Designer Profiles 9 & 10

9. Adriane Grumbein

Adriane is a professor at the University of Kentucky where she teaches creative advertising and strategic communication. She originally went to school in Texas where she majored in marketing and minored in design. She has a done a lot of work for trade shows and other clients. She deals with a lot of advertising and info graphs for clients. She told us her feelings on design and art. She says these things are very different because "design is problem solving" and "art is evoking a feeling." She also gave us a lot of advice that I feel was the most "real" out of all the speakers. She told us about how we will not always love everything we do for clients because we do not have as much creative freedom in those situations. I thought this was useful because it seemed like she was telling us the problems that most people will not. She was just preparing us for the real world. In the future, Adriane sees design moving more towards big data and personalization. Design is being personalized to different specifics for each client.

10. Mitzi Vernon

Mitzi is the dean for the school of design at the university of Kentucky.  She has been through a lot of different schooling to get where she is at today. She has traveled all around the United States to both study and teach at different universities such as Stanford, Virginia Tech, Arizona State, and now she finds herself at the University of Kentucky. She has a masters in architecture and has completed many free lance projects while at Arizona State University.. Mitzi believes that "all things are good exercises." This is why Mitzi has worked in several different places and is always willing to try new things. When asked about what is next for design, Mitzi described the idea of "design thinking." This has been around forever to designers, but it is becoming more prevalent in the world outside of design. More people are learning about this idea of looking at something in a different way. This idea is becoming more embedded in society today. This idea will only continue to grow throughout society.