The Hashimoto Communication Arts Seminar is a weekly seminar that hosts local and regional professional designers. CEOs, creative directors, art directors, design directors, senior and junior designers from advertising, editorial design, product design, packaging design, web design, game design, sound design, animation, video, motion graphics, and other communication design professions lecture and interact with students, and review senior portfolios. This is an invaluable opportunity for our students and the larger USU community to interact with and learn from top design professionals.
Hashimoto Seminars
The Communication Arts Seminar has a deep-rooted history in the design community within the Department of Art + Design and the State of Utah. Spanning over 50 years, it’s the longest-running design lecture series in the state, preceding the Utah chapter of the AIGA. The class originated by students under the direction of Professors, John Anderson and Glen Edwards. After passing away unexpectedly, the class was later named the Hashimoto Communication Arts Seminar to serve as a legacy to Alan Hashimoto..
Spring 2018 Hashimoto Seminars
Past Seminars
April Greiman
Influential Graphic Designer / Made in Space
David Young and Kent Miller
Founders + Designers / 7D8 Design Studio
Cameron Raterink
Art Director / Red Olive Inc.
Holly Johnson
Graphic Designer, Educator / University of Utah, AIGA
Heidi Nielsen
Associate Marketing Manager / FFKR Architects
Megan Bell
Creative Designer / Sorenson Media
BT Livermore
Printmaker, Sign Painter
Nate Scott & Alex Spunt
AKQA, Everlane, American Apparel
Thomas Campbell
Artist, Filmaker, Designer – Santa Cruz, CA
Cam Carter
Sr. Media Digital Designer – Mountain America Credit Union
Jan Wilkerson
Owner/Partner, Designer – karlssonwilker inc.
Jim Godfrey
Designer, Educator – Utah Valley University
Darlene Van Uden
Design Director – Infinite Scale Design Group
Kevin Perry
Designer – Struck
Rick Valicenti
Designer – Thrist/3st
Tyler Tolson
Founder – Denik
Bryon Darby
Photographer, Educator
Glen Edwards
Painter, Illustrator
Nick Mendoza
Designer, Educator – BYU
Charles Beneke
Printmaker, Educator – University of Akron
Lonnie Anderson
Independent Creative Director – MRM Worldwide
Chris Wawrinofsky
Sculptor – Los Angeles
Chuck Landvatter
Illustrator, Painter, Educator – Southern Arkansas University
Michelle Dougherty
Director – Imaginary Forces
Trent Call
Illustrator – Swinj
Noelle Newbold
Design Director – R/GA
Illustrator – The New Yorker, Outside Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, And More.
Matt Daines
Architect, Designer – Afton Klein Group
Tosh Brown
Graphic Designer – Struck, The City Of Salt
Adam Leestma & Sage Perrot
Printmakers, Illustrators, Educators – USU
SWARM
Designers – Devin Howells, Jon Harts, Chris Witham
Brooke Bell
Senior Designer – Glasses.com
Jesse Crowley
Lead Web Designer – Fanzz
Kory Fenton
Senior Motion Designer – Axis41
Zach Winegar
Graphic Designer, Partner – Mighty Clever
Cassie Klingler
Graphic Designer, Educator – University Of Washington
Matt Snyder
Head Of User Experience – Lucid Software Inc.
Jess Ung
Art Director – React! Games
Jordan Nielsen
Footwear Designer – Vans
Emily Bunnell & Houston Trueblood
Designers – Malouf
Mac Galeano
Art Director – Modern8
Ben Savage
MFA Candidate – Game Design
Arlo Vance
Graphic Designer, President – AIGA SLC
Kyle Harris
Designer, Art Director – ITG Sharepoint
Elliott Earls
Artist-In-Residence, Head Of Graphic Design – Cranbrook
Kelly & Cardon Webb
Graphic Designers – Skullcandy
Layne Turner
UX Designer – Goal Zero
Matt Maxwell
Creative Director – Matt Maxwell Design Inc.
Dan Christofferson
Illustrator, Painter, Designer – Beeteeth
Matt Magnus
Senior Interactive Designer – Red Interactive Agency
Kate Bingaman-Burt
Illustrator, Educator – Portland State University
Ben Webster
Designer, Owner Atelier Industries – The Mandate Press
Brad Knickerbocker
Graphic Design Manager – Overstock
Michael Kern & Guests
Executive Creative Director, Co-Founder – Welikesmall
USU Multimedia Marching Band
Grad Students–Digital Video, Illustration, Graphic Design, Interactive, Gaming
Mike Daines
New Assistant Professor
Rebecca Clayton
Interactive Designer, Struck Creative
Jared Strain
Partner/Design Director, Super Top Secret
Nate Smith
Interactive Designer/Developer, Experticity
Dayne Dingman
Publication/Graphic Designer, Idaho Falls Magazine
Thy Doan
Designer + Letterer, Pen And Palates, Infinite Scale Design Group
Past Speakers from 2008 – 2011.
Dean Foster
Technical Director, Pixar
Scott Rockwood
CEO/Owner, Richter 7 Advertising
Mike Belzer
Animator, Rhythm and Hues, Pixar, Disney
Nate Sumsion
(Buena Vista Games) Disney Game Design
Axiom Design
Entertainment/Graphic Design
Natalie Pierce
Graphic Designer, Salt Lake City Magazine
McRay Magleby
World Renowned Poster Artist
John Cordova
Creative Art Director, USANA
Judy Nielson
Los Angeles Illustrator, Storyboard Artist
Jordan Leary
Designer, Poptropica, Children’s Game
Jeremy Murray
Designer, Skull Candy
Mike Daines / Brook Scott
LA Designers
Kellan Hatch
Incognito, Sony Interactive
Jared Bastian
Microsoft Games
John Kilbourn
Creative Director, Sensory Sweep
Kim Passey
Art Director, Sensory Sweep
Golan Levin
MIT Media Lab/Interactive
Mark Walton
Storyboard Artist for Disney
Mike Warner
Los Angeles Animator “Digital Domain”
Mike Lott
(Buena Vista Games) Disney Game Design
Matt Law
Creative Director, Black Diamond
Richard Watts
Owner/CEO, Origin Studios
Matt Mangus
Designer, Red Interactive
Jared Stanley
Designer, Red Interactive
Brett Shelton
Serious Games, Instructional
Technology
Pat Cone
Photographer – National Geographic, Browning
Brent Watts
Owner/CEO, Axiom Design
George Merrill
Owner/CEO, Humaniz Multimedia
Brent Adams
Award-Winning Animation Professor BYU
David Cahoon
Art Director, Comphealth
Randall Smith
Owner/CEO, Modern 8 Design
Jim Banister
Producer, Author, Spectrum DNA
Sage Turk
Creative Director, Letter 23
Nathan Sumsion
Disney Interactive
Marcella Gillenwater
J. Crew, NYC
Marc Araminan
LA Sound Designer/Producer
Adam Smith
Advent Creative
Adam Watkins
Los Alamos Research Lab
Abigail Fein
ZAGG Inc. Creative Director
Jim Agutter
Co-founder of Center for the Representation Of Multi-Dimensional Information (CROMDI)
Art Department
Young Electric Sign Company
Art Director
O.C. Tanner
Brian Christiansen
Disney Interactive
John Dean
EA Entertainment Media