

SCOTT STOWELL is the proprietor of Open, an independent design studio that creates rewarding experiences for people that look, read, and think. Recent Open projects include identity systems for Bravo, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Planet Green, and WNYC Radio; the editorial design of Good magazine; short films for Jazz at Lincoln Center; and architectural signage for the Yale University Art Gallery.
Open’s work has received awards from and/or been published by the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Art Directors Club, the Broadcast Designers Association, Communication Arts, Eye, Grafik, I.D., +81, Print, ReBrand, the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers, the Society of Publication Designers, Step Inside Design, and the Tokyo Typedirectors Club, among others.
Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Colors magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he received a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former vice president of AIGA/NY, Scott teaches at Yale and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.
WHEN
Thursday, April 9 @ 7pm Doors @ 6:45pm
WHERE
MacEwan College, 105th Street Building
CN Theatre (Room 5 – 142)
TICKETS
$5 GDC & M.A.D.E. members
$10 non-members
Tickets purchased at the door. Cash only.
FOR MORE INFORMATION visit abnorth.gdc.net, or email events.abnorth@gdc.net
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- March 11 - April 10Location: Edmonton, ABScott Stowell lecture, organized in partnership with MADE.
- April 02Location: Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC
- April 03 - 12Location: Centennial Hall, Medicine Hat CollegeFor more information call 403.529.3959 or visit
www.lost-and-found.ca - April 09Location: EdmontonGive your mind a spring cleaning with this provocative presentation by Scott Stowell – live from New York. Your GDC Chapter – in partnership with M.A.D.E – are bringing him to Edmonton to share his experiences in a conversation all about the very best of design thinking, as it relates to impacting the people who see and use our designs. For more info, visit http://www.gdc.net/chapters/alberta_north/articles615.php
- April 14 - 17Location: Harbour Centre, Downtown VancouverOpening gala is on Tuesday, April 14, from 6 – 9 pm.
- April 23Location: Calgary, AlbertaFeaturing portfolios of the graduating classes of Visual Communications Design
and Photography programs at the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary. - April 23 - 25Location: Winnipeg, ManitobaThis year's National Annual General Meeting will be held April 23-25, 2009 in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- April 23 - 25Location: MacEwan's Centre for the Arts and Communications, EdmontonIllusions of Grandeur | An exhibition of graduating talent
- April 25Location: Plaza 500
- April 25Location: PLAZA 500 Hotel, VancouverA one-day typographic event
Presented by Langara College and
the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada












