Speakers

Josiah Brooks (aka Jazza) is an artist, animator, social media personality, author, and television presenter. In 2004 he founded Jazza Studios, which produces freelance animation and art as well as encompassing a successful website selling eBooks and digital art resources. He is the face and creative mind behind the YouTube channel 'Draw With Jazza' which currently has over 750,000 subscribers and over 50 million video views. His channel focuses on creativity, art and animation using Photoshop, Animate CC and traditional materials. The channel’s numbers continue to grow due to his popular art style, technical knowledge and relatable personality. His social media presence on other platforms has also grown, with over 30,000 Twitch followers on his Twitch channel ‘Live With Jazza’. Josiah has a 'How to Draw' book on the shelves before Christmas and is also doing some television presenting. He presented and co-created a children’s television art show, 'Cartoon It Up' produced by the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

https://www.youtube.com/DrawWithJazza

Filmmaker and online personality Sara Dietschy creates inspiring video content for her self-titled YouTube channel, which now has over of 100,000 subscribers. Her channel includes mini documentary films exploring the lives of creative types, travel vlogs, and ‘edu-taining’ tutorials. During the Residency, she’ll focus on taking her “Creative Spaces TV” video series to the next level by continuing to amplify her work across social media channels and pursuing new mediums for sharing her art.

Diane Domeyer is executive director of The Creative Group (TCG), a specialized staffing service placing interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals. When she’s not managing operations for TCG’s locations across North America or speaking and tweeting about career and workplace trends, you can find her on a bike or spending time with her husband, five kids and grandchildren. As a 24-year veteran in the staffing industry, Diane has been interviewed by numerous publications, including the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and more. She also has been named by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential women for six consecutive years and “Forever Influential” in 2013.

Geoff Dowd is a designer, product developer and creative leader, dedicated to helping teams turn "What if?" ideas into 1.0 hits. He lives at the design intersection of hardware, software and services, believing that the holistic design effort is the toughest, but also the most rewarding. Knowing that the first step is prototyping – prototyping your idea in any way possible – Dowd has spoken and led workshops to hundreds of creative professionals and students, giving them tools to make their ideas happen. Most recently, Dowd served as Head of UX with Project Aura – a Google "bet". His work there is secret for now. Before his time with Google, Dowd served as Director, Experience Design with Adobe. It is here that he oversaw the creation of Adobe's Design and Drawing products – from nimble mobile apps that enable digital sampling of colors, shapes and brushes, to recharging Adobe's flagship desktop products for the next generation of designers – including the new design and prototyping app, Adobe Experience Design CC. It is with Adobe that Dowd first discovered his love for hardware design as he led the conception, development, and launch of Adobe's first-ever consumer electronic hardware product, Adobe Ink & Slide – real tools for drawing on the iPad.

For over 15 years Stephen has worked to create the strategy, concepting and design for award-winning integrated global advertising campaigns, building multiple global Fortune 500 brands and innovative digital experiences for web sites, mobile apps, wearables, global social media platforms and emerging technologies. He has lead world-class teams to create groundbreaking ideas for clients including American Airlines, W Hotels, Disney, ExxonMobil, Acura, Nationwide Insurance, Verizon, St. Regis Hotels, Subaru and many others.

http://www.stephengates.com

Graphic designer and hand letterer Christine Herrin, of San Francisco, California, is obsessed with stories, paper, and print. Travel and her passion for documenting her experiences have always been a central theme in her work as a designer, especially in the line of products she’s been creating for the past few years. Christine is currently working on a design-rich travel journal meant to inspire people to document their lives in creative, meaningful ways, while her Instagram challenges entice others to use images, words, and illustration to chronicle life’s most interesting moments.

christineherrin.com

James Lockman is a Principal Cloud Architect at Adobe, focusing on integrations between Adobe’s Creative, Document and Marketing Clouds. Prior to joining Adobe, he ran his own consulting firm, providing training and consulting services around Adobe tools and services. He also owned and operated a variable data marketing services company. James has a long history in print, publishing and marketing automation. He is a frequent contributor to Adobe’s Developer Network, writing about mobile technology and Enterprise creative and marketing workflows. He blogs at blogs.adobe.com/jlockman, and you can find him on twitter @jameslockman James can also be heard as a Game Announcer for FIRST Robotics competitions. He lives in Maine with his wife and three sons, where he enjoys making maple syrup and playing the tuba.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jlockman

Jerry Silverman is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Creative Cloud at Adobe Systems Federal. With over 15 years experience producing applications, websites, graphics and videos for a diverse body of corporate, broadcast, retail, e-learning and sales training companies, Jerry is an evangelist and instructor of Adobe's Digital Media tools, sharing his expertise and passion for technology with knowledge workers and educators across North America. As an Adobe Certified Expert with proficiencies in Design and Web applications, Jerry is a frequent presenter at Adobe customer events and industry conferences, offering demonstrations and tutorials to designers, developers, IT managers, professional trainers and coaches.

Becky Simpson is an illustrator, author, designer and founder of Chipper Things, a paper and lifestyle brand that celebrates play. As a 2015-2016 Adobe Creative Resident, Becky spent the year learning how to build and manage this online store that features over 70 products with her illustrations. Becky is also the author and illustrator of I’d Rather Be Short. Her work has been featured on HOW Design, The Great Discontent, Design Milk, Refinery29, Adobe Create and more. Becky lives, illustrates and eats tacos in Austin, Texas.

Appropriately dubbed an “illustr-animator,” Syd Weiler of Sarasota, Florida finds inspiration in everyday life and the seemingly mundane. She works completely digitally, preferring her Microsoft Surface over a blank sheet of paper. While Syd learned most of what she knows in college and through her experience as a designer for forthcoming indie video game Jenny LeClue, she’s steadily grown a passionate online community that’s enthused about her continued work on “Before & After,” a series of digital illustrations depicting places in two different states of being side by side in order to explore the concept of time.

With a background in multimedia and 3D design, Craig Winslow of Portland, Oregon spent the past few years building his own studio and creating interactive work for clients. His Kickstarter project, Projecting West, inspired his latest idea of recreating ghost signs across the U.S. using “Light Capsules” and historical references. The goal of the project is to draw attention to the lettering artists of the past and create various ways for people to interact with these pieces of history, in person and online. Craig’s work has been featured in The Creators Project, Core77, Gizmodo, and more.

http://craigwinslow.com

Abhinav Agarwal is the Product Manager for InDesign. He has been with Adobe (and InDesign) for close to a year now. Prior to joining Adobe, he worked as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, India. Abhinav is an engineer and MBA by education. Though he has no prior experience in Graphics Design and Layouting, he remains committed to learning more about this industry. As the Product Manager, he collaborates with customers to solicit their feedback on InDesign and works with engineering team to ensure that InDesign continues to improve and is able to excite customers with every new release.

Jessi Arrington is a designer who taps into the power of unexpected joy. As co-founder of the Brooklyn-based experience design studio WORKSHOP she produces projects with love for clients like Etsy, Cultivated Wit, and TED. Jessi is an integral part of the team behind the super successful Brooklyn Beta, a web conference aimed at the “work hard and be nice to people” crowd, and Brooklyn Derby the largest Kentucky Derby party outside of Kentucky. She draws inspiration from her friends at Small City the Gowanus coworking space she helped found. She makes a point of never buying new clothes, and her TED talk on that topic has been viewed over 1 million times. Jessi’s belief is that people should consciously design their lives and careers to exploit their unique creative traits – not only accepting, but celebrating, what makes each of us different, weird and special.

workshoplovesyou.com

Amy Balliett is the CEO and co-founder of Killer Infographics, a Seattle-based industry leader in visual communication. She owned her first company, a candy store and ice cream parlor, at the age of 17 before heading off for college. She subsequently built a successful career in SEO and marketing, and has headed up SEO at several companies. In 2009, she partnered with Nick Grant to build lead-gen-based websites, but in the fall of 2010, the business pivoted to an entirely new model: infographic design. In the years since, Killer Infographics has grown to become an industry leader, driving visual communication campaigns for nonprofits and Fortune500 clients including Microsoft, Boeing, Adobe, Nikon, Starbucks, the National Endowment for the Arts, the United Nations, and more.

http://www.killerinfographics.com

Sergio Baradat graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York with a BA in Illustration. As an illustrator, photographer and designer, Sergio has won awards of excellence from major design institutions including AIGA, Print, American Illustration, American Photography, Society of Illustrators. Sergio’s clients have included: AT&T, ITT, NFL, Condé Nast, Esteé Lauder, Swatch, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, GQ, Newsweek, Doubleday, St.Martins Press, Harper Collins, Simon&Schuster, and Random House. Sergio taught illustration and design from ‘92-‘04 at Parsons in NY. He is responsible for the illustration and design of postage stamps for the United States and the United Nations where he currently serves as Creative Director. His work is represented in the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Institution and National Postal Museum, AIGA Design Archives, Cooper Hewitt Museum, The Cuban Heritage Collection and The White House.

baradat.com

David Blatner is the world's most recognized authority on Adobe InDesign, the founder of InDesign Magazine, the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com, the producer of The InDesign Conference, and the co-author of "Real World InDesign." He is also the author of "InDesign Essential Training" and a dozen other video titles at Lynda.com. When he's not helping people master InDesign, Blatner writes about a wide variety of topics, such as his popular science book "Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity." You can learn more about David at 63p.com or follow him at @dblatner

http://cpn.co

Let Illustrator veteran and training support manager Sebastian Bleak show you his top techniques to get the most from the tools and enhance your creativity in Illustrator. Sebastian is Graphic Scientist at Astute Graphics, the leading innovators of imaginative tools for designers that significantly save time, increase precision and enhance the creative process when using Adobe Illustrator. Although Sebastian specializes in Adobe Illustrator, his focus is on the Creative Cloud workflow for graphic designers. Follow his weekly project "Never Stop Learning," where he studies different Adobe tools and shares his findings with the design community. He has been demonstrating his passion for over 250 weeks and the majority of tools studied are in Illustrator and Photoshop.

http://astutegraphics.com/

Long on the bleeding edge of design and publishing technology, Diane Burns is an author, trainer and consultant. She is founder of San Francisco-based TransPacific Digital, a leading print and digital localization company. An Adobe Community Professional and an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, she provides custom training and consulting services to a wide variety of corporations and publishing companies. She is the author of several InDesign courses for Lynda.com, including Publish Online with InDesign and Creating Animations with Adobe InDesign CC. For more information, visit www.dianeburns.com.

Tad Carpenter is a designer, illustrator, author and educator based in Kansas City, Missouri. Carpenter co-runs the design and branding studio, Carpenter Collective with his wife, Jessica where they focus on bringing powerful messages to life through branding, packaging, illustration and design. They have worked with clients ranging from Target, Coca-Cola, Macy’s, Old Navy, Conan O'Brien, Adobe and MTV among many others. Carpenter has worked with numerous bands on posters and tour campaigns for over 10 years, including John Mayer, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Paul McCartney and Dave Matthews Band to name a few. Carpenter has written and illustrated over a dozen children's books in our marketplace today intended for adults and children of all ages. Tad also currently teaches graphic design at the University of Kansas.

