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TWO TWELVE PRINCIPAL DAVID GIBSON ACCEPTS BOARD ROLE FOR INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE AT ASPEN
New York, NY, January 15, 2006 - Two Twelve Associates (http://twotwelve.com), the New York City-based public information design firm, announces that Principal David Gibson has been appointed to the Board of the International Design Conference at Aspen (IDCA)
The IDCA’s major program is the annual Design Summit which takes place in Aspen, Colorado in the spring and is produced by AIGA, the professional association for design.
This year, using the design studio as a model, approximately 300 Summit attendees will use applied design thinking to create and execute programs addressing various social, economic and environmental issues.
"The Aspen Design Summit is an active, participatory event with distinct outcomes," says Mr. Gibson, "I've long been a proponent of using design to improve people's lives, and the Aspen program presents a unique and powerful opportunity to do so on a larger scale."
Mr. Gibson is one of 10 members of the board, the others including Agnes Bourne of Jackson, Wyoming, president; Richard Grefé, AIGA executive director; Karin Hibma Cronan and Michael Cronan, of Berkeley, California; Peggy Loar of New York; Jim Luebbers of Jackson, Wyoming; Laurie Beckelman of New York; and Bill Grant of Canton, Georgia. Mr. Gibson will serve a 3-year term as a board member, responsible for developing programming for the interactive experience.
About
Two Twelve
Two Twelve Associates is a multi-disciplinary graphic design
company specializing in public information design, the planning and presentation
of complex information to diverse audiences. David Gibson founded Two
Twelve in 1980, and he and his partner Ann Harakawa presently run the
firm's New York-based operation. Two Twelve offers a full range of services
in branding, print communications and environmental graphic design for
corporate, institutional and municipal clients nationwide. Important commissions
have included the design of signage and wayfinding systems for the Yale
University campus, Downtown Baltimore, and Radio City Music Hall, as well
as brand communications for New Jersey Transit and New York City’s
2012 Olympic bid.
About
the Aspen Design Summit
The International Design Conference at Aspen (IDCA; http://aspendesignsummit.aiga.org)
has partnered with AIGA to transform the highly successful Aspen Design
Conference into a gathering that can be as groundbreaking for design in
the 21st century as it was in the 20th century.
The Summit will attract approximately 300 people each year to work on design solutions to major social, economic and environmental problems, in our own nation or the developing world, followed by a commitment to execute any of the recommendations that emerge from the gatherings.
Chicago industrialist Walter Paepcke founded the International Design Conference in Aspen more than fifty years ago. He and his wife Elizabeth envisioned Aspen as a place where leaders from throughout the world could gather to share ideas. Their vision was first realized in 1949 when the Goethe Bicentennial celebration attracted more than 2,000 people to Aspen to honor the 200th birthday of Goethe, the great German humanist. Albert Schweitzer opened the convocation. In 1951, two years after the Goethe Bicentennial, Paepcke established the IDCA as an opportunity to bring together designers, artists, engineers, business and industry leaders.
The IDCA, along with the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Music Festival and School, grew out of the Paepckes' belief that Aspen provided an ideal environment for nurturing the whole human being. Isolated from the distractions of urban life and inspired by the abundant natural beauty of the Colorado Rockies, people could take advantage of Aspen's recreational, intellectual and cultural resources. They would return home renewed in "body, mind and spirit," a concept that has come to be known as "The Aspen Idea." Today, Aspen is renowned for its wide range of cultural activities and opportunities for learning.
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