Attendees


Addison Branding and Communication
Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc.
Body Media
Brady Communications
Catapult Thinking
Corchia Woliner Rhoda
Ebay, User Experience & Design
Insight Product Development
Joel Katz Design Associates
Johnson & Johnson
Maya Viz, Ltd.
Meta-4
Microsoft Corporation
Morningstar
Razorfish
Trilogy
VSA Partners, Inc.
Whirlpool
WQED Multimedia


Addison Branding and Communication    >     Max Dietshe.  New York, NY.

Graphic Design | Information Design

With offices in New York and San Francisco, Addison is a creative-services company specializing in business communications. An exceptional union of word and image distinguishes our annual report, brand identity, business literature, simplified communications and naming work. We help the world's most successful companies tell their stories better through singular, customer-focused solutions. We specialize in defining and focusing the emotive power of story to create a genuine and lasting relationship between you and your customers, employees, partners and shareholders.

Reviewing portfolios.
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Agnew Moyer Smith, Inc.    >     Attendees TBA.  Pittsburgh, PA.

Graphic Design | Industrial Design | Information Design | Interaction Design

Agnew Moyer Smith is a communication and graphic design firm that specializes in solving communication design problems for corporations, government, and other institutions. Our specialized areas of concentration are computer interface design, information design, identity programs and names, marketing support and promotion, product packaging, sign systems, and environmental graphic design. Our clients can be found throughout the United States.

Interviewing for full time & summer internship positions.
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Body Media    >     Chris Kasabach.  Pittsburgh, PA.

Industrial Design | Interaction Design

As industry experts in wearable body monitoring, BodyMedia offers the most precise and comprehensive way to collect, store, process, and present powerful physiological and lifestyle information, such as calories burned, activity level, and sleep states - continuously and accurately.
Reviewing portfolios.
For detailed position descriptions, click here.
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Brady Communications    >     John Brady.  Pittsburgh, PA.

Graphic Design | Interaction Design

Brady Communications is a nationally renowned marketing communications firm located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1981, our firm has established a reputation for providing high quality communications solutions to corporate clientele. The firm's creativity and communications skills apply to both print and interactive media, and extend across a variety of delivery vehicles such as identity, annual reports, branding, packaging, Web development, multimedia presentations, kiosks, handheld applications and more. Beyond our expertise in these areas, the firm also believes in providing a high level of client support and excels at delivering total, turnkey solutions.

Full time & summer internship positions available (see site).
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Catapult Thinking    >     Jeff Pacione, Creative Catalyst, Partner.  Boston, MA.

Graphic Design | Writing

Catapult Thinking is a design innovation group that develops brand strategies, expresses brand attributes, and guides user experiences through printed and interactive communications, across environments, and via product and service design.

We develop compelling product stories for forward-thinking consumer and business-to-business brands. By unifying customer journeys through informed design we help companies create more effective, more memorable brand experiences.

Interviewing for full time positions.
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CorchiaWolinerRhoda     >     Todd Rhoda, Managing Partner.  New York, NY.

Graphic Design | Information Design | Interaction Design | Research | Database

CorchiaWolinerRhoda is an award-winning web, logo and graphic design firm with a reputation for delivering visually-intelligent, technologically-sound web sites and dynamically-designed print and logo solutions on time and on budget.

The key to the success of their sites is treating - design and technology as equally creative - with an emphasis on the end user.

CorchiaWolinerRhoda boasts one of the most accomplished portfolios and strongest clientele on the eastern seaboard and has designed for every business category including: real estate, financial services, private equity, insurance, recreation, consumer, pharmaceutical, consulting and government.

Interviewing candidates both for summer internships and full-time positions.
Not hiring for summer internships for design, but maybe for full-time designers.
Would be especially interested in candidates that can program in these languages: ASP, SQL, .net, XML.

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Ebay, User Experience & Design
    >     Heather Winkle and Micah Alpern, Senior UI Designers.  New York, NY.

Interaction Design | Graphic Design | Information Design

For detailed position descriptions, click here.
We enjoy our work and we'll be the first to admit it! We think it's because we are doing something that has never been done before. Creating this incredible new space where buyers and sellers come together to exchange just about anything. What we've done at eBay is promote the growth of communities where people can share similiar interests about things they have or want.

Interviewing for full time and summer internship positions.
For detailed position descriptions, click here.
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Insight Product Development
    >     Matt Jordan, Senior Manager, Research/Interface. Chicago, IL.

Graphic Design | Industrial Design | Information Design
Interaction Design | Research


Insight is a 14-year old product design and development firm with offices in Chicago and Boston. Our clients include some of the prestigious companies in the world, including Baxter Healthcare, Hewlett Packard, Whirlpool, Newell-Rubbermaid and Microsoft, as well as many other leading and emerging firms.

At Insight, we have assembled one of the most multi-talented, award-winning teams in the country, providing extensive expertise in industrial design, engineering, user research, interface development and prototyping. We combine our extensive experience with the in-depth insight that has become synonymous with our work.

We become partners with our clients, viewing ourselves as an extension of their in-house team, and integrating smoothly within their development system. Our commitment to talent, tools, and technology allows us to offer turn-key development solutions to help our clients bring their products to market quickly and cost-effectively.

Interviewing for summer internship positions.
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Joel Katz Design & Associates    >     William Bardel, Designer. Philadelphia, PA.

Information Design

Joel Katz Design Associates is a Philadelphia-based team of graphic and information designers with a broad base of experience in wayfinding programs, environmental and interpretive design, visual identity, print, cartographic and diagrammatic explanations, and web-based design. Our clients range from small businesses to corporations, institutions and public organizations to large municipalities.

