The Show, hosted annually by AIGA Nebraska, exhibits the best in graphic design, photography, and illustration produced in the region, and includes entries from design professionals and students, featuring both published and unpublished work.

THE JUDGES

Tricia Bateman
HOW Magazine

Tricia Bateman is the Senior Art Director at HOW magazine. Her exposure to graphic design came early through her father’s own career as a designer and for the last 10 years, she has been designing for a variety of magazines. Tricia’s creative candy is new music, good books and decadent food, and she turns absolutely giddy when a well-designed poster for a favorite band gets entered in a HOW design competition.

Brian Edlefson
Target

Brian Edlefson is a design practitioner living in Minneapolis. In his current position as Senior Graphic Designer & Art Director at Target, he develops solutions that extend the Target brand through packaging, promotions, and environmental projects. Before moving to Minnesota, he designed for The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Herman Miller in Michigan and McDougal-Littell in Illinois. Brian earned his BFA from Western Michigan University (1996), studied color in Bali, Indonesia with Ohio University (2000), and achieved an MFA from Yale University (2005).

Edlefson’s work has been recognized in many national and international creative competitions (Art Director’s Club, Communication Arts, Creativity, Graphis, HOW, Print, STEP Inside Design) and chosen for inclusion in the National Design Archive at the Library of Congress. In 2001 he was invited to speak (with Steve Frykhom) about designing for large organizations at the HOW International Design Conference. Recently, Brian was elected to the AIGA Minnesota Chapter as an Associate Program Director.

Debbie Millman
Sterling Group

Debbie is a Managing Partner and President of the Design division at Sterling Brands, the largest independent brand consultancy in the country. She has been there for eleven years where she has led long-term partnerships with global clients including Gillette, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell’s, Johnson & Johnson, Glaxo-Smithkline, Pfizer and Unilever.

Debbie is on the National Board of the AIGA, the professional association for Design, and is an author on the design blog Speak Up, which will be included in the 2006 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Triennial. She is also a regular contributor to Print Magazine, and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts. In 2005 she began hosting the first live weekly radio talk show about graphic design on the Internet. The show is titled “Design Matters with Debbie Millman” and it is featured on the Voice America Business Network and as podcasts on iTunes. Debbie frequently lectures on the virtues of brands and authenticity. She believes that the condition of brand reflects the condition of our culture and is bound and determined to further the causes of brand consultants everywhere.

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