“The 3x3s are an essential link in the chain of offerings from the graphic design program at Art Center that enable our students to understand what is expected of them creatively and professionally.
“The format encourages interesting juxtapositions that spark deeper thinking. These exchanges between the presenters often create significant personal meaning to the attendees.”
– Petrula Vrontikis
past topics and presenters
3×3: The Smartest Guys in the Room
An Evening to Examine the Power of Media
Erich Joiner, Director, Tool of North America
Dave Bullock, Lead Developer at Crowdrise, Faculty at Art Center, and Founder of eecue
Peter Lunenfeld, Professor, UCLA Design Media Arts
3X3: YO | LAI | DO
Three Bad-Ass Creative Directors Shaping LA’s Motion, Interaction and Branding Scene
Yo Santosa, Founder & Creative Director, Ferroconcrete
David Lai, CEO/Creative Director, Hello Design
Chris Do, Founder/ECD, Bl:ND
3×3: OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Design)
Jen Bilik, Founder KNOCK KNOCK
Ara Devejian, Creative Director, LOGAN
Greg Lindy, Design Director, Owner, Lux Typographic + Design
3×3: Reboot Retail
Owen Gee, Founder of Commodity Goods
Mike Peck, Creative Director at Starbucks
Jaime Mc Farland, Designer and Documentarian
3×3: Creative Entrepreneurs: Inventing and Influencing
Shepard Fairey, Artist, Activist and Founder, OBEY GIANT ART and Studio Number One
Lynda Weinman, Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com
Spencer Nikosey, Founder, KILLSPENCER
3×3: The Past, Present and Future of Web Design
Maria Giudice, Director of Product Design at Facebook
John Chambers, Digital Guru, Author, Puppeteer and Art Center College of Design Faculty
Marshall Rake, Co-Founder of Public Library
Nomads, Heretics, and Do-Gooders: Graphic Design’s New Normal (for AIGA Los Angeles)
Nicole Jacek, Founder, NJ(L.A.)™
Nikolaus Hafermaas, Chief Creative Officer UEBERALL, Chair, Graphic Design at Art Center College of Design
Matthew Manos, Founder, Verynice
3×3: Get Physical, Media in Space
Joachim Sauter, Founder and Design Director at ART+COM, Professor at Berlin University of The Arts
Rebeca Méndez, Designer, Artist and Professor of Design, UCLA Design Media Arts
Christian Moeller, Architect, Artist and Professor
3×3: Trends in Packaging and Interaction
Chris Hacker, Chief Design Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Maggie Hendrie, Strategy Director, UX Designer, Educator
James Chu, Product Designer, Branding Strategist, Educator
3×3: Transmedia Design
Aaron Koblin, Google Media Labs
Dan Goods Visual Strategist, JPL
Brad Bartlett, Art Center College of Design
3×3: Why Grad School?
Anne Burdick, Chair, Graduate Media Design Program Art Center College of Design
Ramone Muñoz, Professor, Art Center College of Design
Mike Neal, Freelance Design Writer and Critic
3×3: Graphic Design Off The Page
Jakob Trollbäck, Founder, Trollbäck + Company
Nik Hafermaas, Art Center College of Design
Jason Brush, Schematic
3×3: The Design Process: 3 Ways to Get From Point A to Point B
Roshi Givechi, IDEO
Sean Donahue, Art Center College of Design
Michelle Dougherty, Imaginary Forces
3×3: Taking your Product or Service to Market
Jen Bilik, KNOCK KNOCK
Dustin Arnold, DustinArnold.com
Mateo Neri, creationorange.com
3×3: Media Agnostics: Print, 3D, Digital …Whatever!
Adam Brodsley, Volume
Carolina Trigo, Emogenic
Alice Ann Wilson, SS+K
3×3: Where Are Books Going?
Anne Burdick, Chair, Graduate Media Design Program, Art Center College of Design
Jim Heimann, Executive Editor/Taschen America
Bruce Sterling, Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger and Technology Journalist
3×3: Interactive Influences
Brian Channell, Sr. Director UED, Yahoo! Media
David Lai, CEO/Creative Director, Hello Design
Tanja Diezmann, Director Interaction/Interface Design, Art Center College of Design
3×3: The Hybrid Designer/Artist: Two Great Things That Go Great Together
Betsy Davis, queenofplastics.com
Josh Trees, wefakeid.com
Stefan G. Bucher, 344design.com
3×3: Inside-Out: Running an In-house Design Studio
Gerardo Herrera, Nokia Design Center
Michael Lejeune, Creative Director, Metro Design Studio
Haines Wilkerson, W Communications
3×3: Worth 1000 Words Writing About Design
Tom Biederbeck, Editor, STEP Inside Design Magazine
Peter Lunenfeld, Ph.D., Editorial Director, MIT Mediawork Series
Alissa Walker, Freelance Design Writer