We believe that pursuing a wide range of information design projects enhances our expertise in all the areas in which we work. It also keeps us inspired, interested and engaged with the world at large. We are committed to making complex information accessible.

Interviewing for freelance and summer internship positions.
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Johnson & Johnson     >     Jim O'Neill. Skillman, NJ.
Industrial Design | Communication Design | Packaging Design

Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical and medical devices and diagnostics markets. Johnson & Johnson has more than 200 operating companies in 57 countries around the world employing 110,600 employees and selling products in more than 175 countries. The fundamental objective of Johnson & Johnson is to provide scientifically sound, high quality products and services to help heal, cure disease and improve the quality of life. This is a goal that began with the Company's founding in 1886.

Interviewing for two summer internship positions.
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Maya Viz, Ltd.    >     Rudy Berk, Director of Information Design. Pittsburgh, PA.

Graphic Design | Information Design | Interaction Design
Research | Dynamic Data Visualizaiton


Separate from Maya Design, MAYA Viz develops visualization software that helps people make better decisions more quickly. We're the offspring of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and product designers and consultants from MAYA Design. Our software developers and information designers create products based on advanced research into how people make decisions, work together, and interact with information.

Hiring the right people is one of the most important decisions we make. Our reputation for state-of-the-art solutions is a direct result of the innovative thinking by our people. Our information designers integrate a number of disciplines: visual design, human-computer interaction design, information architecture, user ethnography, and product management.

Interviewing for full time and summer internship positions.
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Meta4    >     Joan Link, Principle. Chicago, IL.
Graphic Design

Since 1989, Meta-4 Design has found dramatic ways to convey important messages. We plan and design integrated communications for corporations and public institutions.

Our work includes brand identities, annual reports, employee communications, Web site & Flash and exhibits. This experience, coupled with strong partnerships in several key disciplines extends our strategic and creative reach well beyond traditional graphic design.

Reviewing portfolios.
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Microsoft Corporation    >     John Schilling, Product Design Lead.   Redmond, WA.

Interaction Design | Research

Imagine having the resources to influence tomorrow's reality today, and having fun while you do it. That's Microsoft. We're looking for people who think big and dream big - people a lot like you. If you're ready to discover just how far your talents can take you, we invite you to explore this site. From there, how far you go is up to you.

Interviewing for full time positions.
For detailed position descriptions, click here.
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Morningstar    >     David Williams, David Silva. Chicago, IL.

Graphic Design | Interaction Design

Morningstar, Inc. is a global investment research firm whose mission is to help investors make better decisions to reach their financial goals. Based in Chicago, the company offers an extensive line of print, software, and Web-based products and services for individual investors, professional financial advisors, and institutions.

Reviewing portfolios.
For more detailed information about Morningstar, click here.
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Razorfish    >     Shannon Ford, Director, User Experience. Chicago, IL.

Graphic Design| Information Design | Interaction Design | Research

Keen insight and visionary thinking are needed to create applications where interaction with technology replaces interaction with people.

Our design process is anchored in user research to uncover actionable insights into user behavior. By marrying this insight with creative inspiration, we are able to design experiences that work the way users expect them to work.

We employ a rigorous analytics methodology to track, measure, and analyze how users interact with our solutions. This analysis is used to continuously optimize our solutions over time to drive further adoption and deliver more business value.

Reviewing portfolios.
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Trilogy    >     Carrice Delo. Austin, TX.

Graphic Design | Interaction Design | Information Design

Trilogy Software, Inc., founded in 1989, is among the world's largest privately held software companies and a leading provider of industry-specific enterprise software for the automotive, communications, computer hardware, and insurance industries. Trilogy solutions enable companies to develop, market and sell products more quickly and profitably.
Reviewing portfolios.
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VSA Partners, Inc.    >     Mark Oldach. Chicago, IL.

Graphic Design | Interaction Design | Human Factors

VSA Partners, Inc. is a strategic design and creative branding consultancy, creating digital and print-based solutions for some of the world's leading companies. Founded in 1982, VSA has built an international reputation for creative excellence, helping organizations of all kinds with large-scale, complex branding assignments.

Among our positions, the creative positions and the strategy positions are distinct and different, but the designer is a better designer if he/she understands strategy, and the strategists are more valuable if they understand the designer mindset and competencies and approaches. While there are not any specific positions currently open at the time, we welcome these kind of interviews, so that when things do open up, we have insight regarding candidates. It would be great if students identify areas of interest and strength when we talk.
Reviewing portfolios.
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Whirlpool, Corporation    >     Renee Garnham, Senior Designer. Benton Harbor, MI.

Graphic Design | Industrial Design | Interaction Design | Human Factors

What's it like to create something that touches the lives of millions of people? What's it like to invent the next big thing? What's it like to have an idea go from your mind's eye into countless homes around the world? Want to find out?

Join the innovators at Whirlpool and begin a career bigger than anything you've ever imagined. The world's leading manufacturer of home appliances, we have opportunities you never knew existed. We have your chance to reach into every home... everywhere across the globe.

Also see the Whirlpool Careers website.
Interviewing for full time and summer internship positions.
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WQED Multimedia   >   Mark Maskarik.   Pittsburgh, PA.
Production

Founded in 1954, WQED was the country's first community-owned television station and became a production center of national programs for the Public Broadcasting Service. Our mission is to provide educational, cultural and informational products and services that enhance and engage the community.

Reviewing portfolios.
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