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As we bid farewell to 2024, all of us at SEGD want to thank you for making our year so incredible. We are grateful for the contributions of each of our members in advancing experiential design, and look forward to continuing this journey of innovation and collaboration. Our SEGD team wishes you a great holiday season, filled with warmth from friends and family. Our office will be closed from December 25, 2024 to January 1, 2025. We will see you in the new year! #SEGD #HappyHolidays #ExperientialDesign #DesignCommunity #Design

As the SEGD staff prepares for our 2025 events, SEGD CEO Cybelle Jones took a moment to celebrate the creativity, innovation, and passion that radiated from the SEGD community in 2024. At https://lnkd.in/eRWqa_AR, hear from Cybelle about how this has been a year of transformation—not just in how we grow and connect as an organization, but in the way our members continue to redefine the role of design in shaping the human experience. In 2025, we will model a new way of experimentation, bringing out the best of what SEGD represents for the world to see. Together, we will embrace new lenses and innovative approaches, celebrating the communities we serve and shaping the collective future of design. We look forward to the year ahead! #SEGD #YearInReview #DesignCommunity #ExperientialDesign #Design #ThoughtLeadership #DesignThinking

The most wonderful time of the year is here - the entry portal for the 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards is now open! These awards represent the best-of-the-best in experiential design and celebrate the designers and design firms whose work best exemplifies SEGD’s mission to “educate, connect, inspire and advocate.” Winning projects are promoted online, in the press, across social media, and in feature stories; are published in the SEGD Awards Annual; and are referenced by members, prospective clients, and students across the globe. The 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards are presented by DCL (Design Communications Ltd.). Be sure to check out the competition guidelines and category descriptions at https://lnkd.in/eNBVPwA3 before entering your project, and submit by one of the following deadlines: January 31, 2025 (early); February 28, 2025 (late); March 15, 2025 (final). Featured Images: 2024 SEGD Global Design Awards Best of Show winner First Light Pavilion by Casson Mann Ltd, 2024 SEGD Global Design Awards Sylvia Harris winner Te Mātāwai by Maynard Design Consultancy. #SEGD #SEGDGlobalDesignAwards #DesignAwards #awards #ExperienceDesign #ExperientialGraphics #exhibition #ExhibitionDesign #wayfinding #WayfindingDesign #placemaking #BrandedEnvironments #DigitalExperiences #DigitalDesign #signage #EnvironmentalGraphics #GraphicDesign #DesignStrategy #DesignResearch

Yesterday, FIT's Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design program held Capstone, their annual thesis adjudication event. At Capstone, industry professionals from all over the world join FIT to have one-on-one interaction with the graduate students during their thesis defense. The thesis work will demonstrate the students' exploration of an original thesis argument, in the form of a designed exhibition project. At https://lnkd.in/eNbJieyr, hear from Gretchen Coss about the importance of Capstone, and how design professionals can offer real-world experience and mentoring to these new graduates. Congratulations to all of the FIT Exhibition and Experience Design MA Design graduates, and we wish you the best of luck with your future endeavors! #SEGD #FITGradEXD #FITCapstone #FITCapstone2024 #ExhibitionDesign #ExperienceDesign #StudentWork #DesignEducation #DesignCommunity #Design

SEGD is proud to announce the esteemed jury members who will select the 2025 Global Design Award winners! The multidisciplinary jury will evaluate projects based on their effectiveness in connecting people to place, creating unique and memorable user experiences while solving design challenges. Learn more about each juror at https://lnkd.in/emBMJytr. Chairing the 2025 jury will be Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner and co-founder of C&G Partners. Jonathan is also the host and author of “Making the Museum,” a podcast and newsletter for the cultural experience field. In addition to Alger, the 2025 SEGD Global Design Awards jury includes eight other internationally acclaimed designers: Ujijji Davis Williams, PLA, ASLA, Founder of JIMA Studio Chad Finken, Experiential Design Director at IA Interior Architects Natasha Jen, Partner at Pentagram Roger Mann, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Casson Mann Ltd Tim McNeil, Professor of Design and Director of the Design Museum at the University of California, Davis Judy K Suh, Creative Director at Journey’s New York Studio Julie Vogel, President of Clearstory—Wayfinding and Placemaking Jocelyn Zhao, Graphic Designer based in New York #SEGD #SEGDGlobalDesignAwards #designawards #awards #experiencedesign #experientialgraphics #exhibition #exhibitiondesign #wayfinding #wayfindingdesign #placemaking #brandedenvironments #digitalexperiences #digitaldesign #signage #environmentalgraphics #graphicdesign #designstrategy #designresearch

Don’t miss your chance! Are you shaping the future of experiential design? Design educators and researchers from around the world are invited to share your groundbreaking research, curriculum innovation, or professional insights with our global community. Selected research will be presented at the SEGD Academic Summit on June 17-18, 2025 and will be published in SEGD’s blind peer-reviewed journal, Communication + Place. Submissions are due no later than January 8, 2025. They should be in the form of an extended abstract and must meet the submission requirements found at https://lnkd.in/eAS3VpYW. #SEGD #AcademicSummit #AcademicTaskForce #DesignEducation #ExperientialDesign #DesignCommunity #ThoughtLeadership

As 2024 comes to a close, we hope that you choose to join us for another incredible year of networking and programming! If your membership is set to expire this month, we want to invite you to renew your membership before rates increase on January 1, 2025. If you’re joining SEGD for the first time, we encourage you to join before the end of the year to take advantage of our 2024 rates. Be sure to click “auto-renew” to keep receiving your membership benefits year after year! Learn more and join now at https://lnkd.in/e6WaqW3h. #SEGD #SEGDMembership #DesignCommunity #ExperientialDesign #DesignEducation #Design

Don’t miss your chance to save big! We are excited to announce that the 2025 SEGD Event Bundle is now available. As an SEGD member, you have the opportunity to purchase admission to our 2025 events at a discounted rate from now until January 15, 2025. Visit https://lnkd.in/edHf-dgk to see the calendar lineup, and register for the Event Bundle now! SEGD looks forward to sharing relevant and thought-provoking content, as well as building relationships – new and old – at our events. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to the SEGD community! #SEGD #SEGDEvents #EventBundle #DesignEducation #DesignCommunity #ExperientialDesign #Design

Today, organizations across the country are participating in Giving Tuesday, a day that encourages people to give back to their communities. We invite you to kick off your holiday giving season with a donation to SEGD! Visit https://lnkd.in/eqzWd5pj to learn more about the different ways you can make a difference in our community. One way to help shape the future of experience design is by donating SEGD memberships to current students through our Student Packs! Organizations and individuals have the option to purchase a 5, 10, 15 or 20-pack of Student Memberships for SEGD to gift to current full-time design students. These student packs provide invaluable support to students just beginning their experiential design journey. #SEGD #DesignEducation #DesignCommunity #Design #FutureofExperienceDesign #ExperientialDesign #ExperienceDesign

Call for Submissions! Are you shaping the future of experiential design? Share your groundbreaking research, curriculum innovation, or professional insights at the 2025 SEGD Academic Summit, a virtual gathering of global thought leaders in experiential design to be held as a virtual event on June 17-18, 2024. Submissions are due no later than January 8, 2025. They should be in the form of an extended abstract and must meet the submission requirements found at https://lnkd.in/eAS3VpYW. #SEGD #AcademicSummit #AcademicTaskForce #DesignEducation #ExperientialDesign #DesignCommunity #ThoughtLeadership