Chad Chelius is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Adobe Community Professional based in the Philly area. As a trainer and consultant, he helps clients to learn, use, and get the most out of Adobe products. He has helped major publishing clients to implement Adobe software into their business processes and has assisted them in streamlining their workflows. As an author, he has written and co-written several books and created multiple videos for Lynda.com on Adobe software. He also writes articles featured in InDesign Magazine, CreativePro.com, and InDesignSecrets.com. Chad is also the Managing Editor of InCopySecrets.com.

http://www.cheliusgraphicservices.com

Sandee Cohen spent 20 years writing TV, radio, and print advertising for clients including Panasonic, Mattel, American Express, ABC News, Unilever, P&G (Procter and Gamble), and Pfizer Inc. In 1989 she left advertising to teach art directors and designers how to use “the machine” as Macintosh computers were known. In 1999 she was approached by Adobe Systems to beta test K-2, which was released as Adobe InDesign. From there she wrote the first InDesign Visual Quickstart Guide, which has solds hundreds of thousands of copies all over the world. She is the only non-Adobe employee to have written on all versions of InDesign. She has taught for numerous private computer graphics schools as well as Parson’s School of Design, New School University, and Cooper Union. He private clients include Ralph Lauren, Tiffany & Co., HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Hearst Corporation. In addition to authoring the InDesign VQS, she has recently written Creating Animations with Adobe InDesign CC, and is the co-author, with Diane Burns, of Digital Publishing with InDesign CC. She has also written books and articles on Acrobat, Illustrator, FreeHand, PageMaker, and QuarkXPress. 2016 will be her third time speaking at Adobe MAX. However, she was a speaker when MAX was still part of Macromedia. She is thrilled to see the advancements in interactivity and animations for InDesign.

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción is a digital publishing expert. She owns Chicago-based Seneca Design & Training, a cross-media design studio that develops print, PDF, and ebook projects for clients. Anne-Marie is also a certified Adobe independent trainer and consultant specializing in InDesign-centric publishing workflows, InCopy integration, and publishing to EPUB, Kindle, PDF, and iBooks Author formats. She has authored over 20 courses on Lynda.com on these topics and others. Anne-Marie is also the co-founder and CEO of the Creative Publishing Network, which produces the InDesignSecrets.com blog and podcast, InDesign Magazine, CreativePro.com, and industry conferences including The InDesign Conference, the CreativePro Conference, and PePcon: The Print + ePublishing Conference. Keep up with Anne-Marie by subscribing to her ezine, HerGeekness Gazette, and contact her by email at [email protected] or on Twitter @amarie.

http://indesignsecrets.com

As Principal Manager for Creative Cloud Evangelism at Adobe Systems with an affinity for creative technology, Rufus Deuchler has established himself as a leader in a very specialized arena. With more than 25 years of experience as a corporate and editorial designer, he is an expert in creative workflows with Adobe solutions.

Adobe.com

Located in the mighty Pacific Northwest, the Draplin Design Co. proudly rolls up its sleeves on a number of projects related to the Print, Identity and Illustration categories. We make stuff for Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Field Notes, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Timberline, Chunklet, Incase, Giro, Cobra Dogs, Burton Snowboards, Dawes, Patagonia, Target, Megafaun, Danava, Old 97s, Sub Pop, Poler, Ford Motor Company, Woolrich and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that. We pride ourselves on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps us up late into the wet Portland night.

http://www.draplin.com

Will Eisley is a Principle Product Manager at Adobe responsible for creative mobile apps including Illustrator Draw, Photoshop Sketch and Comp CC. He joined the company in 1997 and has worked on Adobe’s design apps including Illustrator and the first versions of InDesign through CS5. He left Adobe in 2010 to pursue a degree in Baking and Pastry Arts which had been a long-time passion. He rejoined Adobe in 2012 to help define and drive Adobe’s next set of mobile apps.

As a Senior Product Manager at Adobe, Dave Ericksen and his team build amazing mobile apps for creativity. Dave's products have won numerous awards including IxDA's Interaction Design Award, Communication Arts Design Award, MediaPost Appy Award and more. With more than 10 years of experience building products for designers, he is an expert in mobile apps and design.

www.adobe.com

Martina Flor combines her talents as a designer and illustrator in the drawing of letters. Based in Berlin, she runs a leading studio in lettering and custom typography, working globally for clients such us The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Harper Collins, Fontshop, Monotype, Etsy, and Cosmopolitan, among others. With a master in Type Design from The Royal Academy of Arts in The Netherlands under her belt, she dedicates a big part of her time to teaching lettering and type design in and outside of Europe. She is the author of Lust auf Lettering, published in 2016 by Verlag Hermann Schmidt (to be released next in English as The Golden Secrets of Lettering by Princeton Architectural Press) and travels quite a bit to present her work at conferences and to hold workshops that help designers grow their set of skills.

Nigel French is a graphic designer, trainer, and photographer based in Lewes, Sussex, UK. He is the author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign (Adobe Press), and more than fifty titles in the Lynda.com online training library. He also writes a type-related column for InDesign Magazine. This is his third year speaking at Adobe MAX.

http://www.nigelfrench.com

James Fritz graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. After beginning his professional life as a designer for a variety of clients, he became hooked on helping others learn. Over time he became an Adobe Certified Design Master and began teaching, speaking and writing worldwide. Today he is the senior manager of content at Lynda.com/Linkedin and spends his time helping the world learn creative skills.

https://www.lynda.com

Robert Generette III is an illustrator, educator and self-proclaimed "vector art monster" based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. Under the pseudonym Rob Zilla III, he uses an iPad to create compelling sport illustrations and portraitures for clients ranging from Nike Baseball, NASCAR, Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Major League Soccer (L.A. Galaxy & D.C. United), Wacom and Adobe. Rob attributes his success to experience, layer management, the will to try new things and his vast knowledge of Adobe mobile applications.

Mordy Golding, Director of Content for Lynda.com at LinkedIn, is a 5-time Adobe MAX Master presenter who has published over 50 online video courses and books covering Adobe software and related design topics. Mordy was the Illustrator product manager at Adobe from 2001-2004. With a background in typesetting, art production, and graphic design, Mordy has traveled the world helping creative professionals use tools and technology to help them express their creative vision. As a consultant, Mordy worked with Nike, The New York Times, Random House, Cabelas, Victoria’s Secret, Sesame Workshop, Coach, The NBA, Scientific American, USA Today, among others. Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ (formerly Publish! Magazine), and a Road Warrior MVP by American Way Magazine.

Nathan Goldman initially joined artistic forces with future DKNG partner Dan Kuhlken in high school where they designed album artwork and collateral for the rock band in which they both performed. Nathan graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Film & Television and later worked in the art department at Warner Bros. Television. Prior to joining DKNG as a full-time Creative Director, Nathan served as Director of Design at the USC Design Studio. DKNG has found a niche in linking a personal and unique aesthetic to the world’s most talented and iconic musical artists, brands, and businesses including Eric Clapton, SXSW, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Hyundai, and HBO. Nathan and Dan are popular guest presenters to graphic design organizations across the country, teach several online courses, and can be heard as regulars on the “Adventures in Design” podcast.

http://www.dkngstudios.com

Timothy Goodman is a designer, illustrator, and author running his own studio in New York City. His clients include Airbnb, Google, Adobe, Ford, J.Crew, MoMA, Target, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He has received awards from almost all major design & illustration publications. In 2014, Timothy co-created the blog and book 40 Days of Dating with Jessica Walsh, that has received over 15 million unique visitors and whose film rights were optioned to Warner Bros. Timothy & Jessica recently finished their second social experiment, 12 Kinds of Kindness, which was featured in The New York Times. His writing series “Memories of a Girl I Never Knew” has exhibited at the concept store Colette in Paris, France, and his second book, Sharpie Art Workshop, came out last year. He teaches design at SVA in NYC.

http://www.tgoodman.com

Nick Grant is Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder of Killer Infographics, a Seattle-based leader in visual communications and the design of infographics, motion graphics, and interactive infographics. Nick is a California native who moved to Seattle after studying entrepreneurship in college. Nick worked in marketing and business development roles before setting off on his own to co-found a lead-generation venture and cost-per-acquisition site alongside Amy Balliett in 2009. By 2010, the infographics they had made to promote their websites had created such a buzz that other companies were asking the duo to design infographics for them — and that's how Killer Infographics was born.

Maria Grønlund is a Danish based graphic designer who specializes in branding and digital art. She’s a former classical musician, trained in singing opera and playing the piano. In her mid-thirties she started studying graphic design. From 2007 to 2010 she worked for a couple of creative bureaus in Aarhus, Denmark; she started to work as an independent graphic designer in 2010. Her work is especially known for her use of bright vibrant colors and her digital art using creative and innovative methods. Her design is colorful, simplistic and easy on the eye.

https://www.behance.net/MariaGroenlund

Dr Shelley Gruendler, founder of Type Camp, is a typographer, designer, and educator who teaches, lectures, and publishes internationally on typography and design. She holds a PHD and an MA in The History and Theory of Typography and Graphic Communication from the University of Reading, England and a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Graphic Design from North Carolina State University, United States. Shelley has presented at TypoBerlin, ATypI, TypeCon, How, and TEDX; has published articles in AdobeCreate, Communication Arts, How, and Slanted; and has judged international typography for Communication Arts amd Print, visual communication for Core77, and Canadian book design for the Alcuin Society. She loves traveling the world for Type Camp and is a proud member of Alphabettes.org.

http://www.typecamp.org

Mark Heaps snapped his first picture at the age of four. His grandmother provided him with a camera and film so he could explore the world around him. As he got older he picked up a guitar, a skateboard, and a can of spray paint and thrashed his way into the world of art and design. Today he's an Adobe Community Professional. He's the former Executive Director for Houndstooth Studio and has held lead positions with Duarte, Google, and Apple. Mark's images, and design solutions, have been utilized by a wide range of Fortune500 companies as well as boutique agencies. He is an author, instructor, teacher, entrepreneur and most importantly husband and father. He currently resides in Austin, Texas, as a workaholic operating under the web label @lifebypixels.

Ekene Ijeoma is a designer and artist. His work explores the artistic and humanistic properties of data, transforming them in poetic and pragmatic ways to change how we understand our world. He is a NYFA Fellow in Design, Urban Environments, and Architecture. He was featured in Adweek's Creative 100 "10 visual artists whose imagination and intellect will inspire you" and GOOD Magazine's GOOD 100 "people "tackling pressing global issues”. His interactive installation, ‘Wage Islands’ is about wage and housing inequality in NYC. It was exhibited at Storefront for Art and Architecture and featured in Huffington Post, Fusion, Vice and more. His interactive map ‘The Refugee Project’, about refugee migration around the world was nominated for and exhibited in Design Museum’s ‘Designs of the Year’ 2015 in London. It’s also been exhibited at galleries and museums including Annenberg Center for Photography, Neuberger Museum of Art, Istanbul Design Biennial and published in MoMA ‘Design and Violence’. He has presented at events and spaces including New Museum Ideas City, Chicago Architecture Biennial and International Center for Photography. Ekene has a BS in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology and a MA in Interaction Design from Domus Academy. He’s been a lecturer at The New School, New York University and critic at Yale and School for Visual Arts, visiting artist at Virginia Commonwealth University and School for Poetic Computation and an artist-in-residence at Fabrica and Ace Hotel. He was born in Fort Worth and lives and works in NYC.

http://www.ekeneijeoma.com

Javed is a Product Manager with InDesign team. He has been working with Adobe for over 7 years now. Prior to joining Adobe Javed completed his graduation in Computer Science and joined Adobe fresh out of College. He doesn’t have a design degree but over time he has gotten better with design, but there is still a long way to go. His current role is no different than other Product Managers at Adobe, where he interacts with customers and engineering to build the next version of InDesign.

http://www.adobe.com

Rorie has been a staff member of the United Nations for 19 years. As Creative Director at United Nations Postal Administration, she is responsible for the architecture of the United Nations Postage Stamp Programme. Rorie is the head of the UN Stamps Stamp Advisory Committee, which selects the topics and themes for the stamps each year. She has authority over which artists, illustrators, photographers, designers and artworks are selected to appear on UN stamps. Additionally she has control of the look and feel of the UN Stamps brand. Over the years she has designed and collaborated hundreds of postage stamps and philatelic products collected around the world. Dr. Seuss, autism speaks, UNESCO World Heritage sites, CITES Endangered Species are just a few of the organizations she has had the privilege of working with.

Dan Kuhlken learned to illustrate as a child observing wildlife at the San Diego Zoo. He met future business partner Nathan Goldman in high school where the team’s first collaboration included playing in a band for which the pair designed album artwork and promotional materials. Dan holds a graphic design degree from Cal State Long Beach. He began his freelance design career collaborating with Nathan Goldman on posters for the legendary Troubadour. Dan was a designer for Disney’s Consumer Products Division and various fashion labels before joining DKNG Studios full-time in 2009 where he currently serves as Creative Director and Senior Illustrator. DKNG has found a niche in linking a personal and unique aesthetic to the world’s most talented and iconic musical artists, brands, and businesses including The Black Keys, Jack White, Audi, Warner Brothers, Marvel Comics, Outside Lands Music Festival, and MTV.

www.dkngstudios.com

Chana Messer works independently at her design studio Mac in Art, offering the creative consulting, technical skills and art direction businesses need in order to achieve their goals. She contributes to the Creative Community with tutorials, advice and resources through her Adobe User Group, webinars, online venues and industry events. Chana is an Adobe Certified Expert, Adobe Partner, Adobe Community Professional,and an Adobe User Group Manager. As such she has been invited to present at Adobe events across the U.S. and overseas. Chana also has been teaching at the university level for 30+ years in the fields of Fine Art, Digital Imaging in the Departments of Visual Arts at UCLA. Photoshop Mentor at USC School of Cinematic Arts and is an Adobe ACA instructor at USC Annaberg School of Journalism.

http://www.chanamesser.com

Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator and brand strategist. She is the CMO of Sterling Brands, host of the award-winning podcast “Design Matters,” Chair of the world’s first Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, President Emeritus of AIGA, and the Editorial & Creative Director of Print Magazine. She is the author of six books on design and branding.

http://www.debbiemillman.com

Michael Ninness has 20+ years experience building and leading content strategy, product management, and user experience teams at Adobe, Microsoft, and Lynda.com. He is currently the Senior Director of Product Management for the Web and Graphic Design products at Adobe, including InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Muse.

Gemma O’Brien is an Australian artist specialising in lettering, illustration and typography. After completing a Bachelor of Design at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, Gemma worked as an art director at Animal Logic and Fuel VFX before deciding to fly solo as a commercial illustrator in 2012. Her typographic work takes on a variety of forms, from calligraphic brushwork, illustration and digital type, to large scale hand-painted murals. She splits her time between advertising commissions, gallery shows, speaking engagements, and hosting hand-lettering workshops around the world. Her clients include Playboy Magazine, Nike, Volcom Stone, Kirin, Westfield, Heineken, QANTAS, and Diet Coke. A number of her projects have received the Award of Typographic Excellence from the New York Type Directors Club, in 2015 she was recognised as an ADC Young Gun and in 2016, named one of PRINT Magazine’s New Visual Artists: 15 under 30.

http://www.gemmaobrien.com

Daniel Pelavin grew up in Detroit Michigan and began his career in local art studios. From his earliest work, produced with templates, french curves and drafting tools, to a present day virtuosity in digital media, Pelavin has used a restrained and simplified vocabulary of geometric forms, rich, flat colors and typography inspired by a wide range of 20th century ephemera. His mastery at combining stylistic elements from various historical periods while maintaining an unwavering focus on clarity has resulted in a body of work that is timeless and enduring. He has received recognition for illustration, typographic design and a singular ability to seamlessly combine the two. He began his journey into digital media at its onset and continues to play a pioneering role. Pelavin earned his BA in advertising and MFA in graphic design, but credits high school industrial arts classes and studio apprenticeship as his most valuable source of training and inspiration.

pelavin.com

A decade ago graphic designer and rock drummer Yves Peters started reviewing type in his Bald Condensed column on Typographer.org. In August 2008 he put his graphic design career on the back burner, freeing him to concentrate on his writing and related activities in the digital type business. After writing for Unzipped, his blog on the FontShop BeNeLux home page, Yves came to notoriety as the editor-in-chief for the international design and typography blog The FontFeed. He is now design writer and producer for FontShop News, news editor for Typographics magazine, and assists MyFonts and a number of independent foundries as copywriter and consultant. Yves tries to be critical about typography without coming across as a snob. His talent for being able to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life. Nicole A. Phillips from Typograph.Her said of Yves: ‘One of the best contemporary writers on typography, type design & culture because he makes his content accessible and easy to understand.’

http://fontshop.com/people/yves-peters

Thomas Phinney is President of FontLab, secretary of the global type association ATypI, and an 11-year Adobe veteran (lastly Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography). His typefaces include Hypatia Sans, an Adobe Original. Thomas teaches type design and font tools worldwide with the Crafting Type collective.

Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Typekit in New York as the Senior Manager of Adobe Type. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher, including several years in London and New York serving as Type Director for Monotype. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.

http://ultrasparky.org/work

Anubhav has been building software products for creative professionals for the last 17 years. He is currently managing the graphic design and layout teams as a Group Product Manager Illustrator and InDesign. Anubhav loves improv, travel and food. He lives in Delhi, a vibrant mega city and the capital of India.

Nick Sambrato is the Founder of Mama’s Sauce, a spot color print shop & VP of it's parent company, Fiction. Mama’s Sauce is a renowned print shop in the graphic design culture. The two companies, now merged, and are headquartered in Winter Park, Florida amongst a budding creative scene in the greater Orlando area. A veteran of creative and tech, Nick has blended Internet communication strategy with his companies since his first offering - a paid bulletin board service (BBS) in 1993, which he started out of his bedroom when he was 13. Today he guides the vision of Mama’s Sauce, looks for new opportunities for Fiction, and tells his story regularly from the stage in Print Matters, a nationally touring event that celebrates design, printing, and paper along with French Paper Company’s Brian French.

http://www.mamas-sauce.com

Mrinalini has been working on the User Experience Design workflows and the User Interface for the product Adobe InDesign. Her work involves product development through user validations and feature prioritizations along with solving and designing features or workflows that would resonate passionately with the users. Thinking and pitching for creative features or tools that InDesign users need and handling the entire experience for building the feature to make it robust before passing it on to engineering to code is her key role as User Experience Designer here at Adobe.

Justin Seeley is currently a Senior Staff Author for the design segment at lynda.com at LinkedIn. He has over 12 years experience in the graphic and web design industry, and he is a regular speaker at events like Adobe MAX, HOW Interactive, NAB, and PePcon. To date Justin has authored over 150 hours of instructional content on various topics such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; is the author of over 70 online courses at lynda.com, including Illustrator Essential Training, Photoshop for Web Design, and the Creative Quick Tips weekly series; and blogs regularly at justinseeley.com. Justin is also an Adobe Community Professional, Adobe Certified Expert, and a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor.

Debi Sementelli is a professional lettering artist and font designer based in Dallas, Texas. She's had a romance with letters for the past 25 years. Her favorite moments are spent amongst pens, inks, paints, and brushes, wildly flourishing her way through an alphabet. In 2011 she moved from lettering artist to font designer basing all of her fonts on her own unique hand written lettering styles. She loves coming up with swashes, flourishes and ornaments to give designers a variety of choices to play with. She's been fortunate to watch her fonts make the Hot New Fonts, Rising Stars and Best Sellers list. But her greatest thrill is seeing someone use one of her typefaces in a uniquely creative way. That feeling of collaboration is what inspires her to keep creating more hand lettered fonts. The next best thing is sharing her love of lettering with others.

www.debisementelli.com

The Made Shop makes spaces, objects, films, and graphic designs for people and companies we trust who trust us. We work in Denver and L.A. and have developed a special expertise in making things that we don’t know to make (yet). Started in 2002 by husband-and-wife partners Marke and Kimberly Johnson, along with brothers Nathan and Zachary Johnson, with high school friend and garage-bandmate Adam Blake, The Made Shop is a small, curious, family studio working across an ever-expanding range of mediums. Working in motion graphics and film for music, TV, and major motion pictures like Looper, hitRECord on TV, Lucius, Son Lux, and Don Jon; album art for Yoko Ono, Shovels & Rope, The Fray, and Rufus Wainwright; international branding and product design for Adobe, Sony, NFL, Levi’s, Tumblr, Joe Coffee, and Hangar 1 Vodka; and as the Creative Director for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's ground-breaking interactive online production company HITRECORD.

Dan Stiles has been working in the graphic design industry for more than 20 years. Cutting his teeth making punk flyers with sharpies and paper stolen from Kinko's, he quickly adopted digital tools in the early 90's. These tools, coupled with screen printing, shaped not only his art but his creative process. From working with bands like Arctic Monkeys, Wilco, and Tom Petty, to fortune 500 corporations like Google, IBM, and Nike, Dan has discovered that in both life and design, one thing leads to another.

http://www.danstiles.com

Nina Stössinger, Senior Typeface Designer at Frere-Jones Type in Brooklyn. Nina graduated in multi-media design from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art & Design in Halle/Germany, and in typeface design at Zurich (CAS Type Design) and The Hague (TypeMedia MA). She worked as an independent graphic designer, typographer, type designer and coder in Switzerland and the Netherlands before relocating to New York in the summer of 2016 to join Frere-Jones Type. Her typefaces include FF Ernestine, a friendly slab serif (FontFont 2011), and Nordvest, a serif text face with subtly reversed contrast (Monokrom 2016). Named a “Type Designer to Watch” by Print Magazine, Nina has won awards across disciplines, had her work exhibited on three continents, and frequently lectures and teaches internationally.

http://www.frerejones.com

As founder of MuseResources.com, Joseph embraces and explores the vast capabilities of Adobe Creative Cloud through online learning as well as sharing assets and design resources. Now working as a UI/UX designer in California, Joseph continues to be an avid Adobe evangelist and resource to those bringing their design work to the web.

http://www.MuseResources.com

In 2002, Nicholas van der Walle was working as a Graphic Designer for an aerospace company. Having just designed a show stand, Nick’s manager wanted the artwork “more blue”. This seemingly small change took many days and created the question that there must be a better way. This is how Astute Graphics was founded; Nick designed and commissioned the creation of a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator named “Phantasm CS” which delivered instant color changes. Over the last 10 years Nick has ensured that Astute Graphics leads the way through designing innovative, imaginative tools for vector designers that significantly save time, boost creativity and achieve refined results. Astute Graphics now has a repertoire of 14 plug-ins available to purchase via their website. Clients range from individual freelancers to global corporations including Adidas, Disney and Apple. Nick heavily invests time in finding out what graphic designers and illustrators want and need which enables a steady stream of releases and learning material each year.

