Robynne Raye - Modern Dog Design - Seattle, WA
Since co-founding Modern Dog Design Co. in 1987, Robynne Raye has continued to do work for entertainment and retail companies - both local and national - and counts posters, packaging and identity projects as some of her favorite work. Recent clients include Coca-Cola, Adobe Systems Inc., Blue Q, Olive Green Dog Products, Shout! Factory and Seattle Theatre Group.
Robynne has received recognition from every major design organization in the U.S and her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines. Her posters are represented in the permanent archives of the Louvre (Rohan Marsan wing), the Library of Congress, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Museum Fur Kunst und Gewerbe, the Warsaw National Museum, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum among others. For more than 16 years she has lectured and taught workshops, both nationally and internationally. Currently, she is an adjunct instructor at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Stephen Farrell - Slip Studios - Chicago, IL
Stephen Farrell is a graphic designer, typographer, instructor and collaborative writer. His work focuses on the creation of flow. This clever arrangement and manipulation of design elements on the page relate to story telling via imagery, graphics and text. Additionally, he is known for his experimental designs along with his interesting typefaces. His typefaces are designed to look handwritten and each represents a period of history. Among them are Flexure, Missive, Entropy, Osprey, Commonworld and Indelible Victorian, all distributed through [T.26] font foundry in Chicago.
In addition to his personal achievements, Farrell is the founder of Slip Studios; a truly multidisciplinary design environment. Founded in 1992, Slip Studios is a facility which strives to fuel the collaboration between writers, typographers, visual artists and other creative disciplines. Each discipline works hand-in-hand to fuel and inform the others, pushing the whole to be much greater than the sum of its parts. Today, in addition to Slip studios and his personal creative work, Stephen is an instructor of and chair in the Visual Communications at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
