About Brian Verhoeven

Brian Verhoeven is the Manager of Information Architecture at Forum One, where he works with clients to develop an optimized user experience that balances an organization’s mission and the needs of its target audiences. Recent clients with whom Brian has worked include The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, The Food and Drug Administration, Millennium Challenge Corporation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Conservation International, KaBOOM!, McCormick & Company, Pew Charitable Trusts, Enough!, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. 

Brian was an interaction designer at The Washington Post before joining Forum One. In this role, he assisted with the design of the Post's classified self-service application. He also designed its subscriber self-service website, available to hundreds of thousands of users. He also played a key role in developing the online community for the Strom Thurmond Boys & Girls Clubs Leadership Institute at Clemson University. 

Brian earned his bachelor's degree in English at Virginia Tech and master's in professional communication at Clemson. He belongs to the Interaction Design Association and The Information Architecture Institute. At home, he is either cooking something for his family or riding his Trek bicycle.

Brian Verhoeven's lecture will be 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 17 in the Design Studio.

About Ocean Eiler

Ocean Eiler is a Designer, Developer, DJ and Rock Climber. He has been a photojournalist, a president of a non-profit, and, for a brief time, a piercing apprentice. Ocean's colorful background has allowed him to dabble in a lot of mediums of communication.

Currently, as the Senior Designer for PBS KIDS Digital, Ocean has molded this ambiguous title to translate to: UX design, web design, frontend development, Flash development, video editing, audio FX creation, soundscape mixing, print design, game development, mobile development and a touch of management. His teams’ work has won a variety of awards for children's media and has allowed him the opportunity to speak in educational settings about Designing for Children. 

Born from second generation Photographers, Ocean had access to a wealth of art supplies and an artistic community. This foundation set the ground work for what would follow. 

Shortly after graduating from Ohio University, with a dual degree in Interactive Multimedia & Graphic Design, he took a job in Switzerland working for Fransican's International. After a year in Switzerland where he learned how to rock climb, how not to speak French and a little PHP, Ocean returned to the States. The years since he has worked for: WOUB (a local PBS Station), Pixel & Ink, Inc. a start up in Alexandria, Virginia, Matrix Group International and finally PBS KIDS as a Web Designer / Flash Video Expert. During this time he co-founded a rock climbing stewardship non-profit called Mid Atlantic Climbers and has continued to DJ drum & bass since 1997.

Ocean Eiler's lecture will be 6 p.m., Monday, April 8 in the Design Studio.

PBS KIDS GO! Home page

Fransicans International: 2003 Human Right Hand Book

From The Annex: Red Lion Junglist T-Shirt Design

Ocean Eiler "Headshot with Friends"

Below are some helpful links for where to find internships:

http://www.careers.umd.edu/CareerLinks/Interns.cfm

http://www.internships.umd.edu 

http://www.idinterns.com/

http://dc.aiga.org/jobs/

http://baltimore.aiga.org/jobs/

http://www.creativehotlist.com/

http://www.dcadclub.com/

http://www.dcinternships.org/

Internship Information Event

Design faculty, recent graduates and current students come together to share practical, useful information about internships: why to get them, where to get them, and how to get them. Bring your questions for this information session.

This event will take place 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 5 in the Design Studio. Pizza will be served.

Parking Information for James Victore Lecture

James Victore's lecture will be in the Art-Sociology Building, marked in yellow on the map and located on the southwest end of campus. After 4 p.m., most on-campus lots are free and do not require parking permits. The closest free places to park are Lots 1, JJ, Z and 1b, marked in green on the map.

More directions to campus cam be found here: http://www.umd.edu/parking_info.cfm.

The lecture space is located off the atrium and is accessible through both the first and second floors of the Art-Sociology Building.

2013 Keynote: James Victore

The Department of Art is delighted to announce that James Victore will be this year's Clarvit Design Lecture Series keynote. 

To say that James Victore is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill designer is akin to saying that the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is no ordinary architectural structure. James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist, graphic designer, design educator and speaker. His work is infused with passion, conviction, and a no-holds-barred attitude. He designs on his own terms and eschews technological gadgetry and clients when appropriate. In short, he is hell-bent on world domination. 

Victore’s clients include Moet & Chandon, Aveda, Bobbi Brown cosmetics, Esquire, TIME and The New York Times. HIs work has been Emmy nominations and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director’s Club. His posters have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, the Design Museum in Zurich and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. 

Victore lectures and teaches regularly around the globe and he is a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His book Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss? was released by Abrams in 2010.

James Victore's lecture will be 6 p.m., Thursday, February 28 in the Art-Sociology Building, room 2203.

The 2013 Clarvit Design Lecture Series events

Below is the schedule for the fourth annual Clarvit Design events. This year’s events will occur over the course of two months to allow for more student participation. All events will be held in UMD Design Studio (Art/Sociology Building room 2322) unless otherwise noted.

6 p.m., Thursday, February 28 Keynote by James Victore in the Art/Sociology Building, room 2203. The lecture is free and open to the public.

10 a.m.-3 p.m., Friday March 1: Workshop with James Victore. Lunch will be provided.

10 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 2: 2013 AIGA Portfolio Review Day More information here and here.

6 p.m., Tuesday, March 5: Internship information session. Co-sponsored by UMD AIGA

6 p.m., Monday, April 8: Clarvit Design Lecture by Ocean Eiler, Senior Interactive Designer at PBS Kids. Co-sponsored by UMD AIGA.

6 p.m., Wednesday, April 17: Clarvit Design Lecture by Brian Verhoeven, Information Architecture manager at Forum One communications. Co-sponsored by UMD AIGA