User Journey w/ Sevy

Caryl Pagel is a poet, editor, and author of four books, most recently Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press, 2022). She is co-founder, editor, and publisher at independent American house Rescue Press, as well as director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s NEOMFA program. Caryl holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Caryl joins Sevy to talk about the (mostly) invisible art of editing — including her philosophy of "generative publishing," book-making as a social practice, and what haircuts have in common with design. User Journey w/ Sevy is presented by the Society of Typographic Arts [https://typographicarts.org/], Chicago's oldest professional association for design. Learn more at userjourney.show [https://userjourney.show/].

David Wallace Haskins is an interdisciplinary artist using the elements of light, space, time, and sound to create experiential interventions. He is founder and principal at DWH Studio, where he collaborates with specialists and technicians to create his work. Since 2021, David has been an artist-in-residence at Edith Farnsworth House, where his exhibition Landscape + Light re-contextualizes Mies van der Rohe's celebrated architecture as a study of immediacy. David joins Sevy to talk about communicating without language, finding his way as an autodidact creative from Blockbuster to his first museum show, and how we can supercharge our awareness by embracing the silence around us — in form and in function. User Journey w/ Sevy is presented by the Society of Typographic Arts [typographicarts.org], Chicago's oldest professional association for design. Learn more at userjourney.show [userjourney.show].

Bud Rodecker explores the space between logical constraints and formal play. He is founder and design director at Span, a Chicago-based studio crossing the boundaries of communication design in all mediums. He is a former president of the Society of Typographic Arts, and he is a board member of the Chicago Design Museum. Bud joins Sevy to talk about how an old Photoshop demo changed his life, the role designers play in social and environmental justice, and important lessons he's learned since working his way up from intern to partner and then founder — including the secret to winning clients over. User Journey w/ Sevy is presented by the Society of Typographic Arts [https://typographicarts.org/], Chicago's oldest professional association for design. Learn more at userjourney.show [https://userjourney.show/].

Nermin Moufti is a Syrian-born, Saudi-raised designer and creative director who works in both English and Arabic, re-invigorating local to global brands while leading boundary-breaking campaigns for clients like Planned Parenthood, the Type Directors Club, Netflix, StockX, and more. Currently, Nermin is a co-founder of Field of Practice, a women- and member-owned creative studio founded in 2020 that designs for change. Nermin joins Sevy to discuss how design can drive positive social outcomes through co-creation strategies, what the teachings of a Zen sensei have to do with visual communication, and what a brief stint in comedy taught her about living life as a designer. User Journey w/ Sevy is presented by ⁠⁠the Society of Typographic Arts⁠⁠ [https://typographicarts.org/], Chicago's oldest professional association for design. Learn more at ⁠⁠userjourney.show⁠⁠ [https://www.userjourney.show/].

Ryan Ken is an actor and two-time Emmy Award-winning television writer at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver who uses an unconventional comedic perspective to comment on social issues, film, television, politics, and pop culture. Ryan joins Sevy to talk about lessons learned from collaborations with designers, life before (and after) going viral online, and how to nurture your creative practice, and protect it, without burning out. User Journey w/ Sevy is presented by ⁠the Society of Typographic Arts⁠ [https://typographicarts.org/], Chicago's oldest professional association for design. Learn more at ⁠userjourney.show⁠ [https://www.userjourney.show/].