Bart started his career as a graphic designer specialising in print, e-publishing and image retouching. Later he became an Adobe Certified Instructor providing classroom training and consulting using various Creative Cloud products. He's a renowned speaker at conferences in Europe, Australia and the United States and has written many articles on Adobe's print and e-publishing products for Creativepro.com, InDesignSecrets.com and InDesign Magazine. Bart joined Adobe in 2015 as a Solution Consultant for Adobe’s media products like Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Adobe Stock and AEM Mobile (previously Adobe DPS).

Kyle T. Webster is an internationally recognized illustrator, designer, and digital product creator. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has worked as a creative partner with companies like Adobe, Apple, and IDEO. He currently makes the world's best-selling digital art tools as president and founder of KyleBrush.com, while continuing to draw for a select group of clients. His first children's picture book, "Please Say Please!" will be published by Scholastic in August, 2016.

http://kyleTwebster.com, http://kylebrush.com

Terry White – Worldwide Creative Suite Design Evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc. Terry has been with Adobe for over 15 years and has extensive knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Professional product line. In his current position, he leads the charge of getting customers excited and educated about Adobe’s Creative Design products. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is a columnist for Photoshop User Magazine. Terry is the host of the top ranked award winning Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast. Terry is a key presenter at major industry shows around the world.

Laura Worthington is a typeface designer from Washington State. After training and working as a graphic designer since the mid '90s, she turned her lifelong fascination with lettering and typography into a business, publishing her first typeface in 2010. She has since published more than 80 typefaces, and designed custom faces for Fortune 500 companies. Laura's faces are primarily based on her own hand-lettering and calligraphy, a practice she continues to hone daily. Her typefaces are primarily for display, and often include a broad variety of ornaments, contextual alternates, and swash forms. Laura Worthington handles every aspect of a font's creation, from concept and hand-lettering to digitization.

http://www.lauraworthingtontype.com

Fashion photographer Lindsay Adler has risen to the top of her industry as both a photographer and educator. Based in New York City, her fashion editorials have appeared in numerous fashion and photography publications including Marie Claire, Elle, InStyle, Rangefinder, Professional Photographer and dozens more. As a photographic educator, she is one of the most sought-after speakers internationally, teaching on the industry's largest platforms and most prestigious events. A Canon Explorer of Light, her work is marked by a clean, bold and graphic style. Lindsay is renowned for her creativity and collaborating with designers and stylists in order to create fresh looks. An author of four books, she is always working on new ways to share her passions and knowledge with others. Each year she teaches to tens of thousands of photographers world-wide through prestigious events.

http://www.lindsayadlerphotography.com

Jim Babbage, Senior Solutions Consultant, Education, Adobe Systems Jim Babbage’s two passions, teaching and photography, led him to his first career in commercial photography. With the release of Photoshop 2.5, Jim became involved in the world of digital imaging, and he soon began designing for the web in addition to taking photographs. Jim is the author of several books and video training titles on Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Muse, and written hundreds of online articles and tutorials on Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and general web and photography topics. A former college professor of 21 years, Jim taught imaging, web design, and photography at Centennial College, and web design at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario until he joined Adobe in May of 2011 as a Solutions Consultant for Education. Jim has spoken at a variety of technology conferences, including D2WC and Adobe MAX. Learn more about Jim’s passion for photography at https://www.behance.net/JimBabbage And https://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_babbage/

http://jimbabbage.myportfolio.com/projects

Corey is a Photshop guru, author, and instructor. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version.

www.masterfxtraining.com

Russell Brown is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe as well as an Emmy Award-winning instructor. His ability to bring together the world of design and software development is a perfect match for Adobe products. In Russell’s thirty years of creative experience at Adobe, he has contributed to the evolution of Adobe Photoshop with feature enhancements, advanced scripts, and most recently HTML5 panel development. He has helped the world's leading photographers, publishers, art directors, and artists to master the software tools that have made Adobe's applications the standard by which all others are measured.

Chris Burkard is a thirty-year-old travel, landscape, and adventure photographer who makes his home on California’s Central Coast. But if you are one of the more than 1.7 million who follow Chris on social media, you’d be excused for thinking that he was permanently on the road. Chris’ work has been published in National Geographic, The New Yorker, GQ, Men’s Journal, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, and Surfer Magazine, where he is a staff photographer. Chris has also published or contributed to several books: The California Surf Project (2006); Plight of the Torpedo People (2012); Russia: The Outpost Vol. I (2013); Distant Shores (2013); and, most recently, High Tide: A Surf Odyssey (2015). Last year Chris was honored to speak at TED in Vancouver. The title of his talk: “The Joy of Surfing in Ice-Cold Water.”

Paul is the Principal Asia Pacific Evangelist for the Creative Cloud focusing on the design, web and photography tools. Based in Singapore, Paul travels the Asia Pacific region presenting to creative audiences on Adobe’s solutions. Before Adobe, Paul ran his own award winning design, web and video company MAD - Multimedia Art Design for many years, and also worked as the APAC Evangelist for Macromedia. The last time Paul presented at MAX in 2014 he was awarded a MAX Master.

http://www.adobe.com

Lisa Carney has been a professional retoucher/finisher for decades. As her portfolio indicates, she works with some of the most dynamic players in the print, motion picture and television industries. Lisa also has extensive experience teaching Photoshop. Her students run the gamut from beginners to professional retouchers. Universities, design studios, movie studios, corporations and private students in Los Angeles, London, Italy and France all appear on Lisa’s teaching roster. Agencies: BLT communications Gunthy Renker Arsenal Cold Open And Company Emerald City Circuit Metafor Bloomoon Canyon Creative Sampling of companies: Ad: Burger King, Baskin-Robbins, Lowes, Jordana Cosmetics, Strategic Perceptions, Stylorouge UK Automotive: Chrysler, Mercedes, Mazda Entertainment: (All the major movie studios) Disney, Buena Vista, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, Sony, Universal, Newline, Columbia, MGM, ABC Television, ESPN, TNT, CNN, CBS

http://lisacarney.com/

For 25 years Dave Cross has been helping photographers and creative professionals get the most out of their Adobe software. Since1987, Dave has taught Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to thousands of users around the world. He has a Bachelor of Education, is an Adobe Certified Instructor and is a Certified Technical Trainer. Dave has taught at Adobe MAX, Photoshop World, the Texas School of Photography, the Santa Fe Workshops, Imaging USA and at numerous corporate locations. Dave has written many articles and multiple books, co-hosted Photoshop User TV and has appeared in many DVDs and online courses for Kelby Training, CreativeLive and Photoshop Cafe. He offers online training at online.davecrossworkshops.com and runs a “boutique” stock photography site for compositing, compositingstock.com. Over the last 15 years, Dave has taught Photoshop in every state in the United States, throughout Canada and in Europe, consistently earning rave reviews. Dave is well-known for his engaging style, his humor and his ability to make complex topics easy to understand. In 2009 Dave was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Seán Duggan is a fine art photographer, author, and photo educator. He has been helping photographers and digital artists master photography and digital darkroom techniques since 1996. He teaches in the MPS Digital Photography program at the School of Visual Arts in New York , and he leads workshops at venues across the country. He has many online courses on Photoshop, digital photography, and mobile photography on Lynda.com, and he is the co-author of Photoshop Artistry, Real World Digital Photography, The Creative Digital Darkroom, and Photoshop Masking & Compositing. In addition to workshops and seminars, he also offers personalized online consulting and training.

http://www.seanduggan.com

Katrin Eismann is an internationally respected artist, teacher, and author specializing in creative digital photography and the impact of emerging technologies upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. She received her BFA degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA degree in Design at the School of Visual Arts. Katrin is the co-author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Photoshop Masking & Compositing, The Creative Digital Darkroom, and Real World Digital Photography – all of which have been translated into numerous languages for worldwide distribution. In 2005, Katrin was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame and in 2015 she was named a Sony Artisan of Imagery. Her images have been featured in numerous books, magazines, group and solo exhibitions. Katrin is the founder and chair of the Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, which is offered as both an on-campus and low-residency program. Katrin enjoys the three f’s – food, photography and golf…not necessarily in that order! www.katrineismann.com

http://www.sva.edu/digitalphoto

Michael is a designer from Copenhagen who loves making things and going on adventures. He’s got a treasure-trove of design experience creating his own companies, leading teams of developers and designers and working on countless of successful products and services. When he’s not pushing pixels to millions of users, running epic kickstarter campaigns or making games, he works on his many side-projects; Teaching people about making things through his YouTube channel or making resources like the App Icon Template used by hundreds of thousands of Photoshop users around the world.

http://flarup.co

Zorana Gee, MBA, is a Senior Product Manager on the Photoshop team. She has been on the Photoshop team for over 14 years and has been involved with giving direction and scope for a variety of feature areas for both Photographers and Designers. Zorana has also been instrumental in driving Adobe’s direction with 3D printing and various 3D workflows in Photoshop. She is a published author and speaks worldwide representing Adobe and the Photoshop family line of professional products. Outside of Adobe, her time is often spent teaching the art of Capoeira to her community. She has been training and teaching Capoiera for over 12 years and holds a black-belt (equivalent).

Tim Grey is a photographer who has written more than a dozen books for photographers, has published dozens of video training courses, and has had hundreds of articles published in magazines such as Digital Photo Pro and Outdoor Photographer, among others. He also publishes the Ask Tim Grey eNewsletter, the monthly Pixology digital magazine, and a wide variety of video training courses through his GreyLearning website. Tim teaches through workshops, seminars, and appearances at major events around the world. You can learn more at www.timgrey.com.

http://www.timgrey.com

Brian Haberlin is an award winning comicbook writer and artist who started in comics at TopCow Productions, he created their computer coloring department and developed many of the modern methods of comic book production. While there he co-created "Witchblade" as well as several other characters. He formed his own studio in 1995 producing commercial illustrations and digitally coloring for Marvel, DC Comics and Image Comics. He then started Avalon Studios with Whilce Portacio and co-created/created many comic titles such as Stone, The Wicked, Hellcop, Houdini: The Man from Beyond, Jinn, Aria, M-Rex, Area 52 and Athena Inc. He became Editor in Chief for Todd Mc Farlane productions in 2006 and pencilled and inked their popular Spawn title for 2 years with David Hine as writer. He currently runs Digitalarttutorials.com where he produces art tutorials, teaches at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and is partner in Anomaly Productions producing graphic novels, comics, and apps. His debut graphic novel ANOMALY is the longest full color graphic novel ever done and features cutting edge digital components, app and free UAR app that when pointed at pages make them come to life with interactive 3d and back story information. Faster Than Light a new comic written and drawn by Brian comes out this through Image Comics. And his work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum.

Josh Haftel is currently the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile product manager. Previously, Josh worked at Google on the Google+ Photos team as well as at Nik Software. More of his work can be found at joshhaftel.com and instagram.com/joshhaftel.

http://www.adobe.com

An Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor, Jason Hoppe has accrued more than 20 years’ experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, PDF forms, interactive PDFs, and InDesign Publishing. In fact, Jason has been performing high-end electronic production and design since the industry’s inception. Also during this time, Jason has taught prepress, production and graphic design to hundreds of Seattle-based creative professionals and aspiring designers in a variety of settings, including one-on-one tutoring, classroom instruction, live webcasting, and large group training. He currently teaches the Adobe Creative Suite at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works and Seattle Central College and was the founding Instructor at creativeLIVE.

