thursday, October 7, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Andrew Moir
Senior Design Manager at Hyundai Design North America
title to come
Andrew Moir is a design manager for Hyundai Design North America, where he has been responsible for the interior design of various production and concept models since he joined the company in 2004.
Since 2013, Moir has led the interior design team at Hyundai鈥檚 California studio. Recently, his team was responsible for the 2015 Vision G concept unveiled at the 2015 Pebble Beach Concours d鈥橢legance, the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq, introduced at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show, and the N2025 Vision Gran Turismo Concept for the popular auto racing game for Sony鈥檚 Play Station. In addition, he helped lead design for the 2009 Sonata facelift and the 2016 Tucson redesign.
Prior to working for Hyundai, Moir worked for Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design in California and Sindelfingen, Germany, for seven years. In that role, he was responsible for the interior design of the 2007 CL-Class Coupe and the 2010 E-Class Coupe.
Moir studied at Coventry University in England before transferring to the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, focusing on transportation design.
Thursday, October 21, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Kiyo Ohara
President and Owner of Dragon 88
"Red Alert" Design Survival Tactics!
Dragon 88 is a design firm that collaborates with leading design firms and designers to manufacture their aesthetic vision for hotel and residential interiors. Our client list is diversified with different custom design and manufacturing needs that includes: hospitality design firms, residential interior designers, celebrity stylists, set designers, real estate interior design and staging companies, and special event planners. Dragon 88 is known for custom design and COM fabrication of products that range from bedding, pillows, throws, outdoor seat cushions, uniforms, and filter masks. We create and source artwork, fabrics, and special techniques to create each designer鈥檚 vision.
Thursday, Novermber 4, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Chris Kruszynski
Concept Design Project Coordination at Cunningham Group
Designing In & Out of Context
A registered Architect in Manitoba, Canada, recently achieving the perhaps honored status of 鈥渞etired member鈥, Chris has had the opportunity to live and work in a number of cities and countries around the world as an Archi-tect, Designer, and Urban Designer.
Most recently the Studio Director for the Entertainment Studio at Cuningham Group, and based in Culver City; Chris has had the opportunity to work on a number of projects around the world for Clients such as: Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Creative, Warner Bros., Paramount Parks, and a number of independent developers and dreamers around the world.
Chris has previously also worked as an urban designer at RTKL, Los Angeles, for Ralph W. Schilling Architect, in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, where he worked as an Architect and Urban Designer, the Fitzroy Robinson Partnership, in London, UK, where he became a studio designer, as well as with other Architectural design firms in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Chris鈥 presentation will focus on the power of creativity, and how bravely following a creative path can open un-known doors to your futures. Creativity can provide the freedom to live and work anywhere. Travel and openness to experience are key to personal connections with others, and to your success. Things are not what they seem; similarities and differences need to be understood for decisions to be made.
There is never any looking back.
Thursday, December 2, 7:00-9:45pm
via Zoom 鈥
Chris Granneberg
Principal at Chris Granneberg Studio
title to come
Chris Granneberg Studio focuses on product design, user experience design and design strategy. We foster a close a collaboration with our clients and work across various product typologies including but not limited to: product, packaging, furniture, lighting and tabletop design.
Our strategic and human-centric approach includes a deep understanding of brand, target market, technical feasibility and business needs. This is the foundation for our product development process. Using our design tools we create thoughtful, honest, desirable and innovative products and experiences that consumers love.
Collaboration is the heart of our process and we have a proven track record of bringing commercially successful and award winning products to market working with our project partners.
Thursday, December 9, 7:00-9:45pm
viaZoom 鈥
Lisa Krohn
Assistant Professor of Practice, Product Design + Innovation at USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy
Title to come
Lisa has been called one of the most influential designers of her generation. How anything is currently done is her starting point for exploring how it could be optimized, streamlined and improved.
Lisa is proficient and experienced with form-giving and problem-solving from branding and corporate identity to the design of products, packaging, furniture, lighting, interiors, point-of-sale displays and commercial environments. Her work is beautiful, elegant, confident and driven by her unique blend of style and function, high-tech and high-touch.
A designer since her defection from art history at Brown University, Lisa completed an MFA at Cranbrook during which time she won the Grand Prize in the Forma Finlandia competition. She went on to win a Fulbright to Milan to work with Mario Bellini, an NEA Design Arts grant, the Brooklyn Museum Young Designer鈥檚 Award, the Daimler Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design and the Rome Prize.
Apart from design projects for clients like Herman Miller, Walt Disney Imagineering and Alessi, Lisa has taught and critiqued in various design departments and has written for various design publications and blogs.
