plural blog

Friday, August 21, 7pm
with Harper Reed & Dawn Hancock
@ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
 FREE

from AIGA: Public Works is a series of shows and events that features artists who’ve spent years in Chicago working within the independent art and music communities.

Harper Reed - Threadless
Harper Reed is the amazing CTO for the awesome Threadless.com. He is responsible (along with a cadre of amazing engineers) for bringing Threadless.com from the mean streets of startupville to the gold paved
streets of enterprise city. Harper oversees the architecture, execution and maintenance of skinnyCorp’s community websites. He is waiting for the singularity. When not causing problems with technology, Harper can be found yoyoing, juggling and hacking random internet appliances. You can read his blog at nata2.org.

Dawn Hancock - Firebelly Design
Dawn Hancock calls the shots. As creative director and owner of Firebelly, she cultivates the studio’s design culture and inspires the best work with vision, compassion and an infallible gut instinct. The Firebelly Family is a tight knit collective of strategists, designers, writers and programmers working hard to connect authentic companies with real people in socially responsible ways. When she’s not designing for world change, Dawn mentors the next generation of rabble-rousing problem solvers through job shadowing, studio tours and portfolio reviews. She also spends time lecturing at design schools and conferences as far away as Doha, Qatar in addition to teaching workshops on sustainable design. A few of her other endeavors include: the annual Firebelly Design Grant, Camp Firebelly, her nonprofit the Firebelly Foundation and its first program, Reason to Give.