Allison House is a visual artist known for her tenacity and upbeat, make-it-happen attitude. Her recent work in 3D illustration and animation includes directing Tweedy’s “Summer Noon” music video and a GIF series exploring childhood fixations through a computer-made aesthetic. Previously, she was a product designer at Dropbox and the lead designer on Codecademy and Treehouse. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME, and many more. House is currently working from a secret bunker in Austin, TX, but can occasionally be seen out of the corner of your eye, happily blowing in the wind.

http://allison.house

Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Julieanne Kost is a Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide — via live events, Adobe.com, her own website (jkost.com) and blog (blogs.adobe.com/jkost). She is also the author of “Passenger Seat: Creating a Photographic Project from Conception through Execution in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom” and “Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking,” an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop CC Essential Training and the Art of Photoshop Compositing for Lynda.com, as well as “Revitalize your Workflow with Lightroom” for CreativeLive. Kost is well-known for her unique approach to instruction, infusing practical tips and tricks with an equal amount of humor and creativity that keeps audiences entertained and engaged. She often serves as a guest lecturer at distinguished photography schools and leading educational institutions around the world. She has created and published more than a thousand instructional videos for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. For her outstanding service and contributions to the photographic industry, she received the Gerhard Bakker award from the Professional Photographers of America and was granted the title of Honorary Educational Associate from the American Society of Photographers.

http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost

Bria empowers entrepreneurs, marketers, and creatives to elevate their influence and their income through insightful coaching and step by step training. She is the creator of PsBootcamp (a progressive crash course in Photoshop covering everything from program basics to intermediate photo editing techniques) - and Magnetic Brand Academy (a business & brand-positioning program focused on developing the foundational elements of a long-lasting, authentic brand, coming Spring 2017). Bria began her career in Fashion Design, but quickly carved a more entrepreneurial path. Her varied experience includes creating and running a digital lifestyle magazine for women, designing brands and websites, and crafting social media campaigns. Now, Bria combines her branding, marketing, and design expertise with a talent for teaching through Digital Darlings Creative. Within her courses, on her blog, and everywhere else you might find her, Bria distills concepts with relatable language and examples, teaches technical skills through fun, relevant exercises, and offers practical inspiration that shifts mindsets.

http://www.digitaldarlingscreative.com

Bonny Pierce Lhotka is the recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award for Technology in the Arts. She writes articles for books and magazines and is the author of three books; Digital Alchemy: Printmaking techniques for fine art, photography and mixed media, The Last Layer: New methods in digital printing for photography, fine art, and mixed media and Hacking the Digital Print published by New Riders Voices That Matter. Her work is in the collection of the Smithsonian, US Department of State, US Embassy’s, private and corporate collections worldwide. She is represented by Walker Fine Art Denver, CO. She is the inventor of the DASS ART image transfer processes.

[email protected]

Jeanette Mathews is a creative chameleon, a digital artist whose skill sets cross many disciplines from 3D modeling and video game design to digital illustration. She now brings her diverse abilities and passion for digital art to Adobe as she explores new technologies in 3D design.

http://www.jnetrocks.com

Milton is a graphic designer with a degree in Fine Arts and professional experience in art direction and photography. As a creative retoucher, Milton harmonically mixes photography and CGI elements to create a stunning final image. After 10 years working at some of the best studios in the world, including three years at the Lightfarm Studios in New Zealand, Milton founded Lightfarm Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, the third branch of Lightfarm Studios. Milton is primary speaker at Photoshop Conference, Pixel Show and Adobe MAX and professor at Miami Ad School.

http://www.lightfarmbrasil.com/en/

Bert Monroy is a pioneer of digital art. He is a hyper-realistic digital painter who builds his digital paintings as a traditional artist would, adding color and texture, but on a digital canvas. He is a veteran of 20 years in the advertising industry and 30 years as a commercial illustrator. He coauthored the first book on Photoshop and has authored several books since. An accomplished teacher and lecturer, Bert has served on the faculties of many institutions worldwide. He was a regular on Tech TV for several years. Bert has produced thousands of training videos. His client list includes Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Pixar and Disney Animation. Bert is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team and in 2004 was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Bert currently hosts a weekly podcast entitled Pixel Playground on Lynda.com where he also has a vast library of tutorial videos. http://www.bertmonroy.com

Stephen Nielson is the Group Product Manager for Photoshop at Adobe. Stephen and his team work closely with engineers, designers, and marketing team to create awesome new Photoshop features and capabilities. He is a long time user of Photoshop, and an accomplished photographer. Stephen grew up in Arizona, but traded sunshine for rain by moving to Seattle eleven years ago. He enjoys spending time with his wife and three young children, working on his photography, hiking, wakeboarding and snowboarding.

Entertainment Advertising Creative Director, Author, and Independent Consultant, Tomasz is both a winner and juror of numerous national and international competitions, and has crafted designs for everything from movie posters, to television shows and video games. Tomasz currently works as an Originals Creative at Netflix in Los Angeles, California. See more of his work at www.tomasz-opasinski.com.

http://www.Tomasz-Opasinski.com

Chris Orwig is a celebrated photographer, author and teacher. He is a best-selling book author and he has authored over 100 courses at places like lynda.com and creativelive.com on the topics of Photoshop, Lightroom and photography. His passion for photography and education runs deep. Learn more at chrisorwig.com.

http://www.chrisorwig.com

Daniel Presedo has been an employee of Adobe since 1999 and works full time on Adobe Photoshop. He has over 20 years experience in the computer industry and publishing, crossing multiple genres working with many Industry influencers and companies including S.F. Giants, Virgin, DreamWorks, Pixar, LucasFilm, along with many others. He has been writing, drawing and experimenting with new technologies his entire life, and was one of the first artist to have a complete digital workflow. His self published independent comic book, Dream Wolves- 1993, went on to sell nearly 100,000 copies after only a few issues. He has continued this tradition with his new book "Advent" on sale now at Amazon.com.

http://www.presedo.net

Helena Price is a commercial, editorial and portrait photographer based in San Francisco, California, most recently known for creating the Techies Project, a large-scale photo project documenting the stories of underrepresented people in the tech industry. Raised in a small town in North Carolina, Helena has been making photos since she was six years old, getting her start shooting with disposable cameras from Wal-Mart. At 25, Helena ditched her prospering Silicon Valley career to try and make photos full-time. Within two years, she was named “Silicon Valley’s Most Wanted Photographer,” working on projects with Facebook, Fitbit, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Square and more. Her work has been featured on ABC, CNN, The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, The Guardian, Inc. and more, and Huffington Post named her one of the “Top 30 Most Influential Photographers on the Web.” She no longer shoots with disposable cameras from Wal-Mart.

http://www.helenaprice.com

Jesús Ramirez is a digital graphics expert, speaker, and educator specializing in Adobe Photoshop. He is an Adobe Community Professional, and a content creator for the Adobe Creative Cloud Blog. Jesús is best known as the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, one of the most popular Photoshop YouTube channels in the world.

https://photoshoptrainingchannel.com

Dan Rose is a designer and 1/4 of Adjacent, a web studio in Syracuse, NY. His affinity for Photoshoppery and workflow led him to create Photoshop Etiquette and author Responsive Web Design with Adobe Photoshop. Create Upstate, a design conference, is the manifestation of his passion for community. Dan also serves on the AIGA Upstate New York board of directors.

http://weareadjacent.com

As the Community Experience lead at Behance (Adobe), Roxanne focuses on creating support systems that are scalable and constantly looks for creative ways to redefine customer service. Prior to Behance, Roxanne held a number of support roles in the tech community. As a former art student, she also enjoys working with and is inspired by Behance's creative community.

Victoria Siemer, also known as Witchoria, is a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She works predominantly in the digital realm, creating surreal photo manipulations that reflect her penchant for ennui, existential crisis, and heartbreak. Her work has been featured in a variety of digital publications including Wired, Juxtapoz, Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and Business Insider. She graduated from SUNY Buffalo with a BFA in Communication Design.

Born in Tokyo to parents who traveled the world, Sarah Silver spent her early years in love with dancing and photography, studying both from a young age. Shortly after finishing her Master’s Degree in Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she was chosen to shoot for Surface Magazine’s prestigious Avant Guardian issue. Using professional dancers as models, the fashion shoot marked the beginning of Sarah’s love for combining movement and photography. An established fashion, beauty, and movement photographer and director, Sarah’s extensive list of clients include Vogue, V, W, Allure, Proenza Schouler, Pantene, L’Oreal, Nike, Pantone, Sephora, Revlon, DKNY, AG Jeans, and Target. Sarah has also worked with Tresemmé in an award-winning collaboration for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Equally comfortable in front of the camera, Sarah is often featured on screen, herself, on shows such as Make Me A Supermodel, America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway and LA Ink. In addition to her visual work, Sarah is a featured speaker for Photo Expo in NYC, APA, and at universities including Parsons School of Design, The Pratt Institute, The Fashion Institute of Technology, and The School of Visual Arts.

Colin Smith is founder of PhotoshopCAFE which has received over 30 million visitors. Colin has Authored 20 books. As a commercial artist, his clients include Satcchi & Satcchi, Proctor & Gamble, Toyo Tires and Microsoft. As a leading Photoshop trainer, he's worked with many large companies including Edison, ABC Disney, Apple and Adobe. He has won numerous awards including three Photoshop Guru awards. He's been nominated for the Photoshop Hall of Fame twice. He loves art and technology and is currently one of the foremost aerial drone photography experts. Colin is a regular columnist for Photoshop User Magazine. He's been featured in almost every major imaging magazine, and is in high demand as a speaker at major industry events including WPPI, Adobe MAX, Photoshop World, Imaging USA, PPE, creativeLIVE, Siggraph, CES, PMA and NAB.

Paul is Senior Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelist for Adobe, where he is passionate about helping designers build compelling content using their creativity and new technology. Whether it's creating cutting-edge web content, intuitive mobile experiences, or actual physical objects using 3D printing, Paul's goal is to empower and inspire. As an award-winning designer with over twenty years of experience, Paul is also a writer, prolific trainer, and public speaker. He has earned top author status on Lynda.com and has created a steady stream of content for www.paultrani.com. When he's not on the road he can be found... on the road, running or getting exercise in his native state of Colorado. But you can always find him on social media.

https://www.paultrani.com

Scott Valentine is a modern digital experimenter with a background in physics. For nearly 20 years, he has been exploring the boundaries of image making and processing, and creating art by coloring outside the lines. He uses these principles while teaching, preferring to demonstrate possibilities and enabling deep understanding of tools as a way to unleash creativity. His book "The Hidden Power of Blend Modes in Adobe Photoshop" and the companion title on adjustment layers both show off this approach and have been embraced as ground-breaking works on the topics. Scott currently writes the monthly column "Photoshop Proving Ground" where he deconstructs tools and techniques in approachable, useful ways. Scott Valentine's favorite question is "What if?" Want to know more? scoxel.com

http://www.scoxel.com

Graduated in Industrial design, Rafael started working on his third semester as an intern at Globo TV where he learned a bit of everything. One year later he started on the artwork in the advertising business and never came back. After four years of experience on the Brazilian market traveled to New Zealand where he spent more three years developing his technical and artistic skills. He didn't come back for his Uni diploma yet... Lover of art, is interested in many technical branches and believes that digital art is just another media extension. What really counts at the end of the day is communication. Award winning CGI artist, loves photography, illustration and editing, even more when those are tied together.

“Creative" Jake Weien has been pushing pixels as a freelance artist / illustrator and graphic designer since 1994. Recently, he has been exploring and applying his technical knowledge towards more self-fulfilling flat and three-dimensional fine art using new mobile apps, alternative photographic techniques, and laser cutters from his home in Colorado. CreativeJake has expertise in a multitude of art, design, web, animation, and video-editing software. He has designed and developed logos and brand campaigns for a wide variety of "mom-and-pops" shops, non-profits, and corporate clients.

http://creativejake.com

A.J. Wood is a Senior Solutions Consultant at Adobe where he actively engages enterprise customers on the benefits of Adobe’s digital media solutions. He has over 20 years of experience in arts & technology, and was ranked the #1 Adobe Instructor worldwide more than once. He has appeared on NBC, GeekBeat TV, and spoken at conferences including Adobe MAX, Big Design, D2WC, and OpenCamp. A.J. is best known for his video series “I Create Content” published on ajwood.com.

http://blogs.adobe.com/ajwood/

Robbie's 15+ years of color grading experience have helped National Geographic, Discovery Networks, hundreds of independent filmmakers and national political campaigns get the best looks for their projects. Robbie has authored 6 books and dozens of hours of training content for Lynda.com including the popular Video Gear Weekly show with Richard Harrington. Robbie is also the co-founder of MixingLIght.com a subscription website focused on color grading across multiple platforms & skill levels. Visit www.mixinglight.com to find out more. Find Robbie on Twitter - @robbiecarman

www.mixinglight.com

Jeff I. Greenberg has two decades of experience as a Post-Production consultant and Master Instructor (trainer for other trainers) for Adobe, Apple, and Avid, specializing in the areas of editorial, workflow, compositing, sound, color grading and compression.  He teaches seminars at events such as NAB, Adobe Max, CabSat, IBC, CES and Inter BEE. Additionally, he's the chair for the Editors Retreat , an annually held exclusive getaway for editors by editors. Jeff is a published author of several books on the subject of editing and post-production.  His most current book is Adobe Premiere Pro Studio Techniques (Adobe Press.) He writes for various blogs and creates training materials . He's happy to talk to you about consulting and helping you find solutions that meet your training needs.

http://JGreenbergConsulting.com

Rich is an Adobe Master Trainer as well as a practiced expert in motion graphic design and digital video. Starting his career out in the world of broadcast journalism, Rich has always had great interest in visual communications. His producing skills were also recognized by AV Video Multimedia Producer Magazine who named him as one of the Top Producers of 2004. Rich is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team, and a popular speaker at international conferences. He has chaired conferences since 2003 for the National Association of Broadcasters.

As Head of Global Digital Video Audio Field Operations at Adobe, David Helmly manages a Senior Field Team specializing in Pro Video/Audio production workflows for film, broadcast, and new video technologies. Helmly also travels abroad giving lectures and participating in various industry advisory councils and panel discussions. Helmly has worked for Adobe for over 20 years and has specialized in digital video and digital imaging products for over 30 years. Prior to Adobe, Helmly worked for a digital video pioneer, Radius Inc, a well-known hardware company developing digital video and digital imaging accelerator products for Adobe's award winning line of software. You can watch his latest videos at "http://www.youtube.com/user/dhelmly"http://www.youtube.com/user/dhelmly.He also has his own blog site on Adobe.com where he discusses new hardware and software tools and workflows for Adobe’s Video and Audio applications at "http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable"

Jarle Leirpoll is a Premiere Pro Master Trainer and runs PremierePro.net, where he shares free Premiere Pro templates, presets and projects. He worked at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) for 14 years before starting his own company in 1996, making corporate movies and documentaries. He’s also writing books, conducting Premiere Pro and After Effects training, and teaching media production at three universities. Jarle has trained people at top broadcasters and media production companies Disney, BBC, NRK, DR, Monster, Swedish T4, Valve Media OY and many others. He is also an official Test Pilot for Premiere Pro and created “handheld camera” effects for the Deadpool movie, was the Tech Editor for Premiere Pro CC 2015 Classroom in a book, and has written a book on advanced editing techniques named The Cool Stuff in Premiere Pro. Training trailers: http://vimeo.com/groups/216360 Blog: http://PremierePro.net

http://premierepro.net

Jason Levine, Principal Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe, travels the globe educating and promoting Adobe Creative Cloud. Levine has conducted training/workflow sessions for some of the top broadcast corporations in Europe and Asia including BBC, RTL and SVT. Prior to Adobe, Jason was a full-time recording engineer working in studios coast-to-coast, engineering hundreds of recordings in a multitude of genres, prompting the formation of BoodahJooMusic Publishing. In 2011 he began developing a children's music show entitled, Just Play Music™, with songs already available on Spotify, Apple Music and everywhere else. Since 2005, Jason has presented to more than 300,000 people, from New York to Singapore and everywhere in between.

https://bit.ly/jaseonspotify

Ian Robinson is a creative director and trainer specializing in motion graphics and visual effects. As the owner of SoftBox Media LLC, he has been working in broadcast for over 15 years with such clients as Discovery Channel, National Geographic International and PBS. As an author and trainer, Ian has written for Peachpit, Adobe Press and has many courses on Lynda.com. Not one to sit still, you can probably catch him traveling and speaking at conferences like NAB, Adobe Video World, Editors Retreat and Adobe MAX.

http://www.softboxmedia.com

Abba Shapiro is an Adobe Master Trainer, certifying university and training center instructors to teach Adobe Premiere Pro. Abba is the author of Adobe Premiere Pro Essential Training on Lynda.com. Abba is also an award winning Writer/Producer/Director with 30 years experience in video and film production. He has done work for a wide range of commercial, corporate, and federal clients, including USA Today, The Associated Press, NASA, Univision, and CNN. In addition to production, Abba teaches video editing on a variety of platforms, DSLR production and post, scriptwriting, Photoshop for video, and production workshops at venues such as NAB.

Christine Steele is director, producer and lead editor at Steele Pictures Studios, Inc., providing production and post-production services, consulting and training for clients all over the world. Christine has worked for Disney, Pixar, ABC, BBC, FOX, Paramount, Warner, Frontline, PBS, Showtime and Electronic Arts. She was Supervising Editor for Paramount's documentary talhotblond, Lead Editor on the IMAX feature AIR RACERS 3D, and served as Lead Editor and Post Supervisor for Food Forward, a 13-part series on PBS. Christine won a ProMax award for her Promo editing at ABC. Currently she is co-directing two feature documentaries, Take Me Home Huey and The Mosaic of Life, while co-producing and editing LIGO: The Search For Gravity Waves. Christine Steele is an Adobe Master Trainer who enjoys collaborating with other filmmakers. View some of Christine’s training at lynda.com/trial/christinesteele and find out about upcoming classes at steelepictures.com.

http://www.steelepictures.com

Dave Werner is a Senior Experience Design Lead for the Character Animator team at Adobe. His past projects include the FWA-winning portfolio site Okaydave, TechCrunch50 finalist Atmosphir, and the Extraneous Lyrics video series. Dave's work has been featured by Wired, The Verge, Gawker, Entertainment Weekly, TechCrunch, Kotaku, College Humor, and Sesame Street.

http://okaysamurai.com

Luisa loves gear, gadgets and technology. She loves After Effects and to fly drones - so much, that she became a private pilot in 2015! Luisa Winters is a Certified Instructor for Adobe and Apple (ACI and ACT). She consults for organizations and works at several different training centers all over the United States and abroad. Luisa is one of the few Adobe Premiere Pro Master instructors. A well-known artist, Luisa often speaks at different conferences on topics ranging from video editing to compositing and web. An accomplished violinist, Luisa was, at the age of 13, a full-time member of the National Symphony Orchestra in the Dominican Republic. While attending the legendary Peabody Conservatory (in Baltimore, MD), Luisa learned from master musicians: Henryk Szeryng, Berl Senofski, Aarond Rosand, Charles Libove, and Leon Fleisher, among others. Expressing her art in digital form, Luisa became an editor and motion graphics artist in 1985, and has been performing both arts full-time since that point in time. Throughout her career, Luisa has won several awards, including: Telly Awards Videographer Awards Aegis Awards WEVA Hall of Fame Baltimore Videographers Association Excellence Award Luisa is an author, speaker, consultant and overall Adobe and Apple expert, she loves working with graphics, video and the web, as well as IT.

http://www.luisawinters.com

Ariem is a Production Design Manager at Airbnb who leads support for the internal marketing, Global Marketing, Public Relations and Social teams. Beginning his self-taught career a few years after high school, his path has included graphic design, production design, web design and curriculum development . Prior to Airbnb he’s worked at Apple as a Creative Trainer, Content Developer and Production Artist. At Netflix he worked as a Senior Experience Designer. His work in print, web and multimedia provide the foundation for the current multi-platform, multi-device, multi-resolution universe of design. Ariem is the father of three wonderful daughters and lucky husband of almost 25 years to his wife.

https://www.airbnb.com

Justin Avery is a Digital Consultant originally from Australia and now residing in the UK. He curates the Responsive Design Weekly Newsletter, hosts a RWD weekly podcast and maintains the popular Responsive Design Knowledge Hub at responsivedesign.is where you can find tips, tricks, screencasts, resources and detailed breakdowns of other responsive implementations across the web. He is passionate about the web and has a keen focus on making it a place that everyone is able to access the information they need quickly and effortlessly. Justin also runs a number of side projects including BackPocket Notebooks & converting PDF books to offline webpages.

Dani Beaumont has been managing innovative applications in the web and design space for more than 20 years. She is currently the Principal Product Manager on Adobe Muse, an application that allows visual designers to build rich HTML and CSS-based web sites without writing any code. Before Adobe Muse Dani was integral in the acquisition and integration of Business Catalyst into the Adobe web solutions portfolio. She's also served as the Group Product Manager for the Web Segment, and a Senior Product Manager for Adobe Fireworks and Macromedia Director.

https://www.youtube.com/user/pingdani

Sherry Bishop is an instructor emerita of Information Technology/Graphic Design at North Arkansas College in Harrison, Arkansas. She is the author of several textbooks sold internationally by Cengage Learning including Adobe Dreamweaver Creative Cloud Revealed and Adobe Dreamweaver CS Illustrated. Sherry has authored or co-authored 34 titles on Dreamweaver or web design since she began her academic writing career. She writes Dreamweaver tutorial and video content for the Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog. In addition to holding three endowed chairs in technology during an accomplished teaching career, Sherry was selected the outstanding instructor at North Arkansas College in 2004 and awarded the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award in 2002 and 2004. She retired after 26 years as a college instructor in 2010 to devote her time to writing. This is Sherry’s fifth Adobe MAX. In her leisure time, she enjoys traveling with her family, gardening, photography, cooking, reading, and yoga.

