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Loutopia: Exhibit A
A Pop-Up Experience that Blends Creativity, Nature, and Local Sustainable Impact.
The Making of Meaning with Francesco Zorzi
Francesco Zorzi is an Italian illustrator and visual designer based in Tuscany, Italy. He's Head of Communication Design at Srisa, Firenze; and a Guest Faculty Professor of Design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts of Washington University in St. Louis.
Join Francesco Zorzi as he speaks about his design process, creating meaning in illustration, and living in a medieval city of rich artistic history. His work have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Lincoln Center, The New York Observer, Penguin Random House, and NPR. Special projects include an illustrated visual identity for the italian startup Isendu, from its logo to the murals of Isendu's headquarters - an entire palazzo in Florence, featured in Print Magazine.
Francesco Zorzi is represented by Ella Lupo at Purple Rain Illustrators.
His visit to St. Louis has been sponsored by CARTEL and the MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture Program at Sam Fox School of Design.
Limited seats available.
Championing Female Leadership in Marketing & Design with Mio
Join us for an empowering leadership panel featuring a remarkable line-up of accomplished women, each boasting over two decades of expertise in their respective fields.
Each leader will give a brief overview of their career path in marketing from post-grad, to the leadership roles they hold today, along with the career advice they have gained through the years in this ever-changing profession.
This panel promises a dynamic exchange of insights, an exploration of evolving industry trends, and actionable wisdom that will resonate with marketing professionals at every career stage.
Agenda
Arrival / Question Submission 5:30 pm
Panel Discussion: 6-7 pm
Networking Happy Hour 7-8 pm
Speakers include:
Sarah Gaffney, Mio Strategy & Design, Creative Director & Founder
Lara Reed, Pan Galactic Digital, President & Founder
Teresa Sausville, Nestle Purina, Checkmark, Executive Creative Director
Brooke Friedman, Eversana, Group Director, Strategic Planning
Sarita Moody, Origin Agency, Creative Account Manager
Moderated by Julie Buschmann Wood, Partner/CMO at Origin Agency
Sponsored by:
@mioagency
Studio Tour: Slalom
Welcome to Slalom St. Louis! Come hang out and check out our workspace. Chat, snack, and participate in conversational activities like sharing your Design Hot Takes and discussing Design Maturity.
Can’t wait to see you there!
About Slalom:
Slalom is a purpose-led, global business and technology consulting company. From strategy to implementation, our approach is fiercely human. In eight countries and 45 markets, we deeply understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact.
Our people-first approach to design at Slalom unlocks the world of possibilities for our clients, leaving a lasting positive impact on their customers. We bring passionate curiosity and empathy to our problem solving at the intersection of design, technology, and business. We question, we iterate endlessly, and we solution along a journey of customer strategy and experience design to co-create our clients’ vision for the future.
Studio Tour: Jacobs
Our strategists, planners, architects, interiors, designers, engineers, managers, and constructors together provide strategic leadership, design innovation and project execution across the globe for government, commercial, institutional, and industrial clients across diverse markets and services.
As a global multi-disciplinary organization, Jacobs’ approach to the future of work leverages an activity framework for decision making and purposeful choice.
Experience our people-centric approach to workplace, prioritizing user experience and the qualitative aspects of work.
Studio Tour: Nestle Purina Checkmark
Checkmark (CKMK) is the creative resource of Nestlé Purina. We have been in existence for more than 30 years and have continued to adapt and grow to best serve our company and our consumers. As an in-house agency, we share the values of Nestlé Purina and work every day to celebrate and fuel the incredible relationship between pets and their people.
Beyond If Roundtable with Jacobs
Challenging today is Jacobs’ response to the increasing complexity our world is experiencing.
It calls on us to join forces, putting our knowledge and imagination together to reinvent the way we solve problems and shape the next generation of innovative thinkers.
From our global footprint, brand affiliations, and local offices our philosophy works at scale to deliver the important solutions that affect each one of us and the planet we share.
Join our team for lunch and an interactive discussion. We have gathered Jacobs Discipline Leaders, Subject Matter Experts, and Passionate Design Enthusiasts to share their insights, highlight active projects, and introduce conceptual designs. Come prepared to embrace thinking differently.
Reinventing tomorrow is not just a tagline. It’s an invitation to raise the bar in everything we do. Whether we are collaborating to uncover innovative solutions with our clients or fostering an open and inclusive culture for our people, the goal is to make a positive difference in our communities.
MO Art Supply Block Printing Party
Visit the brand new MO Art Supply on Delmar!
Stop by MO Art Supply on Wednesday, October 4th for an interactive block printing demo and a huge relief (print) for Design Week! Press your own poster or canvas bag and get colorful at MO Art Supply from 11-3.