We are giving away a pair of tickets to ARCADE NW Magazine’s lecture and mingle with Christian Marc Schmidt on February 14th at the Seattle Art Museum. To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed on Wednesday, February 13th.
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From our partners at Arcade NW:
Patterns and Identities: Data Visualization as Interface
February 14, 2013 | 6PM
Seattle Art Museum BOARD ROOM
1300 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
More info: arcadenw.org | Tickets: brownpapertickets.com
Christian Marc Schmidt is a designer with a focus on interaction design and the dynamic display of quantitative information. In this talk, Christian will present a point of view on data visualization as an emerging mainstream discipline, and how data visualization principles are relevant for the design of interfaces to navigate large and dynamic sets of data. He will talk about how these principles have informed a range of design projects he has worked on, from the One Laptop Per Child user interface, to sited media for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, to exploratory visualizations of social data in a city context.
Christian Marc Schmidt is principal and founder of Schema, a creative design and technology consultancy specializing in interactive experiences and data visualization. Prior to founding Schema in 2012, Christian worked at the design firms IDEO and Pentagram, and was an interaction designer at Microsoft. His experience spans the fields of information design, interaction design, and media installation. He holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York, and an MFA from Yale University. His work has received recognition from organizations such as D&AD, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), Communication Arts, Print Magazine and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Christian has taught in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University and the Visual Communication Design program at the University of Washington.
Following the lecture, attendees are invited to gather in the private dining room at SAM’s TASTE Restaurant and continue the conversation from 7:30-8:30 pm. When ordering food and drink at the bar, mention that you attended the ARCADE event and enjoy the SAM member discount. Cheers!
A HUGE thank you to the Seattle Art Museum for hosting and partnering with ARCADE on this event!
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I would love to see this. I’m in science/engineering, and have been watching data visualization and big data get increasingly bigger. There’s also an important aspect of design that impacts how scientists’ and engineers’ work is perceived and interpreted, which are not getting passed along as well as it ought to. I look at big data and data visualization from the data side, I’d love to hear thoughts from the designer side.
Would love to go to this!
I am a UX designer with a passion for information display. I am currently embarking on a very ambitions design project that would benefit from Schmidt’s incites.
I think emily deserves the ticket. I’m already a visual data designer, but if you happen to have more than one ticket you’re giving away I’d like to go.
This would be awesome to see! I am an industrial design student at Western Washington University taking a CAD class right now, and have always been interested in visual graphics/info graphics. It would be neat to see how CAD is used to visualize data in new ways.
I’m a big fan of Edward Tufte’s work and would love to ask Christian if he has been inspired at all by him. Plus I don’t have a valentine so what better way to spend the evening!
I’d love to attend this. My girlfriend wanted to go for valentine’s day but the tickets are sold out :(
I work on making data and information approachable and understandable for everyone, and would love to learn more about the area.
I would love to see this. I tried buying tickets but they sold out quickly. Hope my wife and I can still find a way to attend!
Congratulations Emily!
You have been chosen as winner and emailed.