Jina Bolton created her first style guide in 2004. She has grown to be a designer, developer, writer, and speaker on design systems ever since. At Salesforce, she is lead designer on the Lightning Design System. She also created the Design Systems Slack, which led her to start the San Francisco Design Systems Coalition. Recently, she organized Clarity, the first ever design systems conference. Additionally, she is active in the Sass community. She leads the Sass brand and website. She was a tech editor for Dan Cederholm’s Sass for Web Designers. She organizes The Mixin, a front end meet up which has hosted talks by some of the most prominent members of the CSS/Sass community, and recently took ownership of Sass News. Previously, Jina has worked at companies including Apple, GitHub, Engine Yard, and Crush + Lovely. She coauthored two books, Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS.

http://salesforce.com/designsystem

Demian is a Product Manager for Adobe XD (formerly Project Comet) on the Creative Cloud team at Adobe. He is based in the company’s San Francisco office and has more than 16 years of experience with technology, interactive media, design, business, community engagement and training. Before Adobe, he worked as a Developer Advocate, first for BlackBerry and then Braintree/PayPal, traveling the world to engage with developers and startups. He also ran Action Creations, an interactive agency based in San Diego, designing and developing apps for clients including Oakley, 20th Century Fox, World Surf League, Nike and many more. Demian is committed to the growth of new innovators, has taught design and programming at UCSD, as well as his own training programs focused on Design Thinking and mobile development, reaching hundreds of developers, designers and entrepreneurs. Learning, empathy, innovation and technology drive his work and his personal life. In addition to being a software engineer focused on UX and Web technologies, Demian is a surfer, Design Thinker and father.

http://www.adobe.com

As Executive Creative Director and CSO at Fuel, Roach is tasked with creative and strategic planning and consumer insights surrounding global digital engagement. As a creative director and brand consultant, Jeff focuses on where digital technology and content can add value to traditional marketing management. Jeff works at the highest level of brand and user experience design, directing global marketers in all facets of marketing communications, with an emphasis on creative strategy and technology innovation. Roach’s work at Fuel has included leading the team who re-launched Barbie.com; directing the strategy for McDonald’s global digital family marketing; developing interactive content for StarWars.com; launching a digital entertainment and content distribution platform for Warner Bros.; and creating a global mobile casual game for Fanta (Coca-Cola). Twitter / Instagram / Snapchat / Skype @Silverstarme LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/jeffroach jeffroach.com

Dan Carr is Senior Software Engineering Instructor at Codesmith in Los Angeles, and Lead Developer at Dan Carr Design. With years of history developing and training for Adobe, Dan created features and tutorials for Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and beyond. Dan’s current projects dive deep into Animate CC, and full-stack JavaScript…

http://dancarr.co, http://codesmith.io

Elaine has over a decade of experience creating Adobe’s creative products and services, and has shipped many 1.0 products with Adobe. She currently works on Adobe Experience Design CC as an product manager and customer advocate. You can often find her in XD’s forums, on Twitter (@elainecchao), and writing for the Creative Cloud blog. In addition to her work at Adobe, she’s also a professional musician, martial arts instructor, enthusiastic fibercrafter, published author, and volunteer advocate. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her two cats.

http://www.adobe.com

Junior Visual Designer Cole Collett specializes in illustration and logo design, helping drive creative execution for Phenomblue clients including CareerBuilder, Bridgestone, Rooms To Go, Daimler and hhgregg. Additionally, Cole has assisted with logo design for Phenomblue clients, as well as concepting and creating many of Phenomblue’s internal creative marketing efforts. Cole is an ADDY Awards and Director Awards recipient, and holds a degree from the Creative Center in Graphic Design.

Daniel Connerth is a web enthusiast and at home with interactive web animations and responsive design. He seeks out to discover and push the limitations of tools and workflows, especially with Adobe Animate CC. Daniel is frontend developer, trainer, speaker and community host for modern web technologies (500+ trained creatives within the last year) and encounters interactive media with full passion.

Chris has over 23 years experience in graphic design and interactive media, with a unique focus on both design and development. Chris possesses development skills across such languages as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and AngularJS, making his design execution optimal across various media. In addition to design and development, Chris is a featured speaker at various industry-related conferences, including the How Design and Interactive Conferences, AIGA, and the Adobe MAX conferences. Chris has also written, designed and hosted video training titles on Lynda.com, HOW Design University, Udemy.com and Amazon Video (free with Prime).

http://codifydesign.com

Nancy Douyon is a Global User Experience Research Lead at Google. She has a special focus on remote user research methods and emerging markets. Her daily quest is to increase the usability of products, applications, complex systems and websites across different cultural ideals and cultural practices. Prior to Google, Nancy worked at IBM Interactive Research, Accenture Experience Agency, and Intel's Mobility Group. She was instrumental in creating a User Experience Lifecycle approach to help illuminate practical applications of technology in the global south and beyond.

douyonsignature.com

Steve Fisher is the Founder and Experience Architect at The Republic of Quality. He leads the charge on coordinating research, strategy, visual and interaction design, and content strategy. He’s also the Founder of the Design & Content Conference in Vancouver, Canada. Steve has over 18 years experience in research, business strategy, experience strategy, visual and interaction design, and content strategy for the web. During this time he has worked both as a freelance designer and served as Director of User Experience in various agency and studio settings. Steve is a professional member of the Graphic Designer’s Society of Canada and served as the national VP of web for three years. Beyond his extensive client-based work, he has taught numerous college courses on CSS, Web standards, UX, and creativity.

Meagan Fisher is a creative director, user advocate, and designer who codes, based in Brooklyn, New York. She's been designing for over a decade; in that time she's partnered with agencies such as Happy Cog and MetaLab, and done work for clients like Change.Org, Twitter, Campaign Monitor, The Audubon Society, ClassPass, and many more. Lately she's thinking about how to make content accessible to everyone, and how to design products that respect people’s time and emotions. She works to research, understand, and clearly define user needs, then plan and execute designs that support these needs. She's known for her love of owls, but is also passionate about cats, coffee, and southern food.

http://owltastic.com

Chris started life like most humans, covered in placenta and with minimal motor skills. It wasn’t long before he gained enough coordination to become the drummer for a number of Boston based bands. Upon standing fully erect Chris attended an art school and learned to draw. Then someone invented the internet and another person invented Adobe Animate CC. Riding on the coattails of these individuals, chris was able to carve a unique niche for himself using both tools. Chris is a featured streamer on Adobe’s Creative Channel on Twitch. “Being an artist means having the ability to manipulate light. Being an animator allows me to manipulate time. If I can manipulate light and time, then maybe, I'm a god. But then my daughter reminds me that I just “color” things – and she’s exactly right.”

David Gerhard is Animation Director in Nickelodeon’s development group known as the Artist Collective. David is primarily responsible for making things move funny, but works with various stages of productions to efficiently and lovingly tell stories. David has worked on numerous animated series, commercials and pilots including Breadwinners for Nickelodeon, Motorcity and Randy Cunningham: Ninth Grade Ninja for Disney XD, The Killer’s “Miss Atomic Bomb” music video, MAD, and The Ricky Gervais Show, and various Adult Swim series. He has worked for studios including Cartoon Network, Warner Bros, Titmouse, Six Point Harness as well as on projects for HBO, MTV, Comedy Central and others.

As a devotee to capturing expression with technology, Cisco Guzman believes he has the best job in the world. He’s gone from teaching himself Photoshop and Illustrator on a Mac Centris while studying interdisciplinary philosophy at Stanford University, to being Group Product Manager for Adobe XD (with lots of adventures in-between). Cisco enjoys thought, ideation, science, making things, communication, people, working hard, working out and getting the job done.

www.adobe.com

Steve Harris is the founder of MuseThemes.com, a popular membership community providing design resources and training to Adobe Muse designers around the world. He is an active Lynda.com author, teaching ecommerce, SEO and web design. Based in Calgary, Canada, Steve’s work has helped thousands of designers build beautiful websites and grow their design businesses.

http://www.MuseThemes.com

Cory is an industry-recognized expert with over 10 years of experience in digital advertising. Cory works for Jellyfish, an industry leading agency specializing in the creation of perfect digital journeys that are immersive, engaging and flawlessly delivered across all screens and platforms. Cory is passionate about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible within advertising and dedicated to delivering compelling experiences that seamlessly merge creativity and technology with strong purpose and meaningful interaction in order to effectively inspire consumers. Previously at AOL, Cory led a cross–disciplinary team focused on creating impactful ad experiences for some of the most prominent advertisers in the world and driving innovation within AOL’s ad products. Cory serves as Chair of the IAB’s HTML5 Working Group, leading an industry-wide group of experts working collaboratively to establish standardized HTML5 Advertising Best Practices. He’s been awarded multiple IAB Service Excellence Awards for his contributions towards this significant initiative.

http://www.jellyfish.net/

Denise Jacobs is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at web conferences and consults with tech companies worldwide. As the Founder + Chief Creativity Evangelist of The Creative Dose, she teaches techniques to make the creative process more fluid, and practices for sparking innovation. Working in Web Design & Development since 1997, she is an industry veteran and regarded expert on many things web. She is the author of The CSS Detective Guide and co-author of the Smashing Book #3 1/3 and Interact with Web Standards. Denise is also the Chief Unicorn of Rawk The Web and the Head Instigator of The Creativity (R)Evolution.

Arun Kaza is celebrating 10 years at Adobe and still feels there is something new to learn every day! He started his journey with Adobe Fireworks, where he fell in love with the idea of building products that help delight customers and make their work easier.

https://inside.corp.adobe.com/profile.arunk.html

Chris has been a web designer and animator for nearly twenty years. Has worked exclusively with Muse for the past two years. He has built 100's of templates and widgets for third-party template and widget providers as well as his own business 123muse.com. Chris and his brother, Dan's aim is to show the small business community how to use Muse and the entire Creative Cloud to supply real-world solutions to everyday working problems. With their ability to switch from photography, animation, video, audio and of course the web they are an internationally followed team. Chris his wife and two children live in Wales in the UK. Chris is now a regular at MAX and brings a lot of fun and humour to his classes. If you are into all things Muse, his MAX sessions are a must.

http://123muse.com

Tom Krcha is a Sr. Product Manager and co-founder of Adobe XD (Experience Design CC) living in San Francisco. As a designer and developer he had a chance to work on several games, apps and websites over the past 17 years and share his experiences at conferences around the globe. He loves skiing and snowboarding.

http://xd.adobe.com

I currently manage Engineering for Dreamweaver, and during my 7 year tenure at Adobe, I’ve also worked as a developer with the InDesign and Dreamweaver teams. As an Engineering Manager for a world-class web development tool, my job is to deliver cutting edge technology with a dash of Adobe magic. Outside of work, I am a shutter-happy mountain biker who also loves traveling and having deeply intellectual conversations with my 2 year old daughter ;).

http://www.adobe.com/in/products/dreamweaver.html

Joseph Labrecque is primarily employed by the University of Denver as a senior interactive software engineer specializing in the creation of expressive desktop, web, and mobile solutions. His work incorporates a strong focus on the Adobe Flash Platform alongside more general web standards initiatives involving the use of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and related technologies. He is also the proprietor of Fractured Vision Media, LLC; a digital media production company, technical consultancy, and distribution vehicle for a variety of creative works. Joseph authors video courses and written works through organizations which include Lynda.com, Peachpit Press, Train Simple, Packt Publishing, O'Reilly Media, Brainbuffet, and video2brain. Joseph is an Adobe Education Leader and Adobe Community Professional.

http://josephlabrecque.com/

At the age of 14, Aaron fell in love with letters and type design by practicing the art of graffiti. "Don’t worry, it was the legal kind of graffiti" he says. Aaron is no stranger to the arts. He grew up surrounded by artists – his father works in advertising, his brother in animation, and his mother styles hair. Aaron began his career as a Graphic Designer in corporate advertising. A few years later, he transitioned into an Interaction Designer role at a small local studio. His passion and talent for typography and brand identity still shine through his design work. Currently, Aaron is the Design Manager for Pivotal Labs in San Francisco, CA. He spends his days designing products, collaborating with his teammates, hand drawing letters and filming them and loves typography. https://www.instagram.com/aaronlawrencedesigns/"If you want me to buy something, put some type on it, and I'll buy it" he says.

Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. Joe is also a Lynda.com instructor with almost 40 courses in their catalog, many focusing on Dreamweaver, WordPress, and other web design strategies. He's built hundreds of websites over the years as well as numerous Dreamweaver extensions and applications to help other web designers. As a programmer, Joseph contributed many extensions for Dreamweaver, even a few that work with multiple Adobe products. He has presented at Adobe MAX numerous times in the past and is happy to return for another go-round. In his other life, Joe is also very proud to announce the release of his first middle-grade novel, Rafe Rebellius and the Clash of the Genres.

http://idest.com/

Kevin Mandeville is a Product Manager and resident email design expert at Litmus. Coming from a web design background, Kevin is an email design convert and loves hacking HTML emails into doing things people don't expect them to do. He has pushed the boundaries of what's possible in HTML email by incorporating HTML5 video background, hidden golden ticket searches, and award-winning live Twitter feeds. He is also the co-host of The Email Design Podcast.

http://litmus.com

Ethan Marcotte is an independent designer and author, who coined the term “responsive web design” to describe a new way of designing for the ever-changing Web. Responsive Web Design and Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles, his popular books on the topic, have been widely praised, showing how designers and organizations can leverage the Web’s flexibility to design across mobile, tablet, and desktop—and whatever might come next. Over the years his clientele has included New York Magazine, the Sundance Film Festival, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, and the W3C. Ethan has also been a featured speaker at many conferences, including Webstock, An Event Apart, and SXSW Interactive. Headshot credit: Copyright © Joyelle West

http://ethanmarcotte.com/

Jay is a passionate tec diving enthusiast currently working at Adobe, where he focuses on interaction design and web and mobile technology. He developed full scale SaaS weblications as well as online games, utilizing a wide technology stack from HTML/JS/CSS over PHP and Java to C. In his spare time Jay enjoys woodworking and builds his own furniture. He runs IxDA Berlin http://IxDAberlin.de and fuels LabUp! http://lab-up.org, a nonprofit helping to establish and promote Open Device Labs to ultimately help the web and user experience forward. Follow Jay on Twitter at http://twitter.com/klick_ass, check out http://OpenDeviceLab.com and make sure to test your stuff on REAL devices!

http://klick-ass.com

Michael Murphy (@theindesigner) is a Digital Media Solutions Consultant for Adobe, acting as a technical liaison to Adobe’s enterprise customers in the publishing, broadcast, and agency markets. Prior to joining Adobe, Michael spent 20+ years as a hands-on creative director, pushing the limits of Adobe's tools on a daily basis for a variety print and web projects. He's also the author of two books from Adobe Press, five video training courses on Lynda.com, and the creator and host of The InDesigner video podcast. An unapologetic sci-fi and comic book lover, Michael is based in Connecticut, where he is usually being run ragged by his daughter and twin boys when not geeking out over technology, typography, or photography.

Jonathan has been a designer with Adobe for the last 3 years, managing pixels and breakpoints for the Web Pro across Dreamweaver, Brackets and Edge Inspect. He is currently a product manager on the Adobe Experience Design team.

http://www.adobe.com/products/experience-design.html

Ali Pordeli was an animator for 8 years and in 2010 was nominated for the best animator award in the National Iranian Animation Festival “National Iranian Animation Festival Best Animator Nominee, 2010” After immigrating to the United States and graduating from Jacksonville University with a degree in Fine Arts, he fell in love with Adobe animation and Web Design applications and started QooQee.com, a design company that creates Adobe Muse templates and widgets used by tens of thousands of designers around the world. He’s received numerous endorsements from Adobe as a designer and MAX presenter, and was interviewed by publications including Forbes magazine.

http://www.qooqee.com

David Powers creates video training courses about web development for lynda.com and O’Reilly Media. He also writes Dreamweaver tutorials for Adobe Learn, and is the author of more than a dozen books for Adobe Press and Apress. David is passionate about web standards, and has closely observed how Dreamweaver has kept pace with the dramatic changes in web technologies in recent years. As an Adobe Community Professional, he frequents the Dreamweaver support forum offering advice and help whenever time permits. Before embarking on his web career, David was a radio and TV journalist for the BBC, spending many years reporting from Japan. He was Michael Palin’s guide to Tokyo in the BBC series Around the World in 80 Days.

http://foundationphp.com/

John Ramos is the founder of “Muse For You,” a YouTube channel dedicated to educating web designers about Adobe Muse. Since the inception of “Muse For You” in late 2014 John has created over 200 videos. Along with creating videos John also has a vast array of widgets that extend the functionality of Adobe Muse. Prior to teaching Adobe Muse and creating widgets John developed websites for local businesses in New Hampshire. This experience led him to be able to offer invaluable information to web designers using Adobe Muse. Experienced in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and WordPress John knew Adobe Muse would change the way websites were created. Currently residing in Wisconsin John spends most of his time creating videos and widgets for his “Muse For You” YouTube channel. Through his widgets John has been able to merge the world of complex code and scripts into the easy to use and code free environment of Adobe Muse. John loves pushing the boundaries of Adobe Muse and is constantly innovating new ideas to bring more to the Adobe Muse community.

http://museforyoushop.com

Mike Roush is the Director of Animation at Titmouse with 12 years experience in the industry. He has lead teams of animators creating cartoons like Metalocalypse, Motorcity, and Turbo F.A.S.T.. He is known as an expert in digital 2D Animation, and has helped develop the house style of animation at Titmouse inc. In addition to television work Mike has also directed Titmouse's first independent short film, The Hidden Life of the Burrowing Owl. Most recently Mike has completed work on Titmouse's first feature film NERDLAND. Mike has also spoken at events like CTN, and COMIC CON.

http://titmouse.net/

Saloni is the designer behind the latest avatar of Dreamweaver. Having worked in tech, branding (and social impact!) before Adobe, she is now completely immersed in the world of web as part of the Web group at Adobe.

With a deep passion for computer graphics, Anirudh is a Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe who has been building tools for designers and developers for the past ten years. Most recently, he has been fully focused on Adobe XD, the brand new tool from Adobe that combines design and prototyping.

Andrew Shorten is Director of Product Management for UX Design at Adobe. He is passionate about improving the quality, richness, and value of digital experiences. Andrew previously developed user interfaces for government and enterprise customers while working at Fujitsu. He has since worked for Macromedia, Microsoft, and Adobe, where he has engaged with designers, developers, digital agencies, and organizations to help them deliver engaging web, mobile and desktop experiences.

Ajay is a Group Product Manager at Adobe managing Adobe Animate CC. He is passionate about all things related to animation. In his free time, he enjoys travelling and playing cricket and squash.

Matt D. Smith is the owner and design director at Studio Mds, an independent studio in Athens, GA doing work for clients all over the world. He created the Float Label Pattern for input fields, which is now a used as a standard by companies like Google, Slack, Shopify, and more. He's also the creator of AIUX, an online course that helps you master wireframing and RWD with Adobe Illustrator. He's a proud father of four and his oldest son recently taught him how to drop in on a half-pipe with a skateboard.

http://mds.is

Patti Sokol, Adobe Sr. Solutions Consultant, has delivered award-winning presentations to groups large and small. With over 20 years of experience teaching and demonstrating the full range of Adobe’s Creative applications, Patti brings her warmly humorous style and irresistible passion for creative technology to every event. She loves to tell everyone, “I have the best job at Adobe! I get to show Adobe customers how cool the software is, and more importantly, how it lets them be more productive and express their creative ideas.”

Ben Tepfer is first and foremost a creative. He is also a Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Campaign. In this role, Tepfer spends most of his time in the field talking with industry leaders, customers and prospects to understand their marketing challenges in an effort to build a market-ready product. Prior to working with Adobe he worked in the entertainment industry and is an aficionado of all things beer-related.

Dan Tuhoarca is the Product Manager of Adobe XD for Windows at Adobe. He’s passionate about building products that get customers excited and improve their work and lifestyle. Always focused on user experience, he combines detailed observation, intensive research and best product practices to address the users' needs. He’s based in Bucharest, Romania and has previously worked for Avira, an antivirus company, where he built products addressed to over 50M users. He's also a co-organizer of Product Tank, a monthly event that encourages learning and exchange of ideas within the product community in Bucharest.

Max is a Senior Computer Scientist on the Adobe Experience Design CC (XD) team and implements new XD features week to week. Max has been at Adobe for five years-- he’s worked on Adobe’s open source contributions to browsers and HTML and CSS standards, as well as Photoshop and Adobe.com. His passions include computer graphics and real-time rendering performance. He resides in Seattle.

Talin Wadsworth is the lead product designer for Adobe Experience Design, a new design tool for UX/UI and mobile app design. As part of Adobe Design, Talin has lead many 1.0 product initiatives, including the launch of Creative Cloud and Adobe Sketch for the iPad.

Simon Widjaja is a passionate web hybrid (49% designer and 51% developer) from Cologne Germany. He started in 1999 to explore the world wide web from a creative perspective. He is playing around with cutting edge technologies and new expressive authoring tools ever since, always trying to fill the gap between design and code. Simon has worked on client projects for international brands like Adobe, Toyota, Discovery Channel and Telekom. When he is not working on projects he is passionate about pushing the creative community where ever possible. Simon has written 4 books on Adobe tools, is the man behind TourDeAnimate.com and the extension library Animate Commons and frequent speaker on conferences and user groups.

Sam Wilken, Associate Creative Director, is responsible for ensuring the creative work of Phenomblue is in line with our clients' strategies and brands, specializing in design across a variety of platforms. Sam maintains the strategic integrity and usability of a project, from discovery to completion, including proactive conception of new ideas for clients like eBay Inc., Travel and Transport, and AIM and for internal advancements like our FWA award- winning mobile app, I Smell Brains.

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Caroline is a multi-disciplinary art director, designer and native Texan living in NYC. Currently, as Senior Digital Design Manager at Wyndham Hotel Group, she creates a cohesive digital presence across multiple platforms for 15 global brands. Previously at Starwood, she helped design a completely new template structure for all branded sites and served as an integral part in developing the brand strategy and design for the latest additions to Starwood’s portfolio, Design Hotels and Tribute Portfolio. She has also recently partnered with the Adobe team to help evolve Adobe XD and Creative Cloud Libraries. With a background in logo design, packaging and print collateral, she applies the same conceptual thinking to her current work in building digital experiences. Her past clients include American Airlines, Chick-fil-A, Bausch + Lomb, 7-Eleven and Slurpee, and her work has been recognized with a Cannes Silver Lion in Promo and Activation.

Brian Wood is a web developer, the author of 9 books, and the author of numerous training titles including Muse, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and more. In addition to training many clients, including Nordstrom, REI, Boeing, Starbucks, Nintendo, and many others, Brian speaks regularly at national conferences, such as Adobe MAX, HOW Design, HOW Interactive, as well as events hosted by AIGA and other industry organizations. He has also written articles forSmashingMagazine.com, Peachpit.com, CreativePro.com, Adobe Inspire magazine, and more. Brian has a YouTube channel at: youtube.com/askbrianwood.com and a corporate training site at: brianwoodtraining.com.

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Leslie Yang is a product and visual designer with a decade of designing for real people. Leslie started her career in public policy, but over time discovered a passion for compelling people to take action through design and data. When Leslie discovered user experience design, it allowed her to combine her passions of improving people's lives with cross-team collaboration, data visualization, storytelling, qualitative research, end-to-end product design, and clear business goals. Leslie believes it takes all kinds to make change -- hers just happens to be in the forms of pixels, lines of code, and Post-It notes. Leslie is currently a Product Designer at Pivotal Labs, collaborating with teams from startups to Fortune 50 companies to transform how they design and develop solutions that meet user need and product market fit. At night, she loves practicing calligraphy and renovating